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ZURICH (AP) — The international soccer federation FIFA (FEE'-fuh) is suspending 11 people -- including two of its vice presidents -- from all soccer-related activities. The move follows a U.S. criminal investigation into corruption in world soccer. The two vice presidents are among seven people who were arrested in Zurich early today after being indicted in the United States.
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The notebook that was kept by Colorado movie theater gunman James Holmes has been made public, a day after it was introduced as evidence at his trial. It's full of scrawled writings and stick-figure drawings. Holmes mailed the notebook to a psychiatrist who was treating him before the rampage. It was found a few days later, undelivered in a mailroom. It included detailed maps and drawings of auditoriums in the movie theater, and the merits of each one as the scene of mass murder. Prosecutors are hoping the notebook will weaken the claim by Holmes' lawyers that he was legally insane.
MAYPORT NAVAL STATION, Fla. (AP) — A second Navy submarine crew member has pleaded guilty to charges of sharing videos of female officers undressing for a shower. It's a case that a prosecutor calls a "black eye" for the Navy's effort to integrate women into the nation's sub fleet. Electronics technician Joseph Bradley was sentenced to 30 days confinement and a reduction in rank.
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer who is hoping to free two chimpanzees from a state university has told a judge in New York that their confinement for research purposes is similar to slavery and imprisonment, and to the involuntary detention of mentally ill people. The lawyer, representing the Nonhuman Rights Project, said Hercules and Leo are "essentially in solitary confinement" -- the treatment given to "the worst human criminal." The eight-year-old chimps are used for locomotion studies at Stony Brook University. A lawyer for the state said granting personhood to chimps would lead to other battles over the rights of other animals.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The city of Memphis has been saying farewell today to blues legend B.B. King with a tribute and processional down Beale Street. Afterward, King's body will be taken to Indianola, Mississippi, which King considered his hometown, for his funeral on Saturday. Early in his career, King was nicknamed "Beale Street Blues Boy," and the name was soon shortened to "B.B." King died May 14 in hospice care at home in Las Vegas at age 89.
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