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NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby has been arraigned on a sexual assault charge in a courtroom outside Philadelphia. He's being allowed to remain free on bail until his trial. On his way in and out of the building, he shook his head as reporters shouted questions at him. The charge stems from a 2004 encounter at Cosby's home outside Philadelphia with a former Temple University employee, Andrea Constand. Cosby has said the contact was consensual, but prosecutors say the woman was incapacitated by drugs and wine given to her by Cosby.
ALTON, Ill. (AP) — Business owners in the historic riverfront city of Alton, Illinois, are scrambling to keep out rising water from the Mississippi River. Most of the damage by this afternoon was confined to high water in some downtown basements. The river is expected to crest at 38 feet tomorrow, 17 feet above flood stage.
GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — It could be a while before 18-year-old Ethan Couch is sent back to Texas by authorities in Mexico. His lawyers today won a three-day delay in his deportation -- based on a constitutional appeal that could lead to a legal process lasting weeks or months. He'd been on probation for a deadly drunken-driving accident when he and his mother disappeared from Texas last month. They were found this week in Mexico.
WAKEFIELD, N.H. (AP) — Police say an unlicensed driver who was trying to pass a car on a snowy road in New Hampshire died after colliding head-on with a car carrying four Secret Service agents. The agents were on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's protective detail. The crash happened yesterday evening near the state border with Maine. A Secret Service spokeswoman says the agents sustained serious, but non-life-threatening injuries. Two passengers in the other car were also taken to hospitals.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump is calling former President Bill Clinton "one of the great abusers of the world." During a rally today in South Carolina, Trump continued his criticism of Hillary Clinton's husband. The Democratic front-runner has accused Trump of sexism, and Trump has responded by revisiting allegations of extramarital affairs by the former president as well as his sexual relationship with a White House intern. Trump says that nobody respects women more than he does.
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