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BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities have lowered the terror threat level one notch, but say the situation is "exceptional" and "grave" and that another attack is "likely and possible." The head of the terror threat assessment authority says the imminent nature of the threat has lessened since the attacks on the airport and subway Tuesday. Nonetheless, he says "the danger has not gone away."
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Several thousand Serbian ultranationalists have protested the 40-year prison sentence handed to the wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (RA'-doh-van KA'-ra-jich) today by a U.N. war crimes court that convicted him of genocide. Carrying posters of Karadzic and other accused Serbian war criminals, far-right supporters in the Serbian capital of Belgrade said he was convicted only because he was a Serb.
KIOWA, Kan. (AP) — Strong winds have thwarted efforts to contain a wildfire that has burned 620 square miles of rural land in Oklahoma and Kansas, and it's now approaching populated areas. An Oklahoma Forestry Services spokesman says the winds shifted the direction of the fire late yesterday and overwhelmed existing containment lines. Smoke from the fire has drifted hundreds of miles.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A former Arkansas judge has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after admitting he lowered a jury award in a lawsuit in exchange for campaign donations from a nursing home operator. Prosecutors had recommended the maximum 10-year prison sentence for Michael Maggio. He pleaded guilty last year to a federal bribery charge. Maggio's attorneys had sought probation, saying the former judge had already suffered "personal, professional and political destruction."
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A jury has found that a San Diego law school did not mislead a graduate who sued on grounds she was lured there by false promises that her degree would land her a job. The jury today rejected Anna Alaburda's claim against Thomas Jefferson School of Law. The 37-year-old woman graduated near the top of her class in 2008 and has been unable to find a full-time job as a lawyer. While similar lawsuits have been filed in courts across the country, the case is believed to be the first of its kind to go to trial.
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