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Super Bowl winners New York Giants get "Big Blue" rings

New York Giants Ahmad Bradshaw shows off his newly designed ring commemorating their Super Bowl victory earlier this year arrived at Tiffany & Co.'s flagship store in New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - Players and coaches with the New York Giants football team gathered at Tiffany & Co.'s flagship store in New York City on Wednesday evening to receive newly designed rings commemorating their Super Bowl victory earlier this year. The white-gold rings feature the Giants' logo in diamonds set in blue enamel and encircled by 37 blue sapphires, and is engraved with the years of the Giants' four Super Bowl victories, the first in 1986. "It's every boy's dream to come to Tiffany's and get a ring. ...


2012-05-17T01:13:21Z

Guantanamo lawyers want ex-CIA official to testify

File photo of detainees sitting in a holding area at Naval Base Guantanamo BayMIAMI (Reuters) - Defense lawyers want to force a former CIA official who supervised what they called torture of al Qaeda captives to testify in the war crimes tribunal for five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks. They argue that Jose Rodriguez, former director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service, has information pertinent to the defense allegation that the government is using security classifications to hide evidence their clients were tortured. ...


2012-05-16T23:00:02Z

Lawyers for ex-Senator John Edwards rest case

Former U.S. Senator Edwards walks to the federal courthouse in GreensboroGREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Former Senator John Edwards' defense ended its case on Wednesday without calling three of the most anticipated witnesses to counter charges that he used political contributions to hide his pregnant mistress from voters during his 2008 presidential bid. Seven people testified for the defense this week in Edwards' federal campaign finance trial in Greensboro, North Carolina, the state he represented in the Senate from 1999 to 2005. ...


2012-05-16T21:06:32Z

Pioneer graves found at site of new Arizona sheriff's office

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio arrives to a news conference in Phoenix, ArizonaPHOENIX (Reuters) - Workers digging the foundations for a new office of an Arizona sheriff accused of discriminating against Latinos have unearthed the graves of early city founders, some of whom could have been immigrants from Mexico, officials said. Construction workers for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's new office came across lines or depressions in the dirt last week that officials believed were a "minicemetery." "When we found the lines of depressions in the ground ... ...


2012-05-17T00:18:40Z

Texas death prompts call for better protecting firefighters
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Hot shot federal firefighters called in to battle the toughest U.S. wildfires often avoid reporting symptoms of heatstroke because they fear damaging their professional reputations, said a report commissioned after an elite firefighter died in Texas last year. The report, released on Wednesday as at least four blazes burned in Arizona early in this year's fire season, said the death of Caleb Hamm, 23, was of heatstroke, and recommended ways federal officials can better protect firefighters' lives. ...2012-05-17T01:33:56Z


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