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BOSTON - Johnson & Johnson on Thursday asked a federal judge to dismiss a complaint accusing the health care giant of paying millions in kickbacks so nursing homes would put more patients on its popular schizophrenia medication and other drugs.

WASHINGTON - Major Nidal Hasan, the US Army psychiatrist, took just seven minutes to kill 13 people and injure more than 30 at Fort Hood in Texas earlier this month, but under the rules of military justice, his execution would require the US Supreme Court to rule on two separate appeals and for the President of the United States, the commander in chief to give his personal approval.

MADISON, Wis. - A former New York Times distributor has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for defrauding the newspaper company out of $334,000.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse that was the site of a massive immigration raid was convicted Thursday on 86 financial fraud charges that could bring a prison sentence of hundreds of years.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A jury has reached a verdict at the fraud trial of the former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse where there was a massive immigration raid.