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MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. – A judge has cleared professional wrestler and Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle of charges he violated a protection order and illegally possessed human growth hormone. Police in suburban Pittsburgh stopped Angle last month after he allegedly violated the protection order his then girlfriend, Trenesha Biggers, had …

JERUSALEM – Israeli President Shimon Peres was discharged from a Tel Aviv hospital on Sunday, a day after fainting on stage during a talk. The 86-year-old Peres passed out briefly Saturday, then revived on his own a few seconds later. Initially he had resisted hospitalization, but later agreed and was …

NEW YORK – A small-time money manager who did business out of a shabby storefront in Brooklyn was charged Tuesday with running a $40 million Ponzi scheme that secretly diverted client money to unauthorized ventures, including a mail-order pornography business. Federal prosecutors and the Securities Exchange Commission said Philip Barry, …