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Bare-istas Back in Business: Topless Java Joint Reopens After Arson Attack

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Photo: Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in 2009

VASSALBORO, Maine (CBS/AP) They are back in business – barely!

The Grand View Topless Coffee Shop reopened yesterday in Maine after owner Donald Crabtree got the OK from a local planning board. This time his semi-nude servers are working out of an office trailer.

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Fort Hood Massacre Casts Especially Dark Shadow on Veterans Day

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NEW YORK (CBS) As American families mourn loved ones lost in combat and celebrate the heroes of war, the loss of 13 men and women in last week's Fort Hood, Texas massacre runs especially deep.

PICTURES: Fort Hood's Fallen Heroes

Those who died that day were young and old, natural-born and immigrants, but all were serving this country when they were allegedly gunned down by Army psychologist Nidal Malik Hasan.

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Chimp Attack Victim Pictures: Carla Nash Before and After Photo Slideshow

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Photo: Charla Nash with Travis the chimpanzee.

NEW YORK (CBS/AP) On Wednesday, Charla Nash revealed her gravely disfigured face on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," appearing on television for the first time since she sustained major injuries in a brutal chimpanzee attack in February.

PICTURES: Chimp Victim Charla Nash (Warning Graphic Images)

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Will Anne Pressly's Killer Curtis Vance Get Death in Anchorwoman Case?

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Photo: Anne Pressly

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.(CBS/AP) Will a Little Rock jury deliver a death sentence to the killer of Arkansas news anchor Anne Pressly?

The jury convicted Curtis Lavelle Vance of murder, rape and other charges on Wednesday. It is now weighing whether to impose the death penalty on Vance, who police say admitted to beating the KATV anchorwoman with a wood-handled garden tool.

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Cops: Child-Raping Missouri Family May Have Bodies in Yard

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Photo: Jared Leroy Mohler, 48, of Columbia, Mo.

LEXINGTON, Mo. (CBS/AP) Police investigating a western Missouri family accused of sexually abusing children are now searching a family property for dead bodies. They are also looking for buried glass jars, which the alleged victims say contain notes documenting their sexual abuse years ago.

Lafayette County Sheriff Kerrick Alumbaugh said there has been an indication of "body or bodies in numerous locations," although he would not say whose bodies they might be.

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Prejean on Larry King: Sex Tape Beauty Queen Says She and Sarah Palin are Victims of Liberal Media

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Photo: Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean.

NEW YORK (CBS/AP) In an awkward and confrontational interview with Larry King, fallen beauty queen Carrie Prejean compared herself to conservative icons Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann and claims, like them, she is a victim of the liberal media.

PICTURES: Controversial Miss California

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Police Identify Skull Found in Anthony Sowell's House of Horrors as Leshanda Long

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CLEVELAND (CBS/AP) Police in Cleveland have identified a 10th woman whose skull was discovered wrapped in paper in a bucket at the home of accused serial killer Anthony Sowell.

PICTURES: Anthony Sowell's Home of Horror

Police Lt. Thomas Stacho says 25-year-old Leshanda Long had not been seen since August 2008 but was not reported as a missing person. She had been reported missing twice when she was in her teens.

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"Oprah Chimp Victim" Charla Nash Wants $50M, Chimp Owner Lawyers Call it Work Accident

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Photo: Charla Nash before the attack.

NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Attorneys for the owner of the chimp that violently attacked Charla Nash, disfiguring and blinding her, have argued that the incident should be treated as a workers' compensation claim, and nothing more.

PICTURES: Chimp Victim Charla Nash (Warning Graphic Images)

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Mike Tyson Arrested in Airport Scuffle: Accusations Flying Faster Than Fists

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Photo: Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson.

LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) Embattled ex-boxing champion Mike Tyson has a fresh legal fight on his hands.

California police are investigating conflicting accounts of an airport confrontation between the former heavyweight champ and photographer Tony Echevarria, in which the shutterbug says he was attacked and Tyson claims he was protecting his family.

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Larry King Carrie Prejean Blow Up: Sex Tape Beauty Queen Almost Walks Off Show

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NEW YORK (CBS) Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean made a short but dramatic appearance on Larry King Live Wednesday, in which she refused to answer an openly gay caller and threatened to walk off the show, after King demanded to know why she and Miss California pageant organizers recently settled dueling lawsuits.

PICTURES: Controversial Miss California

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