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PERUGIA, Italy - The murder charges against Amanda Knox are "pure fantasy" according to the American student, who addressed an Italian court over the weekend.

Knox, along with two others, is accused in the fatal stabbing of her British roommate Meredith Kercher.

Italian prosecutors, in their closing arguments, said Knox and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, should be convicted on charges of murder and sexual violence for the 2007 slaying.

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BOSTON - Convicted killer Michelle Kosilek has hairy legs and wants you to pay for the electrolysis treatments needed to make them as smooth as a baby's behind.

Born as Robert Kosilek, Michelle Kosilek has been waiting for years for a judge in Boston to rule on a request for a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation in order to complete the prisoner's transformation into a woman.

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NEW YORK - They call him Friar Nip-and-Tuck.

And now a New York pastor has been ordered to serve five years probation for dipping into his church's coffers to pay for his for plastic surgery bills.

But boy does his face look great!

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PARIS - Daul Kim, a top model who graced Fashion Week runways from New York to Milan, has been found hanged in her Paris apartment, a police official said Friday.

The 20-year-old South Korean stunner was known for her thick mane of hair - sometimes dyed blond - and her quirky sensibility.

The 5-foot-10 model has strutted the runway for the likes of Louis Vuitton, Alexander McQueen, and Dolce & Gabbana.

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PERUGIA, Italy - Minutes before her death, British student Meredith Kercher was fighting with her American roommate Amanda Knox, according to Rudy Hermann Guede, the man already convicted of killing her.

There was a loud scream and Kercher ended up dead, the Ivory Coast native said at the opening of his appeal in a Perugia, Italy court.

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TRENTON, N.J. - Jayson Williams, the retired NBA star who was charged with aggravated manslaughter for accidentally shooting a driver at his New Jersey estate in 2002, has agreed to a plea deal that would send him to prison for up to three years, person with knowledge of the case said Thursday.

Retired in 2000 after playing nine seasons in the NBA for the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets, Williams was to face a retrial in January on a reckless manslaughter count.

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NEW YORK - Elizabeth Lambert became an Internet celebrity for all the wrong reasons this fall. Now the suspended New Mexico soccer player, who was caught attacking opposing players on tape, has met with the New York Times to put the aggressive infractions into context.

Saying that her actions were "indefensible" in her first interview since the incidents occurred, Lambert, 20, told the Times that she still "deeply regrets it and will always regret it and will carry it through the rest of my life not to retaliate."

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LOS ANGELES - There were more nude videos, taken in more locations, of glamorous ESPN sports reporter Erin Andrews than previously thought, according to new court documents filed Wednesday.

Andrews was illicitly filmed in peephole videos showing her naked in hotel rooms as she traveled across the country to cover sporting events for the all-sports network.

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LEXINGTON, Mo. - Dark, sordid, tales of a rural Missouri man and his four adult sons raping, sodomizing, sexually abusing children, and even murdering, in a house of horror, are coming to light two decades later.

As authorities work to piece together exactly what happened, Burrell Mohler Sr., 77, and his four adult sons appeared in court in western Missouri on Tuesday where they were charged with sex crimes including rape and sodomy. A new search warrant claims one of the suspects even forced his victims to help kill and bury a man.

Hell on earth. But is it true?

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NAIROBI, Kenya - The last time the Maersk Alabama was targeted by Somali pirates captain Richard Phillips was taken hostage and held at gunpoint for five days until he was freed in a daring raid.

This time, the U.S. flagged ship was ready to fight back from the first sign of trouble. Somali pirates took on the Maersk Alabama again Tuesday, but they were met by a private security force which repelled the assault with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.

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