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HONOLULU (AP) — The first two trials for those arrested for blocking telescope construction crews on Mauna Kea have ended in guilty verdicts.

Leaders of a rural Arizona county want help from the governor and other state officials to protect their water supply as companies from the Middle East move to the state to grow alfalfa they intend to ship overseas to feed their cattle.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A jury on Friday found a driver guilty of capital murder in a crash that killed four people last year at the South by Southwest festival in Austin.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A man who allegedly waged a bullet-punctuated standoff with San Diego police for five hours has been kicked out of his own court hearing after ranting at the judge.

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — The Democratic presidential contenders opened a televised forum in the early voting state of South Carolina Friday night with an attack on front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, who's seen her numbers rise after a summer slump.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A jury on Friday found a driver guilty of capital murder in a crash that killed four people last year at the South by Southwest festival in Austin.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A man who allegedly waged a bullet-punctuated standoff with San Diego police for five hours has been kicked out of his own court hearing after ranting at the judge.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A former Disney hotel dishwasher has been sentenced to a year in jail for trying to trade Disneyland tickets for sex with a 14-year-old girl.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Fire raged through two Anaheim townhome fourplexes before dawn Friday, forcing residents to grab their children and pets and run for their lives.

Personnel records for the Illinois police officer who authorities say killed himself after years of embezzlement reveal a troubled on-the-job history going back years.

WASHINGTON (AP) — From his cell at the U.S. Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, Antoine Bruce has had plenty of time to file — or attempt to file — 19 lawsuits and appeals that challenge prison conditions or claim civil rights violations.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems split along ideological lines as it considers whether websites that collect and sell personal data can be sued for posting false information if the errors don't cause any specific harm.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court signaled support Monday for a black death row inmate in Georgia who claims prosecutors improperly kept African-Americans off the jury that convicted him of killing a white woman.

WASHINGTON (AP) — No one at the Supreme Court on Monday disputed the fact that an online profile of Thomas Robins was riddled with false and misleading information.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutor Stephen Lanier's meaning was unmistakable when he urged jurors in north Georgia to sentence the defendant to death in part to deter other people "out there in the projects."

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — The Democratic primary race entered a new phase on Friday night, with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Gov. Martin O'Malley escalating their attacks on front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mikhail Lesin, a former aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin who helped found the English-language news service Russia Today, has been found dead in an upscale Washington hotel room.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Customs and Border Protection staff concluded after an internal review that agents and officers shouldn't be required to wear body cameras, positioning the nation's largest law enforcement agency as a counterweight to a growing number of police forces that use the devices to promote public trust and accountability.

Leaders of a rural Arizona county want help from the governor and other state officials to protect their water supply as companies from the Middle East move to the state to grow alfalfa they intend to ship overseas to feed their cattle.

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — A defiant Ben Carson on Friday rejected the idea his past descriptions of receiving a scholarship offer to attend West Point were inaccurate, and called questions about the veracity of the story irrelevant to his campaign for president.