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WASHINGTON – The White House liaison on religious affairs who admitted in a Friday news article that he had lifted someone else’s material for an opinion column has resigned. Tim Goeglein had worked for the White House since 2001, and helped establish President Bush’s Faith-Based and Community Initiative — a …

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – One of two foster daughters raped by a former South Dakota lawmaker is suing him and his wife. Ex-state Rep. Ted Klaudt, 49, was convicted on four counts of second-degree rape involving the two children at his hotel suite during the 2005 and 2006 legislative sessions …

ALTON, Ill. – Six people are now charged in the killing of a pregnant, developmentally disabled woman who police say was beaten, shot with a BB gun and scalded with hot liquid in Alton. A Madison County grand jury indicted the six in the January slaying of 29-year-old Dorothy Dixon, …