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perience of coming within hours of being executed for a crime he didn't commit. But he hadn't been paying taxes on his speaking fees.
• "She said, 'Money is just tight right now. We just don't go too many places anymore,'" Robbins said.
• A week later, Mamie Brown, 71, was found dead in her Charlotte apartment and her husband was charged with first-degree murder. Joseph Brown, 62, has been held in the Mecklenburg County jail since his arrest Sept. 14 in a Charleston, S.C., motel room, a day after the slaying. A bond hearing was scheduled for Wednesday.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- "The Casual Vacancy" (Little, Brown and Company), by J.K. Rowling.
• So look, here's the thing: This. Is. Not. A. Children's. Book. If you're looking for what made Harry Potter magical -- Wizards! Spells! Flying Broomsticks! -- you're not going to find it.
• If you're looking for what makes J.K. Rowling magical -- emotion, heart -- you will.
• "The Casual Vacancy" is the first novel written for adults from Rowling, the successful-beyond-belief author behind the "Harry Potter" series about the young boy

who discovers he's a wizard.
• Published in the U.S. by Little, Brown and Company and in Britain by Little, Brown Book Group, "The Casual Vacancy" is scheduled to come out Thursday and has been held under tight control, with media outlets required to sign non-disclosure agreements before being permitted to see the book. The Associated Press declined to sign such an agreement and instead purchased a copy early.
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• GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- With the Green Bay Packers still seething, fans pondering the possibility of turning off their televisions on NFL Sundays and even the President weighing in, it's official: Overnight, the NFL's replacement referees went from minor nuisance to staggering problem.

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