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• 6. GERALDO RIVERA STRIPPED FROM PANEL
• Duquesne University says the half-naked cellphone picture the TV personality posted on Twitter is not in line with the school's values.

• 7. HOW HOTELS ARE CHANGING
• Long treated as dead spaces, lobbies are being transformed into places to work, surf the Web or meet friends for a drink.

• 8. SAMSUNG'S SUPERSIZED 'MEGA'
• The new device is so big it shouldn't even be called a phone -- except for the fact that it makes phone calls, reports the AP's Anick Jesdanun.

• 9. WHO'S RETURNING TO 'AMERICAN IDOL'
• After a year off, Jennifer Lopez will be back behind the judges' table along with Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban.

• 10. SERENA TWO WINS FROM US OPEN CROWN
• She advances to the semis with a crushing 6-0, 6-0 defeat of Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro.

AP News in Brief
Corrections official: Ohio man who held 3 women captive for nearly a decade has hanged himself

• COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The man who held three women captive in his home for nearly a decade before one escaped and alerted authorities has been found dead and is believed to have committed suicide, a prison official said.
• Ariel Castro, 53, was found hanging in his cell around 9:20 p.m. Tuesday at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, located south of Columbus in central Ohio, JoEllen Smith, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction spokeswoman, said early Wednesday.
• Prison medical staff performed CPR before Castro was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 10:50 p.m.
• He was in protective custody because of the notoriety of his case, meaning he

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