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placed her in a cell with other female defendants last Thursday, saying the measures are "standard arrestee intake procedures."
• Khobragade was charged with lying on a visa application, saying she paid the housekeeper -- an Indian national -- $4,500 a month, but actually paid her far below the minimum wage. She pleaded not guilty and was released on $250,000 bail.
• The case has sparked outrage across India, where the idea of an educated, middle-class woman facing a strip-search is almost unimaginable, except in the most brutal crimes. In an unusual step, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan publicly defended Khobragade's treatment, and questioned why there was more outrage for Khobragade than for the housekeeper.
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In latest deadly tragedy in Reno area, surgeons fight to save the lives of 2 of their own

• RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Surgeons at a Reno hospital have treated victims in a series of deadly tragedies in recent years, including a horrific crash at the Reno Air Races, a fiery Amtrak accident, a shooting rampage at a pancake restaurant and a murder-suicide at a middle school just two months ago.
• This week, they found themselves fighting to try to save the lives of two of their own after a suicidal California man opened fire with a 12-gauge shotgun in the examination room area of a urology clinic. One doctor was killed, another critically wounded and a third person seriously injured by the shotgun blasts.
• Victims were rushed to an emergency room in the Renown Regional Medical Center campus after the shooting, carried out by a gunman who witnesses said warned patients and their children in a waiting area to "get out."
• "Unfortunately our community has experienced yet another tragedy," Renown Regional Medical Center CEO Kris Gaw said Wednesday. "This is something that has hit our medical community, not just Renown. It happened on our own doorstep."
• Police identified the slain doctor as Charles G. Gholdoian, 46, a urologist at Urology Nevada. His colleague, Dr. Christine Lajeunesse, was conscious Wednesday but remained in critical condition at Renown.
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Poll: Relief from deportations more important to Hispanics, Asian-Americans than citizenship

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- With immigration legislation stalled in Congress, Hispan

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