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A disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney is trying to avoid a life prison sentence with a plea bargain in a kidnapping so elaborate and bizarre that police in California initially dismissed it as a hoax. Matthew Muller pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Sacramento, acknowledging he used computer-generated voices, blackened swim goggles, liquid sleeping medication and numerous props in the abduction of Denise Huskins last year from the Vallejo home she shared with boyfriend Aaron Quinn. Under the plea deal, federal prosecutors agreed to seek no more than 40 years in prison, but Muller's attorney, Thomas Johnson, said he fears U.

There's been a drop in the number of people getting the flu vaccination, a trend that's worrying infectious disease specialists. "Flu is serious. Flu is unpredictable," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters Thursday. "Flu often does not get enough respect." In 2015, about 45 percent of the U.

Sports remains a world where being gay, and out, is rare – and isn’t necessarily welcome, or comfortable. Welts carries his influence inside and outside of the game

Due to skyrocketing housing prices in Vancouver, Mayor Gregor Robertson says home ownership is beyond the reach of most Canadians, that's why the city is looking at rental housing and co-ops

Team is entering their upcoming contest with Hamilton planning to win, but still reeling from loss

A day after rejecting President Obama's veto, Republican leaders opened the door to fixing the law's potential impact on national security.