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LOS ANGELES – Abby Mann, writer of socially conscious scripts for movies and television and winner of the 1961 Academy Award for adapted screenplay for “Judgment at Nuremberg,” has died at 80. Writers Guild of America spokesman Gregg Mitchell said Mann died Tuesday. The cause of death was not given. …

NEW YORK – Marsha Cunningham was no drug dealer. But when authorities busted her boyfriend in the 1990s for selling crack and powdered cocaine, they also arrested her on a crack possession charge. Her sentence: Fifteen years, only two less than her boyfriend got. But Cunningham is now one of …

TIRANA, Albania – Troops and police cordoned off a smoldering army depot north of the capital as crews searched Sunday for workers missing following a chain of explosions that killed at least nine people and injured hundreds. Nine bodies have been found but 10 workers remained missing Sunday, authorities said. …