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Judge Lillian Sing listens to a defendant in the Community Justice Center last week in San Francisco. It’s been difficult for researchers to determine savings by such courts, but studies suggest they help curb crime and repeat offenders. (Associated Press)

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Kenneth Tate had four tackles and a pass deflection in Maryland's 31-21 loss to West Virginia on Saturday. (Maryland Athletics)

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** FILE ** President Obama addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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President Barack Obama walks from Usinger's Sausage to his car while eating bratwurst, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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** FILE ** In this Jan. 22, 1983, file photo, ex-CIA agent Edwin Wilson, center, leaves federal court after a day of jury selection accompanied by U.S. Marshals in Houston. Wilson, who was branded a traitor and convicted of shipping arms to Libya but whose conviction was later overturned after he served 22 years in prison, died on Sept. 10, 2012. He was 84. (AP Photo/File)

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**FILE** The portraits of people who were executed, died or disappeared in jails during military rule after Turkey's 1980 coup, according to protesters and family members, are displayed outside a courthouse in Ankara, Turkey, on Sept. 14, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick walks to federal court on Sept. 6, 2012 in Detroit with attorney Jim Thomas. Kilpatrick, his father Bernard, former city water boss Victor Mercado and Kilpatrick associate Bobby Ferguson are accused of a sweeping corruption scheme. (Associated Press/Detroit News)

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This undated image of former gang member John Edward Smith shows him posing with his grandmother, Laura Neal. Prosecutors are seeking dismissal of charges against Smith, who was convicted of a drive-by murder in a gang-infested neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1993. (Associated Press/Deirdre O'Connor)

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White House spokesman Jay Carney said Thursday that the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya was a “terrorist attack.” (Associated Press)

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“I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger,” President Truman said Dec. 3, 1945. “A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed.” (Associated Press)