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WARSAW, Poland – A state institute has opened an investigation into whether communist-era security services in Poland and other former East bloc nations had a role in the 1981 assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II, a spokesman said Tuesday. John Paul was shot and seriously wounded on May 13, …

NEW YORK – Two construction workers were rescued after they were trapped in wet cement for about 90 minutes on Tuesday, authorities said. The workers, who apparently had been pouring the cement at the site, were taken to the trauma unit at Lutheran Medical Center, where they were listed in …

NEW YORK – The jeweler known for putting diamonds on celebrities from Kanye West to Sir Elton John was arrested Thursday on money-laundering charges. Police said Yakov Arabov, known throughout the hip-hop world as Jacob Arabo or “Jacob the Jeweler,” was connected to a multistate drug and money-laundering ring. Arabov, …