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Here are seven stories from the "Nightly News" team that caught our attention as we get ready for tonight's broadcast.1.
Controversy surrounds a Michigan elementary school teacher's decision to allow her students to sample non-alcoholic beer. WEYI's Josh Marshall reports.
A U.S. Army general who pleaded guilty to mistreating a junior female officer during one of several improper relationships asked a military judge Wednesday to consider is wife and young sons before deciding his fate.
The Associated Press reports that a mentally ill homeless veteran died at Rikers Island last month in a jail cell that overheated to more than 100 degrees.
A crying 3-year-old seen dangling from the third story of a Burbank apartment building escaped injury when a neighbor caught him as he plunged to the ground.
While Republicans in Washington, D.C., are doing their best to stop a federal increase to the minimum wage, working families and their allies across the country are fighting to increase the minimum wage at the state and local level. America's working families consistently support a minimum wage increase, supporting the idea that jobs should lift workers out of poverty, conservatives continue to rely upon disproven criticisms of increasing the wage. But Americans aren't buying the conservative lies and are demanding that Congress and the president raise the wage for millions of workers, including tipped workers. And many of them aren't waiting for Washington to get the job done, they're taking action across the country. The federal minimum wage has remained $7.25 an hour since 2009 and wages for tipped workers have been frozen at $2.13 an hour since 1991.
In September 2012, the body of popular school superintendent Keith Reed was found by his home in western New York. As his family struggled to make sense of the horror, investigators looked for answers.
Three teens face possible life sentences after allegedly attempting to kidnap and murder another teen. KCRA's Claire Doan reports.
Osama bin Laden's son-in-law Suleiman Abu Ghaith took the stand in his own defense Wednesday in New York federal court against charges that he conspired to kill Americans.
Attorney General Eric Holder announces an enforcement action against Toyota, in regards to problems of sudden acceleration, which the company concealed, and a record $1.2 billion fine.
