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KELSO, Wash. – The state has agreed to pay $15,000 to a man who claimed he was forcefully catheterized after being arrested for investigation of drunken driving, authorities said. The settlement reached Friday with Matthew Clifford Arthur, 37, over his treatment following an arrest in November 2005 did not include …

TOKYO – The U.S. military will court-martial four Marines in Japan for the alleged rape of a Japanese woman, a U.S. Marine Corps official said Thursday. The general courts-martial will begin next month, said Master Gunnery Sgt. John Cordero of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station in Iwakuni in southern …

ROME – A passenger train rammed into another at a station south of Rome on Tuesday, injuring about 50 people — some critically — and temporarily trapping others in the wreckage, officials said. A train traveling from Rome to Cassino stopped at the station in Roccasecca, about 80 miles south …