Life in prison...Lewis endorses Obama...Drug safety inspections

CANTON, Ohio (AP) A former police officer is facing life in prison for killing his pregnant lover and their unborn child.

Jurors spared Bobby Cutts Junior the death penalty. He has a chance of parole after 57 years. The victim's mother told the judge she hoped Cutts would be freed at some point to share his life with the couple's 3-year-old son.

CAPITOL HILL (AP) Congressman John Lewis is switching sides in the Democratic presidential race. The civil rights leader says he's dropping his support for Hillary Rodham CLinton in favor of Barack Obama to better represent his Atlanta constituents. Obama says he's honored, calling Lewis "a giant of the civil rights movement."


CAPITOL HILL (AP) A top Food and Drug Administration official is telling Congress the agency needs more inspectors and computers to track drugs entering the U.S. from overseas. Doctor Janet Woodcock says only about 10 percent of the foreign companies shipping prescription drugs or their ingredients to the U.S. are inspected each year.

DALLAS (AP) Police say at least three people are dead after an 18-wheeler plunged off a freeway ramp and landed on a car near downtown Dallas. Investigators believe the truck fell off the ramp after striking another vehicle on Interstate 35.

NEW YORK (AP) Novelist Christopher Buckley says his father died at work in his study. Conservative commentator William F.

Buckley Junior was the author of more than 50 books, the founder of the National Review and a transoceanic sailor. Buckley, who had been ill with emphysema, was 82.

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