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NEW YORK (AP) -- More than 1,600 people who filed lawsuits claiming that their health was ruined by dust and smoke from the collapsed World Trade Center must decide by Jan. 2 whether to keep fighting in court, or drop the litigation and apply for benefits from a government compensation fund....

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The maker of the world's best-selling diabetes drug is facing hundreds of lawsuits and likely a big sales drop as suspicion grows that taking the pill for more than a year raises the risk of bladder cancer....

Lawyers who scored hefty fees in 9/11 lawsuits won't get a nickel from a new $2.8 billion fund set aside for people sickened from Ground Zero, the administrator divvying up the money told the Daily News.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio was on track this year to execute a record number of inmates. One botched execution and several lawsuits later, the death penalty is temporarily on hold there....