| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Miss. lawmakers tighten abortion limits | | Mississippi lawmakers have passed a bill requiring physicians performing abortions to be board-certified obstetrician-gynecologists and have admitting privileges at an area hospital. |
| Detroit avoids threat of state takeover | | The Detroit City Council passed a financial consent agreement late Wednesday with a 5-4 vote, which grants the city the power to void contracts and slash costs but not provide state funding or loans to bail the city out of its financial problems. |
| Sandusky seeks dismissal of charges | | Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will be in a Pennsylvania courtroom Thursday as his lawyers argue that child sex abuse charges against him be dismissed. |
| Conn. Senate votes to halt death penalty | | The Connecticut Senate voted 20-16 early Thursday morning on a bill that would do away with the death penalty and make the state the fifth in five years to abolish capital punishment. |
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