41.   There was speculation that the terms might include reduced charges against McLaren and some of his followers, but Cox would not comment on that.

42.   This contrasted starkly with police work on drugs, where investigators routinely offered reduced charges to low-level street dealers in an effort to track down drug kingpins.

43.   Three of the lawyers have pleaded guilty to reduced charges.

44.   Three other Miami lawyers, Robert Moore, Francisco Laguna and Joel Rosenthal, pleaded guilty to reduced charges before the indictment was made public.

45.   Warrick was suspended for two games before pleading guilty to a reduced charge.

46.   A man accused of sexually assaulting a teen-ager at a prom party attended by former NFL star Mark Chmura pleaded no contest Monday to reduced charges.

47.   A man who led authorities to the remains of a mail-order bride from the former Soviet Union was set to plead guilty to a reduced charge.

48.   A former beauty queen accused of trying to kill a pregnant romantic rival and her parents was convicted Tuesday of reduced charges.

49.   A soldier pleaded guilty to a reduced charge Saturday in the beating death of a barracks mate who had been rumored to be gay.

50.   A woman accused of nearly starving her young son in an effort to keep him religiously pure pleaded guilty to reduced charges of child abuse and misdemeanor assault Thursday.