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Man accused of beheading wife called 'gentle'

2009-02-18T12:54:00.000-08:00

Couple founded TV station near Buffalo, N.Y. to counter Muslim stereotypes

The Associated Press

The crime drips with brutal irony: a woman decapitated, allegedly by her estranged husband, in the offices of the television network the couple founded with the hope of countering Muslim stereotypes.

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Police: Woman tampered with baby food

2009-02-18T12:45:00.000-08:00

Officials believe incident at Florida market is isolated to that one store

The Associated Press

A woman was caught injecting foul-smelling liquid into baby food in a Florida supermarket, authorities said Wednesday.

50-year-old Shirley Ybarra was spotted Tuesday night by Publix employees adding a black liquid that smelled like ammonia to the baby food and juice containers, the local sheriff's department said.

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Crime labs are seriously deficient, report says

2009-02-18T12:42:00.000-08:00

National Academy of Science says only DNA evidence is dependable

By Pete Williams

The nation's crime labs are so seriously deficient that criminals are allowed to go free, the wrong people are sometimes convicted, and only a radical shakeup can improve the results, according to a long-awaited report out Wednesday.

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Exotic Dancer Set on Fire Was Recently Laid Off

2009-02-06T10:25:00.000-08:00

KTLA News

An exotic dancer who was set on fire in a brutal attack outside a Tarzana bar had recently returned to dancing full-time after being laid off from an office job, a friend of the victim said.

The 27-year-old mother of two was called out of the Babes N' Beer nightclub at 18454 Oxnard St. around 1:30 a.m. Thursday by two suspects who then doused her with gasoline and set her ablaze, said Los Angeles police Deputy Chief Michael Moore.

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Family seeks to clear man who died in prison

2009-02-06T10:09:00.000-08:00

From Ed Lavandera

The family of Timothy Cole, a Texas man who died in prison nearly a decade ago while serving a sentence for a rape he swore he did not commit, is hoping a court will issue the state's first posthumous exoneration.

Cole was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 1985 rape of 20-year-old Michele Mallin. He maintained his innocence, but it was not confirmed by DNA until years after his 1999 death, when another inmate confessed to the rape.

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Arrest made in powder mailings to banks

2009-02-03T12:55:00.000-08:00

Feds say man was angry over big stock losses in failing financial institution

The Associated Press

A man apparently upset about losing more than $60,000 when the government took over a failed bank has been arrested on charges he mailed threatening letters containing suspicious powder to banks and federal offices, authorities said Tuesday.

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Phelps could face criminal charges over pot flap

2009-02-03T11:48:00.000-08:00

Richland County (S.C.) officials are investigating alleged marijuana incident

The Associated Press

Olympic superstar Michael Phelps could face criminal charges as part of the fallout from a photo that surfaced showing the swimmer smoking from a marijuana pipe at a University of South Carolina house party.

A spokesman for a sheriff known for his tough stance on drugs said Tuesday the Richland County sheriff’s department was investigating.

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Seven bodies found in home, police say

2009-01-27T16:10:00.000-08:00

Paul Vercammen

The bodies of five children and two adults were found Tuesday in a home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington, and authorities are investigating the case as a murder-suicide, police said.

Among the dead were an 8-year-old girl and two sets of twins: 5-year-old girls and 2-year-old boys, authorities said.

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Malaysian Woman Charged With Smuggling Drug In Bra

2009-01-23T13:36:00.000-08:00

Australia Charges Malaysian Woman With Trying To Smuggle Heroin In Her Bra

The Associated Press

Australia has charged a Malaysian woman with attempting to smuggle heroin into Melbourne by hiding the drug in her bra.

Customs Department officials say they suspected the woman may have been carrying drugs when she arrived Thursday at Melbourne International Airport on a flight from Bangkok.

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Unreturned Library Book Leads To Woman's Arrest

2009-01-23T13:32:00.000-08:00

Throwing The Book At Her: Iowa Woman Arrested For Hanging On Too Long To Library Book

The Gazette

An Iowa woman has been arrested because failed to return a library book.

Thirty-nine-year-old Shelly Koontz was arrested Thursday night on a fifth-degree theft charge. She is accused of keeping "The Freedom Writers Diary," which she checked out from the public library in nearby Jesup in April.

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Police: VaTech Grad Student Knew Suspected Killer

2009-01-23T12:49:00.000-08:00

Chinese graduate student slain at Virginia Tech coffee shop knew attacker, police say

By SUE LINDSEY

Alone and in a new country, graduate student Xin Yang reached out to other Chinese students at Virginia Tech when she arrived two weeks ago, trying to establish her life on campus.

She went to social events with international students, got in touch with the campus center that works to help them adjust and appeared to be making friends as she settled into her accounting program, those who had met her said.

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Ky. High School Coach Charged in Player's Death

2009-01-23T11:30:00.000-08:00

Football coach indicted on reckless homicide charge in player's heat death

By BRETT BARROUQUERE Associated Press Writer

A Kentucky high school football coach was charged Thursday with reckless homicide in the death of a player who collapsed at practice as temperatures soared.

A grand jury indicted David Jason Stinson in the death of Pleasure Ridge Park offensive lineman Max Gilpin, said Jefferson County Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Stengel.

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Police: George Anthony left 'suicidal' note in car

2009-01-23T11:02:00.000-08:00

From Natisha Lance

The grandfather of slain Florida toddler Caylee Anthony was taken into custody and hospitalized early Friday and could face a psychiatric evaluation after being reported missing late Thursday, sheriff's deputies and a family attorney said.

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Crowded courtroom for start of Kercher murder trial

2009-01-16T14:47:00.000-08:00

From Alessio Vinci

An American woman and her Italian former boyfriend went on trial in Perugia Friday in the 2007 killing of a British exchange student, with reporters crowding the courtroom as proceedings began.

The cases of Amanda Knox, 21, and 24-year-old Raffaele Sollecito are expected to take months.

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Court to hear case of teen strip-searched for ibuprofen

2009-01-16T14:38:00.000-08:00

By Bill Mears

A 13-year-old Arizona girl who was strip-searched by school officials looking for ibuprofen pain reliever will have her case heard at the Supreme Court.

The justices accepted the case Friday for review. They will decide whether a campus setting gives school administrators greater discretion to control students suspected of illegal activity than police are allowed in cases involving adults in public spaces.

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Sheriff jailed for pocketing money meant for inmate meals

2009-01-10T08:44:00.000-08:00

By Ashley Broughton

A federal judge ordered a north Alabama sheriff jailed this week, saying the lawman intentionally served jail inmates "woefully insufficient" meals in order to pocket more than $200,000.

Morgan County, Alabama, Sheriff Greg Bartlett was ordered to jail Wednesday by U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon in Birmingham.

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Former 'Sopranos' actor gets 10 years

2009-01-10T08:38:00.000-08:00

From Chris Kokenes

An actor who played a wannabe mobster in "The Sopranos" was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a botched burglary that left an off-duty New York police officer dead.

The Bronx County District Attorneys Office had sought the maximum of 15 years for Lillo Brancato Jr.

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5 wounded in Chicago high school drive-by

2009-01-10T08:32:00.000-08:00

Authorities said the shooting occurred about 8 p.m. CT outside Dunbar High School on Chicago's South Side.

"It appears to be gang-related," Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis said at a news conference, adding that more than 200 officers were investigating the incident.

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No 'Closure' for Walshes in Son's Murder Case

2008-12-18T09:22:00.000-08:00

Officials in Florida Name Deceased Drifter Ottis Toole as Killer of John Walsh's Son

By PIERRE THOMAS, SCOTT MICHELS and IMAEYEN IBANGA

"This helped us close a chapter. No closure. I hate that word,"
Florida police announced that deceased serial killer Ottis Toole was responsible for the 1981 abduction and murder of Adam Walsh. "It's about justice. It's not about revenge or vigilantism or closure."

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Poisoned medicine kills dozens of children in Nigeria

2008-12-18T07:59:00.000-08:00

Christian Purefoy

Nneka and Chimezie Ononaku unwittingly poisoned their own four-month-old son Chinonso.

Giving him what they thought was a baby teething medicine, they were in fact dosing him with anti-freeze.

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Pregnant Man, Other Transgender Parents Face Legal Questions

2008-12-10T16:04:00.000-08:00

By JONEIL ADRIANO

Thomas Beatie, the transgender man who bore a daughter four months ago, has become the public face of an issue for many other transgender people: having their roles as parents legally recognized.

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The Guessing Game

2008-12-10T15:57:00.000-08:00

A Coach's Pregnant Wife Is Murdered And Two Legal Titans Battle To Solve The Twisted Tale

by Gail Zimmerman and Jenna Jackson

In January 1999, Belinda Temple, the pregnant wife of a popular high school football coach, was found murdered inside a closet of the family's home.

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Survey: Students lie, cheat, steal

2008-12-01T09:54:00.000-08:00

Despite responses on cheating, plagiarisms and lying, 93 percent asked were satisfied with their personal ethics.

By DAVID CRARY

In the past year, 30 percent of U.S. high school students have stolen from a store and 64 percent have cheated on a test, according to a new, large-scale survey suggesting that Americans are too apathetic about ethical standards.

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9 headless bodies found in Mexican border city

2008-12-01T09:48:00.001-08:00

Associated Press

The bodies of nine decapitated men were found in a vacant lot in Tijuana Sunday, part of a wave of violence that claimed at least 23 lives over the weekend in this border city plagued by warring traffickers, authorities said.

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24-year-old man shot behind nightclub Sunday

2008-12-01T09:45:00.000-08:00

by Jeffrey Javier

A 24-year-old man was shot in a parking lot behind a nightclub early Sunday morning.

Phoenix Police Officers were called around 2:15 a.m. for a drive-by shooting near the 400 block of South Second Street

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New Mexico man arrested in child-porn case

2008-11-26T12:15:00.000-08:00

Daniel Borunda

A Mesilla Park man was arrested Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after pornography showing men having sex with young girls was allegedly found on computers seized at his home, officials said Tuesday.

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Arpaio cruises to fifth term as sheriff

2008-11-06T08:36:00.000-08:00

Dennis Welch

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Tuesday appeared to be cruising to a fifth-term in office, clobbering his Democratic challenger Dan Saban in a nasty campaign loaded with attacks ads and personal insults.

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Exclusive: Mom Accused of Murder Speaks Out

2008-11-06T08:27:00.000-08:00

By JUJU CHANG and SHANA HILDEBRAND

Andrew Burd, 4, Died From Salt Poisoning; Appeal Hearing in Hannah Overton Case Today

Three justices in Texas' 13th Court of Appeals will hear arguments today in the case of Hannah Overton, who was convicted of capital murder in the death of her son, but it could be months before they decide whether her conviction should be overturned.

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California Gay Marriage Ban Faces Lawsuits

2008-11-06T08:19:00.000-08:00

By Janet Kornblum

Same-Sex Marriage Proponents Gearing Up for Legal Challenges to Proposition 8

Defenders of same-sex marriage filed three lawsuits Wednesday challenging California voters' passage of a constitutional amendment banning it.

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Immigration indictment issued in Nev. abduction

2008-11-06T08:16:00.000-08:00

The Associated Press

A man named by authorities as a figure in the drug ring kidnapping of a 6-year-old Nevada boy was indicted on an immigration charge Wednesday by a federal grand jury, the U.S. attorney's office said.

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2 face charges in kidnapping of West Palm Beach boy

2008-11-06T08:13:00.000-08:00

By Jerome Burdi

Two men accused of holding a 4-year-old West Palm Beach boy hostage are facing kidnapping charges following the child's rescue by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the agency announced today.

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DPS to activate speed cameras in West Valley

2008-10-16T11:00:00.000-07:00

by Lily Leung

As early as Friday, motorists traveling certain West Valley stretches of Loop 101 and Interstate 10 could have their photos snapped if they're going too fast.

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Florida Grand Jury Indicts Mother of Missing Florida Toddler on Murder Charges

2008-10-16T10:37:00.000-07:00

The Associated Press

The nearly four-month-old investigation into the disappearance of Florida toddler Caylee Anthony culminated Tuesday in the arrest of her monther on a charge of first-degree murder, even though the girl's body hasn't been found.

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Ohio Elections Chief Challenges Court Ruling

2008-10-16T10:07:00.000-07:00

FOXNews.com

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday, asking the high court to intervene in a dispute over whether the state must do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.

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Librarian fatally shot at Texas college

2008-10-13T16:42:00.000-07:00

msnbc.com staff and news service reports

A librarian at a college northeast of San Antonio was shot to death Monday by a part-time co-worker, according to media reports.

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Teen Who Overdosed at Party Begged for Help, Was Ignored

2008-10-10T16:03:00.000-07:00

By Peter Michael, News.com.au

TEENAGER Melanie Boyd begged her friends to call for help after taking a lethal cocktail of booze and drugs, an inquest was told.

But by the time an ambulance was called, three hours after she was found "blue" and "struggling to breathe", the popular Townsville private schoolgirl, 16, was dead.

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Conn. court: Same-sex couples can marry

2008-10-10T15:57:00.000-07:00

Associated Press

Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry, making that state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions.

The court ruled 4-3 that gay and lesbian couples cannot be denied the freedom to marry under the state constitution, and Connecticut's civil unions law does not provide those couples with the same rights as heterosexual couples.

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Former child actor admits killing couple for yacht

2008-10-10T15:53:00.000-07:00

Tom and Jackie Hawks were tied to anchor and thrown overboard to deaths

By Mike Celizic

For nearly four years, Ryan and Matt Hawks have felt certain that a former small-time child actor masterminded the vicious murder of their parents, who were tied to the anchor of their yacht and thrown to their deaths in the Pacific Ocean off Catalina Island.

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Green card applicants must get HPV vaccine

2008-10-03T11:17:00.000-07:00

The Associated Press

Young, female immigrants must now get shot to prevent cervical cancer

DALLAS - An expensive cervical cancer vaccine is now needed by young female immigrants before they can become legal U.S. residents, a requirement that immigration advocates say is unfair.

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A close look at the Sheriff's Office record

2008-10-03T11:07:00.000-07:00

by JJ Hensley

The goal is straightforward: Get to crimes in progress in five minutes or less and solve two-thirds of crimes that detectives investigate.

But Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office is taking at least two minutes longer than its five-minute median goal in responding to priority-one calls in the towns and unincorporated areas where it is the main law-enforcement agency.

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NYPD officer kills himself over Taser episode

2008-10-03T11:05:00.000-07:00

by Colleen Long

NEW YORK - The man was naked, teetering on a building ledge and jabbing at police with an 8-foot-long fluorescent light bulb as a crowd gathered below.

Lt. Michael Pigott responded by ordering an officer to fire a stun gun at the man, who froze and plunged headfirst to his death in a scene captured on amateur video and replayed frequently on the Internet.

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Election Looms as Supreme Court Starts Term

2008-10-03T11:00:00.000-07:00

By ARIANE de VOGUE

As Barack Obama and John McCain Race to the White House, the Justices Prepare to Hear Cases on Navy Sonar, Drug Labels and 'Fleeting Expletives'

The Supreme Court begins its new term Monday with important cases in business, environmental and First Amendment law -- but those issues might be overshadowed by a presidential election that could shift the ideological balance of the court.

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More Text Messages, Voicemails, Interviews Released in Case of Missing Florida Toddler

2008-09-26T10:43:00.000-07:00

Fox News

Investigators released text message and voicemail transcripts, interviews and other evidence documents Friday in the case of a missing Florida toddler.

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Evangelist Tony Alamo charged with child porn

2008-09-26T10:36:00.000-07:00

The Associated Press

"In the Bible it happened. But girls today, I don't marry 'em if they want to at 14-15 years old," Alamo said Saturday after federal agents raided his southwestern Arkansas compound and placed six girls into state custody. "We won't do it, even though I believe it's OK."

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Man who brought 'heat' waits to testify at O.J. trial

2008-09-26T10:32:00.000-07:00

The Associated Press

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) -- Witnesses in the O.J. Simpson trial have described Michael McClinton waving a handgun and shouting orders like a police officer while others carried away items two memorabilia dealers had arrayed on the bed.

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Ariz. fugitive reportedly seen in Salt Lake City

2008-09-16T16:32:00.000-07:00

Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY - A man sought in the fatal shooting of an armored truck courier in Phoenix apparently has been spotted around Salt Lake City, and FBI agents are canvassing his associates for information.

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When Acquitted Doesn't Mean Acquitted

2008-09-16T16:29:00.000-07:00

Judges Can Sentence Criminals to Longer Prison Terms Even After a Jury Has Acquitted Them

By SCOTT MICHELS

When Roger White helped his brother and his brother's girlfriend rob a bank in Maysville, Ky., he led police on a high-speed, 17-mile chase down country roads before he finally crashed his car and was caught.

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State Dept. Contractor Charged in Passport Breach

2008-09-16T16:23:00.000-07:00

Passport Files of Presidential Candidates Illegally Searched
By KIRIT RADIA and JASON RYAN

A former government official involved in breaching the passport files of presidential contenders is expected to plead guilty next week.

Lawrence Yontz, a contractor working at the State Department, was charged last week in a criminal information filed by the Justice Department on federal charges of unauthorized computer access. A criminal information is a court document filed by prosecutors charging a suspect with a crime, versus an indictment, which is returned by a grand jury.

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Language at gay civil rights forum at issue

2008-09-15T15:22:00.000-07:00

By J. FERGUSON

Barb White's voice broke and as she addressed Tuesday's forum on a proposed gay civil rights ordinance for Flagstaff.

"I've walked the streets of Flagstaff and I don't feel in danger of harassment, "White said. "I am terrified right now by the intolerance that I am hearing in this room.

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OJ prosecutor says evidence will show threats

2008-09-15T15:21:00.000-07:00

By KEN RITTER, Associated Press Writer

LAS VEGAS - A prosecutor told jurors Monday they will learn "the true face" of O.J. Simpson during the former football star's trial on charges of robbing sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room.

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Racial Profiling? Harvard Reviews Campus Cops

2008-09-12T16:04:00.000-07:00

By Ashley Phillips

Campus police at Harvard University are under scrutiny, as the Ivy League school this week launched a review of the department amid allegations of possible racial profiling of students and professors.

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