A former Los Angeles gang member is due in court to be cleared of a murder conviction that kept him behind bars for 19 years, the Associated Press reports. Lawyers for James Edward Smith plan to ask a judge Monday to vacate his murder and attempted murder convictions...
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Seven individuals were reportedly arrested for allegedly trafficking uranium and weapons in a breakaway region of Moldova. The unnamed group had been detained last week in the separatist enclave of Transnistria, according to Moldova’s interior ministry, Reuters reported....
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Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) fully supports Daw Aung San Suu Kyi calls for easing of sanction on Burma.Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said that—“I do not think that we need to cling on to sanctions unnecessarily, because I want our people to be responsible for their own destiny...
Reuters reports prosecutors on Thursday dropped their legal fight to gain access to a notebook accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes sent to a university psychiatrist, saying legal wrangling over it would delay the case for months. "There's a high degree...
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Police say a Pennsylvania couple sold a neighbor's lost puppy for $50 rather than return it to its owner, the Associated Press reports. Police in Leechburg, about 25 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, say a golden retriever and a Rottweiler puppy wandered onto the property...
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A chef on trial for his wife's murder told sheriff's investigators that they couldn't find his wife's body because he had cooked it for four days in boiling water until little was left but her skull, the Associated Press reports. Los Angeles Superior Court jurors on Tuesday...
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Police station flags fly half mast across the country as two unarmed female police officers were killed earlier today while attending a “routine incident” which led to the arrest of one of the country’s...
A condemned Ohio inmate who weighs 480 pounds and has a history of difficulty losing weight argues he would face a "torturous and lingering death" if executed in January, the Associated Press reports. Ronald Post, who shot and killed a hotel clerk in northern Ohio almost...
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A Sanford man was arrested on allegations of beating his live-in girlfriend with her own dog, ClickOrlando.com reports.Michael Wayne Jones, 42, was arrested Thursday on charges of domestic battery by strangulation, criminal mischief and animal cruelty.According to Sanford...
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Atlanta Falcons running back Michael Turner has been arrested for drunken driving and speeding in metro Atlanta just hours after he scored a touchdown in the team's win over the Denver Broncos, the Associated Press is reporting. Gwinnett County jail records show...
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have won an injunction preventing Closer magazine showing more photos of her sunbathing topless. The Tribunal de Grande Instance in Nanterre, Paris also ordered the magazine...
Over two decades, the Boy Scouts of America failed to report hundreds of alleged child molesters to police and often hid the allegations from parents and the public.A Los Angeles Times review of 1,600 confidential files dating from 1970 to 1991 has found that Scouting ...
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Vancouver DTES Sept 13: Thursday Sept 13 four individuals where shot at the Arco Hotel on East Pender Street. The victims where described as drug users. (this info comes from a drug dealer ) It is believed that there injuries where not serious....
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A Washington man whose wife discovered through Facebook that he had married a second woman has pleaded guilty to attempted bigamy, the Associated Press reports. Alan O'Neill, 42, was charged in March after his first wife learned of his second wife through a Facebook "people...
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