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1 hr ago | Examiner.com

Hero cop rape charge: Former 'top cop' arrested on rape charges

Hero cop rape charge : Richard DeCoatsworth, a 27-year-old former police officer, has been accused of rape and other crimes.

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5 hrs ago | NBC Miami

12 Shot in Spate of Weekend Violence Across Chicago

Two people were fatally shot in the head and another shot dead in the chest in weekend violence that wounded at least nine others across Chicago, according to police.

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Related Topix: Chicago, IL, Cook County, IL

9 hrs ago | WTEN-TV Albany

1 winning ticket sold in Fla. on Powerball

A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million.

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Related Topix: Lottery, Hofstra University

13 hrs ago | Patch.com

Celebrity Hitchhiker Charged in Clark Murder, Prostitution Bust at Senior Complex Top State News

Internet Celebrity Hitchhiker Arrested in Clark Murder A homeless hitchhiker who gained internet fame earlier this year was arrested at a Philadelphia bus station and charged with the murder of a Clark lawyer last Sunday.

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Related Topix: Clark, NJ, Atlantic County, NJ

Sat May 18, 2013

KHGI

Authorities: Hofstra student was killed by police

Junior public relations major Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head early Friday morning by an officer who opened fire after the masked intruder pointed a gun at the officer while holding the 21-year-old student, Nassau County homicide squad Lt.

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Related Topix: Hofstra University, Uniondale, NY, Mineola, NY, Tarrytown, NY

Canada.com

3 killed, 3 injured in shooting at Puerto Rico gas station

Police say several men opened fire on the group early Saturday in the eastern town of Las Piedras.

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KFAQ-AM Tulsa

Court upholds life sentence in uncle's death

An Oklahoma appeals court has upheld the life prison sentence of a 38-year-old man who was convicted of first-degree murder for shooting his uncle to death.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Tulsa County, OK, Tulsa, OK

KMBC-TV

Man charged in shooting death of Independence man

A 35-year-old Independence man has been charged in connection with the deadly shooting of Charles Dunnington, the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office said.

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Related Topix: Independence, MO, Jackson County, MO

GPB.org

Boston Bombings Prompt Fresh Look At Unsolved Murders

Gerry Leone was the district attorney for Middlesex County in Massachusetts when three people were murdered in a house in the Boston suburb of Waltham.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Middlesex County, MA, Waltham, MA, Drugs

Patch.com

Woman Charged With Murder; Arson Suspect Arrested

Ball Ground Woman Charged with Killing Father - Canton-Sixes Patch A Ball Ground woman has been arrested for allegedly murdering her father after Cherokee County sheriff's deputies discovered his decomposed body inside the home.

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Related Topix: Ball Ground, GA, Cherokee County, GA

Fri May 17, 2013

Patch.com

Brighton Man Charged with Open Murder in Gun Range Shooting Death

Updated at 11:45 a.m. Livingston County Prosecutor William Vailliencourt confirmed that he has filed new charges in the shooting death of Charles Kimball.

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Related Topix: Livingston County, MI, Brighton, MI

Colorado Daily

Patrick Ward charged with 2 counts of vehicular homicide in crash that killed Boulder cyclist

Patrick Ward appears in the courtroom at the Boulder County Jail on Thursday. He was charged with two counts of vehicular homicide in the weekend crash in Lyons that killed a Boulder cyclist.

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Related Topix: Ward, CO

KESQ-TV Palm Desert

University professor, wife killed in Nebraska

Police in Omaha, Nebraska, said Thursday that they're looking into whether there's a connection between the recent killings of a university professor and his wife and two unsolved area homicides.

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Canada.com

Incinerator found on property of suspect in Ontario test drive death

Hamilton police have seized an incinerator found on the property of a man accused of killing a 32-year-old father after a test drive.

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CBS Local

Florida Man Accused Of Killing Ex-Girlfriend's Fetus After...

The 28-year-old son of a Florida fertility doctor has been charged by federal authorities with tricking his girlfriend into taking a pill used to induce labor and cause an abortion, killing the fetus she was carrying.

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Related Topix: Florida, Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Medicine, Cytotec, Misoprostol (generic)

Thu May 16, 2013

WBAY-TV Green Bay

2nd-degree murder conviction in Honolulu shootings

HONOLULU - A jury on Thursday convicted a Wahiawa man of second-degree murder and other charges in a 2011 shooting rampage through Honolulu that killed a mother of 10 and wounded two other people.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law

WCAX-TV Burlington

Bridgewater woman killed in crash

Norma Sawyer, 84, of Bridgewater, was driving a Dodge Neon when she collided with a box truck owned by Carroll Tire of Lebanon, N.H. A suburban New York man is expected to be arraigned in a Vermont courtroom on a charge that he killed his wife almost two decades ago.

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Related Topix: New York, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Cleveland.com

Hernandez Warren charged with 1984 murder of Gloria...

Bond was set at $5 million today for Hernandez Warren, charged with the 1984 murder of Gloria Pointer.

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Athens Banner-Herald

2nd suspect arrested in parade shooting

A second suspect has been arrested in the shooting that injured 20 people at a parade on Mother's Day, police said Thursday afternoon.

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WTLV

Man accused of killing ex-girlfriend's fetus

Federal authorities say the son of a Tampa-area fertility doctor is accused of tricking his girlfriend into taking an abortion drug to kill her unborn child.

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Related Topix: Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law