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Utah crime lab struggles to keep up with evidence explosion
Salt Lake Tribune
(Kim Raff | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mike Saunders, a forensic scientist, tests drugs seized at a crime scene at the crime lab at the Utah Bureau of Forensic Services in West Valley City on February 11, 2013. The crime lab is slowly on the mend after ...

Man sentenced to life for Sparks double murder
San Francisco Chronicle
Ouimet told investigators he was filled with rage about his pending divorce and went to his estranged wife's home determined to murder whoever was there. He stabbed his wife's 2-year-old son, Connor Lawrence, and 62-year-old grandmother, Lana Stone, ...

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Jackson Jr.'s district has history of corruption
Detroit Free Press
Call it Chicago corruption at its worst or simply uncanny coincidence, but residents of Illinois' 2nd Congressional District haven't been represented in Congress in more than three decades by someone who didn't end up in serious ethical or legal trouble.

The Independent
The baffling case of murder most irresistible
The Independent
Then it was as if the brainstormers, intoxicated by having got off to such a good start, went into over-drive by producing the twist that the detective on the case, Hilton Botha, was himself facing not one but seven charges of attempted murder. If this ...

A riot of robots compete at UVM
BurlingtonFreePress.com
Essex High School students Ethan Konczal, Eli Danyow and Riley Wilbur tinker with their robot after Saturday's first round of the FIRST Tech Challenge at the University of Vermont's Davis Center. / MATT RYAN/Free Press ...

Republicans Fake Obama Corruption but PA's 3 Sisters Conviction Shows How ...
PoliticusUSA (blog)
In the fantasy world of Republicans President Obama is corrupt, but once again the story of the three very corrupt, powerful, Republican, and very convicted Orie sisters reminds of us which party has the corruption problem. It is not very often that a ...

Akinyemi identifies corruption as bane of development •Tasks Mimiko on second ...
Nigerian Tribune
A former Foreign Affairs Minister, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, on Saturday, identified corruption as the major bane of the development of the country. Akinyemi said this in Akure, Ondo State capital, while delivering the inauguration lecture of the ...

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Daily Monitor
High-profile corruption scandals registered under NRM
Daily Monitor
Age-old vice. As the country grapples with increasing cases of corruption, where billions of shillings have been lost to mainly government the Sunday Monitor brings some of the most high-ranking cases of corruption since President Museveni took control ...

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The other half of murder
DAWN.com
COULD death be a half-truth? This question is obviously a killer's last hope and best alibi. There is enough truth in that great genre of mystery fiction to suggest that murder can often be an open debate. This does not help the dead, for there can be ...

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Tens of thousands in Spain protest economic policy, corruption
Reuters
MADRID (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Spaniards marched through cities across the country on Saturday to protest deep austerity, the privatization of public services and political corruption. Gathering under the banner of the "Citizen Tide", students ...
Spaniards to protest against austerity cuts, corruptionPress TV
Reports: Protestors Rally Across Spain Against Budget Cuts And CorruptionRTT News

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Man faces murder charge in baby's beating
Boston Herald
A New Bedford man police say violently attacked his girlfriend's 9-month-old daughter in a fit of rage will now face murder charges in the baby's death. Ethen Harrison, 23 — held without bail since his initial Jan. 25 court appearance — will return ...
Charge upgraded to murder in Mass. baby's deathTurn to 10
Ethen Harrison to be charged with murder in Baby Ariel's deathNew England Business Bulletin
NB man indicted for baby's murderProvidence Eyewitness News

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Letter: Violent crime should spur community discussion
Topeka Capital Journal
We all have read or heard about violent crimes in our community that cause us to struggle mightily to find the right words to describe our sense of loss. There should be a community-wide discussion focused on what to do about the causes of violent crimes.

A sticky-fingered man who shares the name of a former British prime minister has been banned from shops in a UK city after he was... Dominique Mosbergen http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dominique-mosbergen/

Ethics expert: Lake corruption case won't deter
San Francisco Chronicle
Lake County Shared Ethics Advisory Commission President Calvin Bellamy tells The Times of Munster (http://bit.ly/XSL6ap ) that Lake County needs to establish a culture that doesn't approve of corrupt behavior and works to prevent it. Assistant U.S ...
Ethics advocate: Latest Lake County corruption conviction not enough to deter ...Greenfield Daily Reporter

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Graft-fighters' suicides linked to pressure of Xi's corruption crackdown
South China Morning Post
A spate of recent suicides by local anti-graft and judiciary officials may be linked to a sweeping crackdown on corruption launched by new Communist Party boss Xi Jinping, analysts say. Ke Jianguo, director of the anti-corruption bureau in Chongzhou, ...

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Daniel Kearney was among those who gave Tipp a torrid time on Leeside
RTE.ie
Patrick Horgan scored 14 points as Cork opened their Allianz Hurling League campaign with a 0-26 to 1-11 victory over Tipperary at Páirc Uí Rinn. Cork scored 14 points in the first half with Horgan, Daniel Kearney and Christopher Joyce impressing.

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Power Line (blog)
Paint It Black: Post-Mortem on a Sort-Of Race Riot
Power Line (blog)
We noted here the confusion that was engendered in local media by a melee at South High School in Minneapolis between Somali immigrants and native-born black students. It was hard to make the usual narratives fit. So today, the Minneapolis Star Tribune ...

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What's happening to Chicago tourism is a crime
Crain's Chicago Business
But perhaps the best thing the city can do to attract more tourists is to address violent crime. Fairly or not, Chicago is being seen as a place where you could get shot while strolling down any street, including the Boul Mich. Dazzling lights and ...

NBCNews.com (blog)
Thousands in Spain protest austerity, corruption
NBCNews.com (blog)
Tens of thousands of Spaniards marched through cities across the country on Saturday to protest deep austerity, the privatization of public services and political corruption. Gathering under the banner of the "Citizen Tide," students, doctors ...
Spaniards to protest against austerity cuts, corruptionPress TV

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Kindergarten Teacher, School Nurse Held in Murder-for-Hire Plot
Yahoo! News (blog)
A Virginia elementary school teacher and a school nurse are facing charges in what police are calling a murder-for-hire plot. Angela Nolen, a 47-year-old kindergarten teacher, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly plotting to hire a hit man to kill her ...