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Wrestling with the corruption of the Olympics
The Japan Times
It was also Samaranch who presided over the increasing corruption of the Olympics, essentially making them a free-enterprise zone for committee members willing to sell their votes to the highest bidder. After years of rumors and denials, the sordid ...

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Austin Reed Sigg must face trial on 18 of 20 counts related to the murder of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway and an attack on a jogger last year, a spokesman for Colorado's courts said Friday.

Friendship, Murder and Writing
Huffington Post (blog)
A good story does not sit in one place like a plate on the shelf. It breathes, moves around; it grows. It can change its mind. It can change your mind. A good story eludes facile description. It can be lovely for me while disturbing for you. It can ...

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Reports: Pope resigned after findings of blackmail, corruption, gay sex at Vatican
Detroit Free Press
The Italian media is reporting that Pope Benedict XVI resigned after receiving the results of an internal investigation, delivered in a 300-page, two-volume dossier, that laid bare a sordid tale of blackmail, corruption and gay sex at the Vatican. The ...
Sex scandals, corruption devastate the Catholic Church: Kevin BarrettPress TV
Pope Benedict resigned after being handed report into gay sex and corruption ...NEWS.com.au

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Three political sisters in Pa. convicted of corruption
USA TODAY
Thursday's conviction of suspended state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin along with her aide and sister, Janine Orie, on campaign corruption charges mean they might join a third sister — former state Sen. Jane Orie — in state prison. No ...
3 political sisters in Pa. convicted of corruptionNewsday
Pa. Judge, Her 2 Sisters Convicted of CorruptionABC News
Pa. judge convicted of corruptionPhiladelphia Inquirer
CBS Local -GoErie.com
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Mexican Facebook page threatened over crime posts
GlobalPost
A Facebook wall post denouncing crime is apparently dangerous stuff in Mexico's drug-infested north, where the administrator of a popular page on the social network has received threats. The page Valor por Tamaulipas has more than 164,000 "likes" as ...

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NYPD, Microsoft create crime-fighting tech system
Salt Lake Tribune
... readers and portable radiation detectors and aggregates it into a user-friendly, readable form. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer). NYPD, Microsoft create crime-fighting tech system. Crime » Project not only helps New York fight crime, it could result in ...

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Crime Stoppers: Woman wanted on aggravated DUI charges
Bloomington Pantagraph
BLOOMINGTON — McLean County Crime Stoppers is asking for the public's help in finding a woman wanted for failing to appear in court on aggravated driving under the influence charges. Theresa A. Pichon, 40, last of the 1500 block of South Morrissey ...

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A D.C. man has been sentenced to a year in jail for two counts of felony animal cruelty against his daughter's kittens. Eric Felipe Gaskin... Carly Schwartz http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carly-schwartz/

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Ex-school chief charged with inciting students to riot
Philadelphia Inquirer
Based on a Reading police investigation, Bean was charged with riot, solicitation to commit riot, criminal use of a communication facility, corruption of minors, and multiple counts of recklessly endangering another person. Berks authorities allege ...
Police: Ex-director incited riot at Pa. schoolKnoxville News Sentinel
Police: Fired school director, Andre Bean, incited Reading students to riotWFMZ Allentown
Former Delaware Valley High School director charged with inciting riotThe Mercury
Reading Eagle
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BBC News
Corruption casts shadow on Spain's Balearic islands
BBC News
Corruption has come to dominate the news in Spain. Scandals have engulfed the government and royal family. But the Balearic islands are under particular suspicion - linked to a third of the current scandals. The BBC's Tom Burridge in Palma investigates.

Williams, Dunning outline strategies to fight crime in Wilmington
The News Journal
Wilmington Mayor Dennis P. Williams released his long-awaited public safety plan Thursday, using 13 pages to outline a philosophy that calls for improving community relationships and addressing the violent crime that has deteriorated the quality of ...

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Crime Stoppers trying to locate Denver gas station robber
Denver Post
Denver Police are asking for the public's help to identify a suspect that robbed a gas station on Federal Boulevard. Crime Stoppers issued an alert for the latest incident that occurred at about 3:40 p.m.on Monday. The suspect walked into the Conoco ...

Marseille rejects accusations of corruption in Nasri deal
Yahoo! Sports
RMC reported that Samir Nasri's move to Arsenal from the Velodrome in 2008 was corrupt, while Le Parisien claimed that a Corsican organized crime family profited from Andre-Pierre Gignac's move to the club from Toulouse. "It is with amazement that ...

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Walmart is slapping a former employee with felony charges after she allegedly ate the store's Oreo cookies on the job, The Smoking Gun reports. Penny Winters, 63, admits to munching on Oreos at the Indiana store but says she noticed an open bag and considered them a gift from management....

A man currently sentenced to death will be executed next week by lethal injection without receiving his final federal review, a routine right for prison... Hunter Stuart http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hunter-stuart/

WASHINGTON -- Leaders of a prominent tribal organization are demanding that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) retract comments this week that Native American courts are incapable... Jennifer Bendery http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-bendery/

Myrtle Beach sees more violent crime in 2012, property crime drops
WBTW - Myrtle Beach and Florence SC
Myrtle Beach Police release a crime index every year, one of the few area departments to do so. 2012 was a mixed year for the report, with some numbers up – others down. The index includes numbers dating all the way back to 1995. Police say it's kind ...

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The internet was up in arms today when a clearly fake suspicious looking press release announced the alleged arrest of Britain's uber-famous street artist, Banksy.... Katherine Brooks http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katherine-brooks/

No verdict yet in Slim Dunkin murder trial
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Hardimon could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted of all the charges he faces — murder, two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of felony murder (causing a person's death while committing a felony) and two counts of ...