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CINCINNATI — A woman accused of helping her 15-year-old daughter beat another teenage girl at a high school is countering a police department's version of... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-griffo/

San Francisco Chronicle
Mo. Man Freed On Bond Before Murder Retrial
NPR
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri man facing a third murder trial after judges overturned two earlier convictions has been freed from jail and says he's overwhelmed. Mark Woodworth walked out of the Livingston County jail at midday Friday and repeatedly ...
Mo. man to be freed on bond before murder retrialHuffington Post
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San Francisco Chronicle
Food fight triggers riot
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At a news conference, Minneapolis Police and schools detailed what started as a food fight, but ended in what witnesses call a riot over lunchtime in the commons area. "At the height of the incident, we had two to three hundred students involved ...
Minneapolis cafeteria riot: South High locked down as hundreds of students brawlPioneer Press
Minnesota high school placed on lockdown after cafeteria food fight turned ...Daily Mail
Tense about race in MinneapolisPower Line (blog)
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Bell corruption trial gets nasty, prompting warning from judge
Los Angeles Times
A former Bell city leader accused of plundering the town's treasury by taking an oversized salary continued to trade barbs with a prosecutor Friday, bringing an admonishment from the judge presiding over the municipal corruption case. George Cole, a ...

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News 12 Long Island
Mo. Man Freed on Bond Before Murder...
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A Missouri man facing a third murder trial after judges overturned two earlier convictions has been freed from jail and says he's overwhelmed. Mark Woodworth walked out of the Livingston County jail at midday Friday and repeatedly said he was ...
Mo. man to be freed on bond before murder retrialHuffington Post
Missouri man freed on bond before murder retrialSTLtoday.com
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Chicago's record murder rate: Don't blame guns alone
CNN
(CNN) -- On the same day Chicago police held a news conference to tout their improved murder rate in November, 15-year-old Porshe Foster got caught in the middle of deadly gang warfare. It happed right before 9:30 p.m. November 26. The sophomore ...

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MiamiHerald.com
Lawmaker forced out of parliament after exposing corruption at Samsung
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A South Korean lawmaker who exposed corruption at consumer electronics giant Samsung (005930) has been forced out of office by the country's Supreme Court. The court upheld a ruling on Friday that by publishing wiretaps of conversations between ...
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Updated story Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was charged Friday with violating federal law by misusing campaign funds -- and his wife Sandi Jackson... Kim Bellware http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-bellware/

Wall Street Journal (blog)
Tank Parts Found on Finnish Ship
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Corruption Currents, The Wall Street Journal's corruption blog, digs into the ever-present and ever-changing world of corporate corruption. It is a source of news, analysis and commentary for those who earn a living by finding corruption or by avoiding it.

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Man charged in gang killing pleads guilty to riot
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
Twenty-year-old Andres Solis, who did not fire any shots the day of the killing, pleaded guilty to one count of felony riot. In exchange for the plea, charges of second-degree murder and three counts of first-degree assault were dismissed. Solis will ...

An editorial in today's Buffalo News said that lawmakers in Albany have ignored the wrongfully convicted and their families by delaying the implementation of criminal justice reforms in New York State.

Anthony Capozzi was wrongfully convicted of committing two sexual assaults in Buffalo, New York, in the mid-1980s. He spent over two decades in prison for these crimes before DNA testing proved his innocence and revealed the identity of the true perpetrator who had gone on to commit multiple rapes and murders while Capozzi was wrongfully imprisoned. Amid the 22 years separated by prison bars, Capozzi's parents never lost faith in their son's innocence.

Albert Capozzi died Monday at age 87 and, as New York continues to avoid taking responsibility for a criminal justice system that does too little to distinguish between the innocent and the guilty, the passing of this generous spirit should not go unnoticed. He and his family suffered a hell most of us cannot imagine as the unrecognized victims of the problem of wrongful conviction. Mary Capozzi died three years ago.

Reforms backed by police and prosecutors that would diminish the chances of convicting the wrong person include better lineup procedures to prevent misidentification by witnesses and recorded interrogations to guard against false confessions. For the past several years, the Innocence Project and the New York State Justice Task Force, created by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippmann, have urged the state to adopt these comprehensive criminal justice reforms.

No system can fully protect against the problems of human nature, whether misidentification by witnesses or hasty decisions by police under pressure to get a criminal off the streets. But we can do better than we are now. Twenty-seven people have been wrongfully convicted and exonerated through DNA testing in New York State.

Read the full editorial.

More on Capozzi's case.

WDIV Detroit
Jury moving to deliberations in Kilpatrick case
WDIV Detroit
Local 4 is inside the courtroom for the federal corruption trial of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick's dad Bernard Kilpatrick and his childhood friend Bobby Ferguson. Each day we bring you information from inside federal court as it ...

North Carolina state representatives have introduced a bill that would "clarify" state law to specifically prohibit the baring of women's breasts. Women worried about showing... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meredith-bennettsmith/

Oscar Pistorius accused of premeditated murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp ...
CBS News
The double-amputee athlete's arrest and murder charge had already left South Africa stunned after Steenkamp's death on Valentine's Day at Pistorius' house in a gated community in an eastern suburb of South Africa's capital, Pretoria. Sky News' Emma ...

NDTV
'Go on, shoot me!' Grief-stricken protester confronts Bahraini riot police (VIDEO)
RT
Through the haze of smoke in the debris-littered streets of Daih, over half a dozen riot police were met with a volley of screams by an unidentified protester who was overwhelmed after witnessing the death of Hussein Jaziri – a teenager killed by ...
Thousands of Opposition Protesters Rally in BahrainVoice of America
Clashes mark Bahrain's second uprising anniversaryU-T San Diego
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The Guardian
Oscar Pistorius appears in court and denies girlfriend's murder
The Guardian
Hands clasped to his face, his torment laid bare in a humid redbrick courtroom, Oscar Pistorius was back at the centre of the crowd's gaze. Six months ago he was watched by millions as he sprinted down the track of London's Olympic Stadium. On Friday ...

A Texas amusement park enthusiast who was born without hands is suing Six Flags for refusing to let him onto a ride. Clint Bench alleges that last May a Six Flags Over Texas employee wouldn't let him on the Aquaman Splashdown (a variation on the classic log flume). When he...

Teen suspect in court after crime spree
WISH
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - One of the teens suspected in a day-long crime spree that left one person dead was expected to appear in court on Friday. A 15-year-old and 17-year-old were both arrested on preliminary charges related to the crime spree.

Toronto Star
Bahrain protesters pack highway, clash with riot police as tensions spike
Newser
Masked Bahraini anti-government protesters chant slogans and hold petrol bombs during clashes with riot police in Sanabis, Bahrain, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Security forces in Bahrain clashed on Thursday... (Associated Press) ...
'Go on, shoot me!' Grief-stricken protester confronts Bahraini riot police (VIDEO)RT
Thousands of Opposition Protesters Rally in BahrainVoice of America
Clashes mark Bahrain's second uprising anniversaryU-T San Diego
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WASHINGTON — The public will soon learn more about the subject of sealed hearings in the Chandra Levy murder case. Levy was a Washington intern... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-mccormack/