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St. Paul women held in 2007 Wis. murder
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APPLETON, Wis. - Two Minnesota women and one Wisconsin woman have been charged in connection with a 2007 shooting death in eastern Wisconsin. Thirty-year-old Lara Plamann was shot in the head in a shed on the Greenville property she shared with ...

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Overdue Detroit Office of Inspector General ready to fight public corruption ...
MLive.com
Prompted in part by situations like these and others, the revised 2012 Detroit City Charter called for the formation of the OIG office specifically tasked to "to root out waste, abuse, fraud, and corruption in city government," according to a release ...

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Is It A Crime to Plant A Seed?
TIME
Vernon “Hugh” Bowman, a 75-year-old farmer from rural Indiana, did something that got him sued. He planted soybean seeds. But Monsanto, the agra-giant, insists that it has a patent on the kind of genetically-modified seed Bowman used — and that the ...

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Study: Teen depression linked to higher property crime, but not violent crime
Washington Post (blog)
Our findings indicate that adolescents who suffer from depression face a substantially increased probability of engaging in property crime. We find little evidence that adolescent depression influences the likelihood of engaging in violent crime or the ...

Five arrests have been made after what some allege was an anti-gay hate crime in Oregon. As KGW News is reporting, 24-year-old Adam Salnardi was... Curtis M. Wong http://www.huffingtonpost.com/curtis-wong/

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Woman pleads guilty to murder in Durham cult case
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Durham, N.C. — One of the female members of an alleged Durham cult pleaded guilty Monday for her role in the 2010 deaths of another woman and a child. LaRhonda Renee Smith agreed to a plea on charges of second-degree murder, accessory after the ...

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Rocket Riot 3D update : 72 new levels and 102 new characters!
Gamasutra
With new music, new challenging levels, new unlockable characters and advanced pixel technology, there's more to blow up in Rocket Riot than ever before. You can now download 72 new levels in 4 themed level packs. Each pack offers 18 new levels to ...

'I didn't mean for it to get out of hand'
Stuff.co.nz
Alarmed neighbours watched from their homes as officers with riot shields, helmets and batons waded into the crowd, arresting eight people who were identified as throwing projectiles at police. Arrested were two males from Temuka, aged 15 and 19, and ...

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A Look at the Murder Case Facing Oscar Pistorius
ABC News
South Africa's prosecutors will begin explaining Tuesday why they accuse Olympian Oscar Pistorius of committing murder in the Valentine's Day shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius hasn't entered a plea in the case, though his ...
Sponsors sticking by Oscar Pistorius despite murder charge, agent saysNBCNews.com (blog)
Tearful Pistorius Hears Court Murder ChargeESPN
Oscar Pistorius murder charge: legal heavyweights line up for 'South Africa's ...Telegraph.co.uk
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Woman pleads to murder in Durham cult case
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LaRhonda Renee Smith agreed to a plea on charges of second-degree murder, accessory after the fact, first-degree kidnapping and conspiracy to commit murder. She and two others were implicated in the shooting deaths of Antoinetta McKoy, 28, and Jadon ...

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Oscar Pistorius murder charge: legal heavyweights line up for 'South Africa's ...
Telegraph.co.uk
... Jackie Selebi after proving he had taken bribes from an organised crime network. He will argue that Pistorius planned the murder of his lover Reeva Steenkamp, 29, who was shot four times including in the head at his home in the early hours of Thursday.

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Two Kansas brothers were lucky -- then, not so lucky -- and then fortunate again, after they both survived an explosion that destroyed their house.... Simon McCormack http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-mccormack/

Corruption's kosher in Italy
Hindu Business Line
“In the corruption scandal surrounding the sale of Eurofighter jets to Austria, more and more information suggests that European defence giant EADS may have played a role in bribery aimed at securing the lucrative contract. The affair has the potential ...

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Father of far-right murder victim appeals to German president
Reuters
Revelations in November 2011 that the cell was behind the previously unconnected murders of eight ethnic Turks, a Greek and a policewoman provoked deep soul-searching over how the so-called National Socialist Union (NSU) could have gone undetected ...
Gauck meets with families of NSU murder victimsDeutsche Welle

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Briton Denies Murder of US Ex-Marine in Thailand
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A British kickboxer has told the judge at his trial in Thailand that he did not deliberately kill a former U.S. Marine he is charged with murdering. Lee Aldhouse of Birmingham has been charged with the premeditated murder of Dashawn Longfellow on Aug.
Kickboxer Denies US Marine's Murder In ThailandSky News
Phuket Murder Trial Begins: Longfellow Killing Was Accidental, Lee Aldhouse ...Phuketwan
Aldhouse pleads not guilty to Phuket murderThe Phuket News

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Time to refer Syrian war crimes to ICC: UN inquiry
Reuters
1 of 2. Member of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria Carla del Ponte addresses a news conference at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva February 18, 2013. Syrians in ''leadership positions'' who may be responsible for war crimes have ...

LONDON — A British couple's round-the-world cycling odyssey ended in tragedy when both of them were killed in a road accident in Thailand. Peter Root... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eline-gordts/

Police in Lancashire are asking the public for help and urging them to be careful after a canister containing a small amount of Iridium 192 was stolen from a van there this weekend. The pilfered material—which is housed in a foot-long yellow canister and is used in cancer-fighting radiotherapy,...

Appeals court ruling could mean new murder trial
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MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - A Muncie man convicted in a 2006 killing could get another trial following a state Court of Appeals ruling. Thirty-two-year-old James D. Roberson was convicted of murder and sentenced to 55 years in prison in 2007 in the killing of ...
New trial likely for Muncie man convicted of murderMuncie Star Press

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Parents of Yemeni victim of anti-Semitic murder make aliyah
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The parents of a Hebrew teacher who was killed in an anti-Semitic attack in Yemen have made aliyah. Yisrael (Yaish) and Terneja Nahari, the parents of the late Moshe Nahari, immigrated to Israel on Monday. Moshe Nahari was a ritual ...

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