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Oregon hate crime victim: 'I thought I was going to die'
KOMO News
GRESHAM, Ore. - A 24-year-old man lured to a park under a ruse he was meeting a man for sex said Friday it was his first time meeting a stranger for such a date. Within seconds after he arrived, things turned violent. When Adam Salnardi went to Vance ...
Gay man attacked at Gresham park in possible hate crime - KPTV - FOX 12KPTV.com

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Speaker to talk on Charleston Riot
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier
NEWMAN (JG-TC) — A presentation on the Charleston Riot during the Civil War by author Peter Barry is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Illini Community Building in Newman. Barry will talk about the armed conflict that took place at the Coles ...

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10 Atlanta Police Charged In Corruption Case, Taking Payouts From Drug ...
News One
Law enforcement officers arrested in the wide-spread corruption scheme: Atlanta Police Department Officer Kelvin Allen, 42, of Atlanta; DeKalb County Police Department Officers Dennis Duren, 32, of Atlanta and Dorian Williams, 25, of Stone Mountain, Ga ...

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Convicted ex-NJ lawmaker's corruption appeal nixed
The Trentonian
NEWARK (AP) — A federal court has rejected a former New Jersey lawmaker's attempt to have his corruption sentence thrown out. Former Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt had claimed in court papers that he received ineffective counsel. In court filings, the ...
Convicted ex-Lumberton official's corruption appeal nixedphillyBurbs.com

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(Adds details, reaction; Jacksons intend to plead guilty) By David Ingram and Mary Wisniewski WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Former Chicago congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.,... Reuters http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reuters/

State police data shows lack of crime clearances
The Trentonian
TRENTON — Starting this month, the New Jersey State Police will begin releasing weekly updates to the state's uniform crime reports with individual breakdowns from each of the state's police departments. While each individual department may not have ...
N.J. State Police to provide weekly crime data online for all municipalitiesThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com
NJ puts fresh crime data on websiteNewsworks.org (blog)
State Police Updating Local Crime Data WeeklyPatch.com

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Violent crime down in Downtown Austin
Austin News
AUSTIN (KXAN) - The number of violent crimes is down dramatically in Downtown Austin compared to this time last year. The latest numbers from the Austin Police Department show a 63 percent drop in crimes like robbery and aggravated assault from ...

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Prosecutor: 'Blade Runner' Pistorius committed 'premeditated' murder of girlfriend
NBCNews.com (blog)
Oscar Pistorius, the superstar athlete who became the first double amputee sprinter to compete in the Olympics, is the sole suspect in the murder of law school graduate and famous South African model Reeva Steenkamp. NBC's Rehema Ellis reports.

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Hennepin County crime stays at historic lows
Minneapolis Star Tribune
In Minneapolis, serious crime was up for 2012, for the third consecutive year. But data showed other categories of crime decreasing. Overall, violent crime was at the second-lowest level since 1983 and only slightly higher than the recent low of 2011.
Sheriff: Violent Crime Down 37 Percent in Hennepin CountyPatch.com
Crime Down Across Hennepin CountyKSTP.com

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At U-Md., campus crime alerts spark fear, sometimes without merit
Washington Post
Despite what students and their tuned-in parents think, crime at U-Md. has fallen in recent years, as it has on college campuses across the country. Some police officials blame the proliferation of systems that send out public safety alerts via e-mail ...

WASHINGTON -- The mother of slain Chicago teenager Hadiya Pendleton on Friday released a public service advertisement urging members of Congress to support gun-control legislation.... Christina Wilkie http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-wilkie/

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Database allows prescription drug crime tracking
Newsday (subscription)
Whether in Nassau, Suffolk, New York City or beyond, painkiller thefts can be tracked in a new database accessible by police agencies across the region -- allowing investigators to detect a mosaic of connected drug crimes, officials announced Friday ...
New Database To Help Crack Down On Prescription Drug-Related Crime In NYCBS Local

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The State Crime Laboratory's backlog demands attention
News & Observer
The term DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic acid, but at the State Crime Laboratory it's acquiring a second meaning – Data Not Available. Consider a case from this week in which DNA evidence caused Johnston County prosecutors to drop a rape charge ...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner apparently killed himself as the cabin he was barricaded in caught fire following a shootout with officers,... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-finocchiaro/

It looks like Christopher Dorner killed himself in his showdown with police at a mountain cabin in California. Autopsy results show that Dorner died of a single gunshot wound to the head, reports AP . While he had been in a fierce gunfight with officers prior to that, a spokesman for...

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Vishesh Bhatt's 'Murder 3,' With Randeep Hooda
New York Times
The best attribute of “Murder 3,” described by the Bollywood press machine as an “erotic thriller” (hmm to both of those), is its primary setting: a gorgeous estate that deserves two thumbs up from the folks at Architectural Digest. Ah, that kitchen ...
Anupama Chopra's review: Murder 3Hindustan Times
'Murder 3' review: The clunky film doesn't work as an edge-of-your seat thrillerIBNLive
Review: Murder 3Indian Express
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Some traders made a bundle over the big HJ Heinz acquisition yesterday, and federal regulars suspect insider trading. The SEC obtained a court order today to freeze a brokerage account in Switzerland and prevent the assets from being moved. The account was used for trades placed Wednesday that netted $1....

CHARDON, Ohio — Negotiations are under way for a possible plea deal for a teenager suspected of killing three students at a high school cafeteria,... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-moye/

If it had been any other high school, you would know this story by now. Had some other "kind of school" logged a year that... Lisa Belkin http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-belkin/

San Francisco Chronicle
Obama Pal Jesse Jackson Jr. Derailed by Corruption Charge
Bloomberg
Jesse Jackson Jr., the son and namesake of a civil rights icon and once a rising Democratic Party star, would have likely flown on Air Force One today had corruption charges not short-circuited his political career. Instead, as his friend President ...
Jesse Jackson Jr. and Wife Charged with Federal Corruption, Make Plea DealsYahoo! News (blog)

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