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Firearm enthusiasts probably won’t find much support from the Latino community as the gun control debate barrels forward. Only 18 percent of Latinos own guns,... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roque-planas/

The former trucker who kidnapped a 5-year-old boy in Alabama is dead and the child is safe, Reuters reports. "It's all over," said a law enforcement official. "The boy is OK." Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65, had seized the boy from a school bus last week after allegedly shooting the driver...

The idea that by serving time one has paid his debt to society is ingrained in our social narrative, but it is not accurate. Once caught up in the tides of the criminal justice system, it is very difficult to escape. The National Transitional Jobs Network http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-national-transitional-jobs-network/

Jodi Arias Testimony: Murder Suspect Says She Lied, Had Plans To Commit ...
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Jodi Arias took the stand today to defend herself in the stabbing murder of her boyfriend, telling jurors that she was abused as a child and lied to investigators because she planned on killing herself. In an uncommon move by her defense team, the 32 ...

Two teens killed by father in apparent murder-suicide, officials say
Los Angeles Times
A small Calaveras County community has been rocked after an apparent murder-suicide in which a man killed his two teenage children and then himself. Calaveras County sheriff's deputies showed up at a Murphys home near Sandalwood Drive and Canyon ...

The standoff between law enforcement and an Alabama man who held a boy in a bunker for seven days ended with the suspect dead and... Michael McLaughlin http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-mclaughlin/

Former South Carolina GOP executive director Todd Kincannon is known for making provocative statements on Twitter, but his latest series of tweets has caused an... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lindsay-wilkesedrington/

Jodi Arias took the stand today to defend herself in the stabbing murder of her boyfriend, telling jurors that she was abused as a child... David Lohr http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-lohr/

Christian Science Monitor
Good Reads: Women in crime, democracy's era, digital mapping, a history in heels
Christian Science Monitor
Sometimes it's easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys. But more often, players fall somewhere in between, both committing crimes and being deeply affected by them. The drug war in Mexico is no different, no matter if the participants are men – or ...

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Two teens killed by father in apparent murder-suicide, officials say
Los Angeles Times
A small Calaveras County community has been rocked after an apparent murder-suicide in which a man killed his two teenage children and then himself. Calaveras County sheriff's deputies showed up at a Murphys home near Sandalwood Drive and Canyon ...
Correction: Mountain Community-Murder-SuicideSan Francisco Chronicle
Father in Murphys murder-suicide had previous arrest for batterySacramento Bee (blog)
Calaveras Sheriff: Suspect in murder-suicide had criminal pastModesto Bee
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India toughens sex crime laws, but problems remain
Salon
The law make crimes such as voyeurism, stalking, acid attacks and the trafficking of women punishable under criminal law. But many women's groups have rejected the measure, arguing that it only selectively accepted the recommendations of the Justice JK ...

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Days after an assistant district attorney was gunned down on his way to work in Texas, friends and colleagues gave starkly different descriptions of the... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-hoffer/

A century-old, 44-pound cookie sculpture was stolen last month from outside a famous German bakery, and police have now received two "ransom" notes. Both included pictures of a person dressed as Cookie Monster putting the golden cookie in his or her mouth, Spiegel reports; the AP adds that the most...

Yahoo! News (blog)
Brazilian Congress elects leaders probed for corruption
Yahoo! News (blog)
Reuters/Reuters - Brazil's Senate President, Senator Renan Calheiros (R), stands next to President of the Chamber of Deputies, congressman Henrique Alves (C), during the opening ceremony of the legislative …more year in the Brazilian Parliament in ...

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Dallas Morning News
Police: Man accused of killing sniper threatened murder-suicide last year
Dallas Morning News
February 04, 2013 02:47 PM CST February 04, 2013 03:32 PM CST Police: Man accused of killing sniper threatened murder-suicide last year. Police: Man accused of killing sniper threatened murder-suicide last year. /Erath County Sheriff's Department ...
Motive still unclear in ex-Navy SEAL's murderCBS News
Texas man arraigned on murder charges in shooting of ex-Navy SEALChicago Tribune
Ron Paul on Murder of Former Navy SEAL: 'He Who Lives by the Sword Dies by ...National Review Online (blog)
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Obama Takes Gun Push on the Road
ABC News
President Obama took his plan to overhaul the nation's gun laws on the road to Minneapolis, Minn., today, making a public push for lawmakers to act in a state where efforts to reduce violence are showing "that progress is possible." "We may not be able ...

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It wasn't meth or heroin but store-bought synthetic marijuana that, according to a Texas family, landed Emily Bauer, then-16, in an induced coma in December. The family is now on a mission to save other kids.

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Husband of Pussy Riot Prisoner at Geneva Rights Summit
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Geneva, February 4, 2013 – Russia's imprisonment of Pussy Riot musician Nadya Tolokonnikova will be spotlighted this month at the seat of the United Nations Human Rights Council, when her activist husband joins top-name dissidents from Iran, Tibet and ...
Member of Pussy Riot HospitalizedMs. Magazine
Russian-US reload beyond the politicsRussia Beyond The Headlines (blog)

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Police got rough with the alleged killer of US sniper Chris Kyle last night, Tasering him in his jail cell and tying him to a chair, ABC News reports. Authorities say guards at the central Texas jail Tasered Eddie Ray Routh , 25, when he refused to return his dinner tray,...

Some call him the "Kick-Ass Mall Cop," but Darien Long, property manager at downtown Atlanta's Metro Mall, claims he's just trying to keep the peace.... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andres-jauregui/