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Christian Science Monitor
'Secret ledger' at heart of Spanish corruption scandal given to authorities
Christian Science Monitor
Spanish authorities are stepping up their investigation into a high-level corruption scandal that is shaking the government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy – and threatening Europe's already fragile credibility that it will be able to drag itself out ...
Spanish Leader Pledges Transparency Amid Corruption InquiryNew York Times
Spanish corruption scandal further dents support for Rajoy governmentThe Independent
Corruption claims deniedHerald Scotland
ABC News -Socialistworker.co.uk
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Wall Street Journal
Crime That No Longer Pays
Wall Street Journal
Bank holdups have been nearly cut in half over the past decade—to 5.1 robberies per 100 U.S. banks in 2011. Though the nationwide crime rate is dropping, the decline in bank robberies far exceeds the decline in other crimes, according to Federal ...

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Fort Myers Police: Crime down in 2012
The News-Press
The city experienced a roughly 22 percent decrease in non-violent crime in 2012 over 2011, and a roughly 2 percent decrease in violent crime, according to a police department release. “Residents are doing a better job of locking their doors, securing ...
FMPD reports crime is down as compared to 2011Wink News
Report: FMPD saw crime drop in 2012NBC2 News
Crime down in Fort Myers despite increase in murdersFox 4

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Tens of thousands of young people get arrested each year in Chicago, and a lot of those arrests happen on the grounds of Chicago Public... WBEZ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-bellware/

Total crime down, violence up slightly in 2012, Lee sheriff reports
Naples Daily News
Helped by significant drops in thefts and burglaries, the nonviolent crime rate in Lee County Sheriff's Office jurisdiction fell by about 14 percent, the office reported in its annual crime report Tuesday. About 775 fewer residential burglaries and 620 ...
Deputies: Crime rate drops in Lee CountyThe News-Press
Report: Lee County crime drops to lowest in a decadeNBC2 News
LCSO says crime is downWink News
Fox 4 -Gasparilla Gazette
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A former top GOP official in South Carolina is drawing flak for a series of racist tweets he apparently fired off during the Super Bowl... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meredith-bennettsmith/

CBC.ca
Entrepreneur blasted for vague answers before corruption commission
CBC.ca
Construction entrepreneur Giuseppe Borsellino returned to the witness stand at the province's corruption commission this morning to answer questions about his relationship with the former CEO of FTQ-Construction. Borsellino, the head of Garnier ...
Wiretaps expose reluctant witness at corruption inquiryCTV News

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Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) on Monday sought to tone down an earlier reaction to the killing of former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, taking... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-wing/

Their only crime was curiosity: what today's hackers owe phone phreaks
The Verge
Once upon a time, in the days before the ubiquitous and invisible internet, there was only one network. It was made of long-distance lines — actual wires — and it was ruled by an absolute monarch, Ma Bell. Most people traveled the network along ...

The Guardian
Former Pompeii restorer arrested on corruption charges
The Guardian
Italian police have arrested a former restorer of Pompeii on corruption charges and are investigating five others, including the former commissioner appointed to deal with the increasing degradation of the historic site. Italy declared a state of ...
Pompeii restoration: one man charged with corruption, five others probedeuronews
Pompeii restorer held for corruptionThe Independent

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Two exonerees from the Central Park Five case, Kevin Richardson and Yusef Salaam, exonerated through DNA testing, will speak tonight after a screening of the Ken Burns documentary about their wrongful convictions. They will appear on a panel with Innocence Project Managing Attorney David Loftis and journalist Herbert Boyd. The event, which is open to the public, will begin at 6:30 in the Kimmel Center at NYU.

Please RSVP to cmep@nyu.edu

Our corruption and theirs
Indian Express
zero-sum game? First we, the upper castes, were the looters, now it is your turn, the lower castes, to loot — and it's okay. After all, according to Ashis Nandy, there is hope for the republic if there is still some scope to loot, and especially if it ...

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Last week, the State Department reassigned the official responsible for the "diplomatic issues" pertaining to the closing of Guantanamo Bay. This was a telling sign that the administration is abandoning its long-held but little-fought-for promise of closing that notorious facility. Ralph Nader http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/

IRVINE, Calif. -- Two Southern California college employees, a coach and a campus safety officer, were found shot to death in a car at their... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-almendrala/

BBC News
Latest Corruption Scourge in China Centers on Housing
New York Times
HONG KONG — The Chinese police said on Tuesday that they had detained Gong Aiai, popularly known as “House Sister,” in a corruption case that has gripped China for weeks after it was revealed that Ms. Gong and her family had accumulated dozens of ...
China media: Corruption focusBBC News
China arrests official accused of buying real estate using fake IDsVictoria Times Colonist
Women accused of massive China real-estate fraudksl.com

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New York Daily News
Sikh family, including two young children, found dead in suspected murder ...
New York Daily News
A Sikh family found dead in an Atlanta suburb on Monday morning were the victims of an apparent murder-suicide, police say. The bodies of Shindiver Grover, 52, his wife Damanjit, 47, and their two sons, Sartag, 12 and Gurtej, 5, were found in their ...
Family of four found dead in Ga. apartment in possible murder-suicide, police sayCBS News
Johns Creek family killed in murder-suicideWXIA-TV
Atlanta Family Mourned, Police Probe Possible Murder-SuicideIndia West
Patch.com
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Charlotte Observer
Danny Hembree pleads guilty in second murder
Charlotte Observer
Danny Hembree, who was sentenced to death in the 2009 killing of a 17-year-old from Gastonia, pleaded guilty Tuesday to another murder he was charged with. Hembree, 51, agreed to plea guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Randi Dean ...
Convicted NC killer pleads guilty to second-degree murder in other caseMy Fox 8
NC death row inmate pleads guilty to 2nd murderWRAL.com
Breaking: Hembree takes plea, one murder charge dismissedGaston Gazette
WBTV
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Chapelboro.com
Lovette to be resentenced for 2008 murder of UNC student body president
News & Observer
RALEIGH -- Laurence Alvin Lovette, one of two people convicted of killing UNC-Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson in 2008, was too young at the time of his crimes to get a sentence of life without parole, the state Court of Appeals has ruled.
Laurence Lovette To Be Resentenced In Murder Of Eve CarsonChapelboro.com
Court Orders New Sentence in Carson MurderFOX Charlotte

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NEW YORK -- Prosecutors say a New York City police officer charged with seeking to kill and eat women hinted in an online chat that... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inae-oh/

Murder arrest in Griffin party shooting
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Verdell has been charged with murder in the death of Ivan Matthew Sierra, who police said was shot to death early Saturday after a fight at a party. Police found Sierra with severe head trauma in the middle of the street at North 9th Street and West ...