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NEW YORK -- A gun control group founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is airing a Super Bowl advertisement calling for background checks.... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-hart/

Harry Deitz: Addressing crime the business of all
Reading Eagle
Given where we are now with concerns about crime, the answers aren't as simple as family values and law enforcement. There are at least three other critical areas where groups must come together, form comprehensive plans and take action: business, ...

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Corruption Halts Nigeria's Development – Tambuwal
Leadership Newspapers
Speaker, House of Representatives, AlhajiAminuTambuwal, has said that corruption and poverty are social vices that are detrimental to national development. He said this at a lecture on “Religion, ethnicity and corruption: Challenges of national ...

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1st District candidates weigh in on crime, city finances
Journal Times
RACINE — Racine's 1st Aldermanic District stretches south from the State Street Bridge to the end of the Gateway Technical College campus, and west from the lakefront along Festival Hall and Pershing Park to beyond City Hall. It includes the entirety ...

CBS Local
Search Continues For Suspects in Hasse Murder
CBS Local
KAUFMAN (CBSDFW.COM) – The manhunt continues for the men who murdered Kaufman County assistant district attorney Mark Hasse. Investigators continued full operation through the weekend following up on tips and leads, hoping to find clues.
Kaufman investigators report few developments in murder of prosecutorDallas Morning News
Leads and Reward Grow in Murder of Kaufman ProsecutorFOX 4 News
Mark Hasse Murder: Nearly $65000 reward offered in Texas prosecutor's slayingCBS News

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Chris Kyle, an ex-Navy SEAL who wrote the best-selling book American Sniper about his service in Iraq, was shot and killed at a gun range... Benjamin Hart http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-hart/

Seminar promotes community action to prevent crime
Aiken Standard
Safety is of paramount concern within one's own neighborhood, but it's up to those individuals who compose the residents of a community to take ownership and personal responsibility to help reduce the levels of violent crime, Mitchell said. However ...
Community and law enforcement come together to reduce crimeWRDW-TV

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Crime lab backlogs weighing down court system
Austin American-Statesman
A mounting backlog of samples awaiting testing at the Austin Police Department crime lab is causing unprecedented delays in the resolution of criminal cases, preventing some from going forward for at least six months and stressing an already bustling ...

Inquirer.net
FOI Needed To Stem Corruption – Ex-Solon
Manila Bulletin
Abante, who used to head the Committee on Public Information in two past congresses, said statistics released by the international anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International, indicated that at least 20 percent of the national budget is lost ...
De Lima bats for Freedom of Information Bill to battle corruptionInquirer.net

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Spaniards outraged by prime minister's corruption denial (PHOTOS)
RT
Demonstrations have taken place across Spain following the Prime Minister's denial of corruption. In Madrid riot police were called in to quell the crowd. Protesters took to the streets on Saturday evening in Madrid, Barcelona, Alicante, Valladolid ...

Covington man charged with murder after fight Friday night
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A man is dead after he got into a fight with another man Friday night in Covington. Police say they got a call about a fight on Fitzgerald Avenue Friday night just after 11:00 p.m. Officers found one man dead as a result of that fight. Police arrested ...

If you want to know what institutionalized fathers rights looks like, you need look no further than Saudi Arabia, where a daddy can murder his young daughter and get by with a fine. 

The killer daddy is FAYHAN AL-GHAMDI.

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31 January 2013 Last updated at 17:36 ET

Anger over death of Saudi girl after father's 'beating' 

The campaign was launched by Manal al-Sharif - known for her efforts to win women the right to drive The case of a five-year-old Saudi girl who died after allegedly being beaten by her father has sparked outrage and an online campaign in the kingdom.

 The girl, Lama, was the daughter of Fayhan al-Ghamdi, an Islamic preacher who made regular appearances on TV.

 He was arrested after Lama's death in November but was reportedly absolved by the judge in the case.

The verdict has sparked an online campaign calling for punishment for violence against women and children.

Saudi media reports said that Ghamdi had paid 200,000 riyals ($50,000; £31,500) in "blood money" - a sum that can be paid to relatives of a murder victim and which, if accepted, can replace a death sentence.

The amount is half what would have been necessary if Lama had been male.

The women's rights activist Manal al-Sharif has launched a Twitter campaign using the hashtag "Ana Lama" (Arabic for "I am Lama") to demand legislation criminalising violence against women or children, the BBC's Sebastian Usher reports.

A few people have signed up so far, but Saudi activists say it's unlikely to have much effect, our analyst says. 

But with concern over the issue growing, the Saudi authorities have recently said a 24-hour hotline will be set up to take calls about child abuse.

 Lama's mother has said she will pursue the case however she can.

Crime Watch: Woodbury County Jail arrest log
Sioux City Journal (blog)
Michelle Leann White, 26, of Sioux City, was arrested Wednesday by Woodbury County deputies on a felony charge of furnishing a controlled substance to an inmate. Nathan Richard Crosgrove, 18, of Sioux City, was arrested Thursday by Sioux City police on ...

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Senate bill requests funding for Western NC crime lab
Winston-Salem Journal
Western North Carolina is one step closer to receiving a regional crime lab to help alleviate the number of DWI cases being dismissed in court because of a lack of evidence. Understaffing and a severe backlog of alcohol blood test submissions in ...

KOMO News
South Seattle residents suffer as crime, gun violence spread
KOMO News
Each icon represents a crime ranging from purse snatchings to shootings - including the one last night in the parking lot of a Safeway store off Rainier Avenue. And now residents say they are sick and tired of it - and they're ready to take their ...

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DC forms bias crime partnership with prosecutors, LGBT community
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The goal of the partnership, announced Saturday by Mayor Vincent Gray, is to seek stronger punishments for people convicted in bias- or hate crimes. As part of the arrangement, the mayor's office of GLBT Affairs will solicit so-called impact statements ...
At vigil, transgender homicide victim's family urges hate-crime prosecutionWashington Post

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New York Daily News
NYPD detective forces murder confession, but state Supreme Court sets aside ...
New York Daily News
Little Charles, who slept through the murder, found his mother's body on the living room floor the next morning. She had been garroted with butcher's twine by someone who had second thoughts. The killer had tried in vain to revive her with ammonia.

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At vigil, transgender homicide victim's family urges hate-crime prosecution
Washington Post
One year after being killed in Northeast Washington, JaParker Jones is missed so much that the victim's younger sisters often sleep in Jones's bed to feel their sibling's presence. Jones's family said the pain of the loss is increased by the absence of ...
DC forms bias crime partnership with prosecutorsWTOP
DC officials announce hate crime partnership at vigilMyFox Washington DC

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Man charged with murder in Nevada road rage death
San Francisco Chronicle
(AP) — A 28-year-old man has been arraigned on an open murder charge in the death of a woman in an apparent Carson City road rage incident. The Nevada Appeal reports (http://bit.ly/11v8Kkk ) Leonardo Cardoza of Carson City was ordered held without ...
Murder suspect is placed on no-bail holdCarson Now

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Newstrack India
Government ready to review sexual crime ordinance
Hindustan Times
After the Union cabinet approved an ordinance to effect changes in laws against sexual crimes, the government on Saturday said it was open to consultation and changes after women's groups urged the President not to sign it. "Justice (JS) Verma ...
Crime against women: Govt's ordinance is against all democratic norms, says ...Economic Times
Women activists urge president not to sign sexual crime ordinancegulfnews.com
BJP welcomes ordinance on crime against women, Left opposes itDaily Bhaskar
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