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Casting Net: Jim Carrey turns to crime in comedy 'Loomis Fargo'; Plus Jeremy ...
Entertainment Weekly
Casting Net: Jim Carrey turns to crime in comedy 'Loomis Fargo'; Plus Jeremy Renner to portray journalist Gary Webb. by Lindsey Bahr. Tags: Casting, Casting Net, Frank Langella, Jeremy Renner, Jim Carrey, Mark Duplass. Comments +; Add comment. Jim- ...

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(Adds material from files) By Dan Whitcomb and Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES, Jan 31 (Reuters) - The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, after years of... Reuters http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reuters/

Municipal workers eager to blow whistle on corruption
Montreal Gazette
MONTREAL — Before their special force to fight corruption at city hall has even taken off, Montreal police have received calls from municipal employees ratting out their colleagues. In a brief interview Thursday offered to The Gazette by the police ...

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Ind. Murder Convict Mistakenly Released in Chicago
ABC News
The Gary, Ind., native was serving the decades-long sentence for murder and weapons convictions out of Marion County in Indiana. He started serving the sentence in October 2004 and his earliest projected release date was more than 16 years from now on ...

DENVER -- A Fox News Channel reporter will fight any attempt to force her to reveal her sources for a story about Colorado theater shooting... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrea rael/

Daily Maverick
Corruption Watch turns one and prepares for school
Daily Maverick
There was no birthday cake and no champagne as Corruption Watch briefed media on its first birthday on Thursday. Director David Lewis is hopeful that in its second year, Corruption Watch can shift the tides by engaging the public and taking more cases ...
Local government most corrupt, says watchdogIndependent Online
Teachers, parents 'play a part in graft'Post (subscription)

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Crime inside NFL stadiums hidden from police
KIRO Seattle
Hundreds of felony-level crime arrests appear in the reports; including, rape, kidnapping, lynching, theft, drug dealing, child sexual abuse and aggravated assault of police officers. Thousands more cases of misdemeanor and citable offenses like public ...

LOS ANGELES -- An appeals panel says California's anti-paparazzi statute appears to be constitutional based on a brief filed by prosecutors. A preliminary statement by... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-almendrala/

BISHOP, Calif. — Five rock carvings that were sheared off and stolen from a sacred American Indian site in California's Sierra Nevada have been recovered... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carly-schwartz/

Dallas Morning News
Nickey Van Exel found guilty of murder in 2010 shooting death of best friend
Dallas Morning News
“In this case, he's dead.” But after more than two hours of deliberations, jurors opted for a conviction on the lesser charge of murder, which gives them far more leeway when they begin deliberating Van Exel's punishment after testimony Friday. The ...
Van Exel To Take Stand In Son's Murder TrialCBS 11
Son of former NBA player Nick Van Exel convicted of murderNBCSports.com

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Mormon friends of Travis Alexander were in the dark about his sex affair with Jodi Arias, a jury in Arizona has heard. Daniel Freeman, a... David Lohr http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-lohr/

New York Daily News
Mishandling of DNA Evidence Is Found in Over 50 Cases at Crime Lab
New York Times
The New York City medical examiner's office said Thursday that it had discovered more than 50 cases in which it failed to upload critical DNA evidence samples from crime scenes to the state's DNA database, preventing those samples from being compared ...
DNA evidence error found in NYC crime labWall Street Journal

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The 14-year-old boy who was shot at an Atlanta school today is doing fine and is expected to be released from the hospital tonight, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . A fellow student is in custody, and police think a specific dispute between the two of them led to the shooting. Also...

A naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia was convicted Thursday of plotting -- unsuccessfully -- to bomb a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon, more than two years ago.

Sky News Australia
Eddie Obeid's son faces further grilling in corruption inquiry
Yahoo!7 News
The son of former New South Wales Labor minister Eddie Obeid is back in the witness box at an Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) inquiry into his family's coal mining interests. A large crowd, which has been eagerly awaiting the start of ...
Eddie Obeid to take the stand at corruption trialABC Online
Moses Obeid's mystery $1.5m debtBigPond News

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Orlando Sentinel
... off civil rights rallies across the country and prompting the dismissal of former Chief Bill Lee Jr. rstutzman@tribune.com or arehernandez@tribune.com. Copyright © 2013, Orlando Sentinel. os-sanford-violent-crime-police-20130131. Orlando Dunkman vs.

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GUNMAN IS FOUND GUILTY IN MARK DUGGAN RIOT CASE
Express.co.uk
A WOMANISING drug dealer was yesterday convicted of handing a gun to Mark Duggan, who was then shot by police, sparking countrywide riots. Kevin Huchinson-Foster, 30, passed a shoe box containing the pistol to Duggan, 29, who was being tracked by ...

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A 14-year-old student suffered a gunshot wound to the head Thursday outside a middle school in Atlanta, Georgia, police and school officials said.

Hartford Man Pleads Guilty In Robberies, Murder
Hartford Courant
The last of four men charged with felony murder and other crimes after a fatal robbery spree in Hartford pleaded guilty Thursday, just as his case was to go to trial. Nicholas Crawford, 21, pleaded guilty to felony murder, attempted first-degree ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah's new attorney general was in office for only six days by the time people started calling for his resignation. Republican... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gabrielle-dunkley/