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GRAPEVINE, Texas -- A Florida prisoner who escaped in Texas after stabbing a detective with his eyeglasses was shot and killed by law enforcement officers... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-hoffer/

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska man was arrested Friday in last year's shooting deaths at a Coast Guard communications station on Kodiak Island that left... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-mccormack/

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — It didn't take ingenuity for Christopher Dorner to elude authorities for six days. He simply opened an unlocked door. As law... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-mccormack/

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. -- As soon as he heard officers were chasing the suspected cop killer in a stolen truck, San Bernardino County Sheriff's... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-jeltsen/

CHICAGO -- The prospect of prison looms over former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife after they agreed to plead guilty to charges... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-bellware/

(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/

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/

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/

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/

A 21-year-old woman who said she was raped by former University of Montana star quarterback Jordan Johnson testified this week that he changed "into a... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tyler-kingkade/

Upon learning of Matthew Shepard's death, I don't know that my first reaction was, "How could this happen?" There was something eerily and uncomfortably familiar with what I was reading about in the paper that day. It brought back a memory that I had all but buried years before. Andy Paris http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-paris/

CHICAGO -- President Barack Obama says that every four months, his hometown of Chicago suffers the loss of as many children as were killed in... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-erbentraut/

In the trailer for Season 4 of "Teen Mom 2," viewers witnessed Kailyn Lowry hitting husband Javi Morroquin and Jo Rivera, the father of her... Laura Prudom http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-prudom/

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Police say a mother who got on stage and started to strip during an upstate New York school assembly is facing child... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-moye/

LOS ANGELES -- Cardinal Roger Mahony, the former Roman Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles, will be questioned under oath next week as part of a... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-miles/

The family of an Ohio man who died after he was taken into custody by the Lee County Sheriff's Office in Florida, strapped to a... Radley Balko http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/

APPOMATTOX, Va. — A man accused of killing eight people at his rural central Virginia home and shooting at a state police helicopter pleaded guilty... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-mccormack/

Let's just say that it would've been a crime to throw this rager, in this case. The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shana-ecker/

Mayor Mike Bloomberg is going head to head with the NRA in Illinois. MoveOn.org is " target="_hplink">jumping into the fray in Ohio. And as my... Saki Knafo http://www.huffingtonpost.com/saki-knafo/