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Cargo Entertainment Acquires Anna Paquin And Cam Gigandet Crime Drama ...
Deadline.com
BREAKING: Cargo Entertainment has acquired international rights to Free Ride, a Shana Betz-directed crime thriller that stars Anna Paquin and Twilight Saga's Cam Gigandet. True Blood star Paquin plays a single mom who moves to Florida with her ...

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Cherokee Attorney Earns National Crime Victims' Service Award
Indian Country Today Media Network
This year Harrold was recognized as a 2013 National Crime Victim Service Award honoree for her would that includes prosecuting abusers, founding a women's shelter, acting as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice and speaking to tribes across ...

Law Enforcement Adapts To Social Media
NPR
Tweeting Crime: Law Enforcement Adapts To Social Media. April 25, 2013 1:00 PM. Audio for this story from Talk of the Nation will be available at approximately 6:00 p.m. ET. April 25, 2013. Guests. Lauri Stevens, founder, LAwS Communications ...

Hugo Weaving Set For Aussie Crime Drama 'The Mule'
Deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: The Hobbit's Hugo Weaving is turning to crime. The Australian-born actor has signed on for the true crime drama The Mule, I've learned. The film will be shot Down Under later this year. While details are sketchy about Weaving's lead role ...

Crime Stoppers offering $1000 for information on graffiti in Ann Arbor
AnnArbor.com
Troy Macon, Washtenaw County director of Crime Stoppers, said in a statement Thursday that the organization is offering $1,000 for information regarding graffiti and vandalism. “Ann Arbor police and Crime Stoppers of Michigan are working to crack down ...

Crime Watch: Four more scams to avoid
MiamiHerald.com
Several readers emailed me this past week about different scams that you encountered but didn't fall for. I am going to once again share some of these scams so you can avoid them. Feel free to call our office if you need further information. ON-LINE ...

Chicago Overnight Crime Report
Chicago Tribune
A wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • A man crashed through a chain-linked fence and into a home after he was shot while driving through the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, authorities said. Dane Whitfield, 31, was ...

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San Francisco Chronicle
FBI, Oakland police serve warrants
San Francisco Chronicle
(04-25) 08:03 PDT OAKLAND -- SWAT teams with the FBI and Oakland police served numerous search warrants across the East Bay and made several arrests as part of a crackdown against drugs and guns, authorities said Thursday. The joint operation ...

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Madison reports crime drop
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A new police report shows crime in Madison dropped more than 3% between 2011 and 2012, the Daily Cardinal writes. The report, which Madison Police Chief Noble Wray released Wednesday, said homicides decreased by 50% and the number of ...

Jefferson Parish Sheriff's office West Bank crime report, April 24
NOLA.com
Jefferson Parish Sheriff's office West Bank crime report, April 24. JPSO sign.JPG. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office West Bank crime report, April 24. (NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune archive). Print · Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By ...

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Crime down 3.4 percent in 2012
UW Badger Herald
Statistics released by the Madison Police Department Wednesday indicated a decrease in the overall level of crime throughout the city for 2012. Chief Noble Wray released updated statistics of crime in the city on his blog and reported a 3.4 percent ...
Madison reports crime dropMilwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Crime victim speaks out
Rochester YNN
Many people continue processing the bombings at the Boston Marathon. That along with other crimes was on the hearts and minds of those gathered for the annual crime victims' vigil. The vigil provided a chance to reflect and share. Our Iris St. Meran ...

Police turn to social media to combat crime
WTOP
WASHINGTON - Criminals have become pretty good at using social media to steal money and commit other crimes, but now law enforcement officials are using social media to catch crooks. "A lot of folks are just naive as to how much information is actually ...

UP CLOSE | Fighting New Haven crime with social welfare
Yale Daily News (blog)
As part of the effort to confront the structural problems driving crime, city officials have partnered with the NHPD and local organizations on a series of social assistance programs to reintegrate ex-offenders and to assist disadvantaged strata of the ...

For Cops, Community Relationships Often Take Back Seat
WNYC
Conversations with residents and veteran law enforcement officials paint a portrait of what they say is a troubled relationship between police and residents in high-crime areas — one in which community members say they feel an underlying lack of ...

Mountain View man charged with hate crime after attack in Palo Alto ...
San Jose Mercury News
Shawn Michael Barrett, 34, of Mountain View, was arraigned Monday on a felony assault charge with a hate crime allegation as well as a misdemeanor hate crime charge, Santa Clara County Supervising Deputy District Attorney Cindy Hendrickson told The ...
Mountain View man charged in Palo Alto hate crimePalo Alto Online

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1 of 9 sex crime convictions overturned
WOOD-TV
The court overturned the conviction of third-degree criminal sexual conduct by force or coercion, saying the jury was not given proper instructions on that crime. The Court of Appeals sent the case back to Kalamazoo County Circuit Court for resentencing.

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TBI report finds crime in Clarksville decreased from 2011
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
The report, which measures the crime rate for the state, individual cities and counties, shows the overall crime rate for Clarksville in 2012 has gone down to 9,137 for Group A crimes against persons, property and society per 100,000. In 2011, the ...

Constitutional Rights Do Not Diminsh Where the Crime Is Serious or Strong ...
Huffington Post
The Boston bombing is so horrific, and the evidence of guilt apparently so overwhelming, that the country might wish to go straight to the punishment stage, but that is not how our system of justice functions. The decision to temporarily withhold ...

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San Joaquin Delta College Students On Edge After Third Serious Crime
CBS Local
A third serious crime on campus has San Joaquin Delta College students worried about their safety. The latest attack on students happened in the student parking lot, while security cameras were rolling, just after night classes on Tuesday. A trio of ...