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Police have opened murder cases as the number of deaths increases.
Fox News
JOHANNESBURG – South African police say 23 youths have died over a period of nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests. Spokesman Lt. Col. Leonard Hlathi says police have opened 22 murder cases in the deaths in ...

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RT
Iraq in ruins: Post-war life overshadowed by crumbling infrastructure ...
RT
As RT's Lucy Kafanov also discovered, the crumbling infrastructure is closely entangled with rampant corruption. Transparency International group has ranked Iraq as the eighth most-corrupt state in the world. In the latest scandal, the country's ...

Washington Post
Police have opened murder cases as the number of deaths increases.
Washington Post
JOHANNESBURG — South African police say 23 youths have died over a period of nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests. Spokesman Lt. Col. Leonard Hlathi says police have opened 22 murder cases in the deaths in ...

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Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
Norfolk artists transform Stoke Ferry church into a riot of colour
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
Norfolk artists transform Stoke Ferry church into a riot of colour. All Saints Painters at Stoke Ferry - From left, Patsy Hood, Frank Logan, Anne Wormack, Isobel Bartholomew, Shelia O'Brien and Derek Lloyd. Picture: Matthew Usher. By Chris Bishop ...

The judge in the Aurora movie theater shooting case will listen to defense lawyers' arguments against the constitutionality of Colorado's insanity defense law, Reuters reports. The law is unconstitutional, lawyers say, because it says James Holmes can't summon mental health experts of his own choosing—rather than court-appointed ones—at...

New Vision
Pader LC5 councillors arrested over corruptionPublish Date: May 17, 2013
New Vision
The Police in Pader are holding three LC 5 councillors who were arrested over alleged corruption cases worth sh6m. The councillors detained by the police include Geoffrey Largo Oringa, 38 of Pajule sub-county, Francis Toolit, 44 (Acholibur sub-county ...

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The New York couple whose nanny allegedly murdered two of their children is having another baby, mother and father announced on Facebook . "We are very happy to let you know that Marina is expecting a baby in the fall," Marina and Kevin Krim wrote on a page devoted to a...

A cigarette smuggling scheme that cost New York state millions of dollars in sales tax revenue may have raised funds for militant groups, authorities said.

An Uzbek man has been arrested in Idaho and charged with helping a foreign terrorist organization make a bomb. "Any potential threat posed" by Fazliddin Kurbanov has been "contained," federal agents say. He was also charged with possessing bomb parts, the New York Times reports, and he's set to appear...

Son wants to keep father behind bars as Utah murder case proceeds
Salt Lake Tribune
To keep John Brickman Wall in jail as he awaits trial for the alleged murder of his ex-wife, the couple's 19-year-old son will testify in court Monday that his father is a violent, vindictive man who poses a threat to himself and his four children ...

Google News

Crime up in Chico in 2012
Enterprise-Record
CHICO — The city of Chico saw a 7.4 percent increase in crimes reported last year, which reversed a three-year downward trend, according to the Chico Police Department's 2012 Part 1 Crime Report. Reported burglaries made the largest jump. The report ...

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Lt. Col. Darin Haas ran a program to fight sex harassment at Fort Campbell in Kentucky—until he was arrested in a domestic dispute. Haas, who turned himself in in Tennessee, faces charges of stalking and violating an order of protection, the AP reports. He's been relieved of duties at...

By David Gibson Religion News Service (RNS) The Catholic diocese in Missouri led by Bishop Robert Finn, who was convicted last year of failing to... Jahnabi Barooah http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jahnabi-barooah/

Temple Beth Israel vandalism called hate crime
Jackson Clarion Ledger
A sign covers the place on the Beth Israel Temple door where vandals carved the word 'Jew' next to a hole in the glass of the front windows on Thursday. Police are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime. / Dustin Barnes/The Clarion-Ledger ...

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NorthEscambia.com
State crime rate drops; some types up
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
The 2012 Annual Uniform Crime Report, a report of all crimes reported to FDLE from law enforcement agencies across the state, reported the state's lowest crime numbers in 42 years. The report includes only offenses from 2012 and was released by FDLE ...
Florida's Crime Rate Lowest In 42 YearsWBFS
Crime stats down in Hillsborough, FloridaTbo.com
Florida crime down, but news not all good in Lee, Collier countiesThe News-Press
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Mother Jones
US Murder Rate on Track to Be Lowest In a Century
Mother Jones
This is fairly preliminary data, but Rick Nevin reports that if current trends keep up, we'll end 2013 with the murder rate in America at its lowest rate in over a century. Analytically speaking, murder is an especially interesting crime because we ...

Nonprofit leader accused of running crime ring
KATU
Nonprofit leader accused of running crime ring »Play Video Fred Engh appears in court on Thursday accused of running a crime ring. VANCOUVER, Wash. – A nonprofit leader is facing federal felony charges accused of running a crime ring. Fred Engh is on ...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jade-walker/

New Vision
The Police in Pader are holding three LC 5 councillors who were arrested over ...
New Vision
The Police in Pader are holding three LC 5 councillors who were arrested over alleged corruption cases worth sh6m. The councillors detained by the police include Geoffrey Largo Oringa, 38 of Pajule sub-county, Francis Toolit, 44 (Acholibur sub-county ...

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KITV Honolulu
Man convicted of second-degree murder in 2011 Honolulu highway shooting ...
Fox News
HONOLULU – A jury on Thursday convicted a Wahiawa man of second-degree murder and other charges in a 2011 shooting rampage through Honolulu that killed a mother of 10 and wounded two other people. Jurors deliberated for about 13 hours over ...
Stangel found guilty of 2nd-degree murderKITV Honolulu
Freeway shooter found guilty of murderKHON2
Man convicted of second-degree murder in shootingsLas Vegas Sun
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