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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Two police detectives were shot and killed while investigating a sexual assault complaint, and a suspect was also fatally shot after... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jade-walker/

CHARLESTON, S.C., Feb 27 (Reuters) - A 19-year-old student died following a shooting on Tuesday at a residence hall of a South Carolina university near... Reuters http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jade-walker/

WKYC-TV
Downtown Cleveland Crime: Reality vs. perception
WKYC-TV
To construct the list, we ranked U.S. cities with a population over 200,000 according to their violent crime rate as reported by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports database. These preliminary 2011 statistics come with more caveats than the black-box ...

Two officers with the Santa Cruz Police Department in California were fatally shot Tuesday, as was the lone suspect, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Phil Wowak told reporters.

Socialist Worker Online
Hate crime against a child
Socialist Worker Online
Hate crime against a child. Kirstin Roberts looks at what a recent hate crime against an African American child says about our image of who is racist in our society. February 27, 2013. Joe Hundley. THANKS TO a mother's outrage, the story has spread in ...

Arizona Republic
Crime drops along US-Mexico border
Arizona Republic
The GAO acknowledged its analysis is limited by underreporting of crime — especially by those who are involved in the drug trade — and the lack of systematic tracking of spillover crime by authorities on both sides of the border. Still, the findings ...
Federal report shows AZ border crime is way down, but still higher than rest ...KPHO Phoenix

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WAPT Jackson
Inmate pleads guilty to participating in 2012 prison riot
Natchez Democrat
NATCHEZ — A former Adams County Correctional Center inmate recanted his earlier claim of innocence and pleaded “guilty” to the charge that he participated in the deadly May 2012 prison riot. Yoany Oriel Serrano-Bejarano had pleaded “not guilty” to the ...
Inmate pleads guilty in Miss. prison riotKnoxville News Sentinel
Inmate pleads guilty in Natchez prison riotWLOX

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Ra Ra Riot to bring energy to Columbus stage
OSU - The Lantern
A&R Music Bar is a change from the beer-soaked carpet and red Solo cups that painted Ra Ra Riot's beginning as house party entertainment. “When the band started we spent a lot of time playing at house parties and places where we had a lot of ...

Co-defendant in 2007 'revenge' murder testifies against accused killer
Salt Lake Tribune
"As you sit there, you, Ryan Hal 'Scarface' Sheppard are charged with murder," said defense attorney Edward Brass. "But what you're telling us is your truth, your version, because you knew [the police] were going to treat you differently if you ...

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WTHI
Crime Stoppers nabs 3 fugitives
WTHI
City, county and State Police officers took your confidential tips, while dozens more officers hit the streets. The first to get arrested was 27 year old Kyle Carroll. He was wanted for dealing marijuana, hash and hash oil. When police showed up for ...

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Co-defendant in 2007 'revenge' murder testifies against accused killer
Salt Lake Tribune
"As you sit there, you, Ryan Hal 'Scarface' Sheppard are charged with murder," said defense attorney Edward Brass. "But what you're telling us is your truth, your version, because you knew [the police] were going to treat you differently if you ...

Donor ire not the silver bullet for corruption
The Observer (blog)
Last Thursday's remarks by the US ambassador to Uganda at the closure of an investment meeting of the US chamber of commerce in Kampala sent strong ripples across Uganda's political breadth. Ambassador Scot DeLisi had noted in his speech that ...

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Oakland crime dogs mayor's planned speech
San Francisco Chronicle
A crime plan for the most violent neighborhoods, her "100-block plan," was later found to be based on a flawed statistical premise. The Police Department is under increasing federal oversight even as its force has dwindled from 837 officers to 613 in ...

Secret Service: Canadian crime ring withdrew skimmed funds from Seattle banks
KIRO Seattle
According to court documents filed by a U.S. Secret Service agent, Nguyen was part of a crime ring that skimmed the account information off of bank cards at a number of coffee shops, including multiple Starbucks coffee shops in British Columbia ...

Las Vegas police are looking for a 22-year-old woman who they say is a person of interest in connection with the deadly shooting and crash... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-moye/

abc11.com
Residents turns out for Henderson crime meeting
abc11.com
That's the response following a community meeting many here thought would ease worries over a recent rash of crimes. "Not one thing has been said about two sexual assaults, what else has happened, kidnappings all at gunpoint," said Henderson resident ...

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St. Paul housewife's 1963 murder back on stage in 'Carol and Cotton'
Pioneer Press
James Vculek still remembers Minnesota's crime of the century, the March 6, 1963, murder of Highland Park housewife Carol Thompson. "I grew up in St. Paul and was a very young child when it happened," said Vculek, artistic director of Partizan Theater.

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A New Jersey grand jury declined to indict a mother accused of child endangerment for allegedly allowing her 5-year-old daughter to use a tanning bed, resulting in leg burns, prosecutors said Tuesday.

The U.S. Coast Guard is suspending its search off the California coast for a distressed 29-foot sailboat that was carrying a couple and two children, and said Tuesday the incident is "possibly a hoax."

Feb 26 (Reuters) - A shooting took place at a university residence hall in South Carolina on Tuesday and students and faculty were urged to... Reuters http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-finocchiaro/