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New details emerge in Pistorius murder case
CBS News
Police dismissed the intruder theory from the start and arrested Pistorius for premeditated murder. They took a nine millimeter gun from the home, and they reportedly found a bloody bat inside. Whether it was used as a weapon is still unclear ...
Tearful Pistorius Hears Court Murder ChargeESPN
Oscar Pistorius murder charge: bloodied cricket bat 'central piece of evidence ...Telegraph.co.uk
Oscar Pistorius murder charge: family breaks silenceThe Guardian
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Man arrested for connection to Galveston baker murder
Houston Chronicle
A man wanted in connection to the murder of a Galveston bakery owner was arrested in Houston, Galveston Police Department officials said Sunday. A patrol officer found a fatally injured Juan Navarro, 59, outside Panaderia Bakery at 3801 Avenue J, early ...
Man with alleged link to murder of Galveston baker Juan Navarro arrested in ...abc13.com
'Person of interest' in baker's murder found in HoustonDaily News - Galveston County

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The family of South African track star Oscar Pistorius continued to publicly support him after he appeared at the Pretoria Magistrates' Court on Friday to... Chris Greenberg http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-greenberg/

Nine years after murder, sister misses Kathleen Savio every day: 'It still ...
Chicago Sun-Times
Doman's testimony during Peterson's trial about those threats, along with similar statements Savio made to their sister, Susan, helped persuade jurors to convict the former Bolingbrook cop of murder. But Doman, 57, doesn't like to dwell on Kathy's ...

CBS Local
Police Investigate Murder Of UMES Student
CBS Local
This marks the second murder of a University of Maryland student in less than a week. The University of Maryland Eastern Shore campus–rocked by the murder of 21-year-old Edmond St. Clair of Severn. The college junior was driving across campus with his ...
Police Search for Suspect in Murder of University of Maryland StudentWBAL Radio
Police searching for suspects in UMES murderDelmarva Now
Police Seek Suspects in Murder of UMES StudentWBOC TV 16

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NEWARK, N.J. — Officials say a Pennsylvania man was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport after screeners noticed a loaded gun in his carry-on bag.... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-moye/

Book Review: Murder in the Rue Dumas: A Verlaque and Bonnet Mystery by ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Penguin has released in paperback Murder in the Rue Dumas, the second in a series of detective novels by author M. L. Longworth featuring the Chief Magistrate of Aix-en-Provence, Judge Antoine Verlaque. The first novel, Death at the Chateau Bremont, ...

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Drew Peterson's bid to overturn murder conviction could spark fireworks in court
Chicago Sun-Times
In their formal request to toss Peterson's murder conviction, his reconfigured legal team placed the blame solely on Brodsky — an allegation Brodsky has bitterly disputed and one that spurred him to file a defamation lawsuit against former co-counsel ...

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Kane County crime down, child support collection up
Chicago Daily Herald
Kane County crime down, child support collection up. Article. text size: AAA. By Harry Hitzeman. The Kane County state's Attorney's office is expected next month to complete its 2012 annual report, but some early figures are in. Two trends so far ...

WRTV Indianapolis
IMPD: Man arrested for murder of girlfriend's baby
WRTV Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS - The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said they have arrested a suspect in connection with the murder of a 4-month-old baby, police said. IMPD officers were sent to the 3600 block of North Euclid Avenue on Feb. 14 in response ...

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A Westmont woman has been charged with stabbing her husband to death during an argument at the couple’s home Friday, officials said.

According to a press release from DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin, Lisa Davis, 42, of the 500 block of West 51st Street, has been charged with first degree murder in the death of her husband David, 49.

About 7:29 p.m. Friday, Westmont police responded to a 911 call at the couple’s home and found David Davis bleeding from a knife wound to the right side of his abdomen, the release said. Davis was transported to a local hospital, where he died at 11:36 p.m.

Lisa Davis was arrested at the scene, the release said, and has been in custody ever since. Officials said that she and her husband had gotten into a “verbal altercation” and that she subsequently stabbed him with a kitchen knife.

According to the release, Lisa Davis will appear in bond court at 8 a.m. Monday at the DuPage County Jail.

Independent Online
Traffic officers accused of corruption
Independent Online
Johannesburg - Two traffic officers were arrested on Sunday for alleged corruption in Mthatha, Eastern Cape police said. “The two women were arrested this afternoon and R6 300 was recovered,” Lieutenant Colonel Mzukisi Fatyela said. “This followed an ...

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A shooting in Rockwall killed one woman on Saturday night. Police said they were forced to shoot her ex-boyfriend after a police pursuit that lasted from Rockwall to Greenville, Texas.
According to a Rockwall police department news release, officers responded to a shooting call in the 2000 block of Summer Lee around 7:53 p.m. Saturday.  Police found a male and female victim with multiple gunshot wounds. Both were taken to the hospital, where the female victim died.
Rockwall police identified the suspect as the woman's ex-boyfriend, 47-year-old Anthony Dewayne Lewis. Officers said Lewis fled east on Interstate 30.
Police told NBCDFW, the chase ended about 45 minutes later with another shooting in Greenville on the westbound service road of I-30. Police said the vehicle driven by Lewis stopped after its tires were spiked and it hit a Texas Department of Public Safety vehicle.
"The suspect then exited his vehicle, pointed a handgun at the officers and was shot by officers on the scene," the Rockwall police department release said. "The suspect was transported to Presbyterian Hospital in Greenville, Texas. The suspect was later flown to Parkland Hospital in Dallas for further treatment."
The police officers involved in the chase were not hurt. 
The condition of the male shooting victim in Rockwall has not been released. Rockwall Police Detectives are looking into that shooting.
The Texas Rangers are investigating the shooting of the suspect in Greenville.

Times of India
Ex-encounter specialist held for builder's murder
Times of India
Both Amolik and Kureshi have been charged with murder under the Indian Penal Code sections 302 and 34 and remanded to police custody till February 22. "The retired policeman (Amolik) has told the police that he had some personal grudge against the ...
Encounter specialist held for builder's murderHindustan Times
Builder's murder: Retired policeman, main shooter heldDeccan Herald
Navi Mumbai builder murder case: Ex-policeman confesses to crime, says policeIBNLive
Daily News & Analysis -The Hindu
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A Brooklyn man nearly decapitated his wife when he killed her with a kitchen knife Sunday, police sources said.

The man went berserk inside the couple’s home on E. 102nd St. in Canarsie about 11:45 a.m., officials said.

He stabbed his wife, identified by relatives as Hazel Robinson, 51, in the neck, partially severing her head, according to sources.

Charges are pending against her husband, who was taken into custody at the scene.

Armed citizens thwart crime while some applaud and others worry
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Simpson's use of deadly force was at least the fourth time a victim or bystander did so to thwart a crime in Milwaukee in the past year. In January 2012, a customer who had obtained his concealed carry permit only that week shot an armed man who was ...

Police say the bodies of a man and woman found in a Council Bluffs home Saturday morning was the result of a murder/suicide.

Officers called to the Bluffs Acres mobile home park near Pueblo Road and Chippewa Circle just after 10 a.m. to investigate a report of a shooting found the bodies of 38-year-old Stephony Metzger and 42-year-old Terry Francis in one of the home's bedrooms.

Police say Metzger, who lived at the home, and Francis had been dating for several years. It's believed he shot Metzger before turning the gun on himself. Neighbor Jennifer Iwersen said Metzger had recently been trying to end the relationship.

Metzger was the mother of three children between the ages of 12 and 18. Carolyn Brown, who lives across the street, went to school with the oldest child. "She's recently started college. She was talking on Facebook the other day about how she was really looking forward to a bright future and then unfortunately something like this happened. I feel so terribly sorry for her."

Brown didn't know Metzger well. “I didn’t have many conversations with her, but she seemed really nice and caring. When she would come out with her dogs she would wave and say hi. She never seemed mean at all. I’ve only had pleasant encounters with her.”

DAWN.com
Murder 3: Doesn't go in for the kill
DAWN.com
The latest addition to the “Murder” franchise is a lot of things, but one thing it isn't is true to its name. Don't expect a lot of shooting and slashing. “Murder 3” is a Bhatt franchise, so the title hardly matters. All movies associated with them ...
Murder 3 - Lacks killer instinctThe Hindu
Movie Review: 'Murder 3'Pakistan Daily Times
'Murder 3': Sara Loren a born star, says Mahesh BhattZee News
Hindustan Times -IBNLive -Times of India
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China rulers struggle with corruption culture
Financial Times
“Greater transparency, rule of law and democracy are the only truly effective ways of fighting corruption. The current anti-corruption campaign does not feature any of these. In this respect it is the same as previous campaigns and cannot be expected ...

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Again this week our domestic violence stereotypes proved untrue. Twice.

On Valentine’s Day, a day dedicated to lovers, Reeva Steenkamp, 29, was shot to death, allegedly by her lover, Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee known as “the Blade Runner” for his spectacular Olympic track performance last year. Steenkamp was a model, a motivational speaker and, ironically, a crusader against violence toward women.

On Valentine’s Day closer to home, jurors heard testimony in the trial of Nathaniel Fujita, a star high school athlete in leafy, affluent Wayland who’d been headed to even leafier Trinity College to play football. Instead Fujita faces first-degree murder charges in the strangling death of his longtime sweetheart, Lauren Astley, a standout at school known for her spunk, enthusiasm and lovely singing voice.

Neither Pistorius nor Fujita fit the cliches of the domestic abuser. That is, someone who grew up in a poor, troubled or violent family; someone with a pronounced drug or alcohol problem; someone who’s failed in life and whose attacks accelerate from controlling behavior to verbal abuse to ever more violent physical assaults. In fact, the alleged attacks on these women appeared to be unexpected, friends and family have said. Even Astley, who knew of Fujita’s increasing depression, never indicated that she feared him.

Just the opposite of a frustrated loser, Pistorius was a Nike spokesman, rich and world-famous. He grew up in a large and reportedly loving family determined that his amputations would neither diminish nor define him. Fujita for years had enjoyed the status that comes with being an athletic star. His father is a popular music professor at Berklee College of Music. His mother was so worried about her son’s post-breakup bleak moods that she visited Lauren Astley at her job at the Natick Mall.

And neither Astley nor Steenkamp fit the stereotype of abuse victims either: some weak, dependent, poorly educated woman with low self-esteem, few options and, perhaps conditioned by her own violent past, an expectation of abuse. Lauren Astley has been described as strong, bold, focused — an a capella singer ready to pursue a career in fashion at Elon University. Steenkamp used her fame to speak out against sexual violence. “I woke up in a happy, safe home this morning. Not everyone did,” she tweeted just last week, prophetically.

The only stereotypes that fit here: Astley’s breakup with Fujita (breakups increase the likelihood of violence six-fold); and the presence of a gun, a 9 mm pistol, in Pistorius’ home, which dramatically increases the likelihood of a domestic murder, or suicide.

So what to make of all this? Simply that domestic violence spares no one: not the rich, the famous, the beautiful, the successful — or those who are well raised and very much loved.

For 15 years now, Valentine’s Day has also been known as V-Day, a day of global awareness of violence against women. This Valentine’s Day, Steenkamp had been scheduled to speak to teenagers about empowerment and standing up for justice in their own lives. “Wear black this Friday in support against rape,” she had tweeted just hours before she’d planned to don black herself. But by Friday, Reeva Steenkamp was dead.