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ABC Online
Eddie Obeid's second day at corruption inquiry
ABC Online
... Eliza Harvey. In his second day of questioning at the corruption inquiry, former NSW Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid said his family hadn't done anything 'shonky' and boasted that he had spent more than the counsel assisting would spend in a lifetime.
Eddie Obeid denies 'shonky' dealings to corruption commissionAustralian Times
Eddie Obeid faces heat at corruption inquiryBusiness Spectator
Crikey Clarifier: who are the Obeids and what did they do?Crikey
Sydney Morning Herald
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CBS Local
Opening Statements To Resume In Kaboni Savage Murder Trial
CBS Local
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Already convicted drug kingpin Kaboni Savage is charged with 12 murders, including the firebombing murders of the family of a witness against him in 2004. But, in opening statements yesterday, Savage's attorney told the jury the ...

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The Atlantic Wire
Organized crime gangs corrupting soccer matches, agency says
STLtoday.com
THE HAGUE, Netherlands • Organized crime gangs have fixed or tried to fix hundreds of soccer matches around the world in recent years, including World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two Champions League games, Europol announced ...
Soccer Has a 'Global Crime Syndicate' ProblemThe Atlantic Wire
Asian crime syndicates suspected in global soccer match fixingGlobalPost (blog)
Soccer Infiltrated by Organized CrimeNewser
The Japan Times -PublicServiceEurope.com
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Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Imprisoned Pussy Riot member hospitalized
Las Vegas Sun
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 | 3:41 a.m.. Russia's prison service says one of two members of the Pussy Riot feminist punk band serving two-year sentences for an irreverent protest against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main cathedral has been hospitalized.
Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova transferred to prison hospitalDigital Spy
Husband of Pussy Riot Prisoner at Geneva Rights SummitScoop.co.nz (press release)
Member of Pussy Riot HospitalizedMs. Magazine
Russia Beyond The Headlines (blog)
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European Authorities Probe Soccer Corruption
NPR
The world's most popular sport is under investigation for corruption. European police say they've found evidence of a vast criminal network that fixed hundreds of soccer matches. The conspiracies are alleged to span continents and involve players, team ...

China corruption: Policeman 'bought 192 homes with fake ID'
BBC News
A senior policeman in the southern Chinese city of Lufeng is alleged to have bought 192 houses with fake identity papers, state media report. Zhao Haibin is no longer a police chief, but he is still a senior figure in the local Communist Party. Xinhua ...

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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A Mogadishu court on Tuesday handed down one-year prison sentences to a woman who said she was raped by security forces and... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jade-walker/

Homeless Fla. man charged in 2003 murder
MiamiHerald.com
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Authorities say a homeless man has been charged with the 2003 murder of a German woman whose body has never been found. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune ( bit.ly/14OI2Tm) reports 53-year-old John Alan Mellquist was arrested Friday ...

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Independent Online
'Give me proof of Boys Town corruption'
Independent Online
Picture: Thomas Holder. Cape Town - The Western Cape government will not investigate allegations of corruption at the Boys Town housing project in Crossroads unless it is provided with proof of corruption. Human Settlements MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela, ...

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New York Times (blog)
An X-Ray of Russian Corruption
New York Times (blog)
Before James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of DNA's double helix, “Photo 51″ — an X-ray photograph — helped them identify the molecule's complex structure. And just as photography made visible what ...

Eddie Ray Routh was taken to a mental hospital twice in the five months before he was accused in the murder of American Snipe r author Chris Kyle and a friend, according to police records seen by the AP . The 25-year-old Iraq veteran was first hospitalized after threatening to kill...

Corzine's Crime of the Century
National Review Online
Last week, a court approved a settlement deal among commodities firm MF Global's bankruptcy trustees that will reimburse its customers for 93 percent of the value of their accounts, from which about $1.6 billion had disappeared during the firm's ...

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While her mother slept, Martha Walker hacked her with an ax, all because the 76-year-old woman refused to relocate from her Hollywood home to North... Sun Sentinel http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janie-campbell/

Anti-crime initiative under NAACP scrutiny
Yale Daily News (blog)
New Haven officials have rallied around an anti-crime initiative after the Connecticut National Association for the Advancement of Colored People criticized the program for endangering the civil rights of minority communities. Project Longevity, an ...

The 5-year-old Alabama boy freed in a raid that ended in kidnapper Jimmy Lee Dykes' death has been reunited with his mother after his weeklong ordeal in an underground bunker. Hours after the rescue, Ethan was "laughing, joking, playing, eating—the things that you would expect a normal 5- to...

The Atlantic Wire
Organized crime gangs tried to fix hundreds of soccer matches, agency says
STLtoday.com
THE HAGUE, Netherlands • Organized crime gangs have fixed or tried to fix hundreds of soccer matches around the world in recent years, including World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two Champions League games, Europol announced ...
Soccer Has a 'Global Crime Syndicate' ProblemThe Atlantic Wire
Asian crime syndicates suspected in global soccer match fixingGlobalPost (blog)
Soccer Infiltrated by Organized CrimeNewser
Telegraph.co.uk -PublicServiceEurope.com -Newsday
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WXYZ
Taped conversations at heart of Wayne County corruption trial
Detroit Free Press
Allebban is the first defendant to face trial, which begins in U.S. District Court today, in the corruption probe of Wayne County that already has netted three guilty pleas. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Federal prosecutors charge ...
First trial in Wayne County corruption probe to begin TuesdayWXYZ

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BBC News
China media: Corruption focus
BBC News
Abuse of the hukou, or household registration system, gets widespread attention. The system allows a person to hold only one hukou, but some find ways to bend the rules. Following the case of "House Sister" Gong Aiai, a former banker who is reported to ...

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My Fox 8
Crime lowest in Greensboro since '88
Greensboro News & Record
GREENSBORO — The Greensboro Police Department said Monday that fewer crimes were reported in 2012 than in any year since 1988. The city's crime rates are down in large part because of community involvement, police said. The 2012 data show an ...
Greensboro Police release 2012 crime statisticsMy Fox 8
Greensboro Police: Crime Rate Dropped 9.2 PercentWFMY News 2

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WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of mourners gathered on Capitol Hill Monday to celebrate the life of Internet activist Aaron Swartz and to advocate changes to federal... Zach Carter http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zach-carter/