Crime Newswire

Motive unclear in apparent Oxnard murder-suicide that left 3 dead
Los Angeles Times
Police are still investigating an apparent murder-suicide in Oxnard that left two women and a man dead, officials said Thursday. The women were found after officers responded about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday to a report of shots fired in the 1200 block of ...

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Pakistan Court Summons Anti-Corruption Boss
ABC News
Pakistan's top court on Thursday summoned the government's anti-corruption chief over a letter he wrote criticizing the tribunal's judges, the latest in an ongoing tussle between the judiciary and the country's political leadership. The development is ...
Pakistan's top court summons anti-corruption over letter criticizing its judgesFox News

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Judge to sentence man in South Beach rape and murder
MiamiHerald.com
Joel Lebron no reacciona durante el veredicto de culpabilidad de todos los cargos contra el por el asesinato de la joven Ana Maria Angel en el 2002 en el juicio que se le celebra en la corte criminal del NW de Miami el viernes, 28 de Septiembre del 2012.
Man guilty of rape, murder to be sentenced7Online WSVN-TV
Joel Lebron To Be Sentenced In SoBe Rape & Murder CaseWBFS

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17-year-old charged with murder in Park Manor shooting
Chicago Tribune
Police say a 17-year-old boy killed one man and tried to kill two others Tuesday afternoon in the Park Manor neighborhood. The shooting happened about 12:20 p.m. in the 7400 block of South Champlain Avenue - the 41st murder of the year, surpassing the ...

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Live blog 9 am: 64th day of Kwame Kilpatrick public corruption trial Live
Detroit Free Press
The public corruption trial of Kwame Kilpatrick and two others is set to continue today in downtown Detroit. Free Press staff writer Jim Schaefer will blog live from the courthouse; follow along below. To ask questions, sign in with a display name and ...
Feds rest case, defense next, in corruption trial of ex-Detroit Mayor ...Minneapolis Star Tribune

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The Department of Homeland Security has released a video advising Americans on how to deal with a mass shooting—and some of its tips have the New York Post scratching its head. For instance, the video suggests that "if you are caught out in the open and cannot conceal yourself...

Today's tale of alleged injustice comes out of Somalia, where a human rights group says that a woman who reported being raped by security forces was herself charged by the government. Her crime? Simulating a criminal offense and making a false accusation, among other charges; those two carry a sentence...

Slate Magazine (blog)
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Hit With Corruption Charges
Slate Magazine (blog)
The nexus between land/building/lending booms and outright corruption continues to be an underexplored subject in the economics profession. Today's data point comes to us from Spain, where the center-right prime minister Mariano Rajoy is being hit with ...
Spain sees growing corruption scandals involving key institutionsCNN International
Rajoy drawn into corruption scandalFinancial Times
Corruption scandal involving Spain's ruling partyEurope Online Magazine
Reuters UK
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CBS 11
Van Exel To Take Stand In Son's Murder Trial
CBS 11
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - What happened inside of a former Dallas Mavericks player's home? That question is at the heart of a murder trial in Dallas that will continue on Thursday. Nickey Van Exel will be back in front of a judge and his father, Nick Van ...
Dallas Mavericks player's son on trial in Garland slaying kissed victim's ...Dallas Morning News (blog)
Ex-NBA player Van Exel's son murder trial beginsWFAA

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Police: Cambridge hits historic low in crime
Wicked Local
Cambridge registered the lowest number of violent crime last year than has ever been recorded in the 44 years of collecting data, Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas announced Wednesday. For the fourth year running, violent crime in Cambridge ...

The Chicago teen who was killed days after performing in President Obama's inauguration may have simply been in the "wrong place at the wrong time," Chicago's police superintendent says, calling the shooting a matter of "mistaken identity." The shooting, police believe, was part of a turf war among gangs, but...

Finally, the day I'd always feared arrived. An email from a childhood friend with a link to a story in a Jewish paper: investigations into murky events from many years ago involving rabbis and young boys at an Orthodox school, long-ago complaints and hushed-up dismissals. These were my peers. This was my neighborhood... This was my Rabbi. Rick Schwartz http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-schwartz/

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C. Ind. man accused in murder-for-hire plot
San Francisco Chronicle
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Central Indiana police say a Carmel man allegedly offered a co-worker $15,000 to arrange the murder of his estranged wife. Twenty-seven-year-old Stephen Perry is facing conspiracy to commit murder charges. He's being held at ...
Murder-for-hire plot in CarmelWANE
Police: Co-worker foils Carmel man's murder for hire plotFox 59
Co-worker foils murder-for-hire plotFort Wayne Journal Gazette

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Slate Magazine (blog)
Spain sees growing corruption scandals
CNN International
Madrid (CNN) -- Just one day after a tense debate in Spanish parliament on how to stop political corruption, a leading newspaper published Thursday what it said were handwritten documents detailing 19 years of secretive payments to leaders of the ...
Spain's ruling party leaders face corruption allegationsLos Angeles Times
Spain corruption scandal turns up heat on PM RajoyReuters
Rajoy drawn into corruption scandalFinancial Times
Slate Magazine (blog) -PRI's The World -Telegraph.co.uk
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By cutting off federal funding for research and stymieing data collection and sharing, the National Rifle Association has tried to do to the study of... Mother Jones http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-wing/

TACOMA, Wash. -- The job description requests an unlikely mix of skills: five years of regulatory experience, with a law degree preferred, and extensive knowledge... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-mccormack/

Jodi Arias Murder Trial: Defense Witnesses
ABC News
Jodi Arias Murder Trial: Defense Witnesses. Dan Abrams discusses the trial of a woman accused of killing her ex-boyfriend. 01:40 | 01/31/2013. Related Links: Watch: Jodi Arias Murder Trial: Defense's First Day of Witnesses · Watch: Jodi Arias Murder ...

PHOENIX -- Police are hunting for an "armed and dangerous" 70-year-old man suspected in a Phoenix office complex shooting that left one person dead and... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-mccormack/

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Rajoy drawn into corruption scandal
Financial Times
The Popular Party on Thursday again denied that its leaders, including Mr Rajoy, received regular cash payments funded from donations from construction companies, as flames from the corruption allegations licked at the feet of its most senior figures.
Corruption scandal involving Spain's ruling partyEurope Online Magazine
Spain's Rajoy, ruling party deny secret payment schemeReuters UK

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Link Riot: Presidential Movie Monsters - Collect Them All!
NextMovie (blog)
Link Riot: Presidential Movie Monsters - Collect Them All! By Bryan Enk | Jan 31, 2013 | 7:00 AM. Presidential Movie Monsters. • Meet Baracula, Zombush, Lincolnstein and other U.S. Presidents reimagined (for some reason) as classic movie monsters.