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Police in Bangladesh arrest 2 garment factory owners on negligence, murder ...
Fox News
Smart Export Garment Ltd. Chairman Sharif Ahmed and managing director Zakir Ahmed face charges of negligence and murder, and a police case has been filed against the duo and another official. Garment industry workers and labor rights groups had ...

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Nia Vardalos made a guest appearance on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" as a very aggressive defense attorney squaring off against Assistant District Attorney... Jason Hughes http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-hughes/

China sentences 2 Tibetans on murder charge for inciting self-immolations in ...
Fox News
BEIJING – Chinese state media say two Tibetan men have been convicted of murder and given harsh sentences for inciting self-immolations in an ethnic Tibetan region. The official Xinhua News Agency said a court in Aba prefecture in the southwestern ...

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Sharon McPhail to testify in Kwame Kilpatrick corruption trial
Detroit Free Press
Sharon McPhail, who went from being one of Kwame Kilpatrick's most vocal critics to one of his most ardent defenders, will testify for the defense in the former mayor's public corruption trial. Defense lawyers for Kilpatrick; his father, Bernard ...

CBS Local
Vandalism at two Arcadia churches prompts hate crime investigation
Pasadena Star-News
ARCADIA - An Arcadia church was vandalized and set on fire for the second time in the past two weeks in what police are investigating as possible hate crimes. The break-ins and vandalism took place about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Holy Angels Church, ...
2 Churches Vandalized In Arcadia; Hate Crime SuspectedCBS Local

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NBC4 Washington
Possible Juror Misconduct in Former Culpeper Police Officer Murder Trial
NBC4 Washington
The jurors in the murder trial of former Culpeper Town Police Officer Daniel Harmon-Wright were sworn in and questioned one by one Wednesday about possible misconduct. A clerk found two dictionaries and a thesaurus in the deliberation room, prompting ...
Possible Misconduct Investigated In Culpeper Murder TrialW*USA 9
Ex-Culpeper officer's murder trial nears endSan Francisco Chronicle

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Independent Online
Pussy Riot's cathedral video banned
Independent Online
Members of the female punk band "Pussy Riot" (L-R) Yekaterina Samutsevich, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass-walled cage before a court hearing in Moscow. Related Stories. Court denies Pussy Riot appeal. Footage of feminist ...

Inquirer.net
Aquino warns unabated corruption breeds 'corrupt' leaders
Inquirer.net
Speaking at the 5th Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) in Pasay City, Aquino acknowledged that the “greatest challenge for any modern society” was how to “stem the corruption” that he said feasted on the moral fabric of ...
Fight against corruption to continue: Aquinogulfnews.com
Aquino: True public service 'a key in fighting corruption'Sun.Star
PNoy highlights anti-corruption efforts in 5th GOPAC conferencePhilippine Information Agency
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17-year-old charged with murder in Park Manor shooting Tuesday afternoon
Chicago Tribune
The shooting happened about 12:20 p.m. in the 7400 block of South Champlain Avenue - the 41st murder of the year, surpassing the monthly total from 2012, which was an increase over 2011. Quovadus Mahomes, of Dixon, is accused of killing 27-year-old ...

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China says 14 protesters plead guilty to encouraging mass riot against ...
Fox News
BEIJING – Fourteen people pleaded guilty to encouraging a riot in eastern China last year where scores of police were hurt and the local Communist Party chief was stripped half-naked in a mass protest that ultimately forced the scrapping of a ...

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Kansas City Star
Crime sweep goes after members of loosely allied groups
Kansas City Star
In Tuesday's predawn darkness, the distant flash of lightning portended a nasty change in Kansas City's weather. At the same time, more than 100 police officers and federal agents gathered to unleash a different kind of storm on the city's criminal ...
Kansas City Murder Burst Contrasted With New Crime Fight JobKCUR

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Press Herald
In Egypt, calls to halt riot violence
Press Herald
CAIRO - A key Egyptian opposition leader Wednesday called for talks with President Mohammed Morsi, ultraconservative Islamists and military officials to quell days of rioting that have killed more than 50 people and left the country edging toward anarchy.
Fatalities Reported At Mass Funeral For Riot Dead In EgyptNPR (blog)
Clashes erupt after Egypt court sentences 21 to death in football riotCNN
22 killed as death sentences in Egypt soccer riot spark clashesLos Angeles Times
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3 killed in suspected murder-suicide, Oxnard police say
Los Angeles Times
Two women were shot to death and a man was also fatally shot in an apparent murder-suicide in Oxnard, police said Wednesday night. The women were found after officers responded about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday to reports of shots fired in the 1200 block of ...

Emotional John Kerry slams 'corruption' of system
Boston Herald
Outgoing U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry was overcome with emotion yesterday as he delivered his farewell speech before the U.S. Senate — a body he said is being corrupted by campaign cash. “I believe it is the honor of a lifetime, an extraordinary privilege ...

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Police: WA inmate's murder-for-hire plot foiled
San Francisco Chronicle
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle police have outlined what they say was a murder-for-hire plot organized by a jailed felon who wanted a man he suspected of being a police informant to be doused with gasoline and dried "with a match." Detective Mark Jamieson ...
Police foil murder-for-hire plot orchestrated from KC JailKOMO News
Police foil murder-for-hire plot that started in jailKING5.com
Police: Murder-for-hire plot like something out of the moviesQ13 FOX
MyNorthwest.com -KIRO Seattle
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Romania-Insider.com
Romanis'a anti-corruption methods not up to EU standards
European Voice
Romania is still failing to meet European standards in fighting corruption, more than six years after it joined the European Union, the European Commission has found in its latest progress report on the rule of law in the country. The Commission is ...
EU report: Romania still needs progress on judicial independence, battle ...Windsor Star
Romanian judiciary remains “major source of concern”Europolitics.info
Romania Has Lots to Do on Judicial Reform, EC Interim Report SaysNovinite.com

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Sky Valley Chronicle
Police: WA inmate's murder-for-hire plot foiled
The Seattle Times
Police: WA inmate's murder-for-hire plot foiled. Seattle police have outlined what they say was a murder-for-hire plot organized by a jailed felon who wanted a man he suspected of being a police informant to be doused with gasoline and dried "with a ...
Police foil murder-for-hire plot orchestrated from KC JailKOMO News
Police foil murder-for-hire plot that started in jailKING5.com
SEATTLE POLICE FOIL MURDER-FOR-HIRE PLOTSky Valley Chronicle
MyNorthwest.com -Q13 FOX -KIRO Seattle
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Newsday (subscription)
In corruption trial, dad says he pleaded with principal
Newsday (subscription)
A one-time Nassau police benefactor said he "begged and pleaded" with the principal at his son's high school not to press charges after he discovered the teenager had stolen campus electronics equipment. Days later, the principal, Lorraine Poppe ...

Man seeks sentence reduction in 2009 Pa. murder
San Francisco Chronicle
SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) — A judge says he will consider reducing the sentence of a man who pleaded guilty to a murder charge in the slaying of a man found shot in the kitchen of a western Pennsylvania apartment more than three years ago.

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