Crimes and Trials
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2 more charges pending for suspected serial killer (AP)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:06:19 GMT
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AP - Eder Herrera spent three months in jail for the stabbing deaths of his mother and brother. Charges against him were dropped Friday, shortly before prosecutors announced that an ex-Marine accused of killing four homeless men would be charged with the double murder.
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Senior Indiana official convicted of perjury, fraud (Reuters)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:14:12 GMT
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document.write('Reuters - A jury early on Saturday convicted Indiana\'s Republican Secretary of State Charlie White on six felony counts including perjury, theft and voter fraud but cleared him on a seventh charge.
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Mother of slain actress settles suit with Spector (AP)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:43:28 GMT
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document.write('AP - A lawyer says the mother of the actress Phil Spector was convicted of killing has settled her wrongful death suit against the legendary music producer.
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U.S. Army drops charges against last soldier in Afghan (Reuters)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:23:14 GMT
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document.write('Reuters - The U.S. Army has dismissed all charges against the last of five soldiers to face a court-martial in the slaying of unarmed Afghan civilians, officials from their home base near Tacoma, Washington, said on Friday.
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Alabama police shoot dead fugitive cop killer (Reuters)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:34:01 GMT
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document.write('Reuters - Authorities shot and killed an escaped inmate Friday who stabbed one Mobile police officer to death and wounded a second after fleeing in a stolen police car.
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Killer of Fla. girl found in landfill gets life (AP)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:12:59 GMT
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AP - Minutes after a man pleaded guilty to kidnapping, raping and murdering 7-year-old Somer Thompson, who was dumped in a trash bin and later found in a landfill, the little girl\'s twin brother addressed his sister\'s killer.
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DA expects to quiz Kan. gov; House speaker upset (AP)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:12:47 GMT
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AP - A Kansas district attorney said Friday that he\'s likely to interview Gov. Sam Brownback as a witness during an investigation into the legality of private meetings with legislators at the governor\'s official residence, but the state\'s most powerful lawmaker criticized the prosecutor\'s tactics.
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Woman wins $975K years after giving birth in jail (AP)
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document.write('Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:17:10 GMT
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document.write('AP - A woman has won $975,000 in a federal jury trial, 14 years after giving birth in a jail cell in Washington state.
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Wis. governor to meet with district attorney (AP)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:12:35 GMT
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document.write('AP - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Friday he will meet with a district attorney leading a secret investigation that has already led to charges being filed against five former close aides and associates.
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No verdict in Pennsylvania corruption trial (Reuters)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:39:36 GMT
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document.write('Reuters - A Pennsylvania jury ended a second day of deliberations on Friday without reaching a verdict in the corruption trial of one of the state\'s longest-serving lawmakers, accused of using state employees to campaign for him for free.
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Mel Gibson may be witness in discrimination trial (AP)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:15:32 GMT
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AP - Attorneys for a deputy who arrested Mel Gibson on suspicion of drunken driving want to call the Oscar-winner as a witness during an upcoming trial to determine if the officer suffered discrimination because of the case.
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NJ CFO gets 20 years for advertising child porn (AP)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:55:45 GMT
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document.write('AP - A financial officer who admitted advertising child pornography for others to download was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison.
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Stanford had secret fund for bribes, yacht: witness (Reuters)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:55:25 GMT
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document.write('Reuters - Texas financier Allen Stanford drew on a secret Swiss bank account for personal expenses like yacht maintenance and to pay bribes, the government\'s top witness said at Stanford\'s fraud trial on Friday.
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Woman charged in beheading plot held without bond (AP)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:38:51 GMT
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document.write('AP - A federal judge in North Carolina ruled Friday that a Raleigh school administrator accused of paying a hit man to behead three witnesses in a terrorism case should be held without bond until her trial.
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Ind. election chief\'s voter fraud trial nears end (AP)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:52:26 GMT
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document.write('AP - A jury began deliberations Friday in the voter fraud trial of Indiana\'s election chief, who faces charges that could oust him from office.
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U.S. tourists seized in Egypt\'s Sinai released (Reuters)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:31:43 GMT
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document.write('Reuters - Two American women kidnapped by gunmen in Egypt\'s Sinai Peninsula on Friday were released into army custody a few hours later, security sources said.
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Former Ala. professor\'s lawyers want trial delayed (AP)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:01:01 GMT
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document.write('AP - Lawyers for a former Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues during a faculty meeting want a state appeals court to delay her March trial because officials haven\'t paid for expert witnesses or testing by a neurologist.
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Megaupload founder refused bail in New Zealand (Reuters)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:16:10 GMT
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document.write('Reuters - A New Zealand court refused an appeal by the founder of online file-sharing site Megaupload.com to be freed on bail, Friday, agreeing with prosecutors there was a risk he would attempt to flee before an extradition hearing.
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Uzbek refugee denies helping terror group (AP)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:06:11 GMT
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document.write('AP - A refugee from Uzbekistan accused of helping a foreign terrorist organization denied the allegations in a court appearance Thursday in Denver, before a judge advised him not to speak further without an attorney.
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\'Jewish Indiana Jones\' admits NY Torah fraud (AP)
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document.write('Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:44:53 GMT
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AP - A Jewish charity co-founder who claimed he traveled the world as a "Jewish Indiana Jones" to rescue Torahs pleaded guilty to fraud charges Thursday, saying he lied when he claimed he had personally obtained vintage Torah scrolls in Europe and Israel for six years.
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