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CBS News
Mark Hasse Murder: Nearly $65000 reward offered in Texas prosecutor's slaying
CBS News
(CBS) Nearly $65,000 is being offered for information in the murder of Texas prosecutor Mark Hasse, who was fatally shot outside his office Thursday morning, CBS DFW reports. Authorities said no arrests have been made in the 57-year-old Hasse's slaying ...
Suspect Still Unknown In Kaufman County DA MurderCBS Local
Still no arrests for Kaufman prosecutor's murderFOX 4 News
Dallas DA Craig Watkins issues an apology for misinformation shared on murder ...Northdallasgazette

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Sarah Dawn McKinley, a young mother from Oklahoma, was thrust into the national spotlight this week when conservatives at the Senate gun hearing cited her... Washington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-wing/

A 27-year-old Newark, N.J., English teacher has been arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child in an allegedly... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andres-jauregui/

HELENA, Mont. — A Montana man whose tearful reluctance to rob a pizza restaurant earned him free food apparently made up the sob story that... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maxwell-strachan/

Stanford Report
Stanford mathematician models the spread – and prevention – of crime as a wave
Stanford Report
'It's not enough to crack down on crime without changing the attitude of the community,' says Stanford researcher Nancy Rodriguez. Crime can happen anywhere, but it usually doesn't. Researchers have noticed that criminal activity seems to be ...

According to Ruth Marcus, the argument du jour against gun control—that women in particular need access to guns to protect themselves from violent, male criminals—is nothing but a "straw woman." The "argument would be powerful, if only it were true," Marcus writes in the Washington Post . "The facts...

New York Times (blog)
Crime Report: Violent Salami Theft
New York Times (blog)
Officers in the 88th Precinct arrested Feronde Polite, 51, after she allegedly punched, bit and scratched a clerk who confronted her about shoplifting at a Myrtle Avenue grocery store on Jan. 26 at 8 p.m., cops said. A clerk at the store told officer ...

Examiner.com
'Spring Breakers' Red Band Trailer: Sex and Crime Go Hand in Hand With ...
/FILM (blog)
When Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers premiered in Toronto late last year, it instantly became a must-see film. Some people hated it, other people loved it; arguments went that many either loved that they hated it so much or hated that they loved it so ...
'Spring Breakers' is the sex and crime movie of 2013 (Trailer)Examiner.com
'Spring Breakers' Red-Band Trailer: Crime Pays As Long As You're With James ...Geeks of Doom

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As Adam Zachs' Lawyer Seeks To Overturn Conviction, Murder Weapon Can't ...
Hartford Courant
The Smith & Wesson 9 mm handgun that Adam Zachs used to murder Peter Carone in West Hartford a quarter century ago is missing. Zachs' new lawyer, Aaron J. Romano of Bloomfield, hopes the judge who will consider Zachs' habeas corpus claim will take ...

The Guardian
'why would anyone kill my boy?'
The Guardian
It had been a typical Sunday afternoon at 110 Ninian Road, Cardiff. Aamir Siddiqi, a talented 17-year-old student who planned to go to law school, was upstairs working on his A-level textbooks while his father, Iqbal Ahmad, was elsewhere in the house ...
Bungling Hit Men Convicted of Schoolboy's MurderABC News
Bungling hitmen who killed teenager by mistake guilty of murderThe Sun
Aamir Siddiqi murder: Bungling hitmen guilty of schoolboy murderThe Independent
Telegraph.co.uk -The Inquisitr
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The Guardian (blog)
Anger at Spanish political corruption must be converted into action at last
The Guardian (blog)
That's the feeling that many Spaniards experienced last Thursday when they awoke to the news that the ruling People's party could be involved in yet another spectacular corruption case. It was a shock because, if the allegations turn out to be true, it ...

Jesse Jackson is organizing a march this weekend in remembrance of Hadiya Pendleton, the Chicago teen who was killed just days after performing with her school band at President Obama's inauguration. Chicago already has some of the nation's strictest gun laws, but Jackson says he's hoping to inspire action on...

Tuesday, February 5, Co-Director Peter Neufeld and Board Member Marvin Anderson will speak at the Virginia Commonwealth University about the role of race in wrongful convictions. Anderson was wrongfully convicted in 1982 and exonerated twenty years later through DNA testing with the help of Neufeld and the Innocence Project. Anderson's case is just one of many that reveal the racial injustice at work in wrongful convictions. Of the 302 DNA exonerations, over 70% are people of color and over 60% are African American.

The talk is at 7:00 p.m. in the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts in Richmond, Virginia, and is free and open to the public.

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