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The Guardian
UK and France to join global anti-corruption initiative
The Guardian
Britain and France have both announced they are to join a groundbreaking initiative to expose systematic corruption, mainly in Africa, requiring mining and oil companies to reveal the taxes paid to national governments and the value of the minerals ...
Foreign Audit Finds Flaws in Extractive Resources - Global Witness Raises Red ...AllAfrica.com

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St. John Parish crime report, May 22
NOLA.com
Patricia Roussell, 54, Williamsburg Drive, LaPlace, LA, was arrested on 5/21/2013 and booked with issuing a worthless check (3) and an attachment. Justin L. Langley, 27, Central Avenue, Reserve, LA, was arrested on 5/21/2013 and booked with identity ...

ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
Timeline of key events in the Jodi Arias murder case
Fox News
PHOENIX – The Jodi Arias murder trial has drawn international attention for its graphic tales of sex and lies. The following is a timeline of some of the key events in the case: — September 2006: Arias and Travis Alexander meet at a Las Vegas work ...
Jury resumes deliberations in penalty phase of Jodi Arias murder trialNewser
Jodi Arias pleads for life in prison for murderPittsburgh Post Gazette
Video! Jodi Arias' New 'Save My Life' Media BlitzExtra
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ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
Timeline of Events in Jodi Arias Murder...
ABC News
The Jodi Arias murder trial has drawn international attention for its graphic tales of sex and lies. The following is a timeline of some of the key events in the case: — September 2006: Arias and Travis Alexander meet at a Las Vegas work convention ...
Jury resumes deliberations in penalty phase of Jodi Arias murder trialNewser
Jodi Arias pleads for life in prison for murderPittsburgh Post Gazette
Jodi Arias to address jurors in penalty phase of murder trial as panel ...Fox News
Extra -ABC15.com (KNXV-TV) -Straits Times
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Crime-fighting platform wins President's Challenge
Harvard Gazette
“Almost one and a half million gang members from 33,000 active gangs are responsible for 48 percent of the violent crime in the United States. We have a real problem with violent crime in the U.S., and technology can help solve it,” said Crouch. “There ...

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Romes Brothers' Murder Update: Teen pleads not guilty in Ohio deaths
CBS News
He's charged with delinquency in connection with aggravated murder. Fay is accused of killing 17-year-old Blake Romes and 14-year-old Blaine Romes in their Ottawa trailer May 9. An Amber Alert for all three teens was issued that day after the mother of ...
Details, evidence emerge in Ottawa brothers' murderLimaOhio.com

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Onislam.net
Muslim legislator's murder sparks protest in Nepal
The Hindu
One of Sadrul Miya Haque's employees who went to see him on Tuesday morning walked in on a gruesome scene of the 55-year-old Constituent Assembly member lying in a pool of blood with his throat slit open and various body parts butchered, in a room ...
Grisly Murder Shocks Nepal MuslimsOnislam.net
Haque murder case: MJF (Democratic) demands immediate actionE Kantipur
Haque's murder probe begins‚ highway still closedHimalayan Times
Republica
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RollingStone.com
Jailed Pussy Riot Member Starts Hunger Strike
RollingStone.com
Jailed Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina has started a hunger strike to protest having been denied access to her own parole hearing. The 24-year-old Russian artist was scheduled for a hearing today, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, she was not ...

A lesbian couple in Texas is claiming discrimination after a judge told the pair they legally could not live together. Carolyn Compton and Page Price have been sharing a household with Compton's two daughters, ages 10 and 13. But the judge said Price would have to move out, because of...

KC man charged with murder after friend dies in drive-by shooting
Kansas City Star
The Kansas City Star. Jackson County prosecutors on Wednesday charged a friend of a man who died in a homicide last week with felony murder because the death came while the men allegedly were committing a drive-by shooting. Order Reprints. The Star ...

The National Registry of Exonerations, which provides detailed information about every known exoneration in the United States since 1989, is in the process of conducting the first systematic study of recantations and recently released preliminary findings.

The research examined all of the cases in the Registry's database that involve post conviction recantations by witnesses or victims. Of 1,068 exonerations in the data set, 250 (23%) involved recantations, and most recantations occurred in murder and child sex abuse exonerations.

The Registry expects to release a complete report early next year.

Read more in the Witness Recantation Study: Preliminary Findings, May 2013.

New York Daily News
Man, 20, charged with murder of Maine teen met through Facebook
New York Daily News
A Maine man has been charged with the murder of a teen girl he met through Facebook. A body believed to be that of 15-year-old Nichole Cable was discovered dumped in a wood at 9:30 p.m. on Monday night — more than eight days after she went missing.
Orono man charged with murder in death of Glenburn teenBangor Daily News
Kyle Dube formally charged with murder of Nichole CableWCSH-TV
Nichole Cable Missing: Maine man charged with murder in case of high school ...CBS News
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Hunterdon County Democrat - NJ.com
Defense: Murder confession of woman charged with killing mother doesn't fit ...
Hunterdon County Democrat - NJ.com
Defense attorney Albert Kapin delivered his closing argument in the three-week murder trial for Lunney who is charged with killing her 81-year-old mother Marie Zoppi in the Fairfield home the two shared with Lunney's husband and two children in July 2009.

abc11.com
Three charged with murder in north Raleigh mom's death
WRAL.com
Ronald Lee Anthony, 23, of 1800 Bloodworth St., Raleigh, Travion Devonte Smith, 20, of Raleigh, and Sarah Rene Redden, 18, of 3209 Scotch Pine Trail, Wake Forest, were taken into custody late Tuesday and charged early Wednesday with murder in the ...
Raleigh police charge two men, woman with murder in North Hills slayingNews & Observer
Three arrested in murder of north Raleigh momabc11.com
Raleigh police charge 3 in Bladen Co. native's murderWWAY NewsChannel 3
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The Guardian
Pussy Riot member going on hunger strike
USA TODAY
BEREZNIKI, Russia (AP) — An imprisoned member of the punk band Pussy Riot says she is going on hunger strike after a judge refused to allow her to attend a court hearing where she was seeking release on parole. Maria Alekhina, watching the trial from ...
Jailed Pussy Riot member declares hunger strikeCNN International
Pussy Riot member begins hunger strikeThe Guardian
Pussy Riot member starts hunger strike to protest court rulingReuters
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Salon
Imprisoned Pussy Riot member declares hunger strike
Salon
Alyokhina is expected to be released next March, along with fellow Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who was denied parole last month. Sentencing for the third member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was suspended in October. Prachi Gupta is an ...

Kitwe accident: pedestrian's death sparks riot
Times of Zambia
IRATE Bulangililo and Kwacha residents in Kitwe on Tuesday set ablaze a Rosa minibus and smashed several other motor vehicles in protest against the death of a female pedestrian who was hit on Kazembe Road. The residents, who tried to administer ...

Michigan's Supreme Court has ruled that taking a toke before driving is OK for state-approved marijuana patients in certain circumstances. In a unanimous ruling Tuesday,... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sands/

BY RICHARD LARDNER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Determined to check the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the armed forces, a House panel is poised to... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gabrielle-dunkley/

A valuable lesson in how not to react when a cop pulls you over: A Colorado man who was pulled over for driving without his headlights just after 2am today exited his car and opened fire at a police officer with an AR-15-style rifle. The cop survived uninjured, but the...