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Sentencing Set For Former Vice Cop In Contra Costa Police Corruption Scandal
CBS Local
CONCORD (KCBS) – Contra Costa County's former top vice cop was expected to find out Monday afternoon how long he would be sent to prison for robbing prostitutes and selling stolen drug evidence. Norman Wielsch, 51, is the former commander of the ...

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A pretty horrific story out of southern Israel today, where a man apparently became enraged after visiting the bank with the intention of taking care of a $1,640 debt—which failed to happen, reports Ynet : His request denied, he "came back with a pistol and shot dead four people...

Washington Times
Josh Silver on Capitol Hill corruption and the struggle to clean it up
Washington Times
Is political corruption inevitable regardless of Citizens United and corrective legislation? Josh Silver is the director of Represent.Us, an advocacy group with an ambitious mission: to curtail the power of special interest groups as well as the ...

All-star crime thriller flops at Cannes
GlobalPost
Chris aims to get back on the straight-and-narrow but is quickly sucked back in to the life of crime. Cash starts running low when his new wife (Kunis) becomes pregnant and the mother of his two other children (Cotillard), spirals into drugs and ...

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19 Indian State Officials Face Corruption Charges
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An Indian state official is recommending that 19 people be charged with misappropriating millions of dollars in the construction of monuments honoring dalits, the lowest Hindu caste. Uttar Pradesh state ombudsman N.K. Mehrotra says a total of 199 ...
'Rs 1400 Cr Siphoned Off by Maya Govt for Memorials'Outlook

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Imran Khan holds London-based rival responsible for Pakistani politician's ...
The Guardian
Imran Khan 'holds responsible' London-based MQM leader Altaf Hussain of the murder of Zahra Hussain, vice-president for Khan's party. The female politician was gunned down outside her home in Karachi on Saturday, sparking outcry among supporters of ...
Imran Khan blames rival for murder of politician Zahra Shahid Hussain in ...The Independent
Imran Khan accuses rivals of involvement in murderMirror.co.uk
Transitions: PTI's Zahra Shahid Hussain laid to rest after brutal murderThe Express Tribune
Hindustan Times -The News International -IBTimes.co.uk
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West Village Shaken by Weekend Murder
WNYC
“A Gay Man Was Brutally Murdered Here…” reads a red sign propped up against the door of an out-of-business Barnes and Noble on Eighth Street and Sixth Avenue. It's surrounded by candles and flowers and two photos of 32-year-old Mark Carson who was ...

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Pakistan's Musharraf Granted Bail in Bhutto Murder Case - VOA
Voice of America
A Pakistani court has granted bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in a case related to the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Musharraf is accused of failing to provide adequate security to Bhutto, who was gunned down in ...
Musharraf granted bail in Bhutto murder caseAljazeera.com
Pakistan court grants Musharraf bail in Bhutto murderAl-Arabiya
ATC grants Musharraf bail in Benazir murder case; SC adjourns treason caseDAWN.com
Geo News, Pakistan -Xinhua
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Group Of Millennials Riot And Set 100 Cars On Fire In Stockholm - Jalopnik
Jalopnik
Rioting started around 10PM on Sunday evening, with rocks being thrown at an officer and nearly 100 cars set on fire by approximately 50 to 60 youths. Everything was contained by around 5:30 AM. Stockholm police are yet to make any arrests, but believe ...

The Guardian
Cannes 2013: 'Blood Ties' is an authentic '70s-set crime movie that gives ...
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
Yet what they end up with still doesn't usually look like the period — it looks prefab — and watching Blood Ties, a rivetingly scuzzy and authentic New York cops-and-crime drama (it's set in 1974), starring Clive Owen as a hard case who has just ...
Watch: Trailer & Poster For Gritty '70s Crime Epic 'Blood Ties' With Clive ...Indie Wire (blog)

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A man has been charged with a hate crime in the murder of a gay man in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Elliot Morales, 33, was "laughing on the ground" as police arrested him in the killing of Mark Carson, 32, officials say. "Yeah, I shot him in the head," Morales allegedly...

Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office West Bank crime report, May 19
NOLA.com
Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office West Bank crime report, May 19. JPSO sign.JPG. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office West Bank crime report, May 19. (NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune archive). Print · Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By ...
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Steroids to Blame for Tim Lambesis' MurderforHire Plot, Claims Defense Attorney
Ultimate-Guitar.Com
New details regarding As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis' murder-for-hire plot trial have recently emerged, with the defense claiming that singer's actions were affected by severe steroid usage. According to vocalist's new attorney Tom Warwick ...
Tim Lambesis' Attorney Blames Steroids For Murder Solicitation PlotantiMUSIC.com
Singer accused of murder-for-hire plot has bail reducedfox5sandiego.com

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Brand New Line Up Shows Around Riot Fest
Under the Gun Review
Starting at noon today, UTG has learned that Brand New will be announcing a handful of shows around their scheduled September appearance at Riot Fest in Chicago. PropertyOfZack already located one gig in upstate New York, and we can tell you ...

The Atlantic Wire
The Murder of Mark Carson: A Hate Crime Where It Wasn't Expected
The Atlantic Wire
Today the area around Christopher Street is lined with gay bars and million-dollar apartments. It's quite ordinary to see gay men holding hands in the streets of the neighborhood, which makes the murder of 32-year-old Mark Carson, walking with a friend ...
NYC Man Charged For Murder In Gay Hate CrimeFox News Latino
Suspect in West Village anti-gay murder laughed while confessingNew York Daily News
Man Charged With Murder as Gay Hate CrimeWall Street Journal
Huffington Post (blog) -Fox News -CBS News
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FRANCE 24
All-star crime thriller flops at Cannes
FRANCE 24
French actress Marion Cotillard waves on May 20, 2013 while posing during a photocall for the film "Blood Ties" presented out of competition at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Cotillard and her partner, French actor and director Guillaume ...
Crime Wave! Cannes Hit by Second BurglaryWordandFilm.com

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FBI document shows start of corrections corruption probe
Baltimore Sun
Federal and state law enforcement agencies have been working since 2011 to take on corruption in prisons — their efforts recently resulted in the indictment of more than two dozen in an alleged smuggling scheme — and a document the FBI released last ...

CBS News
NYC hate crime: Marc Carson killed in Greenwich Village in "anti-gay" shooting ...
CBS News
(CBS) NEW YORK CITY-- A 33-year-old man was arrested early Saturday in connection with the fatal shooting of 32-year-old Marc Carson in New York City's Greenwich Village, an incident police are calling an "anti-gay" hate crime, reports CBS News.
Police: Man charged in hate crime of slain NYC gay man - USA TodayUSA TODAY
Charges Filed in Killing of Gay Man in Greenwich VillageNew York Times
The Murder of Mark Carson: A Hate Crime Where It Wasn't ExpectedThe Atlantic Wire
Fox News Latino -ThinkProgress -Gothamist
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The Three Pussy Riot Sisters
Watermark Online
The Three Pussy Riot Sisters is singularly infuriating…but in a really good way. Cleverly referencing the isolation and decay of society found in Chekov's “Three Sisters,” writer David Karl Lee takes eloquent, verbatim testimony from the closing ...

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A Florida teen has been charged with statutory rape and kicked out of school, and her mother says the case hinges on homophobia, the Raw Story reports. The parents of the alleged victim—some three years younger than suspect Kaitlyn Hunt, 18—"are bigoted, religious zeolites (sic) that see being...