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TRIKALA, Greece -- At least 11 inmates escaped from a Greek prison after gunmen brazenly attacked the site with grenades and automatic weapons, kicking off... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kavitha-a-davidson/

NEW YORK -- With many in shirts or carrying cards bearing his picture, mourners paid their respects at the funeral for a 16-year-old boy whose... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inae-oh/

A Murder Every 74 Minutes
London Review of Books (subscription) (blog)
According to official records, there were 54 murders in Honduras on Christmas Eve. With a violent death every 74 minutes, a rate that more than doubled over Christmas, the country is four times more dangerous than Mexico. In 2012, 7172 murders were ...

Dallas Morning News (blog)
2 charged in murder of Dallas woman, 79
Houston Chronicle
Dallas police announced Friday night 29-year-old David Herron and 28-year-old Daniel Brooks are accused of the murder of Avanell Cowgill. Police discovered her body March 9 after a daughter who couldn't reach her asked authorities to check on the ...
Dallas police say they've arrested two men suspected in the murder of 79-year ...Dallas Morning News (blog)
Two Men Arrested For The Murder Of 79-Year-Old WomanCBS Local
Two men arrested for murder of elderly Dallas womanWFAA
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OSLO, Norway -- Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has said he would like to attend the funeral of his mother, his lawyer said Saturday.... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-hoffer/

NDTV
Thousands attend Imran Khan's rally against corruption in Pakistan
NDTV
"We want to clean up corruption. We want justice. We want electricity, and only Imran Khan can do it," said Mohammed Wasim, a 21-year-old student from Lahore and one of many first-time voters attending the rally near the country's towering national ...
Imran Khan promises corruption-free PakistanNews Pakistan

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Bell corruption case now turns to Robert Rizzo trial
Los Angeles Times
The Bell corruption case is now focusing on Robert Rizzo, who prosecutors allege was the mastermind of public graft that generated national attention. A trial ended this week for six former Bell council members tried for misappropriating public funds ...

NEW DELHI — An Indian court will try five Bollywood actors, including action hero Salman Khan, for allegedly killing two rare deer in a western... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-gerken/

NEW YORK -- A gunman who entered a Coney Island public housing development apartment and shot four people, killing one, is the subject of a... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inae-oh/

CHICAGO -- A young Lebanese immigrant awaiting sentencing for placing a backpack he thought held a bomb near Chicago's Wrigley Field wrote a letter to... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-erbentraut/

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- With neighboring Maryland about to become the sixth state in as many years to abolish the death penalty, one West Virginia delegate... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paige-lavender/

MINNEAPOLIS -- A Minnesota judge on Friday dismissed charges against the former head of a national right-to-die group accused in the death of an Apple... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-hoffer/

DENVER -- Denver police say a hit-and-run accident Friday night killed two small children and critically injured a woman as the three crossed a street.... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-ferner/

When the president of Ohio's state school board posted her opposition to gun control, she used a powerful symbol to make her point: a picture... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paige-lavender/

Telegraph.co.uk
Prime suspect in Georgi Markov 'umbrella poison' murder tracked down to Austria
Telegraph.co.uk
But finally he has been tracked down to an obscure Austrian town where he has admitted working for the Bulgarian secret service, Darzhavna Sigurnost (DS), but denied any involvement in Mr Markov's murder. Now that he has been located, Scotland Yard, ...

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A massage therapist in Cascade Township, Mich., may not have a happy ending after being accused of inappropriately touching one of his clients during a... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-moye/

A young British man has been convicted of manslaughter after killing a gay teen by setting him on fire. The BBC reports that 20-year-old Jordan... Curtis M. Wong http://www.huffingtonpost.com/curtis-wong/

ummid.com
Situation in riot-hit Myanmar's Meikhtila calm after security tightened
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
Relief, rehabilitation work are underway in riot-hit areas and the authorities from Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement are providing the victims with necessary assistance, accommodating them at six relief camps for their safety. The ...
Myanmar authorities confirms 11 die in Meikhtila riotXinhua
Five killed, 42 injured in riot: Hospital official saysEleven Myanmar
Riot continues in Central Myanmar, emergency declared in Meikhtilaummid.com

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Business Insider
Ex-cop charged in second murder plot
Chicago Tribune
A former Chicago police officer accused in a gruesome plot to extort, murder and dismember a local businessman is now facing charges he agreed to kill another individual in exchange for revenue from a strip club and later tried to get his wife to ...
Former Chicago cop charged in second murder plotChicago Sun-Times
Buffalo Grove man now faces murder-for-hire chargesChicago Daily Herald

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Crime News and Police Blotters for March 18 - 22
Patch.com
Plus a car left on cinder blocks near Carlton Avenue and a wallet theft at a local bar in this week's Prospect Heights-area crime reports. Woman Held-Up, Assaulted on Dean. Muggers hit 24-year-old with gun after she refused to give up her purse.

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