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Chief Dunning unveils plans to fight crime
The News Journal
WILMINGTON — Police Chief Christine Dunning today outlined a new public safety plan that aims to improve relationships between law enforcement officials and the community, while putting a dent in the violent crime that has plagued Delaware's largest city.

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Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has filed an appeal against his conviction and sentence on child sex abuse charges with the Pennsylvania Superior Court, according to court records.

Oklahoma is the only state in the nation that doesn't have a DNA testing law-but that could soon change. Legislation that would allow an individual who is convicted of a crime access to DNA testing of any biological evidence associated with the crime was approved unanimously by the Oklahoma House of Representatives Tuesday. The law, if it passes, will give hope to the wrongfully convicted, who could request DNA testing whether they are currently incarcerated, on parole, or free but still tainted by the conviction.

House Bill 1068, authored by State Rep. Lee Denney, R-Cushing, would also allow previously tested evidence to be subjected to newer testing techniques and would require the court to hold a hearing if the DNA testing results are favorable to the defendant. The Stillwater News Press reports:

"This legislation creates that process and thus makes it even more difficult for mistakes to fall through the cracks," Denney said.

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"If we have people sitting in our state prisons who actually are innocent, we want to move as fast as we can to exonerate them," Denney said.

The bill now goes to the Senate to await a committee hearing.

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Live chat now: Day 3 of jury deliberations in Kilpatrick public corruption trial
Detroit Free Press
For the past few months, Free Press staff writer Jim Schaefer has blogged live every day from the courthouse during the federal public corruption trial of Kwame Kilpatrick and two others. Now that the case has gone to the jury, Jim will continue to blog.
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Bo Xilai 'goes on hunger strike' as corruption probe drags on
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Mr Bo's fate is a highly public test of the government's efforts to curb corruption. Mr Xi, who, like Mr Bo, is one of the “princelings”, or children of the heroes of the 1949 revolution which swept the Communists to power, has made fighting corruption ...
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Crime alerts for Mission Hills, Larchmont and 7 other neighborhoods
Los Angeles Times
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in nine L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of LAPD data by the Los Angeles Times' Crime L.A. database. Six neighborhoods reported a significant increase in violent crime. Mission Hills (A ...

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A video of two young girls being forced to fight each other in a New York City park has surfaced, catching the attention of authorities,... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ron-dicker/

Homeowners in one Jersey shore community have already seen their houses ravaged by superstorm Sandy—and now copper bandits are adding insult to injury, NBC New York reports. Police say at least 32 copper pipe thefts have been reported in the area, many of them from still-vacant homes. And the...

Prosecutors reinstated attempted murder charges against a policeman leading the murder investigation into Olympian Oscar Pistorius, in the latest twist in a case that threatens to bring down an athlete who was once an icon in South Africa.

The announcement that detective Hilton Botha faces reinstated charges in connection with a 2011 shooting incident came a day after he testified for the prosecution in Pistorius' bail hearing, and by all accounts bungled his appearance. He acknowledged Wednesday that nothing in Pistorius' account of the fatal Valentine's Day shooting of his girlfriend contradicted what police had discovered.

The spokeswoman for the nation's prosecutors urged that Botha be removed from the Pistorius case.

Pistorius, an Olympian whose lower legs were amputated when he was less than a year old, claims he mistook girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp for an intruder when he shot her in a locked bathroom in his home. More

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Photos: Athletes charged with murder
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Murder in Pretoria? OJ detective says 'Blade Runner' evidence is overwhelming
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The former lead detective in the Pistorius case is facing an attempted murder charge stemming from an on-duty incident, prosecutors may have been too quick to say steroids were found in the Pretoria mansion of the suspect and detectives missed a bullet ...
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OJ Simpson attorney: Pistorius murder case dissimilar
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Robert Shapiro, who once represented O.J. Simpson in the notorious murder trial of the mid-1990s in Los Angeles, said the Oscar Pistorius murder case in South Africa is very different except that both "have superstar athletes that are accused of ...
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Frankie Banali, Fiancée Discuss Upcoming Quiet Riot Documentary (VIDEO ...
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You see, Banali is Russell's fiancé and so when she decided to produce the definitive Quiet Riot documentary, she had the ability to go straight to the source. But just because you know somebody well doesn't mean they would be a cooperative subject.

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