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Photos: Deadly riot in Egypt after soccer verdict
Denver Post
A deadly riot broke out after the announcement of the final verdict in the case of the Port Said soccer massacre, on March 9, 2013, in Port Said, Egypt. Over seventy football fans of the Al Masry team were killed during a stadium brawl that took place ...

Suspect Arrested for Murder Near Morgan Territory Road in Clayton
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
A 22-year-old man has been arrested for the murder of his father, who was found dead at about 11am on Friday morning near Morgan Territory Road in Clayton, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's Spokesman Jimmy Lee says the ...

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Daily Beast
Where's the Faith in Fiction? Try Crime Novels
Daily Beast
Crime and noir have always told the story of people who decide to cross an invisible, but palpable moral line. It then measures the wreckage—physical, emotional, and spiritual—that results from the voluntary crossing over into another ethical ...

San Francisco Chronicle
Man wrongly imprisoned in murder case wins $13.2 million in civil rights lawsuit
NBCNews.com (blog)
Ayers was convicted of aggravated murder in the Dec. 17, 1999, beating death of Dorothy Brown, a 76-year-old woman who lived in a high-rise run by the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority. Ayers was a resident of the same complex and a security ...
Ohio man exonerated of murder after 13 years in prison wins civil rights ...Fox News

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Former tennis star Jennifer Capriati is batting down accusations -- which led a Florida police department to seek an arrest warrant -- that she stalked and punched an ex-boyfriend.

Raw Story
Crime drops dramatically in El Salvador as gang truce expands
Raw Story
Rival Salvadoran street gangs on Saturday added a sixth city to a truce signed a year ago, in a hopeful sign for a peace pact that has dramatically lowered deaths from gang-related homicide. Members from the notorious Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 ...

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Toronto Star
Egypt soccer riot: Protests rock Cairo as court upholds death sentences
Toronto Star
CAIRO—Egyptian protesters torched buildings in Cairo and tried unsuccessfully to disrupt international shipping in the Suez Canal as a court ruling on last year's deadly soccer riot stoked rage in a country beset by worsening security. Saturday's ...

No Welsh police corruption prosecutions despite scores of complaints
WalesOnline
North Wales Police recorded the fewest complaints of police corruption of all the Welsh forces, with 14 since April 2008. None of these were substantiated to date although three are ongoing and three were “waived by the IPCC [Independent Police ...
No prosecutions for police corruption in Gwent despite 56 complaintsSouth Wales Argus

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The Independent
Football riot ruling ignites Cairo
The Independent
The confirmation of the death sentences imposed on 21 fans for their role in the riot last year, when more than 70 people died, enraged residents of the Suez Canal city Port Said. The court also angered rival fans in Cairo by acquitting a further 28 ...

Catholic hierarchy perpetuates corruption and dysfunction
The Guardian
The hierarchy is only perpetuating corruption and dysfunction among clergy who are demoralised. The hierarchy makes a mighty stand against gay marriage and all the time at the top of the institutional church, hypocrisy reigns. My faith will not be lost ...

Prayers will not end corruption
The Citizen Daily
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. I am honestly appalled by the way some Ugandans have chosen to vulgarize spiritual matters, all in the name of fighting corruption. The kind of wind currently ...

ABC7Chicago.com
Residents of high crime Chicago neighborhoods try to stop the violence
ABC7Chicago.com
There is no doubt that those who live and work in neighborhoods plagued by crime are fed up with the violence. Instead of just complaining about it or waiting for someone else to do something, concerned citizens are banding together to come up with ...

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Olive Branch adding surveillance trailer to crime-fighting tools
Memphis Commercial Appeal
“It's a really, really good crime-fighting tool,” said Southaven's police chief, Tom Long, who could not pinpoint a specific incident in which the mobile cameras helped to collar a criminal. “That's the great thing about them. When you put it in an ...

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Registered sex offender arrested as suspect in crime spree
Orlando Sentinel
A registered sex offender is being held in the Volusia County Branch Jail without bond after Ormond Beach police say he went on an crime spree Friday and had to be shocked with a stun gun to finally bring him down. Jason Dorava's alleged first victim ...
Man leaves trail of victims in hour-long Ormond Beach crime spreeCentral Florida News 13

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2012 stats show expected crime increase
Odessa American
Odessa saw these sorts of felonies increase the most in 2012, as completed statistics from the Uniform Crime Report now show. It's a result consistent with mid-year police projections and part of a general increase in crime attributed to an influx ...

WATSONVILLE, Calif. — California officials are searching for new homes for three dozen Chihuahuas that were seized from two residences. Officials with the Santa Cruz... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carly-schwartz/

WATSONVILLE, Calif. -- California officials are searching for new homes for three dozen Chihuahuas that were seized from two residences. Officials with the Santa Cruz... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-hart/

City names new crime policy director
Baltimore Sun (blog)
"The city has a number of great partnerships that address the needs of at-risk youth and vulnerable communities. We need to build on our recent success to keep lowering crime and creating opportunity for residents," Johnese said in a statement released ...

Sex trumps torture and corruption
The Age
In the US, they call this democracy – not corruption. In fact, it was so business-as-usual that Menendez, a Democrat, looked as if he might romp it in at the polls. Unless someone could spike it up with a bit of sex. You know, dangle the frivolous and ...

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More bad news for Catholics: A former child-abuse adviser for the Catholic Church in Scotland says its priests have been "out of control sexually" for decades, the Telegraph reports. Alan Draper, an ethics lecturer at Dundee University, says Church leaders were "unwilling" to reveal priests who led "double lives" as...