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By Jane Sutton MIAMI, May 23 (Reuters) - Among those tuning in to President Barack Obama's national security speech on Thursday were some prisoners at... Reuters http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-gentilviso/

Wall Street Journal
After Murder Suspect's Death, Probe Is Decried, Defended
Wall Street Journal
She released the statement a day after two U.S. officials said that investigators believe Mr. Tsarnaev participated in the September 2011 murder of three men who were found in an apartment outside Boston with their throats slit. Ms. Ryan said she was ...
Murder suspect's death, accusations shock to Orlando neighborsMiamiHerald.com
Triple Murder May Link Tsarnaev And Man Killed In FloridaNPR (blog)
Boston Marathon bomber accused of 2011 murderTelegraph.co.uk
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NBC Bay Area
Woodside man guilty of wife's murder
San Francisco Chronicle
(05-23) 17:36 PDT WOODSIDE -- A Woodside man accused of killing his wife for her multimillion-dollar life insurance policy and faking her suicide was convicted Thursday of murder, the San Mateo County district attorney's office reported. Pooroushasb ...
Woodside husband guilty of murderSan Mateo Daily Journal
Woodside Man Guilty of Murder in Wife's Disguised SuicideNBC Bay Area

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An Arizona jury Thursday said it was unable to reach a unanimous agreement and would be unable to decide what penalty Jodi Arias should receive for killing her ex-boyfriend.

A man who evaded the law for 34 years was sentenced to 36 to 40 years in prison Thursday for raping three women in Massachusetts in 1978.

Yes, this lawsuit is taking place in Southern California. In Encinitas, to be exact, where parents have sued to stop the school district from having kids perform yoga as part of gym class, reports NBC San Diego . The parents are worried that yoga has too many religious connotations from the...

When University of Southern California student Tucker Reed was sexually assaulted in 2010, she turned to school officials. But instead of helping to bring her... Tyler Kingkade http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tyler-kingkade/

Boston Globe
Mistrial declared in penalty phase of Arias murder trial
Boston Globe
PHOENIX — The judge in the Jodi Arias murder trial declared a mistrial in the penalty phase Thursday after the jury reported for a second time that it was deadlocked on whether to sentence her to life in prison or death for killing her boyfriend in 2008.
Timeline of events in Jodi Arias murder casePhilly.com
Jodi Arias Jury Fails to Decide on Death PenaltyPeople Magazine
Mistrial declared in Jodi Arias murder trial penalty phaseThe News-Press
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The jury deciding Jodi Arias' fate couldn't reach a decision in court on Thursday. The "non-unanimous agreement" verdict was reached in a Phoenix courtroom by... David Lohr http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-lohr/

Crime-deterring surveillance cameras for Rockaways delayed by 'red tape'
New York Post
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly was grilled yesterday over the delay in installing a trio of crime-deterring cameras in the Rockaways — as an e-mail surfaced showing that the paperwork is sitting on his desk. Correspondence between the NYPD's grant ...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Edison cop charged with attempted murder in firebomb attack on supervisor's ...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
An Edison police officer with a history of disciplinary problems was charged today with five counts of attempted murder in the firebombing of a police supervisor's house earlier this week, authorities announced tonight. Michael Dotro, 35, a 10-year ...
MONROE: Edison cop charged with attempted murder, arsonPacket Online

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It was a bizarre and brutal kidnapping that lasted more than a month, but at least it has a happy ending. Police say the kidnappers grabbed a 52-year-old businessman in Queens as he was walking to his car last month and brought him to a neighborhood warehouse, reports the Daily...

RCMP tax-corruption probe: Two ex-CRA officials and chartered accountant ...
Montreal Gazette
MONTREAL — A five-year-long probe by the RCMP into fraud schemes involving Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) insiders — one that yielded an arrest last summer of construction magnate Antonio Accurso — netted three fresh arrests early Thursday.

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Christian Science Monitor
British police ponder conspiracy after soldier murder
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy. The two suspects ...
London murder highlights 'lone wolf' terrorist concernsChristian Science Monitor
Peres writes to the Queen after UK soldier's murderJerusalem Post
UK: Soldier's murder may be terror-relatedAljazeera.com
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Both sides rest in Burger King murder trial
Chicago Tribune
Both sides rested their case today during the trial of a man accused in the notorious murder of a Lindenhurst Burger King manager in 2006. Prosecutors presented various witnesses over three days to support their argument that James Ealy, 48, used a bow ...

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CANNES, May 23 (Reuters) - The Cannes film festival was hit by a second suspected jewellery heist on Thursday after a diamond necklace worth 2... Reuters http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kavitha-a-davidson/

A coalition of Canadian drug policy experts is calling on the country to decriminalize the use of drugs—not just, say, marijuana or other "soft drugs," but all drugs. Thanks to a "stunning display of unimaginative thinking," Canada has been cracking down on drug users, which has done nothing to...

WASHINGTON -- A Mexican drug cartel member pleaded guilty Thursday to the killing and wounding of two U.S. agents in Mexico, and the guilty pleas... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kavitha-a-davidson/

New Orleans' murder problem is its crime problem: Jarvis DeBerry
NOLA.com
A 2011 Department of Justice report saying that New Orleans compares favorably to Orlando when it comes to violent crime has given the Landrieu administration leave to categorize murder as if it's something altogether different. No, that's not logical ...

NPR (blog)
Murder suspect's death, accusations shock to Orlando neighbors
MiamiHerald.com
KISSIMMEE -- Ibragim Todashev, the Chechen martial-arts fighter killed by an FBI agent in Orlando on Tuesday, was a bit of a mystery to his neighbors in his modest gated community in Kissimmee. They knew little about his lifestyle, his travels or his ...
Triple Murder May Link Tsarnaev And Man Killed In FloridaNPR (blog)
DA: Waltham triple-murder `by no means closed'Boston Herald
Boston Marathon bomber accused of 2011 murderTelegraph.co.uk
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