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Dallas Morning News
Nick Van Exel's son guilty of murder
ESPN
DALLAS -- A North Texas jury has found the 22-year-old son of former NBA player Nick Van Exel guilty of murder in the shooting death of a longtime friend. A Dallas County jury deliberated about 2½ hours before returning its guilty verdict Thursday ...
Nickey Van Exel found guilty of murder in 2010 shooting death of best friendDallas Morning News
Van Exel To Take Stand In Son's Murder TrialCBS 11

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Closing Arguments Given in Shaken-Baby Murder Case
New York Times
After three weeks of disturbing testimony in the trial of a man accused of fatally shaking his 2-month-old daughter in 2007, the defendant's lawyer stood before the jury and began his summation with an oddly sentimental recollection about his own ...

CBS News
Ind. murder convict mistakenly released in Chicago
CBS News
The Gary, Ind., native was serving the decades-long sentence for murder and weapons convictions out of Marion County in Indiana. He started serving the sentence in October 2004 and his earliest projected release date was more than 16 years from now on ...
US murder convict mistakenly released in ChicagoInquirer.net
Illinois authorities mistakenly release man convicted for Indiana murderChicago Sun-Times

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FOX2now.com
US murder convict mistakenly released in Chicago
Inquirer.net
Robbins was serving a 60-year sentence for murder and weapons charges in Indiana when he was sent to Chicago on Tuesday to face a drug charge. Indiana officials say the drug charge was dropped and Illinois authorities released Robbins without ...
Illinois authorities mistakenly release man convicted for Indiana murderChicago Sun-Times
Indiana Murder Convict Mistakenly Released In ChicagoFOX2now.com

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Nick Van Exel's son convicted of murder in Texas
USA TODAY
DALLAS (AP) — A North Texas jury has found the 22-year-old son of former NBA player Nick Van Exel guilty of murder in the shooting death of a longtime friend. A Dallas County jury deliberated about 2½ hours before returning its guilty verdict Thursday ...

Georgia high school teacher DaNita Wilson was arrested Tuesday after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) launched an inquiry into her conduct. The married, 32-year-old... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sara-gates/

ATLANTA — A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tyler-kingkade/

Casting Net: Jim Carrey turns to crime in comedy 'Loomis Fargo'; Plus Jeremy ...
Entertainment Weekly
Casting Net: Jim Carrey turns to crime in comedy 'Loomis Fargo'; Plus Jeremy Renner to portray journalist Gary Webb. by Lindsey Bahr. Tags: Casting, Casting Net, Frank Langella, Jeremy Renner, Jim Carrey, Mark Duplass. Comments +; Add comment. Jim- ...

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(Adds material from files) By Dan Whitcomb and Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES, Jan 31 (Reuters) - The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, after years of... Reuters http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reuters/

Municipal workers eager to blow whistle on corruption
Montreal Gazette
MONTREAL — Before their special force to fight corruption at city hall has even taken off, Montreal police have received calls from municipal employees ratting out their colleagues. In a brief interview Thursday offered to The Gazette by the police ...

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Ind. Murder Convict Mistakenly Released in Chicago
ABC News
The Gary, Ind., native was serving the decades-long sentence for murder and weapons convictions out of Marion County in Indiana. He started serving the sentence in October 2004 and his earliest projected release date was more than 16 years from now on ...

DENVER -- A Fox News Channel reporter will fight any attempt to force her to reveal her sources for a story about Colorado theater shooting... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrea rael/

Daily Maverick
Corruption Watch turns one and prepares for school
Daily Maverick
There was no birthday cake and no champagne as Corruption Watch briefed media on its first birthday on Thursday. Director David Lewis is hopeful that in its second year, Corruption Watch can shift the tides by engaging the public and taking more cases ...
Local government most corrupt, says watchdogIndependent Online
Teachers, parents 'play a part in graft'Post (subscription)

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Crime inside NFL stadiums hidden from police
KIRO Seattle
Hundreds of felony-level crime arrests appear in the reports; including, rape, kidnapping, lynching, theft, drug dealing, child sexual abuse and aggravated assault of police officers. Thousands more cases of misdemeanor and citable offenses like public ...

LOS ANGELES -- An appeals panel says California's anti-paparazzi statute appears to be constitutional based on a brief filed by prosecutors. A preliminary statement by... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-almendrala/

BISHOP, Calif. — Five rock carvings that were sheared off and stolen from a sacred American Indian site in California's Sierra Nevada have been recovered... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carly-schwartz/

Dallas Morning News
Nickey Van Exel found guilty of murder in 2010 shooting death of best friend
Dallas Morning News
“In this case, he's dead.” But after more than two hours of deliberations, jurors opted for a conviction on the lesser charge of murder, which gives them far more leeway when they begin deliberating Van Exel's punishment after testimony Friday. The ...
Van Exel To Take Stand In Son's Murder TrialCBS 11
Son of former NBA player Nick Van Exel convicted of murderNBCSports.com

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Mormon friends of Travis Alexander were in the dark about his sex affair with Jodi Arias, a jury in Arizona has heard. Daniel Freeman, a... David Lohr http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-lohr/

New York Daily News
Mishandling of DNA Evidence Is Found in Over 50 Cases at Crime Lab
New York Times
The New York City medical examiner's office said Thursday that it had discovered more than 50 cases in which it failed to upload critical DNA evidence samples from crime scenes to the state's DNA database, preventing those samples from being compared ...
DNA evidence error found in NYC crime labWall Street Journal

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