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Test results due in ricin scare

Thu, 04/18/2013 - 00:20
Test results were expected Thursday on letters possibly contaminated with the deadly poison ricin that were sent to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker this week.
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Ricin letter also sent to local judge

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 23:45
Suspect arrested in the ricin case is also accused of sending a suspicious package to a local Mississippi judge.
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Supreme Court rules against police in drunk driving case

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 09:24
A man charged with drunk driving won his case at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, after the justices concluded police should have first obtained a warrant before conducting a blood test against his will, shortly after arrest.
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Ex-official's wife charged in DA killing

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 09:20
The wife of a former justice of the peace is being held on a capital murder charge in connection with the killings of a Kaufman County District Attorney, his wife and a top prosecutor, a newspaper reports.
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Ricin, marathon attacks unrelated

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 09:18
CNN's Dana Bash reports police believe the timing of the Boston Marathon attack and the ricin letter is coincidental.
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Did Jodi Arias plan her alibi?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 09:18
The HLN After Dark jury is asked weather they believe Jodi Arias planned an alibi for the killing of Travis Alexander.
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Instagram, Vine, cell phone images part of Boston probe

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 09:13
The investigation of Monday's deadly twin bombings in Boston will rely to an extraordinary extent on crowdsourced surveillance, provided by Marathon spectators' cellphone photos, Vine videos, and Instagram feeds.
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Justices back corporations in overseas abuses case

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 08:51
The Supreme Court made it harder Wednesday for foreign victims of torture and other crimes against humanity to press their legal claims against corporations and others in U.S. federal courts.
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More questions in Boston bombs

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 02:30
Investigators have released some new information in the Boston Marathon explosions, but they still don't know whether it was a foreign attack or domestic.
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'Someone knows who did this'

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 22:59
The FBI is trying to rebuild the bombs that exploded in Boston, and it's also asking the public for help in identified the person or people responsible for the deadly blasts.
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'Boston will overcome,' mayor vows

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 13:42
As investigators combed through what Boston's top police official described as "the most complex crime scene we've dealt with in the history of our department," leaders vowed to emerge unbowed from the terror attack.
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Affidavit: Ex-justice of peace threatened police in Texas DA probe

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 13:41
A former Kaufman County, Texas, justice of the peace is accused of using his home computer to send a terrorist threat to police investigating the murder of the top county prosecutor and his wife, a sheriff's affidavit says.
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The dark side of social media - a new way to rape

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 08:16
Rebecca Campbell says rape is a crime of power and dominance, and social media provides new ways to hurt victims.
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Bostonians, others rush to support stranded visitors

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 05:43
They're offering their spare rooms, their couches, their food, their cars -- even their own beds.
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Nurses jump into action after blast

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 05:39
Of all the Boston Marathons he's worked, and he's done a half-dozen of them, Stephen Segatore figured this one would be pretty easy.
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Report: 8-year-old boy killed in Boston Marathon blasts identified

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 04:45
The 8-year-old boy killed in the explosions at the Boston Marathon has been identified as Martin Richard, The Boston Globe reported.
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Lawsuit planned after alleged rape victim's suicide

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 02:38
The family of Audrie Pott, a California teenager who allegedly was raped and subsequently committed suicide in September, intends to file a wrongful death lawsuit, the family's lawyer told reporters Monday.
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Doctors amputate limbs, remove ball bearings from bomb victims

Mon, 04/15/2013 - 21:27
The full horror of Monday's bomb attacks in Boston was reflected in emergency rooms across the city as doctors were forced to carry out amputations and remove ball bearings from some victims.
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Reward offered one year after Fort Bragg soldier's disappearance

Mon, 04/15/2013 - 08:17
It's been one year since Fort Bragg soldier Kelli Bordeaux went missing, and there's now a reward being offered for information that could help authorities solve the mystery, according to police in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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