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Missing models connected?

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 23:46
Three aspiring models are missing in Colorado. Could there be a connection?
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First lady, celebrities hacked

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 23:42
Brian Todd reports on the investigations into politicians' and celebrities' financial information being posted online.
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Accused killers nabbed after escaping through ceiling of Missouri jail

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 23:39
Shortly before midnight Monday, three inmates at Butler County's jail -- two of them accused murderers -- slipped into a shower stall, through a shifted ceiling tile, and eventually outside to rural Ozark Foothills region of southeast Missouri, a sheriff said.
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Ohio man convicted for three murders in Craigslist job ad killings

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 19:07
An Ohio jury Tuesday convicted a 53-year-old man for killing three men who had answered a Craigslist ad for work on a cattle farm.
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Attorneys: Molestation lawsuit settled with LA archdiocese

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 18:21
Four California men allegedly molested as boys by a priest have settled their lawsuit against the Los Angeles Archdiocese and Cardinal Roger Mahony for almost $10 million, their attorneys said Tuesday.
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Report: Employees in Justice Dept. section polarized

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 15:23
Staffers in the voting rights section of the U.S. Justice Department -- during both the Bush and Obama administrations -- took political potshots at each other and often displayed a lack of professionalism, according to a report issued Tuesday.
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Arraignment for Ridgeway suspect postponed one month

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 13:58
The arraignment for the teenager accused of killing 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway in Westminster, Colorado was postponed until April 12, a Jefferson County courts spokesman said.
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Florida requests exhumations at former boys' school

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 11:59
Ovell Smith Krell has spent the better part of her 84 years wondering how her brother died at a Florida reform school in 1940, and where he may be buried. Today, she appears to be one step closer to finding out.
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Manhunt on for Washington man wanted in deaths of grandparents

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 09:24
Washington police continued their manhunt early Tuesday for a 26-year-old man who allegedly killed his grandparents over the weekend, shortly after they held a party to celebrate his release from prison.
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Jury convicts New York cop in cannibal plot

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 08:26
A jury convicted New York police officer Gilberto Valle on Tuesday in a plot to kidnap and eat women.
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Baby dies after she, father shot in minivan

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 08:00
A 6-month-old girl has died a day after she and her father were shot in a parked minivan on Chicago's South Side, a Chicago hospital spokesman said.
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James Holmes could plead insanity

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 00:40
The sanity of James Holmes, the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting suspect, may be a major issue at his arraignment Tuesday.
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Man threatens to blow up Bieber concert

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 00:39
A man already charged in plotting to kill Justin Bieber sends a letter detailing new threats. HLN's A.J. Hammer reports
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"Pocket parks" used to force out sex offenders

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 00:36
Brooke Baldwin and her Hot Topics Panel discuss communities that are building tiny parks to force out sex offenders.
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Defense attorney files motion to dismiss Steubenville rape case

Mon, 03/11/2013 - 19:23
The attorney who represents one of the two defendants charged with raping a 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio, filed a motion Monday to dismiss the case.
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Two NJ state troopers lose jobs over unauthorized high-speed escort

Mon, 03/11/2013 - 18:21
Two New Jersey state troopers who led an unauthorized high-speed escort of a caravan of sports cars last year agreed Monday to resign, according to the New Jersey attorney general's office.
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Saudi rights activists get 10 years

Mon, 03/11/2013 - 08:16
In a case that has captured international attention, two of Saudi Arabia's most prominent human rights activists were each sentenced on Saturday to at least 10 years in prison, Saudi activists report.
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Town: Cops must take polygraphs

Mon, 03/11/2013 - 08:11
After a series of problems that included a police officer using a racial slur, the new police chief in a Tennessee town is trying to clean up his department's image by requiring all applicants to take a polygraph test.
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Verdict reached in corruption case of ex-Detroit mayor Kilpatrick

Mon, 03/11/2013 - 06:56
A jury has reached a verdict in the public corruption case of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a federal court spokesman said Monday.
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What did terror suspect tell authorities on plane trip to U.S.?

Sun, 03/10/2013 - 07:35
Al Qaeda propagandist Sulaiman Abu Ghaith had a long plane ride last week to New York and an American jail cell located blocks from ground zero of the September 11 attacks. He filled that time, in part, by talking to U.S. investigators.
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