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Police Call Fatal NYC Shooting A Hate Crime
NPR
NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York's police commissioner called an "anti-gay" hate crime. Before opening ...

Malema corruption case postponed to June
News24
Polokwane - The fraud and corruption case against expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema and four others was postponed in the Limpopo High Court on Tuesday morning. Magistrate Janine Ungerer ruled the matter would resume on 20 June, ...

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Crime reporting to go digital in Glendale
Glendale News Press
Reporting a crime in Glendale could soon be just as easy as the press of a button. Possibly as soon as this summer, residents who want to report vandalism, lost property and identity, petty and grand theft and bicycle thefts to Glendale police can do ...

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Fringe Review: The Three Pussy Riot Sisters
Orlando Weekly (blog)
I've been eagerly anticipating The Three Pussy Riot Sisters as the homecoming of Fringe-favorite writer/director David Lee (Jaws The Musical, Pie-Face), and expected another sly serio-comic sendup along the lines of Aunt Vanya and Nirvanov, the first ...

New Yorker (blog)
Weekend Reading: Internet Crime Sleuths, Celebrity Psychics, Eurovision's Hope
New Yorker (blog)
Another loose-cannon crime solver appears in Jon Ronson's 2007 piece in the Guardian on celebrity psychic Sylvia Browne, which resurfaced after the escape of the Cleveland kidnapping victims. When the piece first appeared, Browne had recently come ...

Missing Army Vet's Body Found, Roommate Arrested As Murder Suspect
Fox News Latino
Orange, CA – Autopsy results have confirmed that a body found in the wilderness near a California canyon is that of missing army veteran Maribel Ramos, police announced Friday, and her roommate has been arrested for murder. Ramos, 36, was set to ...

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Despite crime rate, Santa Cruz County sends few to prison
Santa Cruz Sentinel
But what happens to those crimes in court is a surprising, and at times inscrutable, tale. Sources contacted for this story commonly cited two factors for why the county has low incarcerations rates: a criminal justice culture that often prefers ...

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LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles doctor was sentenced Friday to 14 years in federal prison for bilking patients out of more than $1 million... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sasha-bronner/

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) is pushing for punishment for Internal Revenue Service officials that targeted conservative groups in the lead-up to the 2012 election.... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paige-lavender/

BEIJING — A man has been arrested for allegedly making fake bomb threats against several domestic flights bound for Shanghai, Chinese officials said Saturday. It... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kavitha-a-davidson/

The tiny town of Nelson, Georgia, is facing a court battle after passing a law that requires all households to own a gun and ammunition. The DC-based Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence had filed a federal lawsuit against the town on the grounds that the law, which was passed...

Think gun crime is worse now? Not so.
U-T San Diego
SAN DIEGO — It is the subject of nightly television news reports, daily newspaper stories and prime time dramas. Gun violence is seemingly everywhere you turn. Ask Americans how bad they think gun crime is, and 82 percent will say it is either worse ...

Hindi Laugh Riot
Indian Express
The famous Tinkle comic has turned desi. The Hindi edition will have fondly-remembered characters such as Shikari Shambu with all his jungle jamborees, Tantri the Mantri with his evil schemes, Suppandi with his quirky thought processes and Kalia the ...

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A Killing in the Village Is Called a Hate Crime
New York Times
“There was a time in New York City when hate crimes were a common occurrence,” said Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker. “There was a time in New York City when two people of the same gender could not walk down the street arm-in-arm without ...
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Three arrested in Colorado Springs murder including wife of victim
Denver Post
Sandra Barajas, Tommy Wright, 34, and Dawn Richburg, 33, have been arrested for investigation of first-degree murder, criminal solicitation and criminal conspiracy, according to a news release by Lt. Jeff Kramer, spokesman for the El Paso County ...
Wife, daughter accused in man's murderKRDO

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NYPD Say Fatal West Village Shooting A 'Hate Crime'
Business Insider
The New York Police Department say that the fatal shooting of a man in Manhattan's West Village early Saturday morning is being classified as a hate crime, NY1 reports. The shooting took place shortly after midnight at West 8th Street and 6th Avenue ...

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New York Man Fatally Shot In Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
As NBC is reporting, local law enforcement officials are investigating the case as a hate crime after learning the suspect, who was arrested just blocks from the scene, allegedly hurled a series of anti-gay insults at the 32-year-old victim before ...
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Gay Man Fatally Shot in Greenwich Village in Apparent Hate Crime
New York Magazine
New York City has capped off a month of hate crimes — which included the vandalizing of Jewish families' homes on Holocaust Remembrance Day, a Columbia University football player grabbing an Asian student and using ethnic slurs against him, and the ...

In what may be the latest in a disturbing series of crimes allegedly targeting New York's gay community, a man was fatally shot in the... Curtis M. Wong http://www.huffingtonpost.com/curtis-wong/

Corruption is a growth business
The Hindu
A new survey of corporate officials and employees in 36 countries — in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, as well as India — indicates that there is plenty of corruption that needs investigating. Over all, 20 per cent of the respondents said they ...