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An Oregon man was arrested this week on suspicion of making harassing phone calls to relatives of victims in last year's Colorado movie theater massacre, police in Portland said.

fox5sandiego.com
County crime increased in 2012
fox5sandiego.com
Crime-Tape-Night SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Association of Governments released its 2012 crime statistics report on Wednesday, and officials said the association will continue to monitor a recent uptick in the region's crime rate and factors that could ...

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The Guardian
Vladimir Putin wants to see me in jail for challenging corruption in Russia
The Guardian
On 17 April, in the city of Kirov, begins a trial where I figure as the organiser of a criminal group intent on stealing logs and sawdust from the company Kirovles, as well as 16m roubles. After the cases against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Pussy Riot, the ...
Why Is Vladimir Putin Auditing Every Single Government Employee?Worldcrunch

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New York Daily News
Sister will testify against brother in Brooklyn murder-for-hire sext slay trial
New York Daily News
The texts were flirtatious, the sexts nude photos, but a prosecutor says the real message was murder. Now a Brooklyn woman who allegedly lured 26-year-old Dwayne Burnett to his death with the empty e-promise of a tryst is set to testify against her own ...

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Transparency International (press release) (blog)
Ending corruption in Nigeria: Every help is needed
Transparency International (press release) (blog)
Abuja, the capital of the oil rich nation Nigeria, a “planned city” built in the 1980s, is one of the wealthiest and most expensive capitals in Africa. Very few Nigerians can afford living there. Shanty towns with mass poverty, high unemployment, and ...

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HONOLULU -- A veteran rescue swimmer has been charged with desertion after he went missing for three months and triggered a massive search, the Coast... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-mclaughlin/

EAST WINDSOR, Conn. -- Federal authorities say a Connecticut gun shop that legally sold weapons used in the Newtown school shootings lost its federal firearms... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-hoffer/

HONOLULU — A veteran rescue swimmer has been charged with desertion after he went missing for three months and triggered a massive search, the Coast... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-wing/

As Congress grapples with major gun control legislation proposals, brothers and sisters, mothers, fathers and children write about the people they loved and lost to gun violence and how it changed their lives.

SALT LAKE CITY -- At first, many locals took to calling Troy James Knapp the mountain man. Even victims of his many cabin break-ins marveled... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-hanson/

ABC News
Blinking Testimony Allowed in Ohio...
ABC News
Woods was charged with murder, felonious assault and weapons counts. If convicted, he could face life in prison. Woods's attorney, Kory Jackson, told ABC News he wanted the video excluded from the trial because it was unreliable. PHOTO: David Chandler ...

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SUWANEE, Ga. — It's a call that firefighters routinely respond to – a report of a medical emergency. But when five firefighters answered one in... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-mclaughlin/

By ALAN FRAM, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Senate is ready to launch an emotion-charged debate on new gun restrictions, four months after the... Paige Lavender http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paige-lavender/

TAMPA, Fla. -- The Florida parents charged with kidnapping their boys after losing custody and fleeing to Cuba by sailboat are facing a judge for... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-hoffer/

SAN DIEGO -- The man who was the voice of Charlie Brown in the first "Peanuts" television specials has pleaded guilty to threatening and stalking... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-hanson/

HOUSTON — A man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a Houston-area college is set to make his first court appearance since... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-mclaughlin/

Willie Sutton, the famous bank robber, once supposedly said he held up banks "because that's where the money is." Today, the money is in Bitcoin,... Gerry Smith http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerry-smith/

WASHINGTON -- At first glance, it seems Republicans are verging on a blunder. With about 90 percent of Americans favoring universal background checks for gun... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/luke-johnson/

The Chemistry of the Murder Mystery (3)
Wired
The second looked at Agatha Christie's debut novel and strychnine. This third in the series is an updated version of a post I wrote last fall, returning to the subject of arsenic through a short story by Dashiell Hammet, famed for his stories of murder ...

Newsday
Christian Gerhartsreiter, Rockefeller impostor, found guilty in murder case
Newsday
LOS ANGELES - In his world of pretense, the little man in spectacles became many fabulous people from royalty to a Rockefeller until his charades finally ended with a conviction under his true name — Christian Gerhartsreiter — a German immigrant ...
Rockefeller impostor murder verdict 'just,' prosecutor saysPasadena Sun
Rockefeller Impersonator Convicted Of MurderKMVT
Rockefeller impostor convicted for 1985 murder of SoCal manGant Daily

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