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LOGAN, Ohio — A newly unsealed confession shows a woman told authorities her son accidentally strangled his estranged wife before his parents helped hide the... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-mccormack/

PORTLAND, Ore. – More than 30 years after an Oregon high school student was found dead in a drainage ditch, authorities this week charged her former neighbor with aggravated murder thanks to advances in DNA technology, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office.

Kenneth Lee Hicks, 49, of St. Helens, was arrested Wednesday and booked into the county jail without bail, according to a KOIN.com report.

Hicks was 19 when Lori Billingsley's body was found Oct. 10, 1982, in a drainage ditch in the community of Aloha. The 17-year-old had been beaten, stabbed, strangled and sexually assaulted.  More

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Independent Online
Principals are most corrupt, says report
Independent Online
Johannesburg - Principals are the main culprits of corruption in schools, with embezzlement of school funds the most common illegal practice. This is according to a report by Corruption Watch, a civil society watchdog that receives reports from the public.

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WBIR-TV
Arrest in Murder of Mississippi Mayor Candidate
USA TODAY
Arrest in Murder of Mississippi Mayor Candidate. A 22-year-old man has been charged with murdering Marco McMillian, who was a candidate for mayor of Clarksdale, Mississippi. (March. 1). Post to Facebook. Arrest in Murder of Mississippi Mayor Candidate ...
22-year-old man charged with murder in death of young Miss. mayoral candidateFox News
Murder charge filed in death of Mississippi mayoral candidateNBCNews.com (blog)
Man charged with murder of gay mayoral candidateThe Independent
GlobalPost -WBIR-TV -The Atlantic Wire
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Rafael Hui faces new corruption charge
South China Morning Post
Former government number two Rafael Hui Si-yan is to face a new charge that he “concealed” alleged corrupt payments of more than HK$11 million when Hong Kong's biggest ever corruption case returns to court next week. The new charge comes seven ...

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How Arafat got away with murder
Power Line (blog)
Yasser Arafat was responsible for the 1973 Black September operation in Khartoum that resulted in the murder of the American ambassador to Sudan (Cleo Noel) and his departing aide (Curt Moore). I read everything I could get my hands on about the ...

NEW DELHI -- Police are investigating the rape of a 7-year-old girl inside a state-run school in the Indian capital. A Delhi police spokesman said... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eline-gordts/

Link Riot: Every Stare in Every 'Twilight'
NextMovie (blog)
... ]. • Epic Movie Characters: The 14 best giants of the big screen. And we do mean BIG! [Moviefone]. • Actually, maybe Hollywood should stop with the fairy tale movies while they're sort of ahead. [The Week]. • Speaking of which, here are 10 other ...

Bill makes faking arrest warrants a crime
BurlingtonFreePress.com
MONTPELIER — The Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to approve a bill to make it a crime for Vermont parole officials to issue a fraudulent arrest warrant. Sen. Richard Sears, D-Bennington, introduced the bill after the Burlington Free Press ...

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abc11.com
Judge to make decision in Ackerson murder case
abc11.com
Grant Ruffin Hayes, and his wife, Amanda Perry Hayes, are charged with murder in connection with Laura Ackerson's death. Ackerson's remains were found in Oyster Creek near Skinner Lane in Richmond, Texas July 2011. Identification was made through ...
Ackerson Murder Hearing TodayWITN

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NH group says 2000 children were crime victims
Boston.com
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A report by New Hampshire's child advocacy centers says more than three-quarters of the crimes against children last year involved sexual abuse. The centers say more than 2,000 children were victims of crime last year. Of that ...

BRANDON, Fla. -- A man was missing early Friday after a large sinkhole opened under the bedroom of a house near Tampa and his brother... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jade-walker/

Murder confession unsealed in Inman case
Columbus Dispatch
It had been sealed because Mrs. Inman might have testified in her husband's trial. She did not. A jury sentenced Bill Inman, 49, to life in prison without parole last month after convicting him of aggravated murder and other crimes in his daughter-in ...

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Naharnet
Islamist Detainees Riot in Roumieh to Ask for Amnesty
Naharnet
Islamist detainees in Roumieh prison held several members of the Internal Security Forces hostage after a small protest turned into a riot amid demands for general amnesty, the National News Agency and TV stations reported. NNA said the prisoners began ...

A Japanese court today convicted a pair of US Navy sailors in the rape and robbery of a young woman in an Okinawa parking lot, the AP reports. Seaman Christopher Browning, 24, accused of robbery after the rape, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, while Petty Officer 3rd Class...

Gulbarg riot victims and Teesta Setalvad divided over compensation?
Firstpost
Survivors of the Gulbarg society massacre, which took place in Ahmedabad during the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat, are apparently none too pleased with human rights activist Teesta Setalvad, who they say hasn't given them funds that she collected in ...

Livemint
CINEMA CURRENT: Riot after riot
Livemint
Abhishek Kapoor's Kai Po Che! is the third film after Rahul Dholakia's Parzania and Nandita Das's Firaaq to fictionalise the communal riots in Gujarat in 2002. It's also the most emotionally distant of the three movies. Parzania, about a Parsi boy who ...

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TOKYO — Two U.S. Navy sailors were convicted and sentenced to prison on Friday for raping and robbing a woman on Okinawa in a crime... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jade-walker/

KTLA
Renewed jury talks resume in CA corruption case
Seattle Post Intelligencer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury with a new member is resuming what amounts to new deliberations Friday in the public corruption trial of six former officials in the suburban Los Angeles city of Bell. A weeping juror was dismissed Thursday for committing ...
Misconduct found on jury in Calif. corruption trialCBS News
Juror Dismissed in Bell Corruption Trial; Deliberations to RestartKTLA
Juror dismissed in Bell corruption trial after looking up info online89.3 KPCC
Los Angeles Times
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How Does East Hampton's Police Department Stack Up? Crime and Budget Stats
Patch.com
"Crimes cleared," refers to the number of crimes that are either resulted in an arrest, or "some element beyond police control" precluded the arrest of the offender, (such as the death of the offender) according to the description contained in the ...