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Legal marijuana could reduce crime
Baltimore Sun
Sen. Robert Zirkin's bill decriminalizing possession of small amounts of cannabis is a small step in the right direction for justice, but it will do little good for reducing gun crime in Maryland ("Advocates for legal marijuana take first steps," March ...

New video has emerged of police interviewing teenagers who saw the Steubenville rape victim getting more and more drunk before she was attacked, ABC News reports. "I could tell that she was gradually getting more drunk and worse throughout the night,” said 16-year-old Farrah Marcino. “Just, like, that she couldn’t,...

Suspect in murder of Baltimore woman caught in North Carolina
Baltimore Sun
A U.S. Marshals task force in North Carolina arrested a Baltimore man Friday in the fatal stabbing of a 31-year-old woman in the Lakeland neighborhood. Along with Winston Salem, N.C., police, task force officers found Michael Gerald Wesley, 34, at a ...

CBS Local
Cleared Murder Convict Suffers Heart Attack On Second Day Of Freedom
CBS Local
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The man who spent 23 years in prison before being cleared of the 1990 murder of a rabbi suffered a heart attack on his second day of freedom Friday. An attorney for David Ranta told The New York Times that the former ...
NYC man jailed 23 years in rabbi's murder suffers heart attack a day after ...Fox News
Questions linger in 1990 murder of rabbi in New York CitySILive.com
Man Wrongly Convicted of Rabbi's Murder Released Nearly 23 Years LaterABC News
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Editorial: Don't cloud talks on crime with blame game
Battle Creek Enquirer
It's unfortunate that the recent City Commission workshop on crime is clouded by allegations and assertions about the motives of Commissioners Jeff Domenico and David Walters, allegations given credence by Domenico's apparently unsuccessful appeal to ...

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Attorney General Eric Holder says he has averted daily furloughs of 3,570 federal prison staffers around the country, moving $150 million from other Justice Department... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paige-lavender/

Ten-try Sharks run riot against Melbourne Rebels
Rugbyweek.com
The Sharks scored 10 tries on their way to a 64-7 victory over the Melbourne Rebels in Durban on Saturday. The Sharks were smashed by the Brumbies last weekend and the Rebels felt the full backlash of that loss. The Sharks had previously struggled to ...

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Myanmar riot toll hits 32, almost 9000 displaced: officials
GMA News
Myanmar riot toll hits 32, almost 9,000 displaced: officials. March 24, 2013 12:56am. YANGON - The death toll from religious violence in central Myanmar rose to 32 Saturday after rescuers found bodies in the ashes of homes torched during an eruption of ...

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Zanu (PF) rocked by corruption scandals
The Zimbabwe Mail
The issue of corruption is now at the centre of Zanu PF's succession infighting with the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) being turned into a battlefield, amid reports that party heavyweights in opposing factions are out to pull each other ...
Anti-Corruption Chief Arrested in Probe BacklashAllAfrica.com
Anti-corruption chief charged with fraudNew Zimbabwe.com
'No surrender, no retreat': Anti-Corruption officialZimbabwe Independent
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ABC News
KC among US cities taking aim at violent crime with program that offers carrot ...
Fox News
The "No Violence Alliance," or NoVA, is designed to fight violent crime by identifying criminal networks and letting even the most fringe members know they are being watched. NoVA is patterned after a "focused deterrence" model created in Boston in the ...
KC Fights Violent Crime With Carrot-Stick ProgramABC News

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Mom, son arrested after crime spree
KRQE
SANTA FE (KRQE) - It is an unlikely trio, Santa Fe County Sheriff's Investigators say Renee Martinez, 41 her son Miguel, 16 and his friend Jonathan Ayala, 18 went on a month and a half long crime spree. "They were suspected in approximately 13 to 14 ...

ABC News
KC Fights Violent Crime With...
ABC News
Despite decades of initiatives to stem violent crime, Kansas City residents continue killing each other at a rate five times higher than the national average, prompting officials in this Midwest city best known for barbecue and jazz to turn to an ...

While some are plausibly speculating that the murder of Tom Clements was possibly a direct organized hit by a violent gang, the 211 Crew's role could also have been a more nuanced one, of creating a violent lone wolf, from an unstable youth, who would later act on his own against a list of shared perceived enemies. Brian Levin, J.D. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-levin-jd/

KC fights violent crime with carrot-stick program
Huffington Post
The "No Violence Alliance," or NoVA, is designed to fight violent crime by identifying criminal networks and letting even the most fringe members know they are being watched. NoVA is patterned after a "focused deterrence" model created in Boston in the ...

Xinhua
Death Toll Rises to 32 in Myanmar's Meikhtila Riot
CRIENGLISH.com
A total of 32 people were killed in a communal riot in Meikthila of Myanmar's northern Mandalay region, according to the state-run radio and television Saturday. The state radio and TV said in a broadcast that the death toll was increased as the dead ...
Myanmar authorities confirms 11 die in Meikhtila riotXinhua
Five killed, 42 injured in riot: Hospital official saysEleven Myanmar
Riot continues in Central Myanmar, emergency declared in Meikhtilaummid.com

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TRIKALA, Greece -- At least 11 inmates escaped from a Greek prison after gunmen brazenly attacked the site with grenades and automatic weapons, kicking off... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kavitha-a-davidson/

NEW YORK -- With many in shirts or carrying cards bearing his picture, mourners paid their respects at the funeral for a 16-year-old boy whose... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inae-oh/

A Murder Every 74 Minutes
London Review of Books (subscription) (blog)
According to official records, there were 54 murders in Honduras on Christmas Eve. With a violent death every 74 minutes, a rate that more than doubled over Christmas, the country is four times more dangerous than Mexico. In 2012, 7172 murders were ...

Dallas Morning News (blog)
2 charged in murder of Dallas woman, 79
Houston Chronicle
Dallas police announced Friday night 29-year-old David Herron and 28-year-old Daniel Brooks are accused of the murder of Avanell Cowgill. Police discovered her body March 9 after a daughter who couldn't reach her asked authorities to check on the ...
Dallas police say they've arrested two men suspected in the murder of 79-year ...Dallas Morning News (blog)
Two Men Arrested For The Murder Of 79-Year-Old WomanCBS Local
Two men arrested for murder of elderly Dallas womanWFAA
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OSLO, Norway -- Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has said he would like to attend the funeral of his mother, his lawyer said Saturday.... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-hoffer/