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One consequence of Chicag's rising murder rate: City police are now responding to fewer 911 calls in person to focus on gun violence. Dispatchers will reroute calls deemed less serious—car thefts, for example—to desk officers who will deal with them entirely by phone, reports the Wall Street Journal...

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Challenger to Jersey City mayor announces anti-crime plan
The Jersey Journal - NJ.com
Increasing community policing, emplying more civilians to fill administrative roles and boosting communincation between police officers and community groups are among the items Fulop's camp believes will lower crime. Fulop told The Jersey Journal that ...

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Syracuse saw increases in most kinds of crime in 2012
Syracuse.com
Crime in 2012 rose at least slightly compared to 2011 in all categories except shots fired and shots fired with injuries, which decreased 10 percent and 8 percent respectively. Police Chief Frank Fowler said one of his goals for the coming year will be ...
Syracuse Police release 2012 crime statisticsYNN

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Judge rules Levy murder case transcripts remain sealed
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Secrecy shrouding the high-profile murder case of a former federal government intern deepened Wednesday when a local judge ruled that transcripts of recent proceedings would remain sealed. Over the objections of a consortium of news ...
Judge defends sealing of new documents and hearings in Chandra Levy murder ...Washington Post (blog)
Mystery Deepens On Chandra Levy Murder HearingW*USA 9

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San Francisco Chronicle
Murder charges in 2010 slaying dismissed
San Francisco Chronicle
The prime suspect in the slaying of an East Palo Alto community leader was ordered released from custody while prosecutors appeal a judge's decision to dismiss murder charges against him, authorities said Wednesday. Gregory Elarms, 60, was ordered ...
Judge releases murder suspectSan Mateo Daily Journal
San Mateo murder suspect to be releasedSan mateo county times

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Bay Point man's murder conviction tossed
San Francisco Chronicle
Page 1 of 1. A state appeals court has overturned a Bay Point man's murder conviction for a fatal stabbing during a robbery in 2005, saying police illegally induced his confession with a false promise of leniency. Paul Westmoreland was convicted in ...

San Francisco Chronicle
No murder charge in First Friday killing
San Francisco Chronicle
Police had arrested Donald Parks Jr. on suspicion of murder in the slaying of high school senior Kiante Campbell, 18, of Oakland, but Alameda County prosecutors did not file murder charges against him Tuesday. Instead, prosecutors filed six counts of ...

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Murder Conviction in Drummond Union Leader Slaying
ABC News
A former contractor for the U.S.-based coal company Drummond Co. has been convicted of murder and sentenced to nearly 38 years in prison as the mastermind of the 2001 killing of two union leaders. The trial judge also ordered prosecutors to investigate ...
Contractor convicted in 2001 murder of 2 union leaders at Drummond coal mine ...Fox News

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WXYZ
Testimony ends in Kilpatrick corruption trial
WXYZ
After Kwame Kilpatrick, his father Bernard Kilpatrick and his friend Bobby Ferguson all stood up and told the judge they were choosing not to testify – both sides in the Kilpatrick Corruption trial officially rested their cases. Five months ago – the ...
Defense rests in corruption case after Kilpatrick decides not to testifyDetroit Free Press
Corruption chronicles: Spring Grove teacher accused of having sex with student ...York Daily Record
Closing Arguments Monday In Kilpatrick Corruption TrialCBS Local
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Would you like fries with that kidnapping? Three men in their early 20s are accused of allegedly abducting a man -- a driver for a... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-moye/

The Independent
The Real Threat From Spain's Corruption Scandal
Bloomberg
Investors worried about Spain's political stability have been dumping their Spanish holdings and pushing up the country's borrowing costs after the eruption late last week of a corruption scandal involving Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Until now, the ...
Spanish party treasurer grilled as corruption scandal growsThe Independent
Spain gripped by 'corruption' scandalBBC News
Swiss say cooperating with Spain in corruption probeReuters
Windsor Star -World Socialist Web Site
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St. Paul crime lab to close drug testing unit
Minnesota Public Radio
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The St. Paul police department has decided not to resume drug testing at its troubled crime lab. The lab suspended drug testing in July 2012 after public defenders challenged the reliability of the lab's work in court. The closure ...

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CHICAGO — An attorney for a former small-town Illinois bookkeeper who stole a staggering $53 million in public funds is arguing for a lenient prison... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-bellware/

TULSA, Okla. — Two brothers arrested in a quadruple killing in Tulsa lived in the same run-down apartment complex where the four women were found... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-moye/

Chris Brown is in hot water on allegations that he faked his community service , and TMZ reports that he showed up at court today to plead his case with a notable fellow celeb: Rihanna. It was, of course, his assault of her in 2009 that got him on probation to...

An animal semen-wielding menace is on the loose in the United Kingdom. A strange man approached two teen girls and smeared a white, sticky liquid... Hilary Hanson http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-hanson/

Judge defends sealing of new documents and hearings in Chandra Levy murder ...
Washington Post (blog)
A D.C. Superior Court judge on Wednesday defended his decision to keep documents and transcripts of hearings in the Chandra Levy murder trial sealed, despite requests from the media and attorneys for the man convicted of killing the former federal ...

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Contractor convicted in 2001 murder of 2 union leaders at Drummond coal mine ...
Fox News
BOGOTA, Colombia – A Colombian judge has convicted a former contractor for the U.S.-based Drummond coal mining company of murder for being the mastermind of the killing of two union leaders in 2001. The judge sentenced food services contractor ...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Handwritten notes found under Alaska serial killer Israel Keyes' body after he killed himself contained poetry about superficiality and consumerism in American... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-campbell/

FUGITIVE FILES The Crime: Wasting Time
WALA-TV FOX10
"We spent a little over a week, investigating a crime that never actually occurred, and it used up a lot of resources, a lot of time for when that detective could be looking for actual suspects," said Mobile Police Corporal Christopher Levy. Coleman is ...