MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican navy has arrested 35 members of the federal police force on suspicion of working for one of the country's most notorious drug gangs, the
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Police shoot amputee threatening people with pen - A Houston police officer shot and killed a schizophrenic, wheelchair-bound double amputee threatening people with a pen at a group
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The public corruption trial against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick; his father Bernard Kilpatrick; his longtime friend Bobby Ferguson, and ex-city water directorVictor Mercado, got under way Friday wirh opening statements. The federal government ... Kwame Kilpatrick corruption trial: Defendants were out for money, US allegesDetroit Free Press Corruption Trial Opens for Former Detroit MayorABC News US outlines corruption case against ex-Detroit mayorChicago Tribune PagesJustice on Fire
On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is OConnor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Also available from Amazon
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