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Missing woman's body found stuffed into bedframe
9:11 AM on 03/18/2010
VIDEO - Family members said the way 28-year-old Sony Millbrook died feels like a blow to the stomach that will not go away...
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Man convicted in slaying of NFL cornerback
9:23 AM on 03/12/2010
DENVER (AP) - It took prosecutors and police nearly two years to build their case against Clark, partly because those who witnessed the shooting were part of a gang under federal investigation...
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O.J. Simpson's 'acquittal suit' to be donated
10:56 AM on 03/02/2010
SANTA MONICA, California (AP) - With O.J. Simpson giving his agreement from prison, a judge approved a plan Monday to donate the suit the former NFL star was wearing when he was acquitted of murder to the Smithsonian...
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Ex-cop pleads guilty in Katrina killings probe
5:46 PM on 02/24/2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A former police lieutenant pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice after federal officials say he helped cover for officers who killed two people in the chaos following Hurricane Katrina...
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Man pleads not guilty to throwing his 3-month-old daughter off bridge
5:52 PM on 02/18/2010
NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) - A man pleaded not guilty Thursday after police say he told them he threw his 3-month-old daughter off a bridge, as searchers and relatives held out hope that the infant might still be found alive...
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Ga. prep football star killed; was to play at Vanderbilt
5:30 PM on 02/18/2010
POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. (AP) - A high school football star who had been signed to play at Vanderbilt University was shot to death by his mother's ex-boyfriend...
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Baby thrown off bridge still missing; survival odds slim
11:17 AM on 02/18/2010
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey officials searching for a baby believed to have been thrown off a bridge by her father acknowledge her chances of survival are slim by now...
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Feds won't charge NYPD in Sean Bell shooting
4:12 PM on 02/16/2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Three NYPD officers who killed an unarmed man in a 50-shot barrage outside a seedy strip club hours before his wedding will not face civil rights charges...
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Caught on tape: Man shot, robbed outside convenience store
9:02 AM on 01/20/2010
VIDEO - The family of a man who was shot to death outside a northeast Houston convenience store are hoping police can catch the killer with help from surveillance pictures taken on Tuesday...
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Trial opens in murder, kidnapping from womb case
11:53 AM on 01/12/2010
A woman accused of cutting a baby from a pregnant teenager, killing her, and passing the baby off as her own, had not been pregnant, even though she told her family she was, according to a prosecutor and her doctor. Andrea Curry-Demus, 40, put her name on an ultrasound picture...
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Florida sheriff fears missing lottery winner killed
12:35 PM on 01/06/2010
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) -- In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare -- a truck driver's assistant who lived with his mother -- won $30 million in the Florida lottery. His good fortune may have cost him his life.
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No murder charges against Dr.Conrad Murray for Michael's death?
9:58 AM on 12/28/2009
From The Daily Beast Prosecutors have decided they won't pursue second-degree murder charges against Conrad Murray for Michael Jackson's death, reports Gerald Posner, and will instead seek a manslaughter indictment. The Los Angeles District Attorney's team probing the death of Michael Jackson has decided not to pursue murder charges against...
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Despite recession, FBI crime stats fell in first half of 2009
9:22 AM on 12/22/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI says murders fell 10 percent across the U.S. in the first half of 2009...
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Man confesses to 1988 murder
9:52 AM on 12/17/2009
VIDEO - For more than 20 years Phoenix, Arizona police detectives had few clues in the murder of 78-year-old Marlon Darton.
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4 arrested for aiding Washington cop killer
1:40 PM on 12/04/2009
SEATTLE (AP) -- Authorities have charged four people with aiding the man accused of killing four Washington state police officers and plan on charging two more in what investigators call...
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Dad on trial for killing son over sexual contact with tot
11:07 AM on 12/02/2009
VIDEO - A Michigan father has been ordered to stand trial for killing his 15-year-old son after, the boy admitted to raping a young girl...
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Supreme Court rejects death row inmate's appeal
10:24 AM on 11/30/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a California death row inmate who was convicted in the gruesome murders of four people in 1983...
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Man granted clemency after serving 13 years for murder
6:39 AM on 11/26/2009
VIDEO - Ohio Governor Ted Strickland grants Willie Knighten Jr., clemency for the 1996 shooting death of Irving Turner after Knighten served almost 13 years...
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Dad accused of killing teenage son over sexual contact with tot
10:46 AM on 11/19/2009
HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) -- A 37-year-old father irate over hearing his 15-year-old son had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl made the teen strip at gunpoint, marched him to a vacant lot and shot him to death...
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Mother accused of running over teenager with car
12:04 PM on 11/13/2009
VIDEO - A judge set bond at $1 million for an Illinois woman accused of using her car to run down and kill a teenager who had allegedly gotten into a fight with the woman's son...
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Obama: 'We are going to fix health care in America'
FAIRFAX, Virginia (AP) - President Obama delivered a closing argument for the goal to which he has devoted much of his presidency...
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