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8 teens shot at Waka Flocka flame concert
11:11 AM on 03/08/2010
Police in Gary, Indiana were called to the scene of a concert headlined by Waka Flocka Flame Friday after a fight broke out leaving 8 people shot and injured...
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Accidentally released inmate caught in W.Va.
12:33 PM on 02/26/2010
BALTIMORE (AP) - An inmate serving three life terms for attempted murder was back behind bars Friday...
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Former Katrina officer brought to justice, may face prison time
1:48 PM on 02/25/2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In Hurricane Katrina's chaotic aftermath, police shot six people -- killing two -- as they crossed a bridge in search of food...
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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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Jayson Williams gets minimum 18 months in shooting
11:25 AM on 02/23/2010
SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) - Former NBA star Jayson Williams has been sentenced to a minimum 18 months in prison for fatally shooting a hired driver in 2002, ending an eight-year legal odyssey...
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Jayson Williams faces sentencing for NJ shooting
7:07 AM on 02/23/2010
SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) - Former NBA star Jayson Williams faces sentencing Tuesday for a shooting that happened eight years ago in New Jersey...
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Mayor backs fed probe of Ore. police in shooting
3:54 PM on 02/19/2010
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Portland Mayor Sam Adams joined black leaders Friday to support a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting death of a black man by a white police officer...
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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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Texas man charged in deaths of five family members
6:25 PM on 01/21/2010
BELLVILLE, Texas (AP) -- A southeast Texas man was charged Wednesday in the weekend shooting deaths of five family members, including his 2-year-old niece, who also was decapitated...
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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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Suspected Holocaust museum shooter dies in prison
8:02 PM on 01/06/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The 89-year-old man accused of a deadly shooting at Washington's Holocaust museum died Wednesday in a prison hospital.
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Officials cast Vegas shooting as 'suicide mission'
12:43 PM on 01/06/2010
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Investigators say Johnny Lee Wicks was on a suicide mission the day he walked three miles to the federal building in downtown Las Vegas...
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Chicago teen's shooting death captured on video
5:27 PM on 01/05/2010
VIDEO - Chicago Police arrested the man who fatally shot a 16-year-old standing outside of a store on the 300 block of 119th St. last Wednesday...
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Queens city council considering naming street after Sean Bell
3:25 PM on 12/17/2009
Members of the Queens city council are considering naming a street after Bell in remembrance of him. They will vote on renaming a section of Liverpool Street, 'Sean Bell Way.'
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Caught on tape: Taxi cab shoot out
9:51 AM on 12/17/2009
Dash cam video from a state trooper's car in Connecticut caught a dramatic shootout between the officer and a suspected gang member. The tape of the January 10th incident was just released today...
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NAACP seeks federal review of Conn. teen's shooting
4:11 PM on 12/14/2009
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The NAACP's Connecticut branch wants a federal review of the case in which an all-white jury exonerated a white Hartford detective who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager...
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Investigation of murdered stripper continues after six years
5:34 PM on 12/11/2009
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit The attractive, 27-year-old mother of three was shot several times in the pre-dawn hours of April 30, 2003, while sitting in a parked car.
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3-year-old girl fatally shoots herself
11:27 AM on 12/11/2009
VIDEO - One day after a 3-year-old Alexia Bostick accidentally shot herself with a gun police said is registered to her grandmother, the Detroit police chief is calling the case tragic.
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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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Police fatally shoot cop killer suspect
8:21 AM on 12/01/2009
VIDEO - Police shot and killed a man suspected of gunning down four police officers, a sheriff's spokesman said, a day after the man eluded police...
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