May 23, 2013
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Reuters
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - Lawyers for accused Colorado movie theater gunman James Holmes argued on Thursday the state's insanity defense law was unconstitutional because it forces him to cooperate with court-appointed psychiatrists or forfeit the...
May 23, 2013
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The Hartford Courant
Scott Smith's desire to serve his fellow citizens led him to become an emergency medical technician and, ultimately, a police officer in New Milford. But after shooting and killing a fleeing felon in the line of duty in December 1998, his police career...
May 23, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
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Spending at least 13 years in prison for stabbing her fiance to death on their wedding day seemed too high a price to Na Cola Darcel Franklin, so she rejected that plea deal earlier this week and demanded a trial.
After just three hours of...
May 23, 2013
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Reuters
By Guy Faulconbridge and Michael Holden
LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Police investigating the murder
of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were
looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers,
British men of Nigerian descent, were...
May 23, 2013
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Tribune wire report
Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy.
The two suspects, aged 22 and 28, are...
May 23, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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John Richard "Dick" Irwin, a tough, accurate veteran police reporter with a heart of gold whose signature Police Blotter became required reading for both crime aficionados and the just plain curious, died Wednesday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center of...
May 23, 2013
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Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron convened an emergency meeting of his intelligence chiefs on Thursday after two Islamists hacked a soldier to death with meat cleavers on a south London street.
A dramatic clip filmed by an onlooker just...
May 23, 2013
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Reuters
DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper granted a reprieve on Wednesday to the state's longest-serving death row inmate, ordering his execution blocked indefinitely in a move that infuriated prosecutors and victims' families.
"It is a...
May 23, 2013
|Story| Pasadena Sun
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The union representing two Pasadena police officers accused of failing to turn over evidence in a murder trial says they should be cleared of wrongdoing because prosecutors have admitted to misplacing evidence in the case.
In February, Pasadena Police...
May 22, 2013
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Reuters
ROME (Reuters) - The captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which capsized off Italy's west coast last year killing 32 people, will face trial for manslaughter as well as other charges, an Italian judge ruled on Wednesday.
The giant Costa...
May 22, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Chechen immigrant was shot to death by authorities while being questioned in the Boston Marathon bombing case early Wednesday after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife, officials said.
Ibragim Todashev, a 27-year-old...
May 22, 2013
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Associated Press
ROME (AP) — An Italian judge has ordered the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship to stand trial for manslaughter in the vessel's shipwreck off the coast of Tuscany, which killed 32 people.
Judge Pietro Molino, at a closed-door hearing...
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