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Woman released after 11 days in jail for cursing
The Michigan woman released from jail on Friday after being incarcerated for 11 days for cursing inside a county court told WOOD-TV her legal troubles aren’t over.
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Apple Store in Paris Robbed
Armed robbers hit an Apple store in Paris on New Year's Eve, the first major robbery of an Apple store in France.
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Woman Charged with Murder in NY Subway Shove Death
Prosecutors say a woman accused of pushing a man to his death in front of a New York subway train has been charged with murder as a hate crime.
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Russian court clears prison official in Magnitsky case
A Moscow court has acquitted the only official charged with the death of whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky. Meanwhile, Russia's president has signed a bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children.
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Raped by 42 men in 40 days. Sixteen years later, she awaits justice
In Kerala, her case is known as the Suryanelli rape case, after the village where she lived with her parents. They have moved houses twice since then, driven out they say by jeering neighbours.
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Ivory Coast stampede kills dozens, mostly children
New Year's Day celebrations took a deadly turn early Tuesday in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, when a stampede following a fireworks show killed dozens of people, most of them children, according to a fire department official.
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Handcuffed California teen shot while in police custody
A Southern California teenager who was fatally shot while handcuffed by police last Wednesday was armed during the incident, a police spokesperson said Monday.
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Alabama Department Of Homeland Security Releases Graphic Mass Shooting Preparedness Video
Run, hide, fight. A grim twist on the workplace training tape.
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The Unsolved Case of the Disembodied Feet
Since August 2007, five human feet have washed ashore near Vancouver, British Columbia. No bodies, no heads, no clothes, just feet (4 left, 1 right), nearly all still clad in sneakers.
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Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison
In a criminal case sure to make programmers nervous, a software maker who licenses a program used by online casinos and bookmakers overseas is being charged with promoting gambling in New York because authorities say his software was used by others for illegal betting in that state.
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Adrian Lamo on Bradley Manning: 'I knew my actions might cost him his life'
More than two years after Manning's arrest, the man who gave him up talks to Ed Pilkington about how he made the decision.
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How Obama Decides Your Fate If He Thinks You're a Terrorist
A look inside the "disposition matrix" that determines when, or if, the administration will pursue a suspected militant.
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Social media casts spotlight on Ohio rape case
The videos, pictures and tweets are chilling. A picture of a girl dangling limply from the arms of two young men.
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Record 5-Year Prison Term Handed to Convicted File Sharer
The leader of the in-theater camcording gang known as the IMAGiNE Group was handed a 60-month prison term Thursday in what is the nation’s longest sentence in a file-sharing case.
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Jodi Arias, Accused of Stabbing, Shooting Lover in Jealous Rage, Goes On Trial
A woman charged with stabbing her lover 27 times and shooting him in the head has gone on trial, with attorneys debating whether Jodi Arias planned the attack or fought off Mormon playboy Travis Alexander in self-defense.
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FBI: More People Killed with Hammers, Clubs Each Year than Rifles
According to the FBI annual crime statistics, the number of murders committed annually with hammers and clubs far outnumbers the number of murders committed with a rifle.
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Malala Yousafzai was discharged from a hospital in Birmingham, England, on Thursday
In an attack that propelled her to global recognition, Malala was targeted in Pakistan by Taliban gunmen for speaking out in favor of education for Pakistani girls. She was left with life-threatening head and neck wounds.
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Mexican drug gangs dig into mining industry
On October 7, Mexican marines swooped in on one of the most powerful men in organised crime. But as the navy triumphantly announced the death of Heriberto Lazcano, leader of the Zetas gang, there was puzzlement over where he had been found. Far from the Zeta's strongholds and practically unprotected, he had been watching a baseball game in the small mining village of Progreso.
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Why do innocent people confess to crimes?
Japan has a conviction rate of more than 99%. But in recent months there has been a public outcry over a number of wrongful arrests where innocent people confessed to crimes.
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US rape loophole prompts uproar
California lawmakers have vowed to close a loophole that allowed a man's rape conviction to be overturned because his victim was not married.
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