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Arrested Tijuana Cops Were Hailed as Models

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:52:28 GMT The New York Times - New York NY

Just a few weeks ago, the two officers were lauded as part of a new breed of honest cop, elevated to become key players in a drive to overhaul one of Mexico's most notorious police forces.

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Clarett seeks early release

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:51:46 GMT The Ironton Tribune - Ironton OH

Former Ohio State football star Maurice Clarett is again seeking early release from prison.

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Labour launches knife campaign

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:49:58 GMT NewsNow: Scotland

Plans to introduce mandatory six-month jail sentences for anyone caught carrying a knife have been launched by Labour.

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Border Patrol update

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:49:37 GMT The Sierra Vista Herald - Sierra Vista AZ

Agents arrested a male illegal immigrant from Mexico on Monday who admitted being a member of the Sureño 13 gang.

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‘Hollywood’ faces further charges

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:49:36 GMT The Sierra Vista Herald - Sierra Vista AZ

A man known by the nickname of "Hollywood" is facing several charges in Cochise County Superior Court involving a Sierra Vista aggravated assault case last year.

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UN declares "zero tolerance" for sex abuse by peacekeepers!

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:49:34 GMT Zee News

The United Nations has "zero tolerance" for sexual misconduct by international troops participating in peacekeeping missions, the UN's special representative on sexual violence in conflict said late Tuesday.

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US airport breach suspect pleads not guilty!

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:49:31 GMT Zee News

A graduate student from China accused of triggering worldwide flight delays has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from a security breach at Newark Liberty International Airport.

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N.H. AG says Keene police shooting justified

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:49:18 GMT Seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth NH

A Keene police officer was justified in fatally shooting a man who had taken his ex-girlfriend hostage and was threatening to kill her, the attorney general's office has concluded.

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Main Police Report

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:49:17 GMT Main Line Media News - Ardmore PA

ID theft: Police got a report Jan. 27 from a woman on South Leopard Road that someone stole her identity and opened a cell-phone account in her name and the bills were coming to her home. --

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Judge denies teen's plea deal in Putnam's crash case

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:49:00 GMT Seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth NH

A judge rejected a plea deal as too lenient for a teenage passenger in a car that crashed into Putnam's Ski & Snowboard shop last June. Passenger Walter "Homey" Dunfey III, 17, of 146 Clark Road, Rye, is charged with a violation-level charge of unlawful possession of alcohol alleging he was intoxicated at the time of the June 13, 2009, crash.

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Elderly pianist brutally beaten by police

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:49:00 GMT The Moscow News

A 62-year-old pianist and professor said on Monday he sustained heavy hand injuries when he was beaten by a police officer - according to a Live Journal post made by his lawyer Vasiliy Fedorovich.

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Grand jury indicts former condo association bookkeeper in $30K theft

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:49:00 GMT Seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth NH

The former bookkeeper for a pair of local condominium associations was indicted on two felony counts of theft by unauthorized taking, alleging she used her position to steal tens of thousands of dollars.

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Family lashes out at ruling after death of Nancy Kerrigan's father is ruled a homicide

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:48:55 GMT New York Daily News - New York NY

The family of Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan lashed out Tuesday after a medical examiner ruled her father was murdered by her brother.

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Jackson man convicted of arson

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:48:52 GMT The Jackson County Times-Journal - Jackson OH

Michael Storer, the Jackson man accused of setting fire to the former Moose building, owned by AMVETS, at 210 Broadway Street in Jackson, was convicted by a jury on all charges but one.

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China Urges Judges To Limit Death Penalty

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:47:48 GMT Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

The Supreme Court has urged China's judges to limit the use of death penalty to those convicted of the most serious crimes, under a policy of "justice tempered with mercy," the official Xinhua news agency said.

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Charges against Zulu dropped

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:47:21 GMT IOL

Sifiso Zulu is no longer facing charges of being drunk in a public place, defeating the ends of justice and resisting arrest, following a recent incident at a roadblock in Florida Road, Durban.

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'Kids killed out of hate'

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:46:56 GMT The Australian

A WOMAN killed her two children and attempted to kill another "in an act of hate" towards her ex-husband, a court heard today.

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Myanmar court jails naturalised US citizen for three years

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:45:39 GMT Vietnam Tribune

A Myanmar court Wednesday sentenced a naturalised US citizen to three years in jail with hard labour on charges of committing forgery, illegal possession of foreign currency and refusing to revoke his Myanmar passport.

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Nearly 200 charged in Philippines massacre

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:44:22 GMT VietnamNews.net

Philippine prosecutors filed charges yesterday against the head of a powerful clan and 195 others in the biggest and deadliest murder case since the country's World War II war crimes trials .

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Architect gets 7 years for violence against ex-girlfriend

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:44:18 GMT LoHud.com - White Plains NY

A New Rochelle man accused of terrorizing his former lover, in part by starting a fire in front of her apartment door in 2008, was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in state prison.

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Background

Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority (via mechanisms such as police power) may ultimately prescribe a conviction.

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