Cities study victims' criminal past - USA Today

Cities study victims' criminal past - USA Today

Cities study victims' criminal past USA Today - 12 hours ago Baltimore is on pace to exceed 300 murders for the first time since 1999, and 91% of the victims this year had criminal arrest records. ...

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FIX NEW YORK (AP) -- A former high-powered investment banker is considering a return to the technology sector after a judge dismissed criminal charges against him. The dismissal of charges against Frank Quattrone by U.S. District Judge George B....
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Should guilt-ridden burglar face criminal charges?
A thief broke into a family home near Queenstown twice in the same day -once to steal and the second time to say sorry. Is an apology enough or should he face charges? Here is the latest selection of Your Views: Terry (Auckland)Okay, here goes! In the...
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Criminal's best friend? - Edmonton Sun

Criminal's best friend? - Edmonton Sun

Criminal's best friend? Edmonton Sun,  Canada - 4 hours ago The greatest impact of the charter, however, has been in the area of criminal law and most beneficiaries of the charter have been those charged with ...

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Solon says sorry to GSIS chief over speakership rap
By PAOLO CAPINO abs-cbnNEWS.com Manila Rep. Bienvenido Abante has apologized to the Government Service Insurance System and GSIS president and general manager Winston Garcia after accusing the institution and ...
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Criminal behaviour - Guardian Unlimited

Criminal behaviour - Guardian Unlimited

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Criminal behaviour Guardian Unlimited, UK - 2 hours ago The strike will also have impacted on the criminal justice system, as no remand prisoners will have been produced at their designated courts. ... Are prison officers' right to strike? Telegraph.co.uk all 325 news articles

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Solon files criminal raps vs DOTC in ZTE broadband contract - INQ7.net

Solon files criminal raps vs DOTC in ZTE broadband contract INQ7.net, Philippines - Aug 28, 2007 By Tetch Torres QUEZON CITY, Philippines -- Nueva Vizcaya Congressman Carlos Padilla filed a criminal complaint against officials of the Department of ... Case filed vs DOTC chief over broadband deal INQ7.net all 8 news articles

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Immigration raids Ohio chicken plant

Immigration raids Ohio chicken plant
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - U.S. immigration officials raided the Koch Foods Inc. chicken plant in Fairfield, Ohio, and arrested more than 160 employees as part of a criminal operation against illegal immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
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Lifeguards to undergo criminal backround checks

Lifeguards to undergo criminal backround checks
Newsday - Lifeguards at Jones Beach and other state parks will undergo criminal background checks when they apply for their jobs, state officials announced yesterday. The screenings were ordered by parks officials after an investigation found that 33 Long ...
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Anti-war woman, 52, admits 11 German bomb hoaxes

Anti-war woman, 52, admits 11 German bomb hoaxes
A 52-year-old anti-war activist admitted Monday she had hoaxed Germany with 11 fake bombs left on trains and said she had wanted to show her opposition to the war in Iraq and German troops serving in ...
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Criminal Contempt Charges Dismissed Against Lawyer (Law.com via Yahoo! Finance)
New York-area attorney Larry Bronson, who allegedly hosted meetings for organized crime figures under court order not to associate with each other and assisted a client to violate the terms of his pretrial release by misrepresenting his whereabouts, cannot be charged with criminal contempt of court, a Brooklyn, N.Y., judge has held.
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Rwanda: Genocide Witness Flees After Threats

Rwanda: Genocide Witness Flees After Threats
AllAfrica: A defence witness for the former Prefect Tharcisse Renzaho, currently on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda , had to leave Rwanda where he lived because of threats made against him, RNA has established.
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Mos Def: headlining concert for justice
Yahoo News: AP - Although a jury last week convicted Jose Padilla of supporting terrorism, rapper-actor Mos Def thinks that Padilla may not have gotten the due process the criminal justice system promises.
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Suicide Bomber Strikes in Afghanistan

Suicide Bomber Strikes in Afghanistan
A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy carrying foreigners near the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, a police officer said. There were no immediate reports of casualties. The attack occurred on the main road out of Kabul leading to the city of...
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Finding Their Voices
Washington Post - In 1999, the Sentencing Project, which keeps track of incarceration rates by race and offense, reported that 32 percent of African American males between the ages of 20 and 29 are in contact with the criminal justice system as compared to 6 percent ...
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Car Crashes Through Apartment Building

Car Crashes Through Apartment Building
A car crashes into a bowling green apartment building Friday morning putting one woman in the hospital.
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Brazil High Court Approves Criminal Trials in Bribery Scandal (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil's Supreme Court has approved criminal trials for nine people, including lawmakers and businessmen, implicated in a congressional bribes-for-votes scandal in 2005.
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Cameo critic: Andrew Zimmern

Cameo critic: Andrew Zimmern
The host of the Travel Channel's "Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern" and FM 107.1's "The Andrew Zimmern Show" talks about a recent favorite film: "'Live Free or Die Hard.' I went with my guy friends. We were doing the 45-year-old teenager thing....
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Sierra Leone: Criminal Charges Against Newspaper Editor Dropped
On 21 August 2007, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Fred Carew, discontinued criminal proceedings against Philip Neville, editor of the "Standard Times", a privately-owned Freetown-based daily newspaper...
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Criminal careers - Guardian Unlimited

Criminal careers - Guardian Unlimited

Criminal careers Guardian Unlimited, UK - 9 hours ago I awoke, sat straight up and said, 'I know it in my soul: Jim Carrey's career is deader than Bambi's mum.' And it's not the only one, says John Patterson ...

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GRAND THEFT HITS SPIDEY'S 'MARY JANE'
New York Post - Jarrod Beinerman, 33, of Brooklyn, was being held on $50,000 bond after his arraignment Wednesday in Manhattan Criminal Court on burglary and grand-larceny charges. Cops are searching for Beinerman's alleged accomplice, whose name they know. ...
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Abe meets son of Indian judge who urged acquittal of Japanese war criminals

Abe meets son of Indian judge who urged acquittal of Japanese war criminals
CALCUTTA, India -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has met with the son of an Indian judge who sat on the bench during the post-World War II Tokyo war crimes' trials, a visit that some in Japan fear could affect its improving relations with China. Abe,...
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Prosecutor indicted for withdrawing criminal complaint (Japan Today)

Prosecutor indicted for withdrawing criminal complaint (Japan Today)
TOKYO — The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on Tuesday indicted a 40-year-old prosecutor without arresting him for withdrawing a criminal molestation complaint without authorization.
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Self-Proclaimed Pedophile Out of LA Jail
LOS ANGELES - A self-described pedophile was released from jail Tuesday after prosecutors dropped a criminal case accusing him of violating a judge's order prohibiting him from being within 30 feet of children anywhere in California for three years. Prosecutors could not pursue the case against Jack McClellan 45 after they determined the order was invalid because the judge failed to schedule and give McClellan proper notice of a hearing required to argue the merits ...
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Mel, Paris, a protected species

Mel, Paris, a protected species
News.com.au - A bill currently going through the Legislature will - if passed - make it a crime for law enforcement or court employees to profit by releasing confidential information gathered in criminal investigations or unauthorised photographs of people in ...
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If NBA ref sings, Stern will hang
The accuracy of David Stern's description of Tim Donaghy as a 'rogue, isolated criminal'' should determine Stern's job status after the worst scandal in NBA history plays out. If the NBA commissioner was indeed correct in identifying the...
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Suits: In the Clear in Russia (if Out of Business)

Suits: In the Clear in Russia (if Out of Business)
The founder of allofmp3.com, the Russian digital music download site that was shut down in July, was cleared of criminal wrongdoing in Moscow...
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Police search for kidnapped German amid fears for SKoreans
Yahoo News: AFP - Afghan authorities hunted Sunday for a German aid worker kidnapped by a suspected criminal gang in broad daylight in Kabul, as negotiations to free 19 South Koreans held by Taliban militants faltered.
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Minister: Criminal activity in northern Uganda a threat to ... - Uganda Conflict Action Network

Minister: Criminal activity in northern Uganda a threat to ... - Uganda Conflict Action Network

Minister: Criminal activity in northern Uganda a threat to ... Uganda Conflict Action Network, DC - 11 hours ago Uganda’s state minister for disaster preparedness said yesterday that criminal activity in northern Uganda is threatening the efforts of IDPs in northern ...

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Jury Convicts Jose Padilla of Terror Charges

Jury Convicts Jose Padilla of Terror Charges
Washington Post: MIAMI, Aug. 16 -- A federal jury convicted former "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla on Thursday of terrorism conspiracy charges, handing a courthouse victory to the Bush administration, which had originally sought to imprison him without a criminal trial.
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National Briefing | Rockies: Colorado: Report On Mauling
The police have closed an inquiry into the mauling death of a zookeeper at the Denver Zoo, clearing the zoo of criminal wrongdoing...
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Top BA staff face criminal inquiry in price-fixing case

Top BA staff face criminal inquiry in price-fixing case
Guardian Unlimited - The price fixing scandal at British Airways deepened yesterday after it emerged the US department of justice will open criminal investigations into senior staff at the airline next week. BA will formalise its guilty plea to fixing fuel surcharges on ...
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American anarchist faces criminal charges in Spain - International Herald Tribune

American anarchist faces criminal charges in Spain International Herald Tribune, France - 5 hours ago "The contention that I got intimately involved with criminal elements or whomever in this timeframe is fairly absurd." When police broke up the protest, ... Northern Virginia Anarchist Facing Criminal Charges in Spain WJLA all 5 news articles

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Racetrack under scrutiny

Racetrack under scrutiny
Updated: 12:05 AM EST A Bay State racetrack has been rocked by a possible cheating scandal after state police discovered hundreds of syringes and banned performance-enhancing substances in a stable used by a ...
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Baggot: Some advice for Badgers, new and old WSJ
My letter-writing skills, never good to begin with, have eroded considerably in recent years.
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The lost Padilla verdict

The lost Padilla verdict
Those verdicts are being called a vindication for the White House but the real triumph came when the government succeeded in avoiding a decision on bigger more crucial issues. That is the important Padilla precedent.
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Girlfriend Pleads Guilty In Dealership Embezzlement Case
The girlfriend of the former general manager of Toyota of Colchester pleaded guilty Thursday for her role in a scheme to steal more than $120,000 from the dealership's checking account.
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Joe Mantegna Steps in for Mandy Patinkin on 'Criminal Minds' - BuddyTV

Joe Mantegna Steps in for Mandy Patinkin on 'Criminal Minds' - BuddyTV

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Joe Mantegna Steps in for Mandy Patinkin on 'Criminal Minds' BuddyTV - 5 hours ago Joe Mantegna has joined the cast of ABC's crime drama, Criminal Minds, replacing actor Mandy Patinkin, who unceremoniously departed from the show last month ... Mantegna joins cast of 'Criminal Minds' Albany Times Union Joe Mantegna Joins `Criminal Minds' Cast Forbes On 'Criminal Minds,' A Switcheroo With A Sense of Deja Vu Washington Post Zap2it.com - New York Daily News all 150 news articles

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Foley focus of Florida criminal probe

Foley focus of Florida criminal probe
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has opened a criminal investigation of former Republican Rep. Mark Foley …
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Conrad Black may lose Palm Beach mansion

Conrad Black may lose Palm Beach mansion
Telegraph: The US government wants to seize Conrad Black's Palm Beach mansion as part of a plan to force the former press baron to give up almost $17m in alleged criminal proceeds.
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Tenn. Minister's Wife Freed in Slaying

Tenn. Minister's Wife Freed in Slaying
Mary Winkler was released from a mental health facility where she had been undergoing treatment for about two months, defense attorney Steve Farese Sr.
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Lisa de Moraes - On 'Criminal Minds ' A Switcheroo With A Sense of Deja Vu
After failing to snag a "fresh" face to replace on its Wednesday procedural drama "Criminal Minds " has once again turned to the Repertory Theatre to fill the role casting close to wrapping up a deal to become the show's chief pervy-people profiler at press time. "Criminal Minds" is an important player for the nation's most watched network having historically been perhaps the most " "-proof series on any net's prime-time lineup.
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Clackamas County to reopen jail beds

Clackamas County to reopen jail beds
Oregonian - Sheriff Craig Roberts stressed the importance of adequate jail space to serve as a crime deterrent and to maintain credibility in the criminal justice system. "For citizens who have been victims of crimes, they want to see these individuals held ...
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Terrorists beyond criminals
Miami Herald - ... Kashmir, central Asia, Somalia, Eritrea and Spain. Whether you call them terrorists, Mujahadeen or a radical faction of Up With People, the simple fact is that what commonly goes by the label ''Islamic terrorism'' is not a merely a criminal enterprise ...
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Children will not be charged in six-year-old boy’s death

Children will not be charged in six-year-old boy’s death
Three children who forced a six-year-old boy to strip naked before pushing him into a lake where he drowned will not face criminal charges because they are under the age of 12. Adam Keeper who lived at the Pauingassi First Nation reserve 310 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg went missing last week after leaving his home to play with friends. A community-organized search soon found his body near the banks of nearby Fishing Lake. Adam was ...
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Two people charged with criminal mischief | Asbury Park Press Online

Two people charged with criminal mischief | Asbury Park Press Online
BRICK ? Police responding to a disturbance at 3 Homestead Drive just before 1 a.m. Sunday ended up charging two people with criminal mischief.
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MIM leader booked for criminal intimidation
HYDERABAD Aug. 12: The Hyderabad police booked a case of criminal intimidation against Majlis Ittehadul Musilmeen floor leader Mr Akbaruddin Owaisi for threatening to behead Bangladeshi author Miss Taslima Nasreen. The 14th additional chief metropolitan magistrate granted the police permission late Saturday night after perusing a petition filed by the police along with video footage containing Mr Owaisis remarks.
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Killer software: beat that virus

Killer software: beat that virus
Killer software: beat that virus...
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Mauritania's parliament passes law banning slavery

Mauritania's parliament passes law banning slavery
Reuters: NOUAKCHOTT - Mauritania's parliament has passed a law making slavery a criminal offence punishable by up to 10 years in prison after years of lobbying by rights groups in the Saharan Islamic state.
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Chris Noth to reprise Mr. Big role in 'Sex' movie

Chris Noth to reprise Mr. Big role in 'Sex' movie
Mr. Big and Carrie Bradshaw will be together again, this time on the big screen.
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Arrest made in Bradford County triple murder case
The brother and son of three Bradford County residents was arrested early today in connection with their August 8 shooting deaths.
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Criminal case opened over death of woman during quake in Nevelsk (Itar-Tass)

Criminal case opened over death of woman during quake in Nevelsk (Itar-Tass)
MOSCOW, August 10 (Itar-Tass) - Prosecutors in the Sakhalin region opened a criminal case over the death of a local resident in the town of Nevelsk, when it was hit by a quake.
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Crime gangs 'turning web into Wild West'

Crime gangs 'turning web into Wild West'
Daily Telegraph - The report said the days when the e-criminal was a "lonely hacker searching for attention" are long gone. It added: "Today's 'bad guys' belong to organised crime groups, are highly skilful, specialised and focused on profit. They want to stay ...
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Former Nicholas aide faces criminal complaint (Orange County Register)

Former Nicholas aide faces criminal complaint (Orange County Register)
The FBI files a criminal complaint against ex-financial adviser to billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III, former head of Broadcom.
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Hamas arrests Gaza Fatah doctor as part of 'criminal investigation' (EARTHtimes.org)
Gaza - The Hamas police force in the Gaza Strip detained a well-known doctor affiliated with rival Fatah movement Thursday and said the arrest was part of a criminal investigation. Islam Shahwan, a spokesman for the Hamas Executive Force, said Dr. Ju...
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People with vicious dogs may be vicious too -study

People with vicious dogs may be vicious too -study
… criminal convictions -- including crimes against children -- than owners of licensed, gentler dogs such as beagles, researchers reported on Thursday …
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Charges Filed Against Hospital Chain for Alleged Patient Dumping
… criminal and civil charges against Kaiser Permanente. Delgadillo has accused the hospital chain of false imprisonment and endangering a dependent adult when it left a 63-year-old woman on the streets …
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Ex-CEO convicted of options fraud

Ex-CEO convicted of options fraud
SAN FRANCISCO ? Former Brocade Communications CEO Gregory Reyes was convicted Tuesday of defrauding investors in the first stock-options backdating case to go to trial. The guilty verdict on all counts is an important validation of the Justice Department's options-backdating probe which has so far led to criminal charges against at least 10 executives.
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Redneck Games Promoter May Face Criminal Charges
Tyler Morning Telegraph - ATHENS - The 2007 Redneck Games was "a fiasco" according to the Henderson County Sheriff's Department, and its promoter may face criminal charges. The four-day event at Pool Ranch ATV Park last weekend led to 54 arrests, nine driving while ...
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Keeping Danger At Bay

Keeping Danger At Bay
How secure is your home? What systems do you have in place in the event of a robbery or home invasion? In the aftermath of last week's Cheshire home invasion that left three dead, the question is on many ...
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Second City, SNL alum Tony Rosato stands trial on criminal harassment charge (CP via Yahoo! Canada News)
KINGSTON, Ont. (CP) - The criminal trial of actor Tony Rosato is scheduled to get underway Tuesday in a courtroom in Kingston, Ont.
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Savannah Tech and South University Ink Agreement for Criminal ... - Savannah Business Report

Savannah Tech and South University Ink Agreement for Criminal ... - Savannah Business Report

Savannah Tech and South University Ink Agreement for Criminal ... Savannah Business Report, GA - 8 hours ago The agreement allows students who complete the associate degree program in Criminal Justice at Savannah Technical College to transfer all credits earned as ... Two Schools Join Forces WTOC all 3 news articles

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OUR CRIMINAL MAYOR - Niagarafallsreporter.com

OUR CRIMINAL MAYOR Niagarafallsreporter.com, NY - 7 hours ago We told you he was a criminal, and last week the charge was proven in court. He weaseled a plea bargain and wound up with an ACD and an order of protection ...

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2 troubled young lives, a felony sex case

2 troubled young lives, a felony sex case
Detroit News - 18-year-old could face life in prison over relationship with girl, 12, who gave birth. Blake Blythe: Awaiting mental examination to determine his sanity at the time of the criminal sexual conduct alleged by prosecutors. A trial date is set for Wayne ...
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Toppled dresser injures toddler
St. Petersburg Times - Timothy Robin Walker turned a traffic ticket into a criminal charge after a crash on State Road 54 Saturday, authorities said. Sheriff's deputies and a Highway Patrol trooper investigating a traffic crash near Seven Springs Boulevard cited Walker, 53 ...
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Melton, Kindle to miss first three games of season for DWI charges

Melton, Kindle to miss first three games of season for DWI charges
ESPN.com - ... sophomore, was expected to compete for significant playing time this season. Nelson, a converted running back, had moved to defensive end full time in the spring. Kindle and Nelson are among four Texas football players who have faced criminal charges ...
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Ice cream wasn't his only product
Philadelphia Daily News - A search of the vehicle uncovered a loaded pistol along with the drugs, police said yesterday, after arresting Jermaine Jordan, 26, on charges including criminal possession of a weapon and criminal sale of a controlled substance near a school. The ...
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