Official: Dead Boston bombings suspect involved in 2011 slayings
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Investigators are awaiting test results to determine whether Todashev's DNA was found at the Massachusetts triple murder scene and whether the DNA of Tamerlan Tsarnaev also was found there. Todashev and Tsarnaev were acquainted through a ... In the ...
Police kill man linked to Boston suspects, triple murder USA TODAY
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Jury in Jodi Arias murder trial struggling to reach a unanimous decision on ...
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Arias was convicted last week of first-degree murder in the June 2008 stabbing and shooting death of her one-time lover, Travis Alexander, in what prosecutors described as a cold, calculated killing carried out in a jealous rage. Arias has maintained ...
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Jodi Arias from jail: I deserve 'second chance at freedom' Washington Times
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'Starcatcher' and 'Murder Ballad': Two Shows, So Different Yet So Alike
New York Times
Peter and the Starcatcher, at New World Stages, and Murder Ballad, at the Union Square Theater, wouldn't exactly make a natural double feature. Peter, Rick Elice's adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's novel about the boy who became Peter ...
'Murder Ballad': Theater review New York Daily News
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Salsa legend's son spared prison in porn case
USA TODAY
The 23-year-old New Rochelle, N.Y., resident had pleaded guilty in November to one count of possessing child pornography, and his lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, had argued in court papers that Colon be spared jail time. "I think it's a just and reasonable ...

Pocket-Dialing 911 Leads to Fla. Murder...
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Authorities in South Florida say a man is charged with murder because he was overheard discussing the killing when his cellphone pocket-dialed 911. The Broward Sheriff's Office says 24-year-old Scott Simon is charged with first-degree murder in the May ...
Murder plot recorded on phone after man butt-dials 911 MiamiHerald.com
Murder suspect mistakenly pocket-dials 911, discusses plot on recorded line ... Sun-Sentinel
Man Arrested After Pocket-Dialing 9-1-1 and Talking About Murder Plans: BSO NBC 6 South Florida
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Justin Wolfe can be retried for capital murder in Pr. William, 4th Circuit rules
Washington Post
Ebert and his team visited Barber, the state's key witness and the admitted shooter in the murder, at an Augusta County prison before Wolfe's new trial was to begin. Defense attorneys say that Ebert tried to pressure Barber into again testifying at the ...
High court: Justin Wolfe can be retried for capital murder Inside NoVA
Appeals court allows retrial in Virginia capital murder case Washington Examiner

Anti-gay crime up in New York as city prepares for pride events
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Elliot Morales faces a charge of second-degree murder as a hate crime in the shooting, authorities said. In response, police are setting up temporary headquarter command vehicles in LGBT neighborhoods at least through the end of June -- the city's Gay ...
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Prayers from Prison: American pastor held in Iran releases letter
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Saeed Abedini, the 33-year-old Idaho resident serving an eight-year prison term in Tehran's infamous Evin prison, passed the letter to family members who were permitted to visit him after several weeks of isolation. The letter was passed to Abedini's ...

Faith-healing Philadelphia couple charged with murder after 2nd son dies of ...
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PHILADELPHIA " A Philadelphia couple who believe in faith healing over medicine and who were on probation in their son's 2009 pneumonia death have been charged with murder after a second child died. Herbert and Catherine Schaible (SHY'-bull) face ...
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Justice Department tells lawmakers no bank is too big to jail
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Justice Department official insisted on Wednesday that no financial company is too big to jail, in the department's latest effort to backpedal from statements made in March by Attorney General Eric Holder. "No institution and ...