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News, articles and information about the crime of taking another person's life, usually by a violent act such as shooting, strangling, beating, stabbing, drowning, assault or by poisoning.
News, articles and information about the crime of taking another person's life, usually by a violent act such as shooting, strangling, beating, stabbing, drowning, assault or by poisoning.
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'Wire' actress 'Snoop' arrested on drug charges
Sun reporterFelicia "Snoop" Pearson, the actress who played a cold-blooded killer of the same name on the HBO series The Wire, was arrested on minor drug charges Thursday after police picked her up for refusing to cooperate as a witness in a murder trial, records...Tags: Trials, Juvenile Delinquency, Prosecution, Punishment, Witnesses
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News from around Wisconsin at 6:58 p.m. CDT
A Ladysmith man's conviction this week for strangling a woman 32 years ago may seem like the high drama of the CBS television show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." But the idea only made the northern Wisconsin police chief whose department led the...Tags: National Government, Fires, Ronald Reagan, Punishment, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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Man slain at West Side gas station
A man was fatally shot early Thursday while pumping fuel at a gas station on Chicago's West Side. Police said he appeared to have been targeted. The shooting happened about 12:20 a.m. in the 5100 block of West Chicago Avenue in the South Austin...Tags: Douglas, Downstream Oil and Gas Activities, West Chicago, Austin, Vehicles
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Glendale Heights man offers to plead guilty to setting 2 sons on fire
Chicago Tribune reporterThe Glendale Heights man accused of murdering his two young sons by setting them on fire has offered to plead guilty and spend the rest of his life in prison in an effort to avoid the death penalty. Kaushik Patel could make the plea as soon as his next...Tags: Trials, Death Penalty, Criminal Laws, Prosecution, Naperville
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Gamber landlord charged with attempted murder of tenant
Sun reporterA 66-year-old Gamber landlord has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting and assault of a tenant who had come to pay his rent, state police in Westminster said today. Glenn Allen George, 46, had gone to the Niner Road home of his landlord,...Tags: Defense, Assault, Firearms
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Man, 18, acquitted of murder in Dundalk robbery, slaying
Sun reporterA Baltimore County jury acquitted 18-year-old Jason Michael Hammonds of murder and robbery charges today in the death of a Dundalk man who police say was beaten during a burglary last year, a prosecutor said. Hammonds was convicted of fourth-degree...Tags: Punishment, Theft, Prisons, Dundalk, Assault
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Allentown man charged in city homicide
An Allentown man has been charged in the Aug. 10 homicide of a 20-year-old Allentown man in the city, according to an arrest affidavit. Melvin Velazquez, 18, of 2027 Vine St., was charged today in the shooting of Jameel Clark, 20. Velazquez is accused...Tags: Lehigh County, Allentown, Jim Martin
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Homeless man indicted in murder
A Peoria County grand jury has returned a one-count indictment charging a homeless man with first-degree murder in the death of an 18-year-old woman. A maintenance worker doing his morning rounds at Sterling Middle School on July 29 found the body of...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Assault
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Rell Offers $50,000 Reward In Mansfield Murder Case
Courant Staff WriterGov. M. Jodi Rell today announced that she has authorized a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the 2005 killing of Anne Caro, a Mansfield mother of two. Caro was found strangled to death in...Tags: Executive Branch, Tolland (Tolland, Connecticut), Witnesses, Government, Prosecution
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Father seeks to duck death penalty in burning case
A suburban Chicago man accused of killing his two sons by dousing them with gasoline and setting them on fire has offered to plead guilty. DuPage County Public Defender Robert Miller said in court Thursday that the offer depends on prosecutors...Tags: Punishment, Trials, Assault, Glendale Heights
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'Toot': Obama grandmother a force that shaped him
AP National WriterSen. Barack Obama is a poker man, but his grandmother's game of choice is bridge. Duplicate bridge, to be exact. In poker, a good player can still bluff his way through a lousy hand. In duplicate bridge, different sets of players are made to play the...Tags: National Government, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Sharon Cohen, Family, Emily Bronte
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Pottsville man charged in 1985 death of 13-year-old
A Pottsville man was charged today in the 1985 killing of a 13-year-old boy. Today is the 23rd anniversary of the boy's disappearance.
Joseph P. Geiger was charged this afternoon in the death of David Reed of Schuylkill Haven, whose body was found in a...Tags: Ceremonies, Witnesses, Society, Prosecution
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