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23 min ago | WDTN-TV Dayton

Ex-Bear Stearns execs agree to charges

Two former Bear Stearns executives reached settlements Monday with federal regulators over civil charges they mislead investors about risky mortgage securities when the housing market was collapsing.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Law

3 hrs ago | The Kansas City Star

Prosecutor: Man killed Md. trooper to get revenge

A man upset about being thrown out of a restaurant returned to exact revenge by shooting the off-duty Maryland state trooper who was working security there and had told him to leave, a prosecutor said Monday.Jurors heard opening statements in the trial of Cyril Cornelius Williams, who is charged with first-degree murder in the June 2010 death of ... (more)

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Law, Forestville, MD

5 hrs ago | OregonLive.com

Competing snitches in 9 Ohio arson deaths retrial

The defense for a man whose conviction in nine arson deaths was overturned over unreliable jailhouse snitches has its own newly found cellblock informant for a possible second trial, creating a snitch vs.

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Related Topix: Ohio, US News, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Law, US Politics

9 hrs ago | Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Judge: Sandusky can see grandkids, have local jury

In this Feb. 10, 2012 file photo, Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach charged with sexually abusing boys, speaks to the media at the Centre County Courthouse after a bail conditions hearing, in Bellefonte, Pa.

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14 hrs ago | WisInfo

Bill would end victims' testimony against their attackers at preliminary hearings

Madison - Wisconsin crime victims wouldn't have to testify against their attackers during the early stages of their cases under a Republican bill making its way through the Legislature.

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Related Topix: Law, Wisconsin, Madison, WI

18 hrs ago | San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Our View: Munnecke case: Why were charges filed?

WHEN a law-enforcement agency as sophisticated and large as the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reopens a cold case that's eight years old, spends more than a year and a half investigating it, comes up with what it says is irrefutable DNA evidence and then arrests a suspect and holds him in lieu of $1 million in bail, you would think ... (more)

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Sun Feb 12, 2012

Denver Post

Colorado family wrestles with mystery of teen son's disappearance, death

Josh Churchwell's younger brother Avery, 7, left, looks at pictures of Josh as their mother Jan sits nearby at their home in Burlington last week.

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Related Topix: Burlington, CO, Law, Watkins, CO, Adams County, CO

FOX Carolina

Man charged in plot to kill Utah governor

Brian Biff Baker was charged Friday in Salt Lake City's 3rd District Court with felony counts of drug and weapons possession, along with a misdemeanor count of threatening elected officials.

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Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Drugs, Salt Lake County, UT, Law

NEWS.com.au

Killing law under fire by victims groups

Rob Stary, a spokesman for the Law Institute of Victoria's criminal law section, represented both women who successfully argued they had killed as an act of defensive homicide.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Law

Contra Costa Times

Rodeo and Crockett women are first in county to be prosecuted under tough new truancy law

The first two Contra Costa parents charged under a tough new state truancy law were supposed to be arraigned last week, but one was late and the other did not show up at all.

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Related Topix: Law, Rodeo, CA, Crockett, CA, Contra Costa County, CA, Family, Kids, Education Etc.

ABC 27

2nd suspect arrested in Philly triple killing

Police arrested Nalik Shariff Scott on Saturday. They announced the arrest of Ibrahim Muhammed on Friday.

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The Times Leader

Sandusky says people have turned against him

Jerry Sandusky walked out of a courthouse Friday where a judge was considering whether to let him see his relatives and friends while he awaits trial on child sex-abuse charges and told reporters Friday he felt people have turned on him.

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Sat Feb 11, 2012

WFMJ-TV Youngstown

Trial ordered in fatal fight between Pa. teenagers

An eastern Pennsylvania teenager has been ordered to stand trial in the stabbing death of another teen following a fight at a playground last fall.

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Related Topix: Family, Teenagers, Pennsylvania, Law

The Daily Pleasantville

Ex-Senator Spano Apologizes for Tax Charges

After former state Sen. Nicholas Spano pleaded guilty Friday to filing fraudulent tax returns and failing to report income, he and his attorney addressed reporters outside of the federal courthouse.

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Related Topix: Law, White Plains, NY

Gouverneur Times

Court ruling could prompt more deportation reviews

A federal appeals court's decision to delay the deportation of seven illegal immigrants until the Obama administration re-evaluates their cases could encourage thousands of other illegal immigrants to seek similar rulings and could open the door to uncomfortable questions about the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S, experts said.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, Illegal Immigration, Prison, Law, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Inside Bay Area

Menlo Park hedge fund manager accused of insider trading in Google, other stocks

A Menlo Park hedge fund manager was charged on Friday with making $900,000 illegally on inside information about three technology companies, the latest strand of the high-profile Galleon Group prosecutions against money managers and traders.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Financial Markets, Polycom, Marvell Technology Group, Law

The Day

Connecticut ex-cop gets 10-year sentence for child pornography

A former police captain was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for amassing what authorities said was one of the largest and most disturbing child pornography collections they've ever seen in Connecticut, one that included images of infants and toddlers.

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Fri Feb 10, 2012

CBS News

Officer sentenced for on-duty sex crimes

SAN DIEGO &#8212 A veteran San Diego police officer was sentenced Friday to nearly nine years in prison for on-duty sexual battery and other crimes that were part of an embarrassing string of officer misconduct incidents that prompted major reforms in the department protecting the nation's eighth-largest city.

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The Capital-Journal

U. Mich.: Child porn case spurs outside review

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - University of Michigan officials said Friday they have ordered an outside review of campus security in the wake of a botched response to child pornography found on a medical resident's computer flash drive.

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Related Topix: Ann Arbor, MI, Law, Penn State University Park

KWQC-TV Davenport

Father-in-law dragged deeper into Powell saga

In this Aug. 23, 2011 file photo, Josh Powell, husband of missing Utah woman Susan Cox Powell, walks to a court hearing in Tacoma, Wash.

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