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2 hrs ago | The Boston Globe

George W. Bush visits Fort Hood, wounded soldiers

Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, have visited wounded soldiers and their families after the mass shooting at Fort Hood.

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Related Topix: US Army, US Military, Fort Hood, George Bush

6 hrs ago | The State

Stepfather convicted in death of 'Baby Grace'

Two years after the remains of a toddler who came to be known as "Baby Grace" were dumped in Galveston Bay, the child's stepfather was convicted of capital murder in her beating death.

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Related Topix: Texas, Houston Metro, Galveston Metro, Galveston, TX

10 hrs ago | WABC

Jury convicts 'too fat to kill' man

A jury rejected a Florida man's claims that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs and killed his former son-in-law, convicting him Friday of murder.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Fort Pierce Metro, Fort Pierce, FL

Fri Nov 06, 2009

ClipSyndicate

Man arrested in fatal drive-by shooting

Man arrested in fatal drive-by shooting

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Related Topix: Sports, Video

KVAL-TV Eugene

Police shoot person of interest in Seattle officer's murder

Just after a memorial service for slain Seattle police Officer Tim Brenton concluded Friday afternoon, officers shot and arrested a man described as a person of interest in his killing.

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KIDK CBS 3 - News, Weather and Sport...

1 dead in Orlando shootings; gunman caught

A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, killing one person and injuring five others.

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BBC News

Killer 'raped to re-enact attack'

A convicted murderer released from his life sentence on parole raped a woman to re-enact elements of a murder he committed 22 years ago, a court heard.

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Related Topix: Prison

Arkansas Online

Rape victim testifies in Vance trial

A woman purportedly raped by the man accused of killing a Little Rock television personality last year told jurors at his capital murder trial that she likely survived because she didna t fight back.

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WPMT-TV York

Obama mourns 'horrific' violence at Fort Hood

President Barack Obama lamented "a horrific outburst of violence'' in the killings of a dozen soldiers and wounding of 31 more people at Fort Hood Army Base in Texas today.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Fort Hood, TX, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Thu Nov 05, 2009

WVLT-TV Knoxville

Leon Houston retrial underway in Roane County

Rocky Houston's retrial is underway in Roane County for the shootout killings of Roane County Deputy Bill Jones and his ride-along friend Mike Brown.

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CNN

Iowa mother guilty of killing son, 2

Michelle Kehoe was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Jury of eight women, four men deliberated for less than two hours Michelle Kehoe slashed sons' throats, left them for dead, tried to kill herself Iowa jury heard tape of surviving boy telling police his mother cut him, hurt brother Kehoe's lawyers argued that ...

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Related Topix: Grundy Center, IA, Coralville, IA

The Boston Globe

Iraqi held in Ariz. honor killing on suicide watch

A court hearing in Phoenix for an Iraqi immigrant accused of killing his daughter because she had become too Westernized has been delayed because he is on a suicide watch.

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Related Topix: Maricopa County, AZ

WWL-TV New Orleans

List of well-known serial murder cases

Anthony Sowell of Cleveland has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder.

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Related Topix: Prison, Chicago Metro

KFOR-TV Oklahoma City

Hearing set for pharmacist in killing

A judge will decide whether a pharmacist accused of gunning down a 16-year-old boy during a robbery in south Oklahoma City should be tried for first-degree murder.

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Related Topix: Oklahoma City Metro, Oklahoma City, OK, Oklahoma County, OK

Wed Nov 04, 2009

WHDH

Competency evaluation delayed in museum shooting

Officials at a prison hospital say chronic medical problems are complicating a psychiatric evaluation for the 89-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a guard at Washington's Holocaust museum.

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Related Topix: Prison, Butner, NC

Las Vegas Sun

DC sniper calls himself 'this innocent black man'

Attorneys for John Allen Muhammad released a May 2008 letter on Wednesday in which the mastermind of the deadly 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area proclaims his innocence.

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CourierPostOnline

Closing arguments begin in 'too fat to kill' trial

The lawyer for a Florida man who claims he's too fat to have killed his former son-in-law told jurors on Wednesday all they have to do is is look at his client to see that he's obese, old, and in no condition to commit such a murder.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Fort Pierce Metro, Fort Pierce, FL

KSALLink.com

Two Brothers Involved in Separate Homicide Cases

A Lyons man charged in the death of his girlfriend has a brother who has been convicted in a separate murder in Barton County.

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Related Topix: Barton County, KS

KTHV-TV Little Rock

Ex-Police Officer Competent For Murder Trial

A former Murfreesboro police officer has been found mentally competent to stand trial for murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend.

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Related Topix: Murfreesboro, AR, Nashville, AR

StarTribune

Murder, other charges filed against 14-year-old California boy accused of killing 4-year-old

Prosecutors have filed murder and other charges against a 14-year-old central California boy accused in the death of a 4-year-old neighbor boy, whose body was found in a clothes dryer at the teen's home.

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Related Topix: Fresno County, CA

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