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Accuracy of Detroit police crime lab is questioned

2008-04-26T17:51:58Z

All firearms investigations temporarily suspended BY ERIC D. LAWRENCE and BEN SCHMITT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS April 26, 2008 The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office plans to review a year's worth of Detroit criminal cases involving firearms amid co...

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Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations’

2008-04-26T06:41:18Z

By ADAM LIPTAK The New York Times Published: April 23, 2008 The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisone...

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83-Year-Old Woman Foils Purse Snatcher

2008-03-16T05:26:24Z

Saturday, March 15, 2008 SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- An 83-year-old great-grandmother thwarted a would-be purse snatcher with a gas nozzle and an iron grip. Bernie Garcia said a young man approached her at a gas station as she was buying fuel for her...

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Egypt Catches Mummy Smugglers

2008-03-13T05:21:09Z

By MAGGIE MICHAEL The Associated Press Wednesday, March 12, 2008 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Egyptian police confiscated four ancient mummies on Wednesday and arrested three antiquities smugglers who had stolen them from an ancient graveyard, a security...

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Ex-Official, Jailed in Md., Found With Handcuff Key

2008-03-06T02:36:18Z

By Ruben Castaneda Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 5, 2008 Former Prince George's County homeland security official Keith A. Washington, jailed awaiting sentencing for fatally shooting a furniture deliveryman and wounding another, w...

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Authorities bust global online child porn ring

2008-03-06T02:11:58Z

22 arrests, more than 400,000 pieces of porn seized By LARA JAKES JORDAN ASSOCIATED PRESS March 5, 2008 WASHINGTON — After James Freeman was vetted and approved for membership in what police describe as a highly sophisticated child porn network, ...

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Roseville police: Boy, 13, stabs 16-year-old brother

2008-03-03T05:02:53Z

3/01/2008 ROSEVILLE, Mich. (AP) - Authorities say a 13-year-old boy stabbed his 16-year-old brother in the back in Roseville. The Detroit News reports police in the Detroit suburb were called Friday following a report of a domestic disturbance. ...

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Stop thief, why are you wearing that hanger?

2008-03-02T19:50:06Z

Wed Feb 27, 2008 by Dave Graham BERLIN (Reuters) - An elderly German who hid a stolen suit under his clothes was caught because he forgot to take it off the hanger, police said Wednesday. A sales assistant at a men's outfitter in the western c...

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Deputy Dumps Disabled Man From Wheelchair

2008-02-13T22:20:40Z

Four Deputies Suspended February 13, 2008 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Four sheriff's deputies have been suspended after a paralyzed man was tipped out of his wheelchair at a Florida jail. Jail surveillance footage from Jan. 29 shows a veteran deputy du...

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China Party boss killing likely to worry Beijing

2008-02-13T22:17:30Z

by Guo Shipeng and Benjamin Kang Lim Wednesday, February 13, 2008 BEIJING (Reuters) - A police chief in north China shot dead a senior local Communist Party official and a woman before killing himself, fanning speculation of a seamy corruption sc...

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