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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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Fatal train shooting inflames tensions between authorities, black residents in Oakland, Calif.
Associated Press WritersOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The videotaped killing of an unarmed black man by a transit police officer here has inflamed long-running tensions between police and many African-American residents. Public outrage at the New Year's Day slaying of 22-year-...Tags: Minority Groups, New Year's Day, California, Police Investigations, NAACP
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Man to face trial in '95 slaying of Ann Arbor teen
A man awaiting trial in a 2001 triple slaying in Washtenaw County is headed to trial in an unrelated murder. Thirty-four-year-old Deondre Byrd pleaded not guilty Friday to open murder in the 1995 death of 16-year-old Tamara Stewart of Ann Arbor....Tags: Trials, Crimes
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Bond set at $5M for boyfriend in stabbing death
A Will County judge has ordered the boyfriend of a 21-year-old woman who was found dead of multiple stab wounds held on $5 million bond. Jeramy J. Green of Joliet faces two counts of first-degree murder in the death of 21-year-old Brittany Brooks of...Tags: Assault, Joliet, Crimes
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Man faces obstruction charge in father's death
Authorities have charged a northeast Iowa man with obstruction of prosecution, saying he failed to cooperate with an investigation into his father's death. Police charged Nathan McKinney on Friday, two days after he testified in the first degree-...Tags: Trials, Iowa, Prosecution, Crimes
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Teens arrested in home-invasion shooting death
Two teenagers have been arrested in the shooting death of an 84-year-old man and the wounding of his 77-year-old wife at their rural Brown County home. Charges against 17-year-old Bennie Reed of rural Brown county include murder, attempted murder and...Tags: Court Administration, Death and Dying, Justice System, People, Assault
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Antigo man sent to prison in fatal motel crash
A 59-year-old Antigo man convicted of driving drunk, plowing his sport utility vehicle through a motel room and killing a man sleeping there was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison. Stephen VanVleit had pleaded no contest to three felonies --...Tags: Vehicles, Judges, Prisons, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Alaska
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News from around Wisconsin at 6:58 p.m. CST
Basic American Foods plans to close its Plover operations, with layoffs to start in March and affect about 106 workers. The state Department of Workforce Development said Friday the company had filed a notice that the plant will close Sept. 1, but...Tags: Vehicles, Unemployment, Referenda, Prisons, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Police make arrest in homicide on Pulaski Highway
A 48-year-old Southeast Baltimore man has been arrested and charged in the shooting death of a 37-year-old man last month. According to charging documents, Brian Carlos Smith was walking on Dec. 10 just a few blocks from his home in the 3000 block of...Tags: Assault, Police, Police Arrests, Crimes
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Police investigate shooting in Southwest Baltimore
Baltimore police are investigating a shooting that occurred last night in Southwest Baltimore. Few details were available this morning, but police said an adult man was shot in the 5000 block of Dickey Hill Road about 10:50 p.m. A source with knowledge...Tags: Police Investigations, Police, Crimes
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Woman at hearing: Ex-boyfriend stabbed her mother to death
An Allentown woman testified this morning that her former boyfriend killed her mother and then stabbed her repeatedly during a vicious July 2005 attack in her home, where she begged him to spare her life and think of her children. Yalibe Feliz was...Tags: Lehigh County, Trials, Allentown, Crimes
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Federal appeals court reinstates human rights lawsuit against ex-Somali PM, now living in Va.
Associated Press WriterALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has reinstated a human rights lawsuit against a former prime minister of Somalia who is accused of overseeing killings and other atrocities. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond ruled...Tags: Judges, Laws, Abusive Behavior, California, Court Administration
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Ex-'Sopranos' actor gets 10 years for botched burglary that ended with NY police death
Associated Press WriterNEW YORK (AP) — A former actor on "The Sopranos" was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a botched burglary in the Bronx in which an accomplice shot and killed an off-duty police officer. A jury acquitted Lillo Brancato Jr. of second-degree...Tags: New Jersey, Court Administration, Police Investigations, Prisons, Robert De Niro
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