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Parks Boss Had 3400 Porn Pics; Feds Avert Gaze

Report overlooks Gettysburg chief's thing for on-the-job sex shots

Oct 19, 09 3:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - A federal investigative report has cleared a parks official even though he pored over thousands of porn pics on his computer while he was supposed to be working. The superintendent of the popular Gettysburg National Military Park was cleared of misconduct accusations linked to financial dealings with the Gettysburg Foundation,... More »

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investigation • Gettysburg • federal • parks • federal agencies • porn industry • internet pornography • federal official

 Sweat-Lodge Deaths 
 Seen as Homicide 

Self-help expert James Arthur Ray now 'person of interest' in investigation

Oct 15, 09 8:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities are now treating as homicide the two deaths during a sweat-lodge ritual in Arizona last week, with the self-help guru who was in charge of the proceedings being called a “person of interest.” Investigators have found “indications” the deaths weren’t accidental, but wouldn’t explain.... More »

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investigation • Oprah Winfrey • homicide • James Arthur Ray • sweat lodge • Sedona • Angel Valley Retreat Center • person of interest • sweat lodge survivor

Dogs Might Have Found Human Remains at Garridos'

Two separate canines indicate scent; cops will delve further tomorrow

Sep 17, 09 9:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two dogs trained to sniff out human remains, working separately, alerted police today to the possibility on the property belonging to northern California kidnap-rape suspects Phillip and Nancy Garrido, CNN reports. Authorities are also looking for evidence to connect the couple to the 1980s disappearances of girls from nearby towns,... More »

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investigation • crime • kidnapping • dogs • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Nancy Garrido • Antioch, Calif. • Michaela Garecht • Ilene Misheloff

 Jaycee Dugard: 
 I Want My 
 Pets Back 

Menagerie includes two dogs, five cats, birds

Sep 17, 09 7:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jaycee Dugard wants back a group of pets she raised while in captivity in a northern California backyard, animal-control officials tell the San Francisco Chronicle. “We are very hopeful that it’s going to happen as soon as possible,” one says of the menagerie, which includes two dogs,... More »

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pets • investigation • rape • Animal Control • child abduction • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Nancy Garrido • Antioch, Calif.

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 Annie Le Suspect Is Released

Raymond Clark is engaged to live-in girlfriend Jennifer Hromadka

Sep 16, 09 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Raymond Clark, the lab tech "person of interest" who was picked up by police last night in connection with Yale grad student Annie Le’s murder, was released this morning after DNA samples were taken, CNN reports. Clark shares his apartment with the girlfriend he is engaged to marry... More »

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investigation • Yale University • murder • Yale • Annie Le • Raymond Clark

 FBI Opens Probe 
 Into 'Stolen' 
 Jackie O Letter 

Kennedy plumber's son sold it to dealer for $6K

Sep 13, 09 7:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into a condolence letter written by Jackie Kennedy on the day after Robert Kennedy died, the Dallas Morning News reports. Sent to Ethel Kennedy, the two-page letter soon disappeared—and turned up 10 years ago in the home of the Kennedy family plumber.... More »

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investigation • FBI • Ethel Kennedy • letter • Jackie Onassis • Robert Kennedy

 FBI Sifts Trash for Clues 
 to Missing Yalie 

Investigators hope for hints in lab garbage

Sep 13, 09 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The FBI began investigating today a Hartford trash facility for any clues to the disappearance of Yale student Annie Le, the Hartford Courant reports. A spokesman says the FBI is looking for evidence in garbage from a New Haven laboratory where Le was last seen. Investigators have also started reviewing... More »

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investigation • FBI • New Haven • Connecticut • disappearance • Yale • Hartford • Annie Le

 Baseball Won't Punish 
 A-Rod Over Doping 

MLB closing investigation into whether he lied

Sep 12, 09 10:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - MLB will not discipline Alex Rodriguez after investigating whether he lied to baseball officials about using steroids, the New York Times reports. In March, Rodriguez admitted to investigators and the public that he had used performance-enhancing drugs, but only from 2001 to 2003. After a book published in April... More »

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investigation • steroids • MLB • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • performance-enhancing drugs • Selena Roberts • Angel Persinal

 LA Fire Began as Arson: Feds  

With blaze having killed 2 firefighters, sheriff begins homicide investigation

Sep 3, 09 8:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The wildfire that has burned 144,000 acres north of Los Angeles was set by arsonists, the US Forest Service said this afternoon. With the blaze having killed two firefighters, authorities are now treating the matter as homicide, KTLA-TV reports, and the LA County Sheriff’s Department has begun an... More »

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investigation • crime • Los Angeles • firefighters • homicide • arson • California wildfires • Station fire • Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

ANALYSIS

Teen to Blame for Exploding iPhone? So Says Apple

Company points finger as EU launches inquiry

Aug 29, 09 5:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tales of spontaneously combusting iPhones across Europe may be fodder for easy jokes, but the whole "business is no laughing matter," writes JR Raphael for PC World. The EU has opened a formal inquiry into the latest incident, in which a French teenager says an exploding screen sent... More »

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investigation • iPhone • European Union • France • Apple • iPod • consumer protection

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The Memorial Killings:
What Katrina Doctors Did

Report details how staff responded to agonizing situation

Aug 28, 09 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the staff at one New Orleans hospital faced a torturous dilemma: For critically ill patients who would have to be carried down as many as 8 flights of stairs and back up to the roof of a garage, evacuation seemed impossible. With rumors of... More »

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Hurricane Katrina • investigation • New Orleans • euthanasia • Dr. Anna Pou • riots • doctors • medical emergency • ProPublica

 Crime Show Host 
 Ordered Murders 
 for Killer Ratings 

Politician's crime show 'went as far as creating facts'

Aug 12, 09 12:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Brazilian politician is suspected of commissioning killings to boost ratings for his crime show, the Guardian reports. Wallace Souza has asserted that the city of Manaus is crime-ridden; he’s suspected of ordering at least 5 deaths to make his case. The show “had an uncanny knack for... More »

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television • investigation • crime • Brazil • murder • drug trafficking • Wallace Souza

 Murder Charges 
 'Unlikely' in 
 Jacko Case 

Docs not suspects, says insider

Jul 19, 09 8:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite “a lot of hysteria,” there likely won't be murder charges in Michael Jackson’s death, a top law enforcement official tells the Los Angeles Times. “There's nothing I have been told that would suggest a murder charge. It's just so remote and so unsupported by the... More »

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music • investigation • drugs • pop music • doctor • Michael Jackson • murder charges

ANALYSIS

Ensign Facing
an Ethical Hot Potato, but no Legal Case (Yet)

Ex-lover would have
to make accusation

Jul 15, 09 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - The husband of John Ensign’s ex-mistress has accused the Republican senator of sexual harassment and wrongful termination—but there can be no legal case unless Cindy Hampton herself accuses Ensign of unwanted advances or creating a hostile work environment, experts tell Politico. Thus far, she’s the only one... More »

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investigation • sexual harassment • Senate Republicans • John Ensign • Senate Ethics Committee • wrongful termination • scandal • Cindy Hampton • Doug Hampton

Obama: Probe 
Alleged Afghan 
Mass Grave 

Prez reacts to report that 2K Taliban POWs were killed

Jul 12, 09 5:40 PM CDT
(AP) - President Obama has ordered his national security team to investigate reports that US allies were responsible for the deaths of as many as 2,000 Taliban prisoners of war during the opening days of the war in Afghanistan. Obama told CNN in an interview that aired today that he doesn't... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • Taliban • investigation • war crimes • mass graves

 La Toya: 'Michael Was Murdered'


Jul 12, 09 6:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Jackson was "murdered" by a shadowy entourage of handlers who were after his money, says his angry sister La Toya. "I believe Michael was murdered. Not just one person was involved, rather it was a conspiracy of people," she tells the Daily Mail. "Michael was... More »

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investigation • drugs • crime • murder • addiction • Michael Jackson • Joe Jackson • La Toya Jackson

(Newser) - The Bush administration stonewalled human rights organizations and branches of the US government that sought an investigation into the alleged mass murder of Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan in 2001, the New York Times reports. As many as 1,500 people may have died in the incident, under the command... More »

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Afghanistan • Bush administration • Taliban • investigation • FBI • human rights • war crimes • Department of Defense • Northern Alliance • Obama administration • mass graves • Abdul Rashid Dostum

(Newser) - Australia is looking into allegations that a group of sailors ran a sex betting ring on the high seas, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Female members of the HMAS Success crew told officials that a group of sailors kept a betting book—known as "The Ledger"—to see... More »

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investigation • Australia • sailor • probe • sex crime • sex discrimination

(AP) - A French investigator says Air France Flight 447 did not break up in flight but plunged vertically into the Atlantic Ocean. Alain Bouillard, leading the investigation into the June 1 crash for the French accident investigation agency BEA, also says life vests found among the wreckage of the plane were... More »

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investigation • France • plane crash • Air France • Air France Flight 447

Jackson Doc Hires Attorney
to Meet LAPD

Cops question Murray just to 'fill in blanks,' lawyer says

Jun 27, 09 4:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dr. Conrad Murray, the man at the center of suspicion surrounding Michael Jackson’s death, hired a lawyer before meeting again with police today, the Los Angeles Times reports. But Murray’s attorney says authorities have assured him the cardiologist isn’t a suspect. “We’ve been told more... More »

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investigation • Los Angeles • autopsy • death • LAPD • Michael Jackson • Conrad Murray

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