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July 2008
- Feds Confiscate Hathaway's Diaries
  
  newser | New York Daily News | Jul 24, 08 12:54 PM CDT
  
  Anne Hathaway could be drawn into the scandal surrounding her ex-boyfriend. The FBI has seized the actress’ diaries, looking for evidence in the fraud investigation against Raffaello Follieri. They also confiscated personal photos of the pair, along with other documents, a Tiffany clock, watches, and an antique Bible. Hathaway hasn’t been accused of anything, and has cut off all contact with Follieri. More »
  
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  crime • FBI • fraud • Anne Hathaway • Raffaello Follieri
- Woman Faces Murder Rap After Baby Is Cut From Teen
  
  newser | Pittsburgh Tribune Review | Jul 20, 08 12:32 PM CDT
  
  Pittsburgh investigators believe a newborn boy brought to a hospital by a woman claiming to be his mother actually was sliced from the uterus of a dead teenager found in the imposter's apartment. Police have identified the victim, who was18 years old and due at the end of the month, reports the Pittsburgh Tribune Review . More »
  
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  murder • crime • baby • Pittsburgh • Andrea Curry-Demus
- 'Ironclad' Authority of DNA Evidence Questioned
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 20, 08 11:47 AM CDT
  
  With odds of a definite match to suspects often cited as high as 1 in 100 billion, the power of DNA evidence in a criminal case is rarely disputed. But new studies are leading some to question whether DNA evidence should be an ironclad determination of guilt, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »
  
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  crime • FBI • DNA evidence
- Phone Dragnet Redefines 'APB'
  
  newser | WBZ 4 | Jul 18, 08 3:50 PM CDT
  
  Foiled in their attempts to track down a hit-and-run driver by conventional means, cops in a Boston suburb are enlisting the help of thousands of city residents—by phone. A BMW struck a 9-year-old girl Saturday, leaving her with a fractured skull and investigators with little info. They sent a recorded message to more than 24,000 households and now have dozens of leads, WBZ-TV reports. More »
  
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  crime • Boston • hit and run
- DA to Prison Board: Don't Free Ailing Manson Killer
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 15, 08 9:30 AM CDT
  
  The Los Angeles County district attorney has asked the California parole board to deny Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins' request for compassionate release from prison. Atkins, who was convicted of seven 1969 murders, is terminally ill with brain cancer. The DA noted that Atkins stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate, tasted her blood, and used it to write the word "Pig" on the victim's door during a murderous Manson Family rampage. More »
  
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  murder • crime • Charles Manson • Sharon Tate • Manson Family • Susan Atkins
- How a Forger Fooled Vermeer-Lovers
  
  newser | NPR | Jul 13, 08 12:23 PM CDT
  
  Johannes Vermeer created only a few dozen paintings in his lifetime, while other major 17th-century artists cranked out 10 times that. That helped a mediocre Dutch painter create convincing forgeries in the 20th century, NPR reports in a look at a new book on one of art's great hoaxes and its undoing. More »
  
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  crime • painting • hoax • artist • forgery
- Where Does All That Seized Money Go?
  
  newser | Economist | Jul 13, 08 5:42 AM CDT
  
  What would you do with a few million in drug money? Last year, state and federal authorities seized about $2 billion from Mexican smugglers. The feds have to put any seized money into a dedicated fund, but the rules are looser for states. In Texas and Georgia, for example, sheriffs and district attorneys get to keep any seized loot for their departments. The Economist takes a look at the issue and the sometimes iffy purchases that result. More »
  
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  Texas • crime • police • War on Drugs • drug cartel • drug war • drug cartels
- Imposter Priest Confessor Nabbed at Vatican
  
  newser | BBC | Jul 6, 08 8:00 AM CDT
  
  A phony priest was stopped just as he was about to hear confessions in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, the BBC reports. The man had on the right clothes and produced valid-looking priestly documents and Vatican ID—"but the expert eye of our personnel didn't need much to sense something strange in his behavior," said a Vatican judge. More »
  
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  crime • Vatican • priest • confession • imposter
- ATM Thefts On the Rise
  
  newser | MSNBC.com | Jul 3, 08 7:25 PM CDT
  
  ATM theft is a labor-intensive crime: You have to steal a pickup, slam it through a gas station storefront, and haul the ATM out. But that’s exactly what an increasing number of criminals are doing, MSNBC reports. From 2000 to 2006, thieves nabbed about 120 ATMs a year across the country. This year, authorities already have reported 140 thefts—in north Texas alone. While that's an extreme example, thefts are up by smaller amounts all over. More »
  
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  crime • bank • theft • GPS • felony • bank robbery • ATM
June 2008
- Metro Workers Busted in Transit Sex Ring
  
  newser | MyFox Washington | Jun 27, 08 4:58 AM CDT
  
  Two workers in the Washington Metro transit system have been busted for running a prostitution ring from one of the train stations, and using a loudspeaker to arrange a tryst, according to police. One of the staffers, a station manager, advertised available "sexual pleasures" in flyers, reports Fox TV. She presented a book of options to an undercover cop that could be obtained on trips to Brazil—or locally, police said. More »
  
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  crime • prostitution • Washington DC • metro
- Game Over for Teens 'Acting Out' Grand Theft Auto
  
  newser | New York Post | Jun 27, 08 2:50 AM CDT
  
  Six bored Long Island teenagers have been busted for acting out the violent themes of the controversial video game Grand Theft Auto IV with a real life spree of break-ins, a mugging, a beating and a carjacking, police charge. "These teens have difficulty separating fact from fiction, fantasy from reality," a detective told the New York Post . "It was quite alarming." More »
  
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  crime • Long Island • Grand Theft Auto IV • carjacking • video violence
- Texas Kids Fed Pills in Forced 'Sex Shows'
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 23, 08 7:10 AM CDT
  
  Four children, the youngest just 5 years old, were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for crowds in a small Texas town, AP reports. Locals had believed the site of the shows was just a swinger’s club. Six adults have been charged in the case, including a parent of children involved; two were convicted and another will be tried today. All three face life in prison. More »
  
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  Texas • crime • child abuse • sexual abuse • sexual assault • Vicodin
- Writer Charged in Murders He Reported
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 23, 08 4:35 AM CDT
  
  Getting the scoop proved costly for a Macedonian journalist who has been charged with the murder of two elderly women after reporting on their deaths in his newspaper. Police began to suspect Vlado Tanevski after realizing his articles about the murders contained details that hadn't been revealed to the public. His DNA was later found on the bodies, AP reports. More »
  
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  murder • crime • journalist • murder trial • Macedonia
- Naomi Ducks Prison Time in Airline Assault
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Jun 21, 08 2:09 PM CDT
  
  Naomi Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of community service and about $5,600 in fines yesterday for her tantrum on a British Airways flight, the London Times reports. She pleaded guilty to assaulting two police officers and berating the pilot after the airline lost her luggage. "You are not leaving until you find my f***ing bags," she allegedly told the captain. More »
  
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  crime • police • assault • British Airways • supermodel • Naomi Campbell
- Supermodel Campbell Owns Up to Air Rage
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 20, 08 11:10 AM CDT
  
  Naomi Campbell pleaded guilty today to kicking and spitting at two police officers during an April "air rage" incident at Heathrow Airport. The short-tempered supermodel went ballistic when a bag was misplaced during the epic delays surrounding the opening of a new terminal. She faces 6 months in prison or a $10,000 fine for each of six assault charges and will be sentenced later. More »
  
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  celebrity • crime • London • assault • Heathrow Airport • guilty plea • Naomi Campbell • Terminal 5 • airport terminal
- Parking Space Spat Leads to Elder Abuse Charges
  
  newser | CBS13 | Jun 19, 08 6:23 PM CDT
  
  A woman in Stockton, Calif., is facing elder-abuse charges after she allegedly attacked a 71-year-old woman who caught her parking in a handicap spot without a permit, CBS reports. The victim says her 26-year-old assailant “put her baby down and came at me with both hands” when she saw the older woman taking a photo of her license plate. The victim was knocked down but not seriously hurt. More »
  
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  crime • senior citizens • parking space • elder abuse
- Sex Trade on Tenterhooks as Biggest Player Faces Trial
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 17, 08 5:45 PM CDT
  
  Hookers and pimps are watching closely as “the most influential man” in US prostitution awaits trial. David Elms founded TheEroticReview.com, a site where users rate prostitutes and leave comments along the lines of Amazon book reviews. Sex traders fear his jailing and the subsequent closing of his site could hurt business, reports the New York Times . More »
  
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  crime • prostitution • trial • escort service
- Not Guilty-Plea From Ex-CEO in Drug, Fraud Rap
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 17, 08 10:36 AM CDT
  
  Broadcom co-founder Henry Nicholas pleaded not guilty yesterday to securities fraud and drug charges, the AP reports. The former microchip king was accused of false accounting as well as dropping ecstasy into associates’ drinks, running a drug warehouse, and using bribery and death threats to keep it all quiet. The company’s former CFO also pleaded not guilty to fraud. More »
  
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  crime • drug dealing • Broadcom • securities fraud
- Dad Fatally Beat Baby Son to Oust 'Demons'
  
  newser | San Francisco Chronicle | Jun 17, 08 4:21 AM CDT
  
  A California grocery clerk shot dead by cops as he fatally beat his baby son did so to oust "demons" in the boy, he told witnesses. He removed his son from his car on a rural road and viciously beat him in front of horrified onlookers who tried in vain to stop him. "Good shot," said one witness after a cop downed him. "That guy needed to die." More »
  
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  murder • crime • death • beatings
- Soldier Faces Death Penalty for Killing Comrades
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 16, 08 8:24 AM CDT
  
  A soldier may soon face court-martial in the deaths of two US officers in Iraq, whom army prosecutors say he killed in a rare instance of “fragging”—the murder of a fellow soldier. The New York Times examines the case of Sgt. Alberto Martinez, who prosecutors say detonated a mine in Captain Phillip Esposito’s quarters in 2005, killing him and another officer. “I’m convinced this was 100% preventable,” said Esposito’s widow. More »
  
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  Iraq • murder • crime • US military • National Guard

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