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 Informant: Italian Mafia Sank 
 Ship Carrying Nuke Waste 

Authorities have pinpointed ship, but haven't confirmed contents

Sep 15, 09 6:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Italian authorities are investigating an informant’s claim that the mafia sank a ship containing nuclear waste off the country’s southwest coast, the BBC reports. Underwater cameras show the ship intact, with barrels nearby marked as containing toxic contents; the informant says that organized crime has gotten into the... More »

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crime • Italy • radioactive • nuclear waste • Mafia • shipping • Calabria • environmental damage • informant • waste disposal

Garridos Suspect in
2 More Cases

Area cops looking to demolish home in search for evidence

Sep 15, 09 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bay Area police are searching Philip Garrido’s home and adjacent properties for evidence of two kidnappings in the late 1980s similar to the abduction of Jaycee Dugard, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Nine-year-old Michaela Garecht was kidnapped in 1988 from nearby Hayward, while 13-year-old Ilene Misheloff was taken... More »

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California • crime • kidnapping • abduction • police investigation • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Nancy Garrido • Michaela Garecht • Ilene Misheloff

 High-Profile 
 Murders 
 Haunt Yale 

Race and class issues feature heavily in killings from past

Sep 15, 09 5:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Graduate student Annie Le's murder is just the latest in a series of high-profile killings to rock Yale University in recent history, reports Gawker, which dubs the university "Murdertown of the Ivies." The Yale killings too often feature a troubling mix of race, class, and bungling by authorities,... More »

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Yale University • Ivy League • crime • murder • New Haven • manslaughter • Annie Le

(Newser) - Hundreds of students and faculty members turned out tonight on the campus of Yale University, NECN reports, for a candlelight vigil in memory of Annie Le, the 24-year-old grad student found dead yesterday on the New Haven, Conn., campus. Le’s body was discovered inside a wall in a lab... More »

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Yale University • crime • murder • vigil • candlelight • graduate student • Annie Le

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 Yale Student's 
 Body Found: Cops 

Annie Le's remains recovered on her would-be wedding day

Sep 13, 09 8:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - A body believed to be that of a Yale graduate student missing since Tuesday has been found, the New Haven Independent reports. Annie Le, 24, had last been seen in the building that housed her lab; "we are assuming" the remains found within a wall in the basement... More »

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Yale University • crime • New Haven • homicide • Connecticut • graduate student • Annie Le

Ex-Ky. Politico Was Losing It, Pals Say

Divorce, dad's death plagued him before attempted suicide

Sep 13, 09 4:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - A divorce, his father’s death, and a domestic violence order sent Steve Nunn spinning out of control, friends tell the Lexington Herald-Leader. The former Kentucky state lawmaker's attempted suicide and arrest on Friday, hours after his ex-fiancée was gunned down, were only the latest lows in a long... More »

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crime • Kentucky • assault • suicide attempt • Steve Nunn • Amanda Ross

 UC Settles 
 Suits in 
 Embryo 
 Thefts 

'Our kids are still out there,' says heartbroken mom

Sep 11, 09 2:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - The University of California Board of Regents has quietly paid $4.2 million to settle a dozen lawsuits linked to doctors who stole embryos in an Irvine fertility clinic, reports the Los Angeles Times. The physicians fled the US after it was discovered 14 years ago that they moved eggs... More »

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fertility • crime • theft • lawsuit • settlement • fertility treatment • University of California Irvine • fertility clinic • UC Irvine • doctors • settlements • UC

'Homophobic Attack' Kills Diplomat in Jamaica

'This is what will happen to all Gays,' warns note with body

Sep 11, 09 1:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British diplomat was found severely beaten and strangled in his Jamaica home in what police believe was a homophobic attack, reports the Telegraph. A note was found with John Terry's body referring to the 65-year-old married father as gay, using a Jamaican slur. “This is what will happen... More »

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crime • murder • Jamaica • diplomat • Montego Bay • gay • anti-gay slur • naked • John Terry

 Bone Found Near 
 Jaycee's Prison 
 'Probably Human'

But authorities say it could be from Native American burial ground; more tests needed

Sep 8, 09 7:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The bone fragment found in the backyard next door to the home of kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido is “probably human,” authorities tell the Sacramento Bee—though they caution that more tests are needed, and that Native American remains are often found in that area of northern California. Garrido,... More »

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crime • kidnapping • abduction • Native Americans • child rape • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Antioch, Calif. • false imprisonment • bone fragment • Contra Costa County, Calif.

Teenage Brit Jockeys
Killed in Arson

Police have arrested suspected arsonist in his 30s

Sep 6, 09 7:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two promising apprentice jockeys were killed yesterday in a suspected arson fire set at their apartment building in northern England. "Apprentice of the season" Jamie Kyne, 18, was found dead along with female jockey Jan Wilson, 19, in Kyne's apartment where several riders had gathered for a party. Two... More »

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crime • horse racing • murder • England • arson • jockeys • North Yorkshire

Man Who Called Cops Charged
in Ga. Killings

7 of 8 dead at trailer park were related to Guy Heinze, 22

Sep 4, 09 8:18 PM CDT
(AP) - A 22-year-old man was charged today with killing eight people whose deaths he had reported to police in a frantic phone call from his family's Georgia mobile home. Guy Heinze Jr. was arrested on eight counts of first-degree murder in the slayings last weekend near the coastal community of Brunswick.... More »

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crime • murder • Georgia • family • mobile home • killings • trailer park • Guy Heinze

 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

Now Who Needs Health Care?

SoCal rally turns ugly when reform opponent has finger bitten off; perp on the lam

Sep 3, 09 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A pro-health care reform event in southern California turned surreally bloody last night, NBC Los Angeles reports. Opponents of the effort turned out to oppose supporters organized by MoveOn.org, and when a supporter crossed the street to challenge the other group, a brawl ensued. During the fisticuffs, a 65-year-old... More »

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crime • violence • MoveOn • health care reform • protesters • severed finger • President Obama • brawl • NBC Local

(Newser) - Kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard feels guilty about being snatched off the streets as a child and held captive for 18 years, her mother has told Jaycee's grandmother. She "feels guilty that she was kidnapped and for not having called her mom or dad or anyone—even though she was... More »

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California • crime • kidnapping • rape • kidnapper • child rape • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Nancy Garrido • Antioch, Calif.

Cops Find Bone Fragment Next Door to Garrido

Unclear if it's human
or animal; investigators still searching area

Aug 31, 09 7:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities found a bone fragment on the property next door to where Phillip Garrido held Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years, the Contra Costa Times reports—though police aren’t yet sure if the bone is human or animal. A spokesman says investigators and dogs are still combing the... More »

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crime • kidnapping • bone • search • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Antioch, Calif. • bone fragment

8th Victim Dies
in Trailer Park Massacre

Family member busted, but cops believe shooter still at large

Aug 31, 09 4:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - An eighth victim has died in a massacre in a Georgia trailer park, reports ABC News. Police have arrested a 22-year-old relative of one of the victims who authorities say called in the deaths on Saturday and was found with drugs. But police believe the killer is still on the... More »

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crime • murder • Georgia • mobile home • mass shootings • trailer park

(Newser) - The California man held in the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard boasts of an ability to "speak in the tongue of angels" granted by "the Creator" in rantings in his religious blog, reports Gawker. The power came to Phillip Garrido after God "removed a problem from my shoulders... More »

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California • crime • kidnapping • child rape • sex assault • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido

 Kidnap Suspect: Real 
 Story 'Heartwarming' 

'It's a disgusting thing that took place with me,' Phillip Garrido says in jailhouse interview

Aug 27, 09 9:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - “It’s a disgusting thing that took place with me,” the man arrested in the 18-year abduction of a California girl tells KRCA-TV in a jailhouse interview. “Wait until you hear the story of what took place at this house,” says Phillip Garrido, 58, of the... More »

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crime • abduction • missing person • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Nancy Garrido • Antioch, Calif.

 Madoff Lover Still 
 Talking About Tiny Penis 

Oh, and forget about her being in the clear—Weinstein says she 'had to know'

Aug 27, 09 8:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sheryl Weinstein is still expounding on Bernie Madoff’s “not very large” penis, most recently to Cindy Adams of the New York Post. “It was narrow,” she says. “Tiny in terms of girth, not length.” Still, he somehow convinced scores of women to sleep... More »

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crime • sex • affair • penis • Ponzi scheme • extramarital affair • Bernard Madoff • Ruth Madoff • Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities • Sheryl Weinstein

OBITUARY

 Writer Dominick 
 Dunne Dead at 83 


Aug 26, 09 7:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dominick Dunne, the best-selling author who covered some of the past two decades’ highest-profile trials for Vanity Fair, died today at 83; his son, actor Griffin Dunne, told the magazine bladder cancer was the cause. Dominick Dunne served in World War II and produced TV shows and feature films before... More »

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Phil Spector • crime • Vanity Fair • celebrity trials • Bill Clinton • impeachment • OJ Simpson • journalism • Dominick Dunne • Graydon Carter • crime novels • bladder cancer • Griffin Dunne

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