Mom convinces son he has cancer to scam money from friends, cops allege
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Police have charged a New Jersey mother who allegedly lied and said her son was suffering from cancer in order to deceive friends and loved ones out of thousands of dollars.
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‘Pure evil’: UK father of 17 killed six of his own kids in a house fire
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LONDON — A father was found guilty of starting a fire that killed six of his own children as part of a disastrous plot to frame his former mistress, in a horrific case that has prompted an emotional debate about Britain’s welfare system.
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Murders fall 42 percent in America’s deadliest city: Chicago
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Three months after Chicago notched the most murders in the nation, officials are touting a dramatic downturn in crime.
In the first quarter of the year, murders dropped 42 percent over the same period last year and shootings were down 27 percent — reductions that authorities say were fueled by anti-gang initiatives.
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Young muggers shot baby in head while in stroller, mom says
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SWAT teams went door-to-door in a small coastal Georgia city Friday looking for suspects after a baby was killed and his mom shot a day earlier.
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Man wrongly imprisoned in murder case wins $13.2 million in civil rights lawsuit
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A man who spent 11 years in prison on a murder conviction that was later reversed has won a $13.2 million award in a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Cleveland.
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Drug buyer butt-dials 911, police say, leading to arrest in Oregon
Butt-dialing has led to many embarrassing situations, but police say that for one Oregon drug dealer, it could lead to jail.
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Man shot dead after posting on Facebook: ‘im about to get shot’
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It appears that one of the last things Eric L. Ramsey did before he was shot and killed by police Thursday was to let his friends and family know on Facebook that he was about to die.
“Well folkes im about to get shot. Peace” Ramsey posted on the social network at 3:15 a.m. Jan. 17 using his mobile phone.
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Gabrielle Giffords had ‘staring contest’ with shooter, husband says
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In her first face-to-face confrontation with the man who shot her in the head at close range and killed six others in an Arizona shooting rampage last year, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords locked eyes with Jared Lee Loughner in an intense courtroom scene Thursday.
Loughner, 24, was sentenced to life in prison after killing six people, including a 9-year-old girl, and leaving 13 wounded in a parking lot attack in Tucson during a political rally on Jan. 8, 2011. Giffords, who struggles to walk and has been left partially blind with a paralyzed right arm, stared intently at Loughner while holding hands with her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, as he read an emotional statement to Loughner.
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Tucson shooter sentenced to life after Giffords, other victims confront him
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The man who pleaded guilty to a deadly Arizona shooting rampage that wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been sentenced to life in prison.
U.S. District Judge Larry Burns sentenced 24-year-old Jared Lee Loughner on Thursday for the January 2011 attack that left six people dead and Giffords and others wounded.
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80-year-old charged after tearing down Obama Hitler posters
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In the midst of a heated political season and with the election just weeks away, you expect to see political signs everywhere; but a controversial sign in Hebron, Conn., got a woman riled up, and arrested.
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Shot fired at Obama campaign office in Denver
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Denver police were looking for a person who shot at a campaign office for President Barack Obama on Friday, NBC station KUSA reported.
Police say there were people inside the office at the time of the 3 p.m. shooting, but no one was hit.
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Mom who glued toddler’s hands to wall gets 99-year sentence
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DALLAS — Elizabeth Escalona, the 23-year-old mother of five who admitted to gluing her daughter’s hands to the wall and beating her as potty training punishment, was sentenced Friday to 99 years.
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Ahead of sentencing, Sandusky prepares for worst, his lawyer says
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Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach, is prepared for the worst and will assert his innocence before a judge when he is sentenced on 45 counts of child sexual abuse on Tuesday, his lawyer said.
“He’s going to say that he’s innocent,” defense attorney Joe Amendola told NBCPhiladelphia. com.
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Wedding brawl aftermath: Groom’s relative arrested for allegedly assaulting cop
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A New Jersey man who wound up being Tased by police has been identified as one of the main troublemakers in a brawl between two wedding parties at a Philadelphia hotel, authorities said.
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Woman rides wild manatee in Florida, turns herself in
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A woman who police said was seen touching and riding a manatee in Fort De Soto Park in Pinellas, Fla., over the weekend turned herself in to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, Tampa Bay Times reported.
Ana Gloria Garcia Gutierrez, 52, told police Tuesday that she wasn’t aware what she did was against the law, the report said.
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