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El Paso law enforcement, Austin High School students unite to honor fallen officers
El Paso Times, TexasAustin High School students and local law enforcement came together Thursday to honor fallen officers, including one of the school's own. Dozens of students from the Sandra Day O'Connor Magnet Program stood side by side with dozens of men and women from...Tags: Students, Law Enforcement, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Human Interest
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Manatee County crime plunges 15.7 percent
Bradenton HeraldHomicides climbed last year in Manatee County, but the overall crime rate dropped 15.7 percent as the number of robberies, burglaries and larcenies all decreased significantly. The downward trend has been going on for about 10 years in the city of...Tags: Theft, Crime, Law and Justice, Law Enforcement, Laws, Murder
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PETA offers $2,500 reward to crack case of 13 dead dogs
The Monitor, McAllen, TexasThe recent spate of 13 dogs killed by apparent antifreeze poisoning has led an animal rights advocate to offer a $2,500 reward for information that leads to the responsible party's arrest. Clues have been scarce in leading police to any suspects since...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, FBI, Murder, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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State's crime rate lowest in 42 years
Crime statewide reached its lowest rate in 42 years, with Broward and Palm Beach counties following the downward trend, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reported Thursday. Broward's overall crime rate dropped by nearly 4 percent in 2012...
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Perry signs Morton Act into law
Austin American-StatesmanGov. Rick Perry signed the Michael Morton Act into law Thursday, praising the bipartisan legislation -- passed unanimously in both houses -- for "making our system more fair and helping prevent wrongful convictions." "We are known as a law and order...Tags: Rodney Ellis, Prosecution, Trials, U.S. Supreme Court, Crime, Law and Justice
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Charges severed in Martinsburg July 4 shooting
matthewu@herald-mail.comA Berkeley County judge ruled Thursday that a man accused of shooting another man and an 8-year-old girl at Martinsburg’s Fourth of July celebration last year could be tried May 28 on one felony count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited...Tags: Trials, Justice System, Shootings, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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Horry County Council seeks to update laws for adult entertainment businesses
The Sun NewsThe Horry County Council isn't looking to throw singles at adult entertainment establishments, but rather regulations. County officials say some laws currently on the books concerning those businesses in Horry County are outdated and need to be updated....Tags: Trials, Entertainment, Interior Policy, Prostitution, Business
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Glorieta teen accused of blackmailing sex partner
The Santa Fe New MexicanState police say a 17-year-old Glorieta girl faces a charge of extortion after allegedly trying to blackmail a 43-year-old sexual partner for cash. The man had met the girl, Selena Velasquez, at a Cinco de Mayo party in Pecos, police said Thursday,...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Organized Crime, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Selena
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GOP attorney general hopefuls tout law backgrounds
The Virginian-PilotThere isn't a lot of policy daylight between Del. Rob Bell and Sen. Mark Obenshain, two tough-on-crime Republican lawyers from west of Richmond vying to be the GOP's attorney general nominee. Both were leaders in the fight that culminated in last year's...Tags: Primaries, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Government, Prosecution, Lawyers
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Pakistan president approves extension of 'Criminal Law Act'
Dawn, Karachi, Pakistan / Asia News NetworkKARACHI (Dawn/ANN) -- Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on the advice of the prime minister has approved the extension of 'criminal law (Third Amendment) Act, 2011' to the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province....Tags: Politics, Government, Parliament, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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Verdict tossed, Gina Celaya is starting new life
The Arizona Daily Star, TucsonOver her 20 years in prison, Gina Celaya showed herself to be a talented artist, creating drawings with pen on paper and expressing a desire to learn to airbrush designs on cars. Celaya may get a chance to put those skills and desires to good use now,...Tags: Prosecution, Trials, Jane Austen, Lawyers, Murder
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Gosnell receives third and final life sentence
Philadelphia Daily NewsAS THE CASE AGAINST convicted baby murderer Kermit Gosnell concluded yesterday with a third and final life-without-parole prison sentence, the doctor declined to speak -- but others said plenty. A "murderer and a monster" is how District Attorney Seth...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Laws, Lawyers
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