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'Bachelor No. 1' has a date with death
Mar 9, 2010 7:03 AM
A California jury took just an hour to recommend the death penalty for Rodney Alcala, a serial killer who once appeared on "The Dating Game."
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Former E.R. doc gets life in wife's cyanide murder
Mar 9, 2010 5:03 AM
A former emergency room doctor from Ohio was sentenced to life in prison for poisoning his wife by lacing her calcium supplements with cyanide.
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O.J. donates '95 acquittal suit to Smithsonian
Mar 1, 2010 11:03 AM
The brownish-green suit that O.J. Simpson wore the day he was acquitted of murder in what has often been described as the "trial of the century" will be donated to the Smithsonian Institution -- if the museum wants it.
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Supreme Court takes aim at gun control
Mar 1, 2010 3:03 AM
Otis McDonald and Diane Latiker share much in common as residents of Chicago's South Side. But they differ on the issue of gun control. The Supreme Court hears the pros and cons on Tuesday.
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Arrest in missing teen case
Feb 28, 2010 8:02 AM
Police arrested a man Sunday in Escondido, California, in connection with the disappearance of a 17-year-old girl, according to the San Diego County sheriff.
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Sweat lodge guru's bail reduced
Feb 26, 2010 11:02 AM
The bail has been drastically reduced for "sweat lodge guru" James Arthur Ray, who is facing manslaughter charges, his lawyer says.
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Family violence snuffs out No. 5
Feb 26, 2010 8:02 AM
Days after he received a full scholarship from Vanderbilt, star running back Rajaan Bennett was shot to death by his mother's ex-boyfriend.
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Defense: Garrido hears angels' voices
Feb 25, 2010 11:02 AM
A California sex offender suspected of abducting Jaycee Dugard in 1991 and keeping her captive for 18 years is suffering from "serious mental illness," his attorneys say in court papers.
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Border tapes studied for missing family
Feb 25, 2010 10:02 AM
Police in Southern California are working with Mexican authorities in the search for a missing family, poring over hundreds of hours of border security videotapes.
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Former NBA star to be sentenced Tuesday
Feb 22, 2010 11:02 AM
Retired New Jersey Nets star Jayson Williams is to be sentenced Tuesday to anywhere from 18 months in prison without the possibility of parole to five years for the fatal shooting eight years ago of his limo driver.
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Texas suicide plane may have carried extra fuel
Feb 22, 2010 7:02 AM
Friends say they had no inkling of the rage tormenting a man believed to have deliberately crashed a plane into an IRS building.
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Disappearance stumps authorities
Feb 22, 2010 3:02 AM
A Southern California family whose SUV was found abandoned near the Mexican border has been missing for nearly three weeks.
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CPA says suicide pilot never threatened him
Feb 20, 2010 6:02 AM
The former accountant for Andrew Joseph "Joe" Stack III -- who officials say flew his plane into a Texas building housing an Internal Revenue Service office -- says Stack had never threatened him, a spokesman for the accountant said.
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Police: Professor killed brother in 1986
Feb 13, 2010 9:02 AM
The biology professor charged in the shooting deaths of three faculty members fatally shot her brother, but that death was ruled accidental.
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Murder suspect arrested while pumping gas
Feb 13, 2010 3:02 AM
A suspect in a Florida shooting rampage that left a young woman dead and two others critically injured was captured early Saturday after a manhunt, authorities said.
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