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May 16, 2012             00:15:42 Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper arm, has been charged with perverting the course of justice over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. Brooks was charged with concealing material from detectives, conspiring to remove boxes of archive records from [...]

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July 17, 2011 Rupert Murdoch’s protégé Rebekah Brooks, who previously ran his British tabloids was arrested today in London in connection with the phone hacking scandal. Brooks’ arrest comes as she “voluntarily attended a London police station to assist with their ongoing investigation,” according to a statement released on her behalf, The Associated Press reported. [...]

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12:42 EST, 22 April 2012 Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager so badly they broke his wrist while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial Monday in a case with similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting. The brothers, who are white and Jewish, have claimed self-defense, saying the teen [...]

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April 20, 2012, 12:39 PM Rich Ross abruptly stepped down as chairman of Walt Disney Studios on Friday, ending a two-and-a-half-year tenure that was more notable for continued misses than hits. Mr. Ross, a 15-year veteran of Disney, announced his departure to the studio in an e-mail. “I believe in our strong slate of films and [...]

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08:40 p.m.          Saturday December 17, 2011 Nearly three years after former Houston billionaire R. Allen Stanford‘s arrest, investors who lost money in an alleged $7 billion Ponzi scheme still wait for resolution: a trial, restitution, some sign of justice. “How much longer do we have to deal with this?” wonders Roxanne Short, who hopes [...]

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July 14, 2011   11:39am The woman found dead at the Spreckels Mansion in Coronado may have committed suicide, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday. Rebecca Nalepa, 32, the live-in girlfriend of the home’s owner, Jonah Shacknai, the founder and owner  of an Arizona-based pharmaceutical company, was found dead in the courtyard of the [...]

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October 28, 2011 Rebeca Arellano has been named the Homecoming King for Patrick Henry High School, and her girlfriend and fellow student Haileigh Adams has been nominated to be the Homecoming Queen. The winner of that will be announced at Saturday’s dance. The two began dating in the sophomore year. Haileigh said about her girlfriend [...]

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October 27, 2011        5:03 pm Beverly Hills police Thursday afternoon identified a victim and a suspect in the city’s first homicide of the year. A woman who was found dead in her home was identified as Cathy Carrasco-Zanini, 58, who lived in the 100 block of North Hamilton Drive, police said. James Grzeslo, 54, [...]

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October 26, 2011      6:48 am Rajat Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs board member accused by regulators of passing along confidential corporate information, has surrendered to the FBI. Gupta is in custody, according to the Associated Press. Charges were not immediately disclosed, but the Securities and Exchange Commission in March accused Gupta of giving inside [...]

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October 4, 2011    2:23pm A serial killer convicted of slaying three women in Illinois is being extradited to California to face charges that he killed five Southern California women as well. Andrew Urdiales, 47, is accused of killing women in Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties from 1986 to 1995, but the cases will be [...]

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September 21, 2011     11:16am Two Fullerton police officers have been criminally charged in the violent confrontation that left a homeless man dead, Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas announced Wednesday.   Officer Manuel Ramos has been charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in connection with the beating of 37-year-old Kelly Thomas, a homeless schizophrenic [...]

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September 18, 2011     2:34pm A 23-year-old Wilmington man was fatally stabbed early Sunday morning, Los Angeles police said. Rogelio Alvarado had severe stab wounds when police found him around 5 a.m. Sunday lying on the ground in a courtyard in the 1100 block of Anaheim Street. He was taken to a local hospital, where he [...]

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September 1st, 2011 David Hudson has seen it all working the scenes of car wrecks and other emergencies on his job as a medevac helicopter pilot. But a flight that started as a summer joy ride in a borrowed Cessna 172 now rates as “the wildest experience I’ve ever had,” he said. Local police are [...]

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August 17, 2011   3:38 PM ET No Miami players were suspended for Wednesday morning’s practice on the heels of allegations by a former booster that could implicate dozens of current and former players in various NCAA violations, coach Al Golden said. “Until we hear of an infraction or that we did break a rule, everybody is [...]

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Monday, August 22, 2011     15:44 PDT A former drug task force commander in Contra Costa County sobbed and wiped away tears Monday as he pleaded not guilty to drug and corruption charges, offenses that could carry a life sentence if he is convicted. Norman Wielsch, 50, was ordered freed on bail after agreeing in Oakland [...]

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Aug. 17, 2011   5:11PM A man who allegedly was bitten by a dog during a party in Houston has been charged with killing the animal’s owner. Police say 37-year-old Walter Hinton was arrested Wednesday on a murder charge. He was caught at a home in northeast Houston. Electronic jail records did not immediately provide further details on [...]

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August 17th, 2011 Misfortune has fallen upon a family of fortune tellers in Florida and New York who have been charged with swindling $40 million over the past 20 years from customers looking to cure illnesses, end spells of bad luck or mend broken relationships. Since 1991, the family has been telling customers that “money [...]

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August 16, 2011 Authorities say the badly burned body of a fledgling New York City rapper who performed under the name Kampane has been found in a sport utility vehicle parked on a New Jersey street. But they say they don’t believe Rhian H. Stoute was killed where his body was found early Tuesday in [...]

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10:19am UK, Friday August 12, 2011 A 22-year-old man has been arrested over the murder of Richard Mannington Bowes who died after being attacked during riots in Ealing. Mr Bowes, 68, was set upon as he tried to stamp out a fire. He suffered serious head injuries and died just before midnight last night, Scotland [...]

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12:54 p.m. EDT, August 8, 2011 Authorities, during a news conference Monday afternoon, identified the gunman at the center of a shooting rampage in Copley that resulted in eight deaths. Copley Police say the shooter was Michael E. Hance, 51. Believed responsible for seven deaths, Hance was shot and killed after he opened fire on [...]

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