After mounting public pressure from advocacy groups and a class action lawsuit against the New York Police Department, Commissioner Ray Kelly detailed changes Thursday to the department’s much-criticized “stop, question and frisk” policy.

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‘Stop, question, frisk’ policy changes

Jurors started deliberating Friday in the corruption trial of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. Edwards is charged with six counts of accepting illegal campaign contributions, conspiracy and falsifying documents.

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Jurors get John Edwards case

A judge has ordered a singer known as “Black Madam” — suspected of carrying out a fatal injection last year — to stand trial on charges she performed illegal cosmetic procedures, including buttocks enhancements.

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‘Black Madam’ to stand trial for illegal butt injections

Authorities have arrested a suspect in the case of an alleged police impersonator who is believed to have killed two motorists in Mississippi, the Tunica County Sherriff’s Office said.

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Suspected shooter arrested in Mississippi case

While questions still remain, what led to African-American teenager Trayvon Martin’s death on the night of February 26 became clearer on Thursday, with the release of scores of pages of investigative and medical examiner’s reports, in addition to a 7-Eleven video of shortly before the shooting as well new images of his shooter.

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What happened to Trayvon Martin

Mississippi’s Supreme Court on Thursday denied the state attorney general’s attempt that it reconsider its assent to controversial pardons — several of them for convicted killers — issued earlier this year by outgoing Gov. Haley Barbour.

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Court upholds Barbour pardons

Loyda Rodriguez says she can still remember the day her daughter was taken.

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Mom wants ‘stolen’ daughter back

Alabama’s governor on Thursday called in lawmakers for a special session in part to further explore changes to the state’s anti-illegal immigration law, considered the country’s toughest.

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Alabama governor delays bill

An undercover video shows horses being struck with sticks and subjected to “soring,” an illegal process in which chemicals are placed on their lower legs in an effort to induce the trademark Tennessee Walking Horse high-stepping gait.

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Undercover video shows ‘soring’ of show horses to induce gait

Nearly one of every 10 state prisoners is sexually victimized during confinement, according to a Justice Department study released Thursday.

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Study finds nearly 10% of state prisoners sexually abused in custody

An Arizona jury found Tammi Smith guilty of forgery and conspiracy to interfere with custody Thursday in the 2009 disappearance of then-8-month-old Gabriel Johnson, whose whereabouts remain unknown.

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Arizona woman guilty in ‘Baby Gabriel’ case

Ballistics tests have linked the shooting deaths of two people along roadways in Mississippi, a source who has been briefed on the investigation said Thursday.

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Mexican authorities are asking for DNA samples from families of missing persons nationwide in their efforts to identify 49 decapitated bodies, an official said Wednesday.

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Mexican police seek DNA of missing to identify dismembered bodies

The remaining plaintiff in the sexual battery lawsuit against John Travolta fired his lawyer, bringing an end to the case, the lawyer told CNN on Thursday.

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John Doe #2 drops out, ends Travolta sexual battery lawsuit

Closing arguments are set for Thursday in the corruption trial of John Edwards, after his defense team rested its case without calling the former Democratic presidential candidate’s ex-mistress to testify.

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Closing arguments set in Edwards trial

Federal agents have been stymied in their long and fruitless search for a man who mails envelopes containing white powder and usually a message of some kind.

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Feds offer reward in probe of letters with white powder

in a courtroom in the Netherlands, it is the women of Srebrenica who have the moral weight to slug it out with former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic, says CNN’s Nic Robertson. Eight thousand murders in Srebrenica alone. This is what gives their families such power: There are so many of them.

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Bosnia’s hope is tied to justice

Estrella Carrera was found dead from mutiple stab wounds two days after she married Arnoldo Jimenez in Chicago. He is the prime suspect.

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Groom prime suspect in young bride’s stabbing death

No more witnesses will be called in John Edwards’ corruption trial, including the former senator. Closing arguments are scheduled to begin tomorrow, and jury deliberations will likely begin on Friday.

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Defense rests in John Edwards trial

After days of avoiding the media spotlight, the parents of missing Isabel Celis’ parents spoke out.

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Isa’s parents break silence

Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he’s not going to let the federal government run his office.

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Arpaio: No govt. monitoring

According new reports, the dad of missing girl Isabel Celis is now being kept from seeing his two sons.

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Report: Isa dad kept from seeing kids

The Justice Department is investigating rapes in Montana amid questions about whether local officials did enough.

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Justice Department investigates rapes

The withdrawal of one of two massage therapists from a sex battery lawsuit against John Travolta “completely vindicated” the actor, Travolta’s lawyer said Tuesday.

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Lawyer: John Travolta ‘vindicated’ in sex suit

The City of Fullerton, California, has reached a $1 million settlement with the mother of a mentally ill homeless man who died last year after a beating he received at the hands of police officers.

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City pays $1 million to mother of homeless man beaten to death