
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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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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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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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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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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Loyda Rodriguez says she can still remember the day her daughter was taken.
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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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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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The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic was suspended indefinitely Thursday over the prosecution’s failure to disclose some evidence against Mladic, court spokeswoman Nerma Jelacic said.
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He stood before judges Wednesday not as the first former head of state convicted of war crimes since World War II but as a leader convinced he was wronged by corruption and a hypocritical hand of justice.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ratko Mladic, who is accused of orchestrating a horrific campaign of ethnic cleansing during the bloody civil war that ripped apart Yugoslavia, showed no remorse as his war crimes trial opened Wednesday, at one point even appearing to threaten victims in the court.
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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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Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army commander who went on trial Wednesday for crimes against humanity, is a notorious name synonymous with the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Balkan wars of the 1990s and the bloody assaults on Sarajevo and Srebrenica.
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After days of avoiding the media spotlight, the parents of missing Isabel Celis’ parents spoke out.
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Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he’s not going to let the federal government run his office.
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According new reports, the dad of missing girl Isabel Celis is now being kept from seeing his two sons.
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The Justice Department is investigating rapes in Montana amid questions about whether local officials did enough.
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International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has announced new charges against a former Congolese rebel leader who is also a general in the Congolese Army despite having been already accused of war crimes.
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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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