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North Carolina Agency Loses Investigative Authority
The Spring Lake Police Department, which policed a Cumberland County town with about 8,000 residents until this week, lost the last remnants of its investigative authority, following two years of scrutiny from higher agencies and consultants.
May 5, 2009
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Woman Disputes Sister's Claim Their Father Was the Zodiac Killer
A Southern California woman's accusation this week that her long-dead stepfather was the Zodiac killer just took on a new, strange twist: Another daughter of the man is coming forward to angrily denounce the charge.
April 30, 2009
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LAPD Ties 72-year-old Man to Two Waves of Serial Killings
DNA leads detectives to John Thomas Jr., 72. He is held in two slayings, but police suspect he may have killed up to 30 elderly Westside and Claremont women a decade apart.
April 30, 2009
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NYPD Offers Reward for Info On Murder of CSI
Michelle Lee, 24, was bound to her bed in her Sunnyside, Queens, apartment, the cord of a cell phone charger wrapped around her neck and a knife buried in her throat.
April 29, 2009
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Broward County Deputies Kill Suspect in Fort Lauderdale Drug Sting
Fort Lauderdale homicide detectives continued Wednesday to investigate the fatal shooting of an alleged crack cocaine dealer by Broward Sheriff's Office deputies during an undercover drug sting.
April 22, 2009
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FBI SWAT Action Near San Diego May Have Foiled L.A. Kidnapping
According to the complaint, the case began when the FBI's Major Mexican Traffickers Strike Force began to focus last year on a drug-smuggling ring allegedly headed by Armando Gonzalez. Over time, however, the focus shifted from drug smuggling to kidnapping as the strike force learned that Gonzalez's group was stalking people who purportedly had stolen a 2,500-pound load of marijuana from them.
April 16, 2009
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Hundreds of Bullets Fired in Lethal Pittsburgh Shootout and Ambush
Here is a timeline of the incident this morning in Stanton Heights in which three Pittsburgh police officers were killed and another two were injured:
April 4, 2009
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Murdered Pittsburgh Officers Reportedly Responded to a Domestic Dispute Over a Dog
Richard Poplawski, the suspect in the killing of three Pittsburgh police officers yesterday, emerged from his Stanton Heights home after shooting two of the officers and fired additional shots into one of the victims, who was sprawled on the ground near the front stoop, a report says.
April 4, 2009
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Arrest of Juarez Cartel's Alleged No. 2, Vicente Carrillo Leyva, Seen as Big Break
The arrest of Vicente Carrillo Leyva, considered the No. 2 leader of the Juárez drug cartel, is a breakthrough in the Mexican government's crackdown on drug lords, officials said Thursday.
April 2, 2009
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Hillary Clinton Says U.S. Shares Blame for Drug War
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton accepted shared responsibility Wednesday for the drug violence convulsing Mexico, saying that traffickers "are motivated by the demand for illegal drugs in the United States and are armed by the transfer of weapons from the United States."
March 25, 2009
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Oakland Cop Killer Suspected of Raping 12-year-old
Lovelle Mixon was linked by DNA to the February rape of a 12-year-old girl who was dragged off the street at gunpoint in the East Oakland neighborhood where Mixon's sister lived, police said Tuesday.
March 24, 2009
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Oakland Cop Killer Linked to Rape
The day before Lovelle Mixon unleashed a barrage of gunfire that killed four Oakland police officers, the department's investigators learned that DNA evidence had linked the fugitive parolee to an unsolved rape this year, authorities said Monday.
March 23, 2009
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Police: U.S. teens Were Hit Men for Mexican Cartel
Rosalio Reta and his friend, Gabriel Cardona, were members of a three-person cell of American teenagers working as cartel hit men in the United States, according to prosecutors. The third was arrested by Mexican authorities and stabbed to death in prison there three days later.
March 12, 2009
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Obama Considers Sending Armed Troops to Mexican Border to Prevent Drug Violence
President Barack Obama said Wednesday that his administration is examining options to deal with deteriorating security conditions on the Mexican border, including the deployment of the National Guard if violence continues to spill over into American cities.
March 11, 2009
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Mexican Prison Riot Kills 20
A gang attack left 20 inmates dead and more than 30 others injured on Wednesday in one of the bloodiest riots in the turbulent history of prisons in Juárez.
March 4, 2009
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Police Still Excavating, Investigating "Largest Crime Scene in Albuquerque History"
One month ago today, a woman walking her dog on the far Southwest Mesa in Albuquerque made a discovery that has led to a massive, multi-agency investigation into the deaths of 13.
March 1, 2009
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1987 Tape May Help LAPD Catch Serial Killer
In the more than two decades since Los Angeles police detectives began the search for a serial killer stalking young prostitutes in South L.A., they have had few breaks. One night in 1987, however, offered a tantalizing, agonizing clue.
February 26, 2009
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Texas Governor Asks Washington for Troops to Guard Border
Gov. Rick Perry said he wants 1,000 troops to help guard the Texas-Mexico border, and for the U.S. to fund strong security measures to fight the Mexican drug cartels that have spread violence and fear in Mexico, including Juárez.
February 25, 2009
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