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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 16, 2009

Leica 3-D Laser-Scan Data Provides Forensic Evidence At Murder Trial

The device was used to recreate a 3-D model image of the crime scene. A Georgia crime-scene investigator provided testimony using the visual model to show how the homicide could have occurred.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 10, 2009

San Francisco Undercover Unit Patrols Crime-Ridden Tenderloin

Danny Manning was once robbed by a pregnant woman. A few weeks ago, a teenager pointed a sawed-off 12-gauge at his face. Recently, he was jumped, beaten and robbed by three women in front of the Golden Gate Theater - at 3 in the afternoon.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 7, 2009

Minn. Officer Killed While Responding to Domestic Call

Officer Richard Crittenden of the North St. Paul Police Department, was shot and killed on Monday morning, while responding to a domestic disturbance call at an apartment that officers had visited a day earlier, the Star Tribune reports.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 1, 2009

Californians Ask Why Sex Offender Garrido Only Served 11 Years of 50-Year Sentence

As details continued to emerge about Jaycee Lee Dugard's alleged kidnapper, questions intensified Monday over how Phillip Garrido could have served only 11 years in prison after a 1976 rape and kidnapping for which he had been given a 50-year federal sentence as well as a life term in Nevada.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 1, 2009

Garrido Search Turns Up Human Bone Fragment

Searchers picking through a pair of properties outside Antioch connected to alleged kidnapper and rapist Phillip Craig Garrido reported Monday that they had found a bone fragment, but it is not clear whether it is human, authorities said.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 1, 2009

Miami Prosecutors Argue Man Wanted to Drown Young Girls Because of Sex Fetish

To satisfy his sexual perversion, Jeffrey Doland flew to Miami to meet Kathy, a woman he met online who agreed to let him forcibly dunk her two young girls in a pool or bathtub ``until the bubbles stop rising,'' prosecutors say.

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Articlesby Rodney BoschSeptember 1, 2009

Extra Eyes Patrol City's Streets

Fed up with rising criminal activity, a local crime commission in Lancaster, Pa., decided in 2001 that video surveillance cameras might be the answer to making the town safer.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 31, 2009

UC Berkeley Officers' Alert Action Uncovers 18-Year Kidnap Victim

The timeline of the steps the two officers took came into sharper focus following Garrido's arrest, as university leaders, law enforcement officials and the media credited Lisa Campbell, the manager of special events, and Ally Jacobs, a campus police officer, with closing the 18-year-old case.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 26, 2009

Officers Snare 25 Men During Atlantic City Prostitution Sweep

In Atlantic City, rampant prostitution on Pacific Avenue is no secret and neither will be the names of the men arrested for seeking out the services of a prostitute, Examiner.com reports.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 20, 2009

California Pot Farm Fire Reveals Troubling Trend

Narcotics agents said Tuesday they had little doubt that the nearly 90,000-acre La Brea fire in California was started by Mexican drug traffickers who were tending a large, sophisticated marijuana farm planted on the side of a mountain in the Los Padres National Forest.

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