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News•by Staff Writer•January 8, 2009

Ex-U.S. Drug Czar Warns of Mexican Border Rush Because of Cartel Violence

A failure by the Mexican political system to curtail lawlessness and violence could result (in) a surge of millions of refugees crossing the U.S. border to escape the domestic misery of violence, failed economic policy, poverty, hunger, joblessness, and the mindless cruelty and injustice of a criminal state," Barry McCaffrey said.

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News•by Staff Writer•January 8, 2009

Georgia Cold Case Squad Cracks First Case

The Gwinnett County Police Department’s newly minted cold case squad has cracked its first case — a 2007 fatal shooting of a Norcross teenager who was working at a gas station.

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News•by Staff Writer•January 6, 2009

Police Say Four-Year-Old Ohio Boy Shot Teen with Shotgun

Deputies were astonished to learn that a 4-year-old boy was the triggerman in the 7:24 p.m. shooting at his grandmother's house along Spriggs Road, about 6 miles south of Jackson.

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News•by Staff Writer•December 31, 2008

Mistrust Bedevils War on Mexican Drug Cartels

The U.S. has begun pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Mexico to help stanch the expansion of drug-fueled violence and corruption that has claimed more than 5,000 lives south of the border this year.

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News•by Staff Writer•December 22, 2008

Blood from Mosquito Traps Finnish Suspect

Police in Finland believe they have caught a car-thief thanks to a DNA sample taken from a sample of his blood found inside a mosquito.

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News•by Staff Writer•December 22, 2008

Homicide Total in Juarez, Mexico, Passes 1,500

With the homicide toll in Juárez surpassing the 1,500 mark, authorities there are left to face what border experts are calling the biggest Mexican dilemma -- ending the bloody street war between drug cartels, controlling thugs who have gone wild and preventing police corruption.

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News•by Staff Writer•December 16, 2008

Texas Man Charged with Molestation After Police Read Girl's Letter to Santa

A 55-year-old Pharr resident was arrested after a young relative wrote a letter to Santa Claus wishing that the man would stop molesting her.

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News•by Staff Writer•December 11, 2008

As Mexico's Drug War Rages, Military Takes Over for Police

Even for Mexicans accustomed to ghastly headlines chronicling the country's drug-related violence, the current level of killing in Tijuana causes consternation. Some 200 people have been slain in one month. Last weekend turned into one of the city's deadliest: nearly 40 were killed, four of whom were children, and nine of them beheaded.

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News•by Staff Writer•December 11, 2008

Body Count Climbs in Mexico's Bloody Drug War

So far this year in Mexico's drug war, 5,376 people have been killed, double the number of last year and more than all U.S. troops killed in Iraq.

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