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Captain of shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship to face trial
ROME -- The captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which crashed on rocks off the Italian coast last year, was ordered by a judge Wednesday to stand trial for manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship. Thirty-two of the more than 4,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Justice System, Trials, Court Preliminary
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Closing arguments heard in businesswoman's murder trial
Kelly Soo Park balked when homicide detectives handed her a warrant to collect her fingerprints. The businesswoman repeatedly asked whether the officers were playing a joke and demanded to speak to a lawyer, according to a police recording of the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Justice System, Murder, Trials
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Prosecutors opt to retry five ex-Bell City Council members
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.Former Bell City Councilman Luis Artiga is the only former official who will not be retried for corruption. Artiga, a pastor in Bell, was the only council member fully acquitted by a jury in March on charges of misappropriating public funds and...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Justice System, Bell City Council, Defendants
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The future of wiretapping
Pushed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Obama administration may ask Congress for the power to snoop on more types of communication online. The timing couldn't be worse, given the outcry over the Justice Department secretly grabbing...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Technology, Justice System, Computer Networking and Internet, Science and Technology
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Paperless public library to open in Texas
A groundbreaking paperless public library system will open in Texas this year, the BBC reports. Bexar County's $1.5-million BiblioTech project will open its first library branch without a single print book. Instead, the BiblioTech library will...
Tags: NPR, Steve Jobs, Crime, Law and Justice, Libraries, BBC
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Arizona abortion ban struck down
SAN FRANCISCO — Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy except in a medical emergency was struck down by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday. A three-judge panel of the court said the law violated a woman's...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, U.S. Supreme Court, Jan Brewer, Justice System
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District attorney will retry Bell officials accused of corruption
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office plans to retry the case against Bell council members accused of misappropriating public funds by overpaying themselves for sitting on city boards and authorities that rarely met, according to defense...
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Judge orders trial for man accused in 1979 slaying of N.Y. boy
NEW YORK -- A man who confessed to strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose disappearance 34 years ago remains one of the nation's most baffling missing-persons cases, will stand trial for the boy's murder, a judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Maxwell Wiley's...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, O.J. Simpson, Justice System, Murder, Trials
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Father, son sentenced to prison for rhino horn trafficking
Saying she wanted to send a message against the “extremely serious” crime of trafficking in rhinoceros horns, a federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a father and son to nearly four years in prison for selling hundreds of pounds of horns highly...
Tags: China Earthquake (2010), Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Justice System, Prisons
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Jorge Rafael Videla dies at 87; Argentine dictator
BUENOS AIRES — Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who presided over that country's so-called dirty war in which up to 30,000 dissidents were murdered or disappeared, died Friday while serving a 50-year prison sentence. He was 87. He...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Wars and Interventions, Punishment
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Former L.A. Unified teacher to stand trial on sex abuse charges
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.A former Los Angeles Unified School District teacher was ordered to stand trial on 14 charges of sexually assaulting nine students and a relative, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said. A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge in...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Trials, Los Angeles Police Department, Sex Crimes
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White House to renew bid for bill to protect journalists
WASHINGTON — Facing questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of reporters' phone records, the White House says that it will renew its push for legislation that would offer federal protections to journalists and their sources....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, WikiLeaks, Eric Holder, National Security, Journalism
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