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Review: 'Cliff Walk' is chilling murder mystery
Mon, 21 May 2012 12:13:39 -0700
"Cliff Walk" (Forge Books), by Bruce DeSilva: In his Edgar Award-winning first novel, "Rogue Island," published in 2010, retired AP writing coach Bruce DeSilva introduced readers to the affable Liam Mulligan, a crime-solving Rhode Island metro reporter for the fictional Providence Dispatch.
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Sat, 19 May 2012 11:43:26 -0700
Cartoon is a different thing. He is a CPI-M man, He misused the e-mail of his society people without their consent. He forwarded it to 60 people," Banerjee said angrily when a student from Jadavpur University asked her about the arrest of Professor Ambikesh Mahapatra.
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US prison inmates returning to society: How will they be received?
Sun, 20 May 2012 10:27:00 -0700
Jason Corralez donned a freshly pressed collared shirt. He had shaved neatly around his salt-and-pepper goatee. He looked like a man about to go on a job interview, which he was. It was a job he desperately wanted, but one question gnawed at him: Would they be willing to hire a convicted murderer?
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Researchers: 2,000 false convictions in past 23 years
Mon, 21 May 2012 06:32:07 -0700
In 1984, two North Carolina girls, age 4 and 6, in were molested. They told police their abuser was Sylvester Smith, who was dating the mother of one of the girls, and he went to prison for the crime.
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Prison: civilization's 'dark flower'
Sun, 20 May 2012 12:48:50 -0700
We jail people when we have despaired of any other way of dealing with their abhorrent behavior. But the vast majority will one day re-enter civilized society. Does prison make it more or less likely they will fit in?
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Mamata loses temper, walks out of interactive TV show
Sat, 19 May 2012 09:13:38 -0700
Kolkata, May 19 : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lost her temper and stormed out of an interactive TV session here after confronting questions from students on the arrest of a professor for forwarding a cartoon and crime against women in the state.
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Researchers: More than 2,000 false convictions in past 23 years
Mon, 21 May 2012 06:18:39 -0700
In 1984, two North Carolina girls, age 4 and 6, were molested. They told police their abuser was Sylvester Smith, who was dating the mother of one of the girls, and he went to prison for the crime. Twenty years later, the victims recanted, saying their grandmother tol …
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Gambia: Murder Again
Tue, 15 May 2012 02:28:03 -0700
[Daily Observer] Another incident of murder is again in the news. A British national was in the weekend found dead in his car in Bakoteh with wounds suggesting he was stabbed.This alarming phenomenon has made it more demanding than ever that the citizenry should be vigilant and always be ready to give information to the police regarding unfamiliar movements in their neighbourhoods so that ...
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The re-entry problem
Mon, 21 May 2012 04:12:10 -0700
America’s tough-on-crime policies didn’t work. Now what? Over the course of eight days in 1978, a 15-year-old terror named Willie Bosket managed to satisfy his curiosity about what it felt like to kill someone.
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People Use Social Media To Call For Release of a Man Charged with Murder
Sat, 19 May 2012 19:53:29 -0700
As we reported yesterday, Beumer has been indicted on charges of murder and attempted murder. Now someone has created a Facebook page called Free Ira Beumer, and it's getting a lot of buzz.
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