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11:56 AM, January 4th, 2013

Many families believe it’s a contagious shame. In some parts of the world, relatives of the victim see the rape as a dishonor against the family and the tribe, and in some cases kill the victim or induce her to commit suicide. Some try to “repair the damage” by forcing the victim to wed the man who assaulted her. Many women choose death instead. Last week, an 18-year old woman in Punjab chose to drink poison after being pressured by the police to marry her attacker.

Rula Jebreal argues that it’s time to view rape as a hate crime.

11:07 AM, June 13th, 2012

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Frontpage: Wednesday, June 13th

Former Giffords Aid Wins Seat: It’s a fitting end to an inspirational saga: 66-year-old Ron Barber won the seat of his former boss, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Tuesday night after Giffords resigned to recover from a gunshot wound to the head.
Yemen Continues U.S. Attack: Yemen on Wednesday pressed ahead with a U.S.-led offensive against Islamic militants in the southern part of the country, a day after it recovered control of two strategic cities.
Car Bomb Kills 63 in Iraq: A wave of coordinated car-bomb attacks throughout Iraq on early Wednesday killed 63 people and injured dozens more—one of the deadliest attacks since U.S. troops withdrew from the country last year.
Russia Defends Syrian Arms Sale: Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday defended his country’s alleged sale of arms to Syria, and also accused the U.S. of supplying weapons to the rebels fighting the government.
NASA to Launch Telescope: A powerful new X-ray telescope, dubbed the NuStar by NASA, will soon be on the prowl for supermassive black holes, the invisible remnants left when stars die.

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Dolores Walker leaves the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office after identifying the remains of her son, Joseph Briggs. Briggs, who recently turned 16, was shot and killed while sitting on a stoop in Chicago’s Marquette Park neighborhood. Read the full story here.

5:46 PM, May 23rd, 2012

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lamayor:

1,673 firearms were collected this weekend for the 2012 Gun Buyback program, spearheaded by the Mayor’s Office of Gang Reduction & Youth Development (GRYD) and LAPD. Thank you to the Angelenos who turned in a firearm and helped us secure a safer City for everyone.

Guns organized (relatively) neatly.

(Source: lamayorsoffice)

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3:00 PM, December 12th, 2011

Meet Dr. Mary Hamer. She’s a one-woman evangelist for Joran Van der Sloot, the 24-year-old Dutchman linked to the disappearance of Alabama high-school senior Natalee Holloway, and arrested for the murder of Peruvian Stephany Flores.

Already Hamer, a divorced radiologist from Lake City, Fla., is doling out her savings to pay his lawyers. She is buying him clothes. She is sending him care packages. If only he were released into her custody, she would cast out the violence like a gentle exorcist coaxing away the demons. And if he has murdered before, he would murder no more.

Also, there are enough groupies of inmates or killers for a gallery.

2:03 PM, September 15th, 2011

It’s sad, because it feels like there are people all over the world who can sympathize with us, but not in our own community.

Craig Soignet, the father of the girl who roiled a small town in Texas when she refused to cheer for the boy she told police had raped her. The girl was kicked off the cheer squad.

Three years later, cheerleader rape case still stirs flames in Silsbee, Texas.

(via newsweek)

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11:35 AM, August 11th, 2011

The Dougherty Gang—Ryan, Dylan, and sister Lee—were captured after an eight-day manhunt. Definitely related.

2:34 PM, July 19th, 2011

Oh, the humiliation of getting chased away from your attempted robbery by a yapping Chihuahua.

(Source: thedailybeast.com)

1:14 PM, July 6th, 2011

Because Casey Anthony was no celebrity. She never wowed the nation with her athletic prowess, shilled in countless car commercials, or entertained in film comedies. There were no racial issues, no violent Rodney King citywide riot just two years earlier.

Marcia Clark on why the Casey Anthony verdict was more shocking than O.J. Simpson trial outcome.

11:39 AM, June 28th, 2011

Whitey never wanted to get married. He said if you are going to be a criminal, don’t get married. It is not fair to the family and kids. Whatever you do affects them.

Mobster code of ethics.

(Source: thedailybeast.com)

12:20 PM, June 23rd, 2011

“When I tell you to dump a body in the maash, you dump him in the maash.”

Jack Nicholson, who played just captured Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger in Martin Scorcese’s The Departed.

9:54 AM, April 22nd, 2011

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The image had all the details, even the christmas lights on the roof, the direction John Juarez’s body fell, the bowed street lamp, and a banner that read RIVERA KILLS, a reference to the gang Rivera-13.

Anthony Garcia was convicted of first-degree murder after an L.A. County Sheriff spotted his tattoo, which showed the exact crime scene of a liquor store murder in 2004.

The image had all the details, even the christmas lights on the roof, the direction John Juarez’s body fell, the bowed street lamp, and a banner that read RIVERA KILLS, a reference to the gang Rivera-13.

Anthony Garcia was convicted of first-degree murder after an L.A. County Sheriff spotted his tattoo, which showed the exact crime scene of a liquor store murder in 2004.

3:00 PM, April 20th, 2011

Friend Watches Student's Murder via Webcam

Really creepy and sure to be a Law & Order: SVU episode in short time.

(Source: USA Today)

1:57 PM, April 5th, 2011

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“We have a strong suspicion that these eight people crossed paths with Mr. Franklin. In my opinion most of these girls went to landfills years ago.” - LAPD detective Dennis Kilcoyne.

2:08 PM, February 16th, 2011

Woman Held as Brooklyn Sex Slave

A 27-year-old woman from Wisconsin reportedly moved to share an apartment in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn that was advertised on Craigslist, and wound up being held captive as a sex slave. The perpetrator, 45-year-old John Hopkins, has been arrested and faces charges of rape, assault, and unlawful imprisonment with a bail set at $350,000. The Brooklyn district attorney said Hopkins offered the woman free home and board if she cooked and cleaned for him. He allegedly paid for her plane ticket to New York and picked her up at the airport, but when she arrived at his home on February 4, he forced her to call him “master.” The victim told police she was handcuffed to a radiator, beaten, bound, gagged, and raped repeatedly. She reported that she was allowed to leave the apartment at least once, but was immediately handcuffed when she returned. She eventually called her mother in Wisconsin who then called the NYPD, who reportedly found the victim in the fetal position on a bed with a whip and ball-gag nearby.

(Source: newyork.cbslocal.com)

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