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On Tuesday, Penn State’s College of Nursing celebrated the open house for a new project that will utilize technology to help increase access to sexual assault forensic exams in underserved and rural areas in Pennsylvania.
7.26.2017
11:41am
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An Ohio appeals court ruling has cleared the way for a Cleveland man to seek financial compensation for his time behind bars after the court found he was wrongfully imprisoned for 18 years following a murder conviction. The ruling said authorities...
7.26.2017
11:25am
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On Tuesday, police and federal agents warned that so-called virtual kidnappings are on the rise, and dozens of people already have found themselves terrorized into giving money to con artists. In the fake kidnappings, the callers demand that the victims...
7.26.2017
11:06am
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In a newly published article, Northwestern University economist Charles F. Manski and his co-author, Carnegie Mellon University criminologist Daniel S. Nagin, outline a "formal model of optimal policing" that can be used to resolve tensions between...
7.26.2017
10:54am
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A New York woman and one of her sons were found guilty Tuesday of killing her estranged husband and pouring acid on his face to make identifying him more difficult before the body was dumped in the woods.
7.26.2017
10:06am
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Authorities from the U.S. and Europe announced Thursday that they had taken down illegal dark web marketplaces AlphaBay and Hansa, but not before using the latter site as bait to collect information on users attempting to buy and sell drugs, fake IDs,...
7.25.2017
12:32pm
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A man armed with a chainsaw wounded five people at a health insurer's office Monday in the northern Swiss city of Schaffhausen, police said, triggering a manhunt for a suspect described as aggressive and psychologically unstable.
7.25.2017
10:56am
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Testing of Kentucky Rape Kit Backlog Linked Convicted Serial Rapist to Additional Attack, Police Say
A Louisville man already convicted of four rapes and who is awaiting trial for two more has been charged with another rape—the first indictment to result from Kentucky’s efforts to clear its rape kit backlog.
7.25.2017
10:47am
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A woman who was accused of intentionally drowning her fiance in the Hudson River by tampering with his kayak as part of a murderous plot to collect on his life insurance pleaded guilty on Monday to a lesser charge that could minimize the amount of...
7.25.2017
10:27am
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An arrest has been made in the 2009 killing of Sierra Bouzigard in Louisiana. Authorities announced Monday that a match to suspect Blake A. Russell had been made through DNA. Russell's arrest followed a tip based on a sketch built by Parabon NanoLabs...
7.25.2017
10:12am
