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U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 3, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- The family of R&B singer Sean Levert wants the FBI to look into his death after a jail medical emergency. His cousin, Michael Gibson, said Levert never had any outburst such as the type described by Kevin McDonough, warden at the Cuyahoga County jail... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 21, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- The 92-year-old sister of boxing great Joe Louis was found frozen to death outside her apartment at an assisted-living center, authorities said. The body of Vunies High, who had Alzheimer's disease, was found Monday outside The Heatherwood retirement comp.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 13, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- A couple accused of beating their toddler to death, tucking her body in a plastic box and dumping it in Galveston Bay have been indicted on charges of capital murder. Galveston County District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk said Wednesday he had yet to decide.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 19, 2007 @ 12:02pm neoform

SF Gate -- A 29-year-old man knifed repeatedly in the face and neck just outside Golden Gate Park was the second homeless person in two months to be stabbed to death in or around the park and the third in a little more than a year, San Francisco police said Thursday.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- Three men could face the death penalty after being charged Tuesday with special-circumstances murder in the fatal shooting of a longtime PC World magazine editor during a home invasion robbery in Pittsburg, authorities said. Tremaine Amos, 25, of Bay P.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 27, 2007 @ 11:01am neoform

FOX News -- Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman's forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player's death amounted to a crime, according to docume.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sat Jun 30, 2007 @ 12:37pm neoform

FOX News -- On Nov. 28, 2002, 2-year-old Abigail Rae died by drowning in a village pond in England. Her death is currently stirring debate because the ongoing inquest revealed an explosive fact. A man passing by was afraid to guide the lost child to safety because he.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

USA Today -- A Texas killer who shot his in-laws to death in front of his wife and daughter won a stay of execution Thursday from a divided U.S. Supreme Court because he is mentally ill. The court ruled 5-4 that Scott Panetti, a former ranch hand who suffers from s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 5, 2007 @ 11:15pm neoform

FOX News -- A man was being detained in New York for the death of a woman who was dragged for several miles under a minivan after trying to stop the driver from fleeing a collision, officials said Monday. Abdelaziz Bilal Hamze, 24, was detained on Delta flight 132.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 4:12pm neoform

BBC News -- Jack Kevorkian, the man known as Dr Death and who helped the terminally ill to die, has been released from prison in the US state of Michigan. Kevorkian was convicted in 1999 of the murder by injection of terminally ill Thomas Youk. A video of him dyin.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 10:23am neoform

FOX News -- Jack Kevorkian has promised to never help another person in an assisted suicide, but that has not dimmed the attention focused on the release of "Dr. Death" from prison on Friday. The 79-year-old retired pathologist was expected to leave Lakeland Corre.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 11:21am neoform

Yahoo News -- The idea of executing child rapists, even when there in no loss of life, is making headway in the United States. The Louisiana Supreme Court last week upheld the death sentence for a pedophile, and the governor of Texas is soon to sign into law legisla.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 11:22pm neoform

FOX News -- A man beat his girlfriend's 4-year-old son to death after she left the boy in his care while she was deployed to Iraq, police said. Donell Parker, 23, was charged Friday with first-degree murder in the death of Cameron Smith. The boy was found dead in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 23, 2007 @ 10:44am neoform

FOX News -- Louisiana's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a man may be executed for raping an 8-year-old girl, and lawyers say his case may become the test for whether the nation's highest court upholds the death penalty for someone who rapes a child. Both sides sa.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Mon Apr 30, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

Alter Net -- Atlanta resident Kathryn Johnston's death has finally been exposed to be a case of police coverup in clear example of the insanity of the war on drugs. According to federal documents released this week, these are the events that led to Kathryn Johnston.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 1, 2007 @ 9:51pm neoform

Jacksonville.com -- After police shot to death two men in eight days during separate undercover drug operations, Jacksonville's chief prosecutor said he questions the value of the stings... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 1, 2007 @ 11:59pm neoform

Seattle Pi -- The newly elected mayor of this Louisiana town was found shot to death over the weekend, less than three days before he was set to become the community's first black leader... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 28, 2006 @ 8:54pm neoform

www.montereyherald.com -- In what police describe as a "probable" suicide leap, a prominent Monterey Bay Area attorney fell at least nine floors to his death at the Embassy Suites Hotel Monterey Bay in Seaside the morning before Christmas... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 13, 2006 @ 4:37pm mrmdc

Houston Chronicle -- U.S. homeland security officials say they are preparing for a remote, but real possibility: that the death of Fidel Castro could trigger a mass migration from the island nation, landing refugees in detention centers in Florida, Texas and beyond... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 30, 2008 @ 8:07am neoform

SF Gate -- A 29-year-old man was shot to death in south Berkeley late Wednesday, police said today. The victim, whose name was not released, was shot at about 11:30 p.m. near the corner of Tyler and California streets, one block south of Ashby Avenue, said police.. Read More