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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 Mon Jan 28, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- The gunman in the notorious Pamela Smart murder case tearfully apologized to his victim's family Friday as he asked for early release from prison. Gregory Smart's father said he was moved by William Flynn's words -- but not enough to support his release a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 27, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

MSNBC -- Six people, likely three generations of a family, were found dead Wednesday at a rural property east of Seattle, and a law enforcement official said police arrested the property owners' daughter and her boyfriend. The official, who spoke on condition o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 3, 2007 @ 9:32am neoform

Yahoo News -- The family of Ron Goldman has purchased the rights to O.J. Simpson's canceled book, "If I Did It," from a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee in a settlement reached Monday. The book rights will be held in the name of Ron Goldman LLC, Goldman family attorn.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 25, 2007 @ 6:39pm neoform

FOX News -- A bus carrying people home from a family reunion crashed on an interstate in southern Kentucky early Monday while passengers were asleep, killing one person and injuring 66 others, officials said. Police said it appeared the driver had dozed off. State.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 5, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

USA Today -- The family of Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer infected with drug-resistant tuberculosis, told ABC's Diane Sawyer on Monday that they do not believe he behaved irresponsibly in flying to Greece to marry, but public health officials stand by their positi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 3:51pm neoform

FOX News -- A woman trying out her new van accidentally hit four members of her family, including her infant daughter. Police said the accident happened at an Annapolis apartment complex just before 10 p.m. Thursday, when the Patel family gathered to see their new.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 25, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

FOX News -- A man who portrayed Bob Cratchit in "A Christmas Carol" and then lost his wife and two children hours later in a Christmas Eve car crash asked for mercy Thursday for the drunken driver responsible. Carlos Prieto was sentenced to up to 10 years in priso.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 4:14pm neoform

CNN -- A man tried to hire a hit man to kill his family, including his 7-year-old daughter, even requesting that she be shot in the chest and not the head so there could be an open casket at her funeral, authorities say. John Orlowski, 49, made a brief appear.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 9:32am neoform

ABC News -- Three years ago the Smalkowski family moved to an 80-acre ranch in Oklahoma, and Nicole Smalkowski, who was 13 years old at the time, was excited about it. "We have a whole bunch of land that's ours, you can walk on it, you can camp on your own land.".. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 16, 2007 @ 12:30pm neoform

ABC News -- Last week three former Duke University lacrosse players were publicly cleared of charges that they sexually assaulted an exotic dancer at an off-campus party. For the last year, Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann and David Evans have been vilified in the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 11, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

CNN -- A Texas judge Tuesday granted a family's request to keep their critically ill baby alive, ruling that the boy should not be removed from life-support equipment as the hospital had planned. Children's Hospital of Austin has been caring for 17-month-old.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 10:04pm neoform

FOX News -- The family of a molested 3-year-old girl has left College Park Church in Carmel, Ind., after it embraced her attacker — a former church elder — with support and money. The Indianapolis Star reported that the family of the girl wishes to remain anon.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 10:19pm neoform

FOX News -- A couple and their three teenage children held a woman captive for six months, referring to her as their "slave" as they beat her, forced her to do chores and threatened her life and the lives of her relatives, police said Wednesday. All five members o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 28, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- A teenager who had recently moved back home after breaking up with his live-in girlfriend is accused of gunning down and killing four family members, stunning friends and neighbors. Nathaniel Dickson, 18, was arrested Saturday night at a home in Belton.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 20, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- The family of a 51-year-old Berkeley woman fatally shot by a police officer just outside her apartment Saturday night has hired Oakland attorney John Burris with the intention of filing a wrongful-death lawsuit, the lawyer said Tuesday. Berkeley police.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 7, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- Loss sinks in Raymond Selken and Ellise were taken to Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock, where he was awaiting surgery for a badly fractured sinus bone, Huggins said. Doctors expected to set the girl's broken leg Friday, her aunt said. On Wednes.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 7, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- Astronaut Daniel Tani had hoped to spend Christmas with his family, but that was before fuel tank problems scrapped two scheduled December launches of the space shuttle Atlantis, which would have taken him home from the international space station. Now th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 25, 2007 @ 9:27am neoform

www.kccall.com -- Family members of a pregnant woman are still outraged over the treatment she received which stemmed from a call from department store security guards to the Independence, Mo., police department which allege that she was stealing cars in their parking lot... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Oct 17, 2007 @ 12:19pm neoform

Alter Net -- The death of Alva Mae Groves on Aug. 9 of this year went largely unnoticed outside of her family and fellow inmates at the Tallahassee Federal Corrections Institution, where she lived out the last 13 years of her life. She never went to high school, lived.. Read More