An Orange County jury has found a woman guilty of murdering a Westminster fortune teller and her daughter because a love spell didn’t work.

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It won’t make up for almost a decade of imprisonment, but a $4.1 million settlement is a “good start,” one of Tim Masters’ attorneys said Tuesday.
The Larimer County, Colorado, Board of Commissioners voted earlier Tuesday to settle a lawsuit that Masters filed after a judge exonerated him on a murder charge that put him behind [...]

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A lawsuit filed against Foxy Brown – stemming from her 2007 assault case to which she pleaded guilty nearly a year ago – was dismissed last week in Brooklyn, according to the New York Post.      
       Justice Robert Miller tossed the claim filed by Brown’s former neighbor Arlene Raymond in May 2008.  The civil suit was [...]

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Nikki McCormick, 21, was shot and killed by an orange grove owner during the alleged vehicle theft

 Authorities do not plan to file charges against a Florida orange grove owner who fatally shot a 21-year-old woman, saying he is protected under the state’s controversial “no retreat” law
But the woman’s boyfriend faces second-degree murder charges in her [...]

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Snoop Dogg took the stand in his civil trial and denied hitting a man who filed a lawsuit claiming the rapper slugged him with a brass-knuckle microphone after he jumped on stage during one of his 2005 concerts.
        In two hours of testimony on Monday, the artist (real name: Calvin Broadus) told jurors that he [...]

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Angie Zapata was 18 when she was beaten to death in her apartment in Greeley, Colorado.
 
A Colorado man was convicted of first-degree murder and a bias-motivated crime in the slaying of a transgender teen he met on an online social networking site.
It the first time in the nation that a state hate crime statute was [...]

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The unidentified pirate suspect arrested in the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama arrived in the U.S. late Monday
 

 
 A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a suspected pirate will be tried as an adult
The judge questioned the age of the suspected pirate before deciding whether the his court proceedings should be made public.
The suspect, who has not [...]

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The case of a 13-year-old Arizona girl strip-searched by school official
s looking for ibuprofen pain-reliever will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week.
The justices in January accepted the Safford school district case for review, and will decide whether a campus setting gives school administrators greater discretion to control students suspected of illegal activity [...]

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A federal appeals panel has rejected the application of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis for a new trial
A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay of execution for Davis in October and agreed to hear his petition for a new trial. The panel voted 2-1 to deny Davis’ application.
Davis, [...]

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The suspected killer of a 20-year-old pregnant Marine will be extradited from Mexico to the United States on Friday to stand trial in her death, the FBI said Thursday
Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean, 22, was arrested in Mexico in April 2008. He has been indicted on charges that include first-degree murder in the death of Lance [...]

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After about 30 hours of deliberation, a jury on Monday convicted music producer Phil Spector of second-degree murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson more than six years ago.
Wearing a black suit with a red tie and pocket square, Spector showed no reaction as the verdict was announced. Now 69, he faces a sentence [...]

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In a dramatic reversal, the Florida state attorney’s office announced Monday it will seek the death penalty against Casey Anthony, the 23-year-old woman charged in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.
The state had previously said it would not ask for the death sentence for Anthony.
The development could have a major impact on how the [...]

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Attorneys for Casey Anthony, accused in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, will not be forced to say publicly who is funding her defense, a judge decided Wednesday
Asked in a hearing who, if not his office, is paying the tab for experts, defense attorney Jose Baez asked Orange County Circuit Judge Stan Strickland if [...]

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At least three police officers in Oakland, California, were shot and killed Saturday afternoon after a man pulled over for a routine traffic stop opened fire and then battled SWAT officers at a nearby building, police said.
The man, a 26-year-old Oakland resident, was later fatally shot in a shootout with a SWAT team in an [...]

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 man wanted for violating his parole killed three veteran police officers and gravely wounded another in two shootings Saturday, the first after a routine traffic stop and the second after a massive manhunt ended in gunfire, authorities said. The gunman was also killed.
“It’s in these moments that words are extraordinarily inadequate,” said Mayor Ron Dellums [...]

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