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Murder case brings ‘Foxy Knoxy’ infamy in Italy
The Italian media call her "Foxy Knoxy" and portray her as a "devil with an angel’s face," and there are 11 Facebook pages dedicated to her, all in Italian. Amanda Knox, 21, is an American college student from Seattle, Washington, who is on trial for murder in Perugia, Italy.
Suit filed in alleged ‘fight club’ at school for mentally handicapped
A Texas woman claims in a lawsuit her 21-year-old son has suffered emotional trauma from being forced to participate in alleged "fight clubs" at a state school for mentally handicapped adults.
Police: Woman posed as immigration officer to take child
Florida police said a woman accused of abducting an infant by posing as an immigration officer is refusing to say anything about the case. She turned the baby over to authorities Tuesday. “We may never know what she was thinking or what she was planning to do with the baby,” Plant City, Florida, police spokesman Capt.
Police seek ‘Plasma Pat’ in TV discount scam
He’s a TV salesman offering an unbelievable deal — and police say you don’t want to do business with him.
Police eye suspect in newlywed’s slaying
Nicole Ganguzza was a newlywed in grad school at the University of Central Florida when she was dragged off a trail and strangled to death while jogging in a park in June. Ganguzza, 26, was close to earning her master’s degree in marriage and family therapy. She was looking forward to having children of her own
DA: Who buys shoes, then commits suicide?
Music producer Phil Spector, on trial for the second time in connection with the 2003 death of an actress at his home, is "a very dangerous man," a prosecutor told jurors Monday.
Son of drug cartel chief arrested in Mexico
The Mexican military has arrested the son of a top drug cartel lieutenant, the government said Thursday. Vicente Zambada Niebla, known as “El Vicentillo,” was arrested Wednesday along with five subordinates, Mexico’s defense department and attorney general’s office said in a joint release. The men were acting suspiciously and had military-grade weapons, officials said.
Austria Squirms in Limelight of the Cellar Incest Trial
The authorities in Sankt Poelten are making the most of their sleepy, baroque town’s misfortune of being the venue for perhaps the most grotesque trial in Austria’s history. A large marquee reminiscent of a beer tent, flanked by sausage stands and a mobile sweetshop, has been erected outside the courtroom to accommodate the hundreds of journalists who’ve arrived here to follow the trial of Josef Fritzl.
Senators want to fight Mexican drug cartels’ expanding influence
A bloody war between Mexican drug cartels is no longer solely a south-of-the-border problem, members of Congress said Tuesday at a hearing on the issue. The violence accompanying those battles has crept into the United States, and is believed to largely be fueled by money and guns pouring over the border from America, said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois.