A student at Purdue University was stabbed to death inside his dorm room on the Indiana school’s campus early Wednesday, according to officials and preliminary autopsy results. A suspect, the victim’s roommate, has been arrested in connection with the crime. The victim was identified as Varun Manish Chheda, 20, a …
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Armed attackers killed 10 people in a pool hall in an industrial region of central Mexico plagued by drug cartel-related violence, authorities said Thursday. The massacre happened on Wednesday night in the municipality of Tarimoro in Guanajuato state, according to the regional prosecutor’s office. The bodies of nine men were …
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Dramatic video shows a Chick-fil-A employee tackling a man who allegedly tried to carjack a woman with a baby. The suspect, identified as William Branch, was arrested by authorities in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Branch is facing charges of battery and carjacking with a weapon, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said on …
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San Diego — The military contractor who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the “Fat Leonard” corruption scandal and was under house arrest in San Diego is now on the run after cutting off his GPS monitoring ankle bracelet over the weekend, federal authorities said. Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Omar Castillo told …
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Inmates at a troubled West Virginia prison where James “Whitey” Bulger was beaten to death found out ahead of time that the notorious Boston gangster would be arriving, according to new details revealed in court. Sean McKinnon, who is accused of acting as a lookout while two other men killed …
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A 23-year-old Navy submarine technician has pleaded not guilty to charges he killed his wife with a hammer and set their house on fire in an attempt to kill their infant son. Petty Officer 2nd Class George Dodson II waived his right to a probable cause hearing Monday and pleaded …
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Police have arrested a Southern California woman for allegedly poisoning her husband. Police in the Orange County city of Irvine say a man reported Thursday that he believed he was being poisoned by his wife of 10 years after he grew ill over the course of a month. The man …
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Authorities investigating the deaths of three children who were shot by their 15-year-old brother have not found any evidence that the shootings were planned, an Alaska State Troopers spokesperson said Thursday. There also were “no obvious reasons for why he shot three siblings and took his own life,” troopers spokesperson …
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A crew member was fatally shot on a “Law & Order” set in Brooklyn Tuesday, the New York Police Department confirmed to CBS News. The 31-year-old man was working for the parking detail of “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” a spin-off of the original “Law & Order” show starring actor …
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Leaving no stone unturned at a 52-year-old, once-and-former crime scene isn’t easy. Not when investigators have to do their digging mainly by hand, so as not to disturb any evidence that still may be lurking in the soil. Armed with garden trowels and toothbrushes, West Virginia State Police forensic investigators …
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