CHARLOTTESVILLE — For the jury that has spent two weeks listening to dozens of witnesses, the George Huguely V murder trial could come down to the tale of the tape. The prosecution and defense urged the jurors who will decide Huguely’s fate to replay, study and dissect his videotaped statement to police to understand why he kicked through Yeardley Love’s bedroom door and what he did when he got to the other side. Read full article > >

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MEXICO CITY — The worst prison riot in Mexico in years was not really a riot. It was mass murder. Mexican officials said Monday that it appears all of the 44 inmates stabbed and beaten to death at a state prison in northern Mexico on Sunday were members of the same crime syndicate, known as the Gulf Cartel. Read full article > >

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Police are continuing to question a man over the murder of a vicar in South Gloucestershire and a pensioner in Worcestershire.

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For the past two months, D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier has touted the city’s astronomically high homicide closure rate — 94 percent for 2011 — and warned anyone contemplating murder in the District to think twice. Read full article > >

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CHARLOTTESVILLE — George Huguely V will not take the stand in his murder trial after waiving that right during a rare Saturday session as a judge pushes to finish the case. Huguely answered quietly that he understood that he had a right to testify, but not an obligation, and that he had discussed his decision with his two attorneys. The defense rested its case soon after. Read full article > >

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Police name a 47-year-old man wanted for the murder of the Reverend John Suddards, found stabbed in his vicarage near Bristol.

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In a famous essay about crime and the British press , George Orwell identified the kinds of murder cases that excited the news media and titillated the public. The victims, he wrote, tended to be middle-class; the alleged perpetrators were seemingly respectable members of the community; the motives were typically sexual or romantic in nature. And none of the cases was open and shut, leaving ample room to speculate about the outcome. Read full article > >

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The Huguely case: What makes for a media mob?

A former Baltimore area resident held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was charged Tuesday by military prosecutors with war crimes, including murder, attempted murder, spying and providing material support for terrorism. Read full article > >

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CHARLOTTESVILLE — As more than two dozen witnesses took the stand this week for George Huguely V’s trial for the murder of his former girlfriend Yeardley Love, jurors kept hearing about Love’s bedroom door. Read full article > >

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CHARLOTTESVILLE — Tears rolled down George Huguely’s face and his shoulders shook as he watched the videotape of his statement to police on the morning he was charged with murdering Yeardley Love. His wailing sounded in the courtroom from a TV screen as he repeated dozens of times “she’s not dead” and “there’s no way she’s dead” in the 25 minutes after detectives finally told him Love was dead. Jurors leaned toward the screen to watch, with one wiping her eyes. Read full article > >

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CHARLOTTESVILLE — Prosecutors on Wednesday said that a few days before Yeardley Love’s death, George Huguely V sent her an e-mail that said: “I should have killed you.” Huguely, 24, is accused of first-degree murder and five other charges in the May 2010 death of Love , his ex-girlfriend, in her off-campus apartment. Read full article > >

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An attorney for a convicted murderer pardoned by Mississippi’s outgoing governor says his client will not attend a hearing on the constitutionality of his and 200 other pardons.

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A 41-year-old Lurgan man appears in court charged with attempting to murder two police officers.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE — It’s been nearly two years since University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love was found dead facedown in a pool of blood on a pillow in her bed. Within hours, her ex-boyfriend, George Huguely V , a lacrosse player from Chevy Chase, was charged with murder and jailed in Charlottesville, where he remains. Read full article > >

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George Huguely’s trial in Yeardley Love’s death starts Monday with jury selection