BOSTON — More than 50 protesters from the Occupy Boston movement were arrested early Tuesday after they ignored warnings to move from a downtown greenway near where they have been camped out for more than a week, police said. Police spokesman Jamie Kenneally said the arrests began about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday and were mostly for trespassing. Read full article > >

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Boston police arrest 50 from Occupy Boston movement for trespassing

Many of the protesters who have made camp in downtown Freedom Plaza thought Monday would end with their arrests. By early evening, however, they were invited to stay, organizers said. The U.S. Park Police told organizers of the Stop the Machine group, who have camped in the plaza just east of the White House since Thursday, that they could stay for four more months, according to Margaret Flowers. Read full article > >

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Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly reminded officers not to arrest people who have small amounts of marijuana in their possession unless it is in public view.

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Minor Marijuana-Possession Charges Require Public View

T he way Dion Diamond remembers it, his June 1960 arrest for the “sit-down” at the Howard Johnson’s on Lee Highway in Arlington County marked the first of 30 times he was locked up. “You have to ask the FBI the locations, though,” he said. “I can’t remember all the places where I’ve been arrested. You know how on job applications where they ask if you’ve ever been arrested? I always had to give an explanation.” Diamond, now 69 and a retired social services and human-resources executive who lives in Northwest Washington, racked up his arrests protesting segregation, voting-rights violations and other discriminatory practices in an activist career that took him from Howard University to the Deep South as part of the Freedom Riders, blacks and whites — many of them students — who challenged segregation in public transportation in 1961, mostly in Mississippi. Read full article > >

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Local Freedom Riders recall yesterday’s fright, today’s pride

MEXICO CITY — Sixteen police officers in northeastern Mexico have been detained for protecting a criminal gang that allegedly filled mass graves with 126 bodies uncovered there, according to Mexican officials who announced the arrests Wednesday night.

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Police arrested, more bodies found in northern Mexico

Police meet Muslims at a Cardiff mosque to discuss the arrests of five men in the city suspected of terrorism offences.

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Police meet Muslims after arrests

The investigation that led to the arrests of five Columbia students is more noteworthy for its locale than its scope.

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Typical Drug Case, Except for Ivy League Address