Hundreds of Occupy protesters marched, chanted and scuffled with law enforcement officers in New York, San Francisco, Seattle and other cities around the world as they joined with labor activists to take part in a May Day “general strike” for economic equality Tuesday. Read full article > >

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Big things can happen in Congress — as long as no one is watching. Lobbying records released last week show that there wasn’t much opposition this winter when Congress quietly opened up U.S. airspace to aerial drones, which some advocates for civil liberties say raise a host of concerns about privacy . Read full article > >

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Little lobbying opposition to bill opening up U.S. airspace to drones

An East Texas man accused of killing his mother, father and brother in what may have been a prelude to a mass shooting — possibly at a school — had a penchant for studying the work of serial killers, law enforcement officials said Thursday.

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They are joining the Trayvon Martin crusade by the hour now. It feels like an echo from another era — when there was racial injustice in the headlines, when federal troops were dispatched to comb Southern swamps to look for blacks who had vanished. Read full article > >

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Fla. shooting stirs memories of civil rights era

A judge in New Zealand has released Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom on bail Wednesday, ruling that the executive had no assets that could help him flee the country. Dotcom, who ran the file sharing Web site Megaupload has been in custody since Jan. 20, the Associated Press reported , and had been denied bail earlier because the state of his bank accounts and other assets was unclear. Millions of dollars worth of cash, cars and other goods were seized by law enforcement officials following the executive’s arrest. Read full article > >

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At least five Senate and House district offices have received threatening mail in the last three days with a suspicious powdery substance — and similar letters with harmful materials may exist, congressional law enforcement officials warned. Read full article > >

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Suspicious mail sent to at least 5 congressional offices

Tensions between Occupy D.C. protesters and law enforcement increased Sunday afternoon with the arrest of a demonstrator and the approach of Monday’s noon deadline to enforce a ban on overnight camping. Read full article > >

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The man believed to have killed four homeless men in Orange County over the last month is now in custody, according to law enforcement officials.

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Anaheim, Calif., Police Make Arrest in Killing of Homeless Man

NEW YORK — A man who confessed to a string of New Year’s Day arson attacks at an Islamic cultural center and four other sites where he had personal grievances was arrested on a hate crime charge, police said. Ray Lazier Lengend, a 40-year-old of Guyanese descent, hurled crude firebombs at the Islamic center in part because he wasn’t allowed to use its bathrooms, a law enforcement official said. Read full article > >

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Man arrested on hate crime charge in firebomb attack at NYC Islamic cultural center

In-the-line-of-duty deaths of law enforcement officers jumped 13% in 2011 compared to last year, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

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Law officers deaths up 13% in 2011

With his state reeling over charges of child sexual abuse against a former assistant football coach at Penn State and allegations of a coverup by two top university officials , Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) expressed confidence Sunday that state lawmakers would soon pass legislation requiring employees and other individuals to report allegations of such abuse directly to law enforcement officials, rather than merely pass them along to superiors at an institution. Read full article > >

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett responds to Penn State sexual abuse scandal

A rash of thefts has law enforcement officials stumped. Among other challenges, the missing hogs are difficult to single out. “They all look alike,” said a sheriff.

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Midwest Farmers on Alert as Pig Thieves Strike

In the days of the Cold War, people used the initials KGB to refer to the much-feared Soviet espionage agency. Now, law enforcement authorities in Washington are still campaigning against the KGB. But a different one. In the District, the KGB Crew stands for Krazy Graf Brothers, according to a D.C. police official, who said police think the group is involved in “tagging” — painting graffiti on — buildings around the city. Read full article > >

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D.C. police arrest 4 in KGB graffiti crew

D.C. police found Bobby L. Jackson early in the morning of June 25, slumped over dead and unarmed in a lawn chair after being shot in the back at least seven times. Many more shell casings were scattered nearby. More than two months after the shooting, police have no strong suspects. Nobody in the neighborhood, a tightly packed hamlet of small homes, called 911 until almost an hour after the shots were fired, law enforcement sources say, hampering efforts to make quick arrests or gather leads. Canvassing the neighborhood has yielded little useful information. Read full article > >

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Police seek leads in June killing

NEW YORK — Two fighter jets escorted a Los Angeles-to-New York American Airlines flight after three passengers locked themselves in a bathroom Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, officials said. A law enforcement official said it wasn’t thought to be terrorism, and American Airlines spokesman Tim Smith said, “In our eyes, it’s a big nothing.” Read full article > >

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