PHILADELPHIA — An appeals court has overturned the attempted prostitution conviction of a Philadelphia woman who was accused of offering sexual favors for World Series tickets. Authorities had alleged that Susan Finkelstein posted a racy online ad, then met with an undercover Bensalem police officer in October 2009 and offered to perform sexual acts in exchange for tickets to see the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees. Read full article > >

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Pa. appeals court overturns woman’s conviction in World Series tickets-for-sex case

A man goes on trial accused of the attempted murder of a senior Law Society official in Edinburgh.

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Stabbed accountant trial begins

Three siblings wanted for bank robbery and the attempted murder of a police officer are arrested in Colorado, after a week-long nationwide manhunt.

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A South Korean court jails four Somali pirates over the hijacking of a Korean ship and the attempted murder of its captain in the Arabian Sea.

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A third man is remanded in custody over the attempted murder of a five-year-old girl and a man in a shooting at a south London shop.

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Former IRA man Gerry McGeough is sentenced to 20 years for the attempted murder of a UDR soldier in 1981.

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McGeough: 20 years for shooting

Shots have been fired during the attempted abduction of man in Strabane.

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Shots fired in abduction attempt

A man is charged with the attempted murder of two elderly men who were assaulted in the same area of north London within a month.

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Man on attempted murder charges

It is probably some form of poetic justice that, in reacting to the attempted murder of a congresswoman and the murder of a judge, some of the political discourse has devolved into an unhelpful and unenlightening argument that goes something like this: It’s your fault; no, it’s your fault.

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Three men from Northern Ireland have been arrested after the attempted robbery of an ATM machine in the Republic of Ireland.

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Three men arrested over ATM raid

Three men are charged with the attempted murder of a Serbian war criminal who was attacked inside Wakefield Prison.

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Two 11-year-old boys are given a three year supervision order for the attempted rape of an eight-year-old girl in a west London park.

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Boys sentenced for rape attempt