Blood found on the clothes of a man accused of raping and murdering a pregnant teenager matched the victim’s DNA, a jury is told.

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Victim DNA ‘on accused’s clothes’

Detectives investigating the murder of a young woman found on the Queen’s Sandringham Estate name the victim as a 17-year-old girl.

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Body on Queen’s estate identified

Whoever he is — if he’s still alive — he attacked at least seven and probably nine women in Montgomery County and Georgetown in the 1990s. Eight were raped, including a 28-year-old biochemist he beat to death with a slab of rock. The other victim fought off a rape attempt until the assailant cracked her skull with a radio and fled. Read full article > >

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Digital blitz launched against ’90s D.C. area serial rapist

PHILADELPHIA — Prosecutors on Wednesday abandoned their 30-year push to execute convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther whose claim that he was the victim of a racist legal system made him an international cause celebre. Abu-Jamal, 58, will instead spend the rest of his life in prison. Read full article > >

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Philadelphia DA dropping death penalty against Mumia Abu-Jamal in racially charged murder case

Alleged Victim 1 filed allegations in 2008.

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Sandusky Accuser Will Testify at Hearing

AMSTERDAM — Police say an argument about loud music could be the reason Seattle Mariners outfielder Greg Halman was stabbed to death. Police spokeswoman Patricia Wessels tells The Associated Press that loud music “appears to be the reason the victim walked downstairs,” but police are still trying to piece together what happened after that. Read full article > >

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Dutch police say loud music may have led to the slaying of Seattle Mariners outfielder Halman

Raphael Rowe meets the victim of a violent burglary who agreed to go into a prison to meet one of the men responsible

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ATLANTA — Georgia’s execution of Troy Davis for the murder of an off-duty police officer has done little to resolve the debate over his guilt that captured the attention of thousands worldwide, including a former president and the pope. Davis remained defiant even after he was strapped to a gurney Wednesday night in the state’s death chamber, declaring his innocence and urging the victim’s family to continue searching for the truth. Read full article > >

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Ga.’s execution of Troy Davis leaves debate over guilt unresolved; inmate maintained innocence

A crane toppled over at the National Cathedral this morning, sending one person to the hospital and damaging two out-buildings and crushing several vehicles. DC Fire/EMS Battalion Chief John Donnelly said one person was taken to the hospital but he did not have not have more information on the extent of the victim’s injuries. No one was trapped or injured, said Oscar Mendez, a D.C. Fire/EMS spokesman. But when the crane came down, it damaged both the Herb Cottage and the Church House, the headquarters of the diocese. Three to five parked cars were also crushed, Mendez said. Read full article > >

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Crane topples at National Cathedral, damages buildings

Another victim has died in Tuesday’s shooting rampage at a Carson City, Nevada, IHOP restaurant, officials said.

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5 dead, including gunman, at Nevada IHOP

Prosecutors say the victim, Nazish Noorani, had recently texted her brother about her husband, Kashif Parvaiz: “Someday U will find me dead, but it’s cuz of Kashi.”

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Husband Is Charged in Wife’s Killing in New Jersey

A judge in Aruba on Monday ordered a Gaithersburg man held for an additional 16 days as investigators continued to probe how and why his traveling companion disappeared two weeks ago. Gary V. Giordano , 50, appeared before an examining magistrate for more than two hours. The proceeding was closed to the media, as is typical at this stage in Aruban investigations. But Aruban Solicitor General Taco Stein said prosecutors argued to the judge that Robyn Gardner, 35, might be the victim of foul play and that Giordano was involved. Read full article > >

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Judge extends detention of Gaithersburg man in Aruba

A 19-year-old man who allegedly attacked a woman outside the Columbia Heights Metro station was charged with a hate crime this week — 10 days, the victim says, after seven police officers refused to take action immediately after the attack. Christian Washington of Northwest Washington was charged with bias-related assault Tuesday. The police response to the attack, in which five lesbians were attacked by at least two men, attracted scrutiny from members of the city’s gay, lesbian and transgender community after the victims said responding officers refused to take a report. Read full article > >

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D.C. man charged with hate crime against lesbian

A fatal accident inquiry into a Scottish swine flu death hears the victim was relieved when told by doctors he did not have the virus.

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Swine flu bug ‘missed by doctor’

The appointment of Sheila Birnbaum represents a major step in the implementation of a law Congress passed late last year to reopen Sept. 11th Victim Compensation Fund.

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Overseer of 9/11 Health Fund Is Chosen