Friday, May 3, 2013

Daily News: Crime and Trials News Headlines - Jurors get case in Jodi Arias murder trial

Friday, May 03, 2013 06:09 PM PDT

Jurors get case in Jodi Arias murder trial 
Friday, May 03, 2013 06:09 PM PDT
Defendant Jodi Arias looks to her family during closing arguments during her trial on Friday, May 3, 2013 at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias is charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool)PHOENIX (AP) — Jurors began deliberations in Jodi Arias' murder trial on Friday after four months of testimony and closing arguments from both sides that presented far different scenarios of the killing and motivation, leaving the panel to come to grips with the dearth of evidence and Arias' ever-changing version of events.
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Police: No crime in Colorado student mouth taping 
Friday, May 03, 2013 03:53 PM PDT
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police say no crime occurred when a second-grade Colorado teacher taped her students' mouth shut when they wouldn't be quiet.
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Pa. jurors turn to murder charges in abortion case 
Friday, May 03, 2013 12:27 PM PDT
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia abortion provider will spend another weekend in custody after a jury failed to reach a verdict in his murder case.
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Not guilty pleas entered in Atlanta cheating case 
Friday, May 03, 2013 11:39 AM PDT
Former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall, right, waits for motions at a Fulton County Superior Court hearing for several dozen Atlanta Public Schools educators facing charges alleging a conspiracy of cheating on the CRCT standardized tests in Atlanta, Friday, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/David Tulis)ATLANTA (AP) — A not guilty plea was entered Friday on behalf of Beverly Hall, the former superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools who is charged in a broad conspiracy alleging educators cheated on standardized tests to mask poor student performance for personal gain.
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Man acquitted of Real IRA murder of 2 UK soldiers 
Friday, May 03, 2013 06:50 AM PDT
DUBLIN (AP) — A man suspected of involvement in the Real IRA faction's killing of two British soldiers in Northern Ireland in 2009 has been acquitted of murder charges after a judge dismissed the forensic evidence and ruled he was too feeble to have played a role.
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Female Air Force trainer sentenced in sex scandal 
Friday, May 03, 2013 05:11 AM PDT
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A female training instructor at a Texas Air Force base has been ordered to serve three months in jail after pleading guilty to having sex with a male student.
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Indonesia says 2 arrested for Myanmar Embassy plot 
Friday, May 03, 2013 02:33 AM PDT
Police officers stand guard outside a house where police found explosive materials following a raid in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, May 3, 2013. Indonesia's elite anti-terror squad seized five homemade bombs and arrested two suspected militants who allegedly planned to attack the Myanmar Embassy to protest that country's treatment of Muslims, police said Friday. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Hours after Indonesia announced it had foiled an alleged plot to bomb the Myanmar Embassy in Jakarta, hundreds of hard-line Muslims gathered outside the mission Friday calling for jihad in that country to fight against persecution of their Islamic brothers.
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Bangladeshi engineer arrested in building collapse 
Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:44 PM PDT
A worker is seen through a broken cement wall as he toils in the collapsed garment factory building in search for bodies on Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Rescuers found more bodies in the concrete debris of the collapsed garment factory building Thursday and authorities say it may take another five days to clear the rubble. In addition to the 430 confirmed dead, police report another 149 people are still missing in what has become the worst disaster for Bangladesh's $20 billion-a-year garment industry that supplies global retailers. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — More than 500 bodies have been recovered from the Bangladesh garment-factory building that collapsed last week, authorities said Friday after arresting an engineer who warned the building was unsafe but is also accused of helping the owner add three illegal floors to the structure.
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