Monday, January 28, 2013

Daily News: Crime and Trials News Headlines - Alaska officials mum on serial killer's suicide

Monday, Jan 28, 2013 06:22 PM PST

Alaska officials mum on serial killer's suicide 
Monday, Jan 28, 2013 06:22 PM PST
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) â€" Alaska prisons officials refuse to say how confessed serial killer Israel Keyes obtained a razor before his jail-cell suicide.
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Philly basement suspect gets death-penalty lawyer 
Monday, Jan 28, 2013 01:45 PM PST
This undated photo provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Linda Weston. A grand jury in Philadelphia alleges that several disabled adults were confined in subhuman conditions in a scheme to steal their Social Security benefits, and that two people died as a result. The indictment unsealed Wednesday Jan. 23, 2013 charges 52-year-old Weston and four others with offenses including hate crimes, kidnapping, murder in aid of racketeering and forced human labor. Prosecutors say it's the first time the federal hate crimes statute has been used to protect the disabled. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department)PHILADELPHIA (AP) â€" A paroled killer charged with murdering two mentally disabled women in a Social Security scam was assigned a new lawyer Monday with death-penalty experience.
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Jury selection still on hold in Zumba trial 
Monday, Jan 28, 2013 01:28 PM PST
FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2013 file photo, Mark Strong Sr., right, and his attorney, Dan Lilley, leave the Cumberland County Court House in Portland, Maine. The trial of a key figure in a prostitution scandal at a Zumba studio in Maine has gone through four days without a jury being selected. And it’s unclear if the process will resume Monday. The defense is worried that the lengthy delays could cause potential jurors to turn against Strong even before jury selection is completed and the trial begins in earnest. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)ALFRED, Maine (AP) â€" The defense and the judge aren't happy with delays in the trial of the business partner in a prostitution scandal at a Zumba studio. Prosecutors aren't happy, either, after the judge dismissed nearly four dozen charges.
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Arsonist sentenced to death for murdering 5 who died of heart attacks in 2003 California fire 
Monday, Jan 28, 2013 12:08 PM PST
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) â€" Arsonist sentenced to death for murdering 5 who died of heart attacks in 2003 California fire.
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A Jump in California Crime Rates May Blow It for National Prison Reform 
Monday, Jan 28, 2013 11:20 AM PST
During an investigation in early January 2013, California Highway Patrol officers tracked a stolen car to a home in Southeast Fresno. Investigators found not just the tools of thieves, but stolen property and drugs, officers said. The CHP arrested two gang members. One man was on probation, having recently been released from state prison as a result of overcrowding.
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Zumba trial tests patience of prospective jurors 
Monday, Jan 28, 2013 07:36 AM PST
Justice Nancy Mills listens to attorney Daniel Lilley during a motion hearing in the trial of Mark Strong, Sr., Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 at York County Superior Court in Alfred, Maine. The remaining jury selection must be open to the public in the trial of the first major figure in a prostitution scandal centered on a Zumba studio in Kennebunk, Maine's highest court ruled Thursday. (AP Photo/Portland Press Herald, Gregory Rec, Pool)ALFRED, Maine (AP) â€" The defense and the judge aren't happy with delays in the trial of the business partner in a prostitution scandal at a Zumba studio. Prosecutors aren't happy, either, after the judge dismissed nearly four dozen charges.
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