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Baltimore Sun - Call it the CSI list: fingerprints, gunshot residue, ballistics, toxicology, bite patterns - the full rundown of forensic methods used by prosecutors to link defendants to crime scenes. Public perception and generations of prosecutors suggest that ...

Miami Herald - Family and friends gathered Sunday at a funeral home in the Bronx to remember Eric Rosado, the 14-year-old shot and killed while robbing a South Miami-Dade grocery store last week. Many wondered why the teen, who moved to South Florida in 2005 and ...

Detroit News - He talked to his son about drugs and crime and wanted him to understand the world he lived in and the importance of escaping it for a better life. Although Rip's son won't grow up in poverty he wants his son to understand the total scope of life. "My ...

News.com.au - ZOO officials have admitted a wall designed to stop a tiger escaping was too low, after the death of a 17-year-old youth who was mauled to death. San Francisco Zoo director Manuel Mollinedo confirmed the wall around the tiger's enclosure was 3.8m ...

Reuters UK - LONDON (Reuters) - Drug offences rose 14 percent in the second quarter of the year, Home Office figures show, but total recorded crime in England and Wales was down. The rise in drug offences to 55,000 between April and June was attributed by the ...

New York Daily News - A possible tip on a robbery case may have cost an NYPD detective $115. Detective Tony Mok, a 22-year veteran assigned to the citywide robbery squad, was off last Friday when he got a call from a detective in Chinatown. The detective described a ...

Forbes - Police are still investigating and have declared the big-cat exhibit a crime scene. The San Francisco Chronicle, citing anonymous sources, reported Thursday that police are looking into the possibility that the victims had taunted the tiger and ...

Newsday - Detectives ask that anyone with information call Crime Stoppers at 800-244-TIPS. Security cameras on school buildings may not have captured details of the attack because a patch of trees in the 200 yards between the court and the school may have ...

St. Petersburg Times - According to the Uniform Crime Rate (UCR) report for the third quarter of 2007, St. Petersburg's overall crime rate has decreased 4.1 percent compared to the same period last year. That's good news, considering most large cities in Florida and the ...

Miami Herald - I t is a dramatic tale. After losing his bid for the presidency in democratic elections, a cocalero congressman immediately turns to violent protests that succeed in toppling the man who beat him. At the head of an angry mob, the populist leader ...