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Houston Chronicle - Harris County judges Monday began re-examining 180 criminal convictions involving problematic Houston crime lab evidence, asking inmates via video hearings if they wanted their cases included in the review process. Of the 19 inmates questioned Monday ...

Guardian Unlimited - BBC1 has commissioned a new crime drama from Waking the Dead creator Barbara Machin, which will see the action flip backwards and forwards in time. The "gritty" two-part Blood Rush will star Louise Lombard as the head of a crime team investigating a ...

Baltimore Sun - It is the leading cause of death among adults 35 to 44 years of age, surpassing homicide, and has had a corrosive effect on neighborhoods already beset by poverty, crime and homelessness. At last count, Baltimore's rate of new AIDS diagnoses was ...

Newsday - The pope weighed in as lawmakers prepared to debate the government's response to recent crime, including fast-track expulsions of EU citizens deemed dangerous and bulldozing of immigrant shantytowns. AN EXECUTIVE JET CRASHED into a heavily populated ...

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Boston Globe - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the assassination was a "heinous crime" and an "assault on stability" in Pakistan. Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Union's executive arm, the European Commission, said it was "an attack against ...

Boston Globe - For Glen and his mother, it is yet another troubling chapter in Troy's life - one that began turning to crime about the same time Glen began to ratchet up his hockey career. Glen got into hockey, while Troy got into trouble, and lots of it. Hooked on ...

ZDNet Australia - Despite missing its target to set up a base in India to target ID theft and information crime, the AFP says it's still planning to open its offshore centre. The decision to open a permanent centre of operations in India was originally announced by ...

Miami Herald - S everal years ago, state attorneys general and others involved in consumer protection began to notice a marked increase in a range of predatory lending practices by mortgage lenders. Some were misrepresenting the terms of loans, making loans without ...