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Patriot Ledger - Several other people who said they knew Cowans declined to be interviewed after talking to investigators outside Cowans’ home or near Walter Sayfert Way, which were cordoned off with yellow police crime-scene tape. A Randolph Fire Department rescue ...

Newsday - Binghamton police took another look at the fire scene evidence after Ray was charged in March with a rape but did not turn up evidence he was involved or that a crime had been committed. Ray, 57, a former captain in the Binghamton police auxiliary ...

Daily Yomiuri On-Line - The 1973 abduction of then South Korean opposition leader Kim Dae Jung, while he was in Tokyo, raises the question of how Japan should deal with such a state crime. It is an especially serious task for the government as it deals with the issue of the ...

BBC UK News - Recently, the debate raised its head when OJ Simpson brought out a "hypothetical" crime memoir entitled "If I did it". The ex-US football star gained international notoriety in 1995 when he was tried and acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her ...

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 ...

BBC UK News - A woman who killed her disabled daughter reported several cases of anti-social behaviour before setting fire to her car, police said. Fiona Pilkington, 38, apparently murdered her daughter Francesca Hardwick and killed herself on Tuesday in a lay-by ...

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 ...

New York Daily News - John Gotti wasn't the only one who wanted Rudy Giuliani dead. City cops investigated a September 1995 contract on the then-mayor by the Genovese crime family when Giuliani was trying to run the mob out of the Fulton Fish Market and the Javits ...

Seattle Times - The suit diverted attention from the real issues that Shoreline faces — streets, sidewalks, parks, crime, environment, development, affordable housing. Despite this hostile working environment, the council has made progress. Yet, the spotlight has ...

Seattle Times - In what's likely to be a list of talking points for Republicans in the coming campaign, Esser talked about record state spending, tax increases approved by Democrats and the governor's record on fighting crime. "It's really a pretty dismal record on ...