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Orange County cops try to shame men who pay for sex

Jun 13, 9:27AM by Barry Leibowitz Topics Daily Blotter
(CBS) SANTA ANA, Calif. - For the first time in Orange County, Calif., authorities are trying to use shame shame to fight prostitution, by embarrassing the so-called "johns" who attempt to pay for sex. Continue »
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Denver cop Abbegayle Dorn resigns amid steroid accusations

Jun 13, 9:01AM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Abbegayle Dorn

/ CBS Denver
(CBS) DENVER - Abbegayle Dorn, a Denver police officer and former competitor on the 2008 season of the television show "American Gladiators," resigned from the Denver Police Department Tuesday amid accusations she allegedly procured and used steroids, CBS Denver reports.Continue »
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Fla. man executed for prison guard's murder

Jun 13, 8:54AM by Crimesider Staff Topics 911 , Daily Blotter

William Van Poyck

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(CBS/AP) STARKE, Fla. -- A Florida man was executed Wednesday night for the murder of a guard during a botched 1987 prison van ambush intended to free an imprisoned friend.Continue »
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Saggy pants banned on boardwalk by Jersey shore town

Jun 13, 8:38AM by Barry Leibowitz Topics Daily Blotter

Officials in Wildwood, N.J. do not want to see this on the boardwalk this summer - or any saggy pants that reveal even more.

/ AP Photo
(CBS/AP) WILDWOOD, N.J. - A South Jersey shore town doesn't want to get caught with its pants down this summer.

Wildwood passed a law Wednesday prohibiting those overly saggy jeans that reveal underwear or skin when worn on the boardwalk.

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More potential jurors questioned in Zimmerman trial

Jun 12, 5:51PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

George Zimmerman, right, leaves a Seminole County courtroom during a recess, with his attorney Mark O'Mara, on the first day of his murder trial in Sanford, Fla., Monday, June 10, 2013.

/ AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank/Pool

(CBS/AP) SANFORD, Fla. - As jury selection stretched into its third day in the George Zimmerman murder trial, attorneys had interviewed 18 potential jurors by mid-day Wednesday. More than 70 jury candidates had been dismissed by the end of the day on Tuesday.

PICTURES: George Zimmerman in court

READ: Trayvon Martin Shooting: A timeline of events

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Ill. police investigate apparent triple murder-suicide

Jun 12, 4:39PM by Iris Carreras Topics Daily Blotter

DuPage County, Il.. home where four people were found shot to death on Tuesday, June 11, 2013.

/ CBS Chicago
(CBS) DARIEN, Ill. - Four people were found shot to death Tuesday at a suburban Chicago home in what appears to be a triple murder-suicide, according to CBS Chicago.
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Prosecutors still plan to pursue death for Jodi Arias

Jun 12, 4:34PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Jodi Arias reacts in court to being found guilty of first-degree murder

/ CBS

(CBS/AP) PHOENIX - Authorities plan to try again to secure the death penalty for convicted murderer Jodi Arias after jurors in her trial deadlocked last month on a sentence.

PICTURES: Jodi Arias pleads with jurors for a life sentence

READ: Jodi Arias: A timeline of a sensational murder case

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Woman pleads not guilty to plotting murder of ex-boyfriend

Jun 12, 4:24PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Barbara Wu

/ CBS Los Angeles
(AP) RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A University of California, Riverside, student has pleaded not guilty to soliciting an ex-boyfriend's beating and murder by another boyfriend, who secretly recorded the alleged plot.Continue »
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Cops: 2 men held in connection with death of Ind. teen

Jun 12, 3:37PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

The body of Katelyn Wolfe, 19, was found missing in a rural Indiana county. Two men are being held in connection with her death.

/ WTHI
(AP) LINTON, Ind. - A southwestern Indiana police chief said late Tuesday that a 19-year-old woman whose body was found a few days after she vanished apparently died from asphyxiation.Continue »
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Feds accused R.I. school for disabled of running sweatshop

Jun 12, 3:31PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

The Harold H. Birch Vocational School in Providence, R.I. mistreated developmentally disabled students, the U.S. Justice Dept. alleges.

/ WPRI
(CBS/AP) PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The U.S. Justice Department has found that a Providence vocational school ran what amounted to a sweatshop involving developmentally disabled students.Continue »
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