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Missing N.C. Girl's Mattress Found, Contains DNA

Zahra Clare Baker Update: Mattress Found in Missing N.C. Girl's Case, Contains DNA, Say Police

Zahra Claire Baker (CBS/AP)

HICKORY, N.C. (CBS/WBTV) Police have released two key pieces of information in the Zahra Clare Baker case late Tuesday afternoon - confirmation that the missing girl's stepmother started cooperating with police and that crews Tuesday found a mattress similar to Zahra's in a landfill.

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Zahra Clare Baker: Father, Adam Baker, Arrested

 Zahra Clare Baker Update: Father, Adam Baker, Arrested on Outstanding Warrants

Zahra Clare Baker (AP Photo/FBI)

HICKORY, N.C. (CBS/WBTV) Zahra Clare Baker's father, Adam Baker, has been arrested for seven outstanding warrants as authorities continue to search for the missing 10-year-old disabled North Carolina girl.

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Juror in Beating Case Says She Was 911 Caller

Juror Says She Was The 911 Caller In Beating Case

(CBS/AP)

CINCINNATI (CBS/AP) An Ohio juror listening to opening statements in an assault case suddenly announced she saw the alleged beating and had called 911.

The woman was on a 12-person jury in Cincinnati hearing domestic violence and felonious assault charges against 42-year-old James Capell.

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Police Release 911 Call Made By Father of Missing N.C. Girl

Zahra Clare Baker Update: 911 Call Made by Father of Missing N.C. Girl Released

Zahra Baker (Personal Photo)

HICKORY, N.C. (CBS/WBTV) The Hickory Police Dept. released a recording of the 911 call placed by the father of 10-year-old Zahra Claire Baker the day he said she went missing.

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Fed-Up Girlfriend Calls 911 On Pot-Smoking Beau

Pist Off Girlfriend Calls 911 On Pot-Smoking Stoner Boyfriend

(CBS/AP)

LEBANON, Mo. (CBS/AP) A 35-year-old man was charged with possessing marijuana after his girlfriend called 911 to report a "stoner emergency."

Dispatchers in the southwestern Missouri town of Lebanon got the 911 hang-up call Saturday night from a motel room.

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Body of Missing 911 Dispatcher Theresa Parker Found

Body of Missing 911 Dispatcher Theresa Parker Found in Georgia

Theresa Parker (CBS)

LAFAYETTE, Ga. (CBS/AP) Teresa Parker's family and friends will finally be able to put the Georgia 911 dispatcher to rest after her skeletal remains were found scattered along the Chattanooga River, investigators said Wednesday - a sad and final ending that they have feared since Teresa mysteriously vanished in 2007.

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Cops: Ohio Woman Calls 9-1-1, Looking for a Date

Bernadette Music (KEYC)

NORWOOD, Ohio (CBS/WKRC) When an Ohio woman had a hard time getting a date last week she dialed 9-1-1 instead.

The love-seeker was successful in procuring a date... in court that is.

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911: Mom Strangled Kids Because They're Autistic

Saiqa Akhter Told 911 She Killed Her Autistic Children Because She Wanted Normal Kids

Saiqa Akhter (Irving Police Dept.)

DALLAS (CBS/AP) Suburban Dallas mother Saiqa Akhter, who is accused of killing her two young children, told a 911 operator that she first tried to poison them because they were autistic and she wanted "normal kids," then choked them with a wire until they stopped moving, according to the recorded call.

Irving police on Wednesday released recordings of the 911 call after Akhter was charged with capital murder in the death of her 5-year-old son, Zain Akhter. Police said the children were attacked at the family's apartment Monday night.Continue »

"Dead Body" 911 Call Allowed in Casey Anthony Trial

911 Calls Can be Used in Casey Anthony Trial, Says Judge

Caylee Anthony (Personal Photo)

ORLANDO, Fla. (CBS/WKMG/AP) A 911 recording in which Cindy Anthony, Casey Anthony's mother, tells a dispatcher that her daughter's car smells like a dead body can be used during the first-degree murder trial.

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Casey Anthony's Mother to Testify on 911 Tapes

Casey Anthony's Mother set to Testify in 911 Call Hearing

Caylee Anthony (Family Photo)

ORLANDO, Fla. (CBS/WKMG) Exactly two years to the day that Caylee Anthony's disappearance made national headlines, her maternal grandmother is scheduled to testify at a hearing for Caylee's mother, Casey Anthony, about the frantic 911 call that launched a months long search for the 2-year-old girl.

PICTURES: Casey Anthony Personal Photos
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