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Essa Exclusive: 48 Hours Mystery Producer Describes the Yazeed Essa Case as Verdict Looms

Mar 4, 9:45AM by Kevin Hayes Topics Daily Blotter
(Associated Press)
CLEVELAND (CBS) I'm sitting in the creepy quiet of a Cleveland courtroom, where it's easy to forget that the clock is ticking toward a verdict in the trial of an area doctor accused of poisoning his wife and fleeing to Lebanon, before the FBI, among others, brought him to trial six weeks ago.

Photo: Essa and wife

On February 24 2005, Rosemarie DiPuccio-Essa died after a low-speed car accident - with no apparent injuries. Nearly two months later, tests revealed the cause of death was cyanide poisoning.

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Your iPod Was Probably Made by an Overworked, Underpaid Teenager, But You Probably Don't Care

Mar 4, 9:45AM by Neil Katz Topics Daily Blotter
(CBS)
(AP)
NEW YORK (CBS) Depending on how you see it, Apple Computer is either yet another American corporation willing to hire young teens for work brutal hours at slave wages to build fancy products like iPods, iPads, and iPhones, or they are moral enough to try and stop those very practices and brave enough to publish the results on the web.

Photo: Apple's 1984 commercial branded the company as fighting the man.

The facts, as Apple's own "Supplier Responsibility 2010 Progress Report" state, are humbling.

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Is Conservative Christian Group, No Greater Joy Ministries, Pushing Parents to Beat Kids to Death?

Mar 4, 9:45AM by Kevin Hayes Topics Daily Blotter
(CBS/KOVR)
(No Greater Joy Ministries)
Paradise, Calif. (CBS/AP) Prosecutors say that earlier this month Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz of Paradise, Calif., beat their 7-year-old daughter to death with quarter-inch plastic tubing because she mispronounced a word. They say the girl's parents held her down and whipped her for hours causing massive tissue damage that resulted in her death.

Photo: Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz

"It was torture," says Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey. The girl's sister was also allegedly beaten with tubing. She survived.

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Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! TV Appearance Lands Man in Court

Mar 4, 8:12AM by Carlin DeGuerin Miller Topics Daily Blotter
(Jerry Springer Show)
LINCOLNTON, N.C. (CBS) Jerry Springer's Jan. 25 show featured guests who boasted "It Was the Greatest One-Night Stand" - for Richard Peterson his one-night stand also landed him in jail.

Photo: Richard Peterson with his girlfrind on "The Jerry Springer Show."

Peterson got an all-expenses-paid trip to Conn. to appear on the show with his girlfriend as well as the stripper who gave him that awesome one-night stand.

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Rihanna's Sexy Body Not Free: Trainer Cindy Percival Wants $26,000 for Workouts

Mar 4, 8:12AM by Neil Katz Topics Daily Blotter
(Def Jam)
NEW YORK (CBS) If the editors of Crimesider worked out with exclusive trainers that charged more than $1,500 a day, we might also be as sexy and fit as superstar Rihanna. Ok, probably not.

But, we hope we would pay our bills.

According to TMZ, the stunningly toned singer is being sued by trainer Cindy Percival for an outstanding bill of more than $26,000.

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Yabba Dabba Dope: Fifth Grader Shares Pot Laced Fruity Pebbles

Mar 3, 12:03PM by Edecio Martinez Topics Daily Blotter
(CBS/AP)
PITTSBURG (CBS/KPIX/AP) According to police, a fifth grader brought "special" Fruity Pebbles treats to school on Monday; and by special, I mean the kind of special you find in, ahem, "special" brownies.

That means they contained pot.

Police say they were contacted after several fifth graders at Stoneman Elementary School shared nibbles of the Flintstones' sugary cereal treat.

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Michael Jackson's Children Were Not Affected By Stun Gun, Says MJ's Mother

Mar 3, 11:05AM by Kealan Oliver Topics Daily Blotter
(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, Pool)
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) An attorney for Katherine Jackson, Michael Jackson's mother and the guardian of his children, says the children were never exposed to a stun gun that was sent to the family's home recently.

Photo: Paris Jackson, left, Prince Michael Jackson I and Prince Michael Jackson II on stage during the memorial service for Michael Jackson.

Attorney Adam Streisand confirmed that child services are investigating but said that the stun gun Jermaine Jackson's 13-year-old son ordered online was confiscated before any harm was done.

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Hard to Swallow: Fraud Suspect Hides USB Key...In His Intestines

Mar 3, 11:03AM by Neil Katz Topics Daily Blotter
(SanDisk)
NEW YORK (CBS) Federal agents say evidence against an alleged credit card scammer may have been hard to swallow, but he did anyway. And the government reached into his intestines to get it out.

According to the New York Daily News, Florin Necula was being booked by the U.S. Secret Service when he grabbed a flash drive which allegedly contained damming evidence against him and swallowed it whole.

Investigators were not deterred by the gut-wrenching turn of events. They sent Necula to New York Downtown Hospital, reports the paper, where doctors pulled the offending flash drive from his intestines.

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Rifqa Bary Muslim Runaway: When Two Faiths Fail to Heal Family, Judge Tries Counseling

Mar 3, 10:29AM by Neil Katz Topics Daily Blotter
(MySpace)
(AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CBS/AP) After Islam and Christianity failed to help 17-year-old runaway Rifqa Bary and her family make peace, an Ohio judge is trying a rather American remedy - counseling.

Photo: Rifqa Bary.

Rifqa Bary came to national notice in mid-2009 when she fled her Muslim parents because she wanted to be Christian, then refused to return home because she said she feared her parents would kill her.

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"Dancing With the Stars": New Castmembers No Strangers to Courts or Controversy

Mar 3, 10:15AM by Carlin DeGuerin Miller Topics Daily Blotter
(CBS)
NEW YORK (CBS) The "stars" part of "Dancing with the Stars" has been announced. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a majority of the celebrities to be featured on the show have previously tangoed with the courts, including one star who's turned a personal tragedy into a public mission.

PICTURES: Legal run-ins for "Dancing with the Stars" Season 10

PICTURES: Legal run-ins for "Dancing with the Stars" Season 9

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