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Got their goat...but then it got away from N.H. cops

Goat allegedly guilty of trespassing in Mont Vernon, N.H., wound up in the back of a police cruiser on Monday, May 13, 2013.

/ Mont Vernon, N.H. police, via CBS Boston
(CBS) MONT VERNON, N.H.- Police in southern New Hampshire say a suspect in a trespassing case that was captured, escaped, and then recaptured, is refusing to identify itself.

Perhaps because the perpetrator is a goat.

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Arias jury hears of anguish from murder victim's family

(CBS/AP) PHOENIX --The family of murder victim Travis Alexander gave emotional testimony in a Phoenix courtroom Thursday as the trial of his convicted killer, Jodi Arias, entered its final penalty phase, where jurors will decide whether the former waitress will be sentenced to death.

PICTURES: Jodi Arias: Guilty of first-degree murder

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Ricardo Woods convicted of murder in "blink of an eye"

Ricardo Woods

/ File, AP Photo/Hamilton County Sheriff's Department

(CBS/AP) CINCINNATI - Ricardo Woods, a 35-year-old Ohio man, was found guilty of murder Thursday in the shooting death of a man who authorities say identified Woods as his assailant by blinking his eyes while paralyzed and hooked up to a ventilator.

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Defense lawyer: Jodi Arias will speak "about who she is"

Jodi Arias reacts after she was found of guilty of first-degree murder in the gruesome killing of her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander

Jodi Arias reacts on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, after she was found guilty of first-degree murder for killing her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander, by a Maricopa County Superior Court jury in Phoenix, Ariz.

/ AP/The Arizona Republic, Pool, Rob Schumacher

(CBS/AP) PHOENIX -- Jodi Arias' defense team introduced eight "mitigating circumstances" in a Phoenix courtroom Thursday, including her age, troubled upbringing and artistic talent, in an attempt to save the convicted killer from a death sentence.

PICTURES: Jodi Arias: Guilty of first-degree murder

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O.J. Simpson continues bid for new trial in robbery case

O.J. Simpson testifies during an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in Las Vegas.

/ AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, Pool

(AP) LAS VEGAS - A lawyer who has hounded O.J. Simpson for years to collect a multimillion-dollar civil judgment after the former football star's "trial of the century" acquittal in Los Angeles, testified Thursday that items taken in the Las Vegas hotel room heist that put Simpson in prison didn't really belong to him.

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2nd suspect is arrested in NOLA parade shooting

Police looking for up to 3 men in New Orleans parade shooting

Surveillance video released by police shows the gunman moments before he started shooting.

/ Photo from surveilance video released by NOPD
(CBS/AP) NEW ORLEANS - Police say they have arrested a second suspect in the shooting that injured 20 people at a parade on Mother's Day.

PICTURES: New Orleans Mother's Day Parade Shooting
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Cops: Prostution ring busted at NJ senior housing complex

James Parham, 75, appears in municipal court to enter a plea in drug and prostitution case at seniors housing complex in Englewood, N.J., Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

/ Pool, Amy Newman,AP Photo/The Record
(CBS/AP) ENGLEWOOD, N.J. - Authorities have arrested three people following allegations of prostitution and drug use at a senior citizen housing complex in northern New Jersey.

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Mom charged for putting son up for adoption on Craigslist

Stephanie Redus

/ CBS Houston
(CBS/AP) HOUSTON - A pregnant Houston-area woman has been charged with offering her 3-year-old son for adoption on Craigslist in an advertisement signed "Desperate."Continue »

Cops: N.M. mom chased her daughter's abductor for 7 miles

Police in Albuquerque, N.M. searching for a suspected child abductor, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

/ KRQE
(CBS/AP) ALBUQUERQUE - Albuquerque police say a mother whose 4-year-old was being abducted chased the suspect down and crashed her vehicle into his car, igniting a manhunt.Continue »

Ariel Castro's lawyer says he'll plead not guilty

Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro in court

Ariel Castro faces four charges of kidnapping and three of rape in the confinement of three young women. He is pictured here in a Cleveland courtroom May 9, when he was ordered held on an $8 million bond.

(AP) CLEVELAND - The man accused of keeping three women in captivity in his Ohio home for about a decade will plead not guilty, a member of his defense team said Wednesday.

PICTURES: Ohio women missing for nearly a decade found alive

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