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NYC teen charged in death of 2-year-old boy

The Brooklyn home of Jacqil Degraffenreid

/ CBS New York/Sonia Rincon / 1010 WINS

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Police have charged a Brooklyn teen in the death of a 23-month-old he was looking after while the boy's mother was at work, reports CBS New York.

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Alleged Manhattan "madam" due back in court

Anna Gristina (center) in court March 6

/ AP Photo/Paul Lomax
(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Anna Gristina, the suburban mother suspected of running a high-priced Manhattan brothel is due back in court today because a judge wants to determine whether she should continue to get a court-paid defense. Gristina has pleaded not guilty to promoting prostitution.

Pictures: Manhattan "Madam" case

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Md. college student charged in rampage threat

Alexander Song

/ WJZ

(CBS/AP) COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A University of Maryland student was arrested Sunday and charged with posting an Internet threat claiming he planned to go on a campus shooting rampage and hoped to kill as many people as possible.

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Jamaican drug lord faces sentencing in US case

DEA agents bring Jamaican gang leader Christopher "Dudus" Coke From Westchester County Airport to a waiting vehicle, Thursday, June 24, 2010, in White Plains, New York. (AP Photo/David Karp)

DEA agents bring Jamaican gang leader Christopher "Dudus" Coke from Westchester County Airport to a waiting vehicle, Thursday, June 24, 2010, in White Plains, New York.

/ AP Photo/David Karp

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Jamaican drug kingpin Christopher "Dudus" Coke is scheduled to be sentenced this week in federal court in Manhattan after pleading guilty last year to racketeering and assault charges.

Pictures: Christopher "Dudus" Coke

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Judge stabbed, officer shot at Wash. courthouse

Police sniper in Montesano

/ KIRO

(CBS/AP) MONTESANO, Wash. - A SWAT team has a man surrounded in a house in Montesano after a judge was stabbed and a corrections officer shot at a district courthouse southwest of Seattle, reports CBS affiliate KIRO.

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Pro-Ravi witnesses testify in Clementi webcam case

Dharun Ravi (right) and his father Ravi Pazhani (left) enter the courtroom in Middlesex County, N.J., Thursday, March 8, 2012

/ Pool, John Munson, AP Photo/The Star-Ledger
(CBS/AP) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Seven men took the stand Friday as character witnesses for former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi, and all said that they never heard Ravi say anything negative about gays - but they also never discussed it with him.

Pictures: Tyler Clementi
Pictures: Rutgers Spycam Trial

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Alleged NYC madam says she was mum with cops

The apartment building of Anna Gristina, on New York's Upper East Side.

/ AP Photo/Richard Drew

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Anna Gristina, a suburban mother of four accused of running a high-end Manhattan prostitution ring, says she refused to give police any information on her alleged clients.

Pictures: Manhattan "Madam" case

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Cops: Calif. man got girls to strip for "religion"

Efrain Bernal

/ CBS Los Angeles
(CBS) HEMET , Calif. - A man accused of asking teenage girls to strip for photos as part of alleged religious ceremonies was arrested Wednesday, reports CBS Los Angeles.

Efrain Bernal, 41, was booked on several sexual abuse-related crimes including continued sexual abuse of a child and sodomy with a child under 10.

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Collector accused of $1.3 million wine fraud

PIERRE ANDRIEU/AFP/Getty Images

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Prosecutors in New York have accused an Indonesian millionaire once known as an up-and-comer in the world of rare wine collectors of trying to trick other wealthy buyers with more than $1.3 million worth of counterfeit bottles.

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Murder charge after woman shot with "cannon"

Jeanette Ogara

/ KFMB

(CBS/AP) EL CAJON, Calif. - A California man who allegedly ignited a homemade cannon that killed his live-in girlfriend was charged with murder on Thursday.

Richard Fox, 39, was also charged with exploding a destructive device and child endangerment, because the couple's sleeping 4-year-old daughter, who escaped unharmed, was in their trailer home at the time of the blast.

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