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Cops: Wash. woman fatally stabs intruder to defend family

Tennyson Salopek Jacobson, left, reportedly fatally stabbed an intruder after he got into an altercation with her husband, Kyle Jacobson, right, in their home near North Bend, Wash., Monday, May 13, 2013.

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(CBS) NORTH BEND, Wash. - Police in Washington State say a woman fatally stabbed a home intruder after he got into an altercation with her husband, CBS affiliate KIRO reports.

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Missing Calif. high school freshman found safe

Daria Clarke

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(CBS) SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Daria "Dasha" Clarke, the 15-year-old high school freshman who went missing last Thursday in Northern California, has been found safe and reunited with her family, according to the Sacramento Bee.

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Human remains found in search for missing Ga. college student

Jmaal Malik Keyes

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(CBS/WAOK) ATLANTA, Ga.-- Investigators found human remains on Friday during their search for missing Middle Georgia State College freshman Jmaal Malik Keyes, according to CBS affiliate WAOK.

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Law student pleads not guilty to killing exotic Vegas bird

Eric Cuellar, (left) and Justin Teixeira, were accused of killing an exotic bird at a Las Vegas resort-casino on October 12, 2012

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(CBS/AP) LAS VEGAS -Justin Teixeira, a University of California, Berkeley law student charged with beheading an exotic bird at a Las Vegas Strip resort last year pleaded not guilty on Monday.

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Will Jodi Arias' preference for death affect her defense?

Jodi Arias looks at her family after being found of guilty of first-degree murder on May 8, 2013, Phoenix, Ariz., in the killing her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander.

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(CBS/AP) -- If a jury that reconvenes Wednesday rules that convicted killer Jodi Arias murdered her lover Travis Alexander in a cruel manner, her defense team will be tasked with demonstrating that Arias is not the "worst of the worst" in order to save her from a death sentence.

There's just one problem - Arias has said she wants to die.

PICTURES: Jodi Arias: Guilty of first-degree murder
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Phila. abortion doctor gets third life sentence

Dr. Kermit Gosnell is escorted to a waiting police van upon leaving the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia, Monday, May 13, 2013, after being convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his clinic.

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(CBS/AP) PHILADELPHIA - Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor, was sentenced Wednesday to a third life term for killing an aborted baby that he described as so big it could "walk to the bus."

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O.J. Simpson expected to testify in bid to win freedom

O. J. Simpson arrives for the second day of an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 in Las Vegas.

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(AP) LOS ANGELES - More than four years after the world last heard from O.J. Simpson in court, one of the nation's most famous prisoners speaks again Wednesday in a bid to win freedom from a sentence that could keep him behind bars until he dies.Continue »

Report: Kira Trevino's husband knew of another man

Kira Trevino and her husband, Jeffery, in an undated personal photo; Jeffery was charged on Feb. 28, 2013 with Kira's murder.

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(CBS/AP) MINNEAPOLIS - New details made public surrounding the murder of Kira Trevino, a 30-year-old St. Paul, Minn. woman, state Trevino's 39-year-old husband, Jeffery, who is charged in her death, knew of a romantic relationship between his wife and another man, CBS Minnesota reports. 

PICTURES: Missing Mall of America manager's body found

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Boy, 12, charged in fatal stabbing of sister, 8

Leila Fowler

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(CBS/AP) VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. - A 12-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his 8-year-old sister, Leila Fowler, in their Central California home is due in juvenile court Wednesday after his attorney said the boy had been charged with murder.Continue »

Jodi Arias back in court as jury ponders death option

Jodi Arias looks at her family after being found of guilty of first-degree murder in the gruesome killing her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in their suburban Phoenix home, Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Phoenix.

/ AP/The Arizona Republic, Pool, Rob Schumacher

(CBS/AP) PHOENIX - Jodi Arias is scheduled to return to court Wednesday so jurors can consider whether the death penalty should be an option for sentencing the former waitress after convicting her last week of murdering her former boyfriend.

PICTURES: Jodi Arias: Guilty of first-degree murder
PICTURES: Slain boyfriend of Jodi Arias

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