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Iowa Cops: Man suspected of abducting 2 girls found dead

Michael Klunder

/ IowaSexOffenders.com
(CBS/AP) DAYTON, Iowa - Authorities say a convicted sex offender who was suspected of abducting two girls from an Iowa bus stop Monday has been found dead.Continue »

Jodi Arias, convicted killer, asks jury to spare her life

(CBS/AP) -- In a Phoenix courtroom Tuesday, convicted killer Jodi Arias asked a jury to spare her from the death penalty and sentence her to life in prison.

TIMELINE: Jodi Arias murder case

"Either way, I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison, whether it will be shortened or not," Arias said. "If it's shortened, the people who will hurt the most are my family. I'm asking you please, don't do that to them."

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Man charged with murder in case of missing Maine girl, 15

Nichole Cable

/ WABI

(CBS/AP) BANGOR, Maine - Kyle Dube, a 20-year-old Maine man, has been charged with the murder of 15-year-old Nichole Cable, a high school student who has been missing since Mother's Day.

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Family of accidentally slain Hofstra student critical of cops

Hofstra student Andrea Rebello, 21, was shot and killed by a police officer's bullet in an attempt to rescue her from an armed intruder.

Hofstra University student Andrea Rebello, 21, was shot and killed by a police officer's bullet in an attempt to rescue her from an armed intruder

/ CBS News

(CBS/AP) The godfather of a Hofstra University student accidentally killed by police during a standoff with a masked intruder in a Long Island home says the officer should have negotiated with her hostage taker instead of shooting.

PICTURES: Slain Hofstra University student Andrea Rebello

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Guns and cash stolen from NFL player's Md. home

Ray Rice

/ CBS Baltimore
(CBS/AP) TOWSON, Md. - Baltimore County police say the Reisterstown home of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was burglarized over the weekend, and $2,000 and two guns were stolen.Continue »

Atty: Charges will not be dropped in Kaitlyn Hunt case

Kaitlyn Hunt in an undated personal photo

/ Facebook
(CBS) SEBASTIAN, Fla. - A Florida state attorney says the charges against Kaitlyn Hunt, an 18-year-old high school student who engaged in a same-sex relationship with a 14-year-old classmate, will not be dropped, despite petitions from the public, CBS affiliate WTSP reports.

PICTURES: Fla. teen charged over underage same-sex relationship

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Jodi Arias to speak on own behalf as jury weighs death

Jodi Arias looks at her family on May 20, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Ariz.

/ The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool
(CBS/AP) PHOENIX - When Jodi Arias addresses the jury in her murder trial one more time, the big question will be whether she pleads for mercy or repeats what she told a TV reporter minutes after her conviction: She would rather be executed than spend the rest of her life in prison.

TIMELINE: Jodi Arias murder case
PICTURES: Relatives of Travis Alexander speak at Arias trial

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Report: Texas girl dies after being abandoned in hot car

A Dallas mother has been charged after police say she left her toddler in a hot car in the parking lot of the elementary school where she worked. The girl later died. Image from a CBS Dallas television report.

/ CBS Dallas

(CBS) -- Police say a one-year-old child is dead after the girl's mother allegedly left her in a hot car Friday in the parking lot of a Dallas elementary school, CBS Dallas reports.

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Utah police close Susan Powell case, offer new details

Susan Powell, Utah mom missing since Dec. 6, 2009.

Susan Powell

/ Personal Photo
(CBS/AP) WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah - Josh Powell reportedly had an affair just months before his wife disappeared and his brother may have been "heavily involved" in getting rid of her body, Utah police revealed as they announced they couldn't solve the sensational case.Continue »

Report: Slain Conn. student Alyssiah Wiley found dismembered

Alyssiah Wiley

(CBS/AP) BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - An Eastern Connecticut State University student whose body was found Friday had ended a relationship with her boyfriend, who is charged in her death, the day she disappeared, The Greenwich Time reports.

Her body was dismembered and had apparently been cut by a human when it was discovered in a wooded area of Trumbull, Conn., reports the paper.

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