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SC mom killed kids, tried to kill herself but "couldn't"

Sawyer Russell Simpson, left, and Carly Ashelyn Simpson

/ WSPA
(CBS/AP) COLUMBIA, S.C. - Suzanna Brown Simpson, a woman charged with shooting and killing her two young children and seriously wounding her husband at their northwestern South Carolina home, told a nurse at the hospital she wanted to kill herself, but just couldn't do it, according to arrest warrants.Continue »

Texas man convicted of murder for drowning his two sons

Naim Muhammad

/ CBS DFW
(CBS/CBSDFW) DALLAS -After deliberating for just 10 minutes, a Dallas County jury found 34-year-old Naim Rasool Muhammad, a North Texas father, guilty of capital murder for drowning his two sons, according to CBSDFW.

On Wednesday, the station reported, Muhammad was convicted of the August 2011 deaths of 5-year-old Naim and 3-year-old Elijah.

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O.J. Simpson testifies in bid for new Vegas trial

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) 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 spoke again Wednesday in a bid to win freedom from a sentence that could keep him behind bars until he dies.Continue »

Judge declines to nix '79 NYC child-killing case

Etan Patz, left, is seen alongside Pedro Hernandez, 51, who was arrested May 24, 2012 in the boy's 1979 disappearance.

/ CBS/AP
(AP) NEW YORK - A judge has declined to throw out a murder case against a man charged decades after an infamous 1979 child disappearance in New York City.

PICTURES: Decades later, new details in Etan Patz case
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Missing Calif. high school freshman found safe

Daria Clarke

/ Instagram

(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

/ CBS Atlanta

(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

/ Las Vegas Metropolitan Police via CBS San Francisco

(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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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.

/ AP Photo/Philadelphia Daily News, Yong Kim

(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.

/ AP Photo/Reuters, Steve Marcus, Pool
(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 »

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

Leila Fowler

/ CBS San Francisco
(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 »

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