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"The War in Chicago": A 48 Hours investigation

Hadiya Pendleton, 15 and of Chicago, is seen in this undated family photo provided by Damon Stewart.

Hadiya Pendleton, 15, is seen in this undated family photo provided by Damon Stewart. Pendleton was shot and killed in January 2013, an innocent victim of apparent gang violence in Chicago.

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(CBS) Tragic murders, senseless killings, pre-dawn police raids, parking lot busts of crooked cops, heroin addiction and a man risking his life to save his neighborhood from drug dealers. It sounds like something out of a movie. But the fact is each and every one of those scenes is part of the real-life drama we uncovered during our six-month 48 Hours special investigation, "The War in Chicago," airing Saturday night.

Sneak peek: The War in Chicago

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Report: Dogs removed from kidnap suspect Castro's home

Image from video of one of three dogs reportedly found and removed from the Cleveland home of alleged kidnapper Ariel Castro.

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(CBS/WOIO) The Cleveland dog warden is holding three canines discovered in the home and car of accused Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro, CBS affiliate WOIO reports.

PICTURES: Ohio women missing for nearly a decade found alive

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Meeting Jodi Arias: First impressions never lie, or do they?

Jodi Arias after she is found guilty of murder, Wednesday, May, 2013, in the Maricopa County Courthouse in Phoenix, Ariz.

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(CBS) I first met Jodi Arias nearly five years ago when she was cast into the spotlight after being charged with the brutal murder of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander. 

PICTURES: Jodi Arias murder trial

She spoke with me on camera about the day Travis was killed, an interview which for the first time in the history of "48 Hours" was used as evidence in a death penalty trial.

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Berlusconi "bunga bunga" parties detailed at Italian trial

Karima el-Mahroug, nicknamed Ruby

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(CBS/AP) MILAN - Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring show girls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but also dressed as President Barack Obama and a prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, according to the first public sworn testimony by the Moroccan woman at the center of the Italian political scandal.

PICTURES: Ruby Heartbreaker, Silvio Berlusconi Sex Scandal

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17-year-old charged with murdering two Ohio brothers

Blake Romes, left, and younger brother Blaine

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(CBS/AP) TOLEDO, Ohio - A 17-year-old who told authorities last week where they could find the bodies of two teenage brothers, Blaine and Blake Romes, has been charged in their deaths, and prosecutors want to try him as an adult.

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Cops: Hofstra student died in police-involved shooting

Andrea Rebello

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(CBS/AP) A female Hofstra University student who was fatally shot early Friday in a Long Island home was killed along with an armed suspect during a police-involved shooting as authorities responded to a home invasion robbery, police said, reports CBS New York.

The victim, identified by 1010WINS radio as Andrea Rebello, 21, from Westchester County, was reportedly in the home with her twin sister at the time of the break-in. 

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Cops: DNA confirms remains those of Ga. college freshman

Jmaal Malik Keyes

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(CBS/AP) HAWKINSVILLE, Ga. - Investigators say DNA tests confirm that human remains found one week ago are those of Middle Georgia State College freshman Jmaal Malik Keyes, who disappeared last month.

PICTURES: Missing Ga. college student

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Warrant issued for former NFL wide receiver

Chad Johnson

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(CBS/AP) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A warrant has been issued for the arrest of former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson in South Florida.

PICTURES: Athletes in trouble with the law

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Creighton Univ. professor, wife, found slain in Omaha home

Dr. Roger Brumback

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(CBS/AP) OMAHA, Neb. - Omaha cold case investigators are looking for links between the murders this week of a Creighton University professor and his wife, and the unsolved 2008 slayings of an 11-year-old boy and his family housekeeper.

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Backstroke backfires for Ore. man arrested in river

Maybe Matthew Grevers, seen here after winning the Olympic gold medal in the men's 100-meter backstroke in London in July 2012, could have helped an Oregon man who was arrested in a river when he tried to do the backstroke to escape from police.

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(CBS/AP) IRRIGON, Ore. - A man doing the backstroke in Oregon's Columbia River in a bid to flee police after a car chase said he couldn't swim and pleaded with officers to retrieve him.

They fished him out of the river, and placed him under arrest.

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