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Fla. cop fired, accused of using "Trayvon Martin targets"

A Florida police officer was fired for using shooting targets, above, that resembled Trayvon Martin

/ WKMG

(CBS/AP) PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. - A Florida police officer was fired Friday after he allegedly brought targets resembling Trayvon Martin to a gun range for shooting practice, CBS affiliate WTSP reports.

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N.Y. woman charged with stalking Hugh Jackman

Hugh Jackman at the 63rd edition of the Berlinale, International Film Festival in Berlin on Feb. 9, 2013

/ File, AP Photo/Gero Breloer

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Actor Hugh Jackman is shaken but OK after an alleged stalker rushed him at a New York City gym on Saturday morning and threw a razor at him, CBS New York reports.

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Kidnapping suspect in custody, but Mo. girl still missing

Lili High

/ KCTV

(CBS) - A kidnapping suspect was taken into custody early Monday but authorities still haven't found the missing 5-year-old girl the woman allegedy took from a Missouri home, CBS affiliate KCTV reports.

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Warrant had been issued for teen in deadly Nev. crash

Jean Soriano

/ AP Photo/Nevada Highway Patrol

(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - Records show an arrest warrant was issued a week after 18-year-old Jean Ervin Soriano had escaped from a juvenile facility - a disclosure that sheds some light on concerns that he might have slipped through the cracks before his arrest in a Nevada drunken driving crash that killed five members of one family.

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Cops: Teen arrested in deadly Nev. crash was a fugitive

Jean Soriano

/ AP Photo/Nevada Highway Patrol

(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - A teenager arrested Saturday for drunken driving in a Nevada crash that killed five people was a fugitive who escaped from a juvenile facility a month ago, and it's unclear whether anyone ever went looking for him, officials said Thursday.

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Murder suspect shoots Miss. cop inside police HQ

2008 photo of Detective Eric Smith of the Jackson Police Department

/ AP Photo/Jackson Police

(CBS/AP) JACKSON, Miss. - Police are investigating a shooting inside a Mississippi police headquarters where a murder suspect was found dead after he shot and killed a homicide detective inside an interrogation room on Thursday.

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One of two missing California hikers found alive

Nicholas Cendoya (left) and Kyndall Jack

/ CBS Los Angeles

(CBS/AP) RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. - One of two missing California hikers was found alive Wednesday after a three-day search in Southern California's Cleveland National Forest, a sheriff's spokesman said. An intensified hunt for the second hiker will continue Thursday with renewed hoped after her companion was found.

PICTURES: 1 hiker found, 1 still missing in Calif. forest

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VIDEO: Man brutally robs woman at NYC subway station

(CBS) Police released a video Tuesday in hopes of finding a man in the brutal assault and robbery of a 56-year-old woman at a Brooklyn subway station, CBS New York reports.

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NJ's Powerball winner owes $29K in child support

Pedro Quezada, the winner of the Powerball jackpot, holds up a promotional check during at the New Jersey Lottery headquarters on March 26, 2013, in Lawrenceville, N.J.

/ AP Photo/Julio Cortez

(CBS/AP) PATERSON, N.J. - Authorities say a New Jersey man who won the $338 million Powerball jackpot on Monday is subject to potential arrest for owing about $29,000 in child support, CBS New York reports.

PICTURES: Luck Gone Bad: Lottery winners who lost it it all

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Police: Ga. infant killed while pushed in stroller

The scene of a shooting in Brunswick, Ga. where an infant was fatally shot and his mother wounded while walking around the neighborhood on March 21, 2013

/ WTOC

(CBS/AP) BRUNSWICK, Ga. - Police are looking for two teens in connection to a Thursday shooting that left a mother wounded and her 1-year-old boy dead while she was pushing her baby in a stroller in a Georgia neighborhood. 

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