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Execution reprieve upsets murder victim's relatives

Undated file photo of Kimberly McCarthy, who was granted an execution reprieve on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, for the 1997 killing of retired college professor Dorothy Booth during a robbery in Lancaster, Texas.

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(AP) HOUSTON - A court-ordered delay of this week's scheduled execution of a Texas woman has left the relatives of the murder victim angry.Continue »

Police seek "Apple Pickers" gang in Conn.

Apple's iPhone 5.

Apple's iPhone 5

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(CBS) STAMFORD, Conn. - A gang of thieves is so determined to steal iPhones the cops have given them a name: "Apple pickers," CBS New York reports.

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Police: Woman punches mom, kicks out cop car window

(CBS) WESTERVILLE, Ohio - Police say Ashlie Tesi, who was arrested Tuesday night after allegedly punching her mother, was caught on camera kicking out the window of the police car she was detained in and will now face felony charges, CBS affiliate WBNS reports.

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VIDEO: Man beaten with nunchucks in robbery attempt

(CBS) NEW YORK - Police in Manhattan are looking for three suspects in an attempted robbery using nunchucks caught on tape, CBS New York reports.

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Suspects sought in brutal Staten Island robbery

(CBS) NEW YORK - The NYPD is looking to identify at least four teen boys, ages 15-18, caught on surveillance video attacking a man at around 5:20p.m. Jan. 13 in the St. George section of Staten Island, N.Y., CBS New York reports.

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Cops seek 2 suspects in Phila. girl's abduction

Surveillance footage of a 5-year-old girl who was abducted from a Philadelphia school on January 14, 2013

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(AP) PHILADELPHIA -- Police are still searching for a woman who abducted a 5-year-old Philadelphia girl from her elementary school.Continue »

Phila. girl taken from school found outside city

Nailla Robinson

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(AP) PHILADELPHIA -- A 5-year-old girl who was taken from a Philadelphia school was found safe Tuesday morning just outside the city, police said.

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Drunken Fla. horseman gets time served

(CBS/AP) Bunnell, Fla. - Charles Cowart, a Florida man accused of riding his horse, "The Wiley Coyote," while intoxicated during a police chase, has changed his plea and was sentenced to time served.

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Driver accused of hitting teen resigns school post

Angela Cornett, above, is accused of hitting a teen with her SUV in a Cartersville, Ga. parking lot.

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(CBS/AP) CARTERSVILLE, Ga. - Angela Cornett, the woman who police say hit a teenager with her SUV in a dispute over a Walmart parking space, resigned from the Bartow County school board on Thursday, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports.
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Woman charged with murder in death of Vegas girl

Brenda Stokes Wilson appears at a hearing in the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012.

/ Leila Navidi,AP Photo/Las Vegas Sun
(AP) LAS VEGAS - Prosecutors brought a murder charge against a 50-year-old woman accused of stabbing a young girl to death in an undeveloped Las Vegas-area housing tract and later slashing a casino co-worker while that woman dealt blackjack at a Las Vegas Strip resort.Continue »

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