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Berlusconi "bunga bunga" parties detailed at Italian trial

May 17, 3:21PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Karima el-Mahroug, nicknamed Ruby

/ Giuseppe Aresu/AFP/Getty Images

(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

May 17, 2:46PM by Iris Carreras Topics Daily Blotter

Blake Romes, left, and younger brother Blaine

/ WTOL
(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.Continue »
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Cops: Hofstra student died in police-involved shooting

May 17, 2:31PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Andrea Rebello

/ Facebook via CBS New York
(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

May 17, 1:30PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Jmaal Malik Keyes

/ CBS Atlanta

(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

May 17, 12:49PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Chad Johnson

/ AP Photo/Broward Sheriff's Office
(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

May 17, 12:07PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Dr. Roger Brumback

/ CBS Pittsburgh

(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

May 17, 11:37AM by Barry Leibowitz Topics Daily Blotter

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.

/ AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa De Olza
(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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Idaho man sentenced to prison in monkey death

May 17, 11:26AM by Iris Carreras Topics Daily Blotter

Michael Watkins

/ KBOI

(CBS/AP) BOISE, Idaho - An Idaho man convicted of breaking into a Boise zoo and brutally beating to death a Patas monkey will spend up to a year in state prison, where he'll take part in a treatment program.

PICTURES: Crimes Against Animals (GRAPHIC IMAGES)

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Hofstra Univ. student, suspect killed in home invasion

May 17, 9:53AM by Iris Carreras Topics Daily Blotter

Police outside the home in Uniondale, N.Y., where a Hofstra University student and an intruder were killed, Friday, May 17, 2013.

/ CBS New York
(CBS/AP) UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Police say a Hofstra University student and an armed suspect were fatally shot during a break-in at a Long Island home.Continue »
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Driving drunk on lawn mower brings 40 days in jail

May 17, 9:02AM by Barry Leibowitz Topics Daily Blotter

Roy Walton, booking photo

/ CBS Dertroit
(CBS) BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A Michigan man who's a Navy veteran has been ordered to spend 40 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to driving drunk behind the wheel of a lawn mower, CBS Detroit reported. Continue »
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