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Cops make arrest in case of missing Fla. student

Christian Aguilar

/ CBS Miami

(CBS/AP) GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Police arrested a person of interest Monday afternoon in the case of Christian Aguilar, a University of Florida student who disappeared last week.

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Stepmom accused in running death seeks lower bond

Jessica Hardin

/ Credit: AP Photo/Etowah County Sheriff's Office

(AP) GADSDEN, Ala. - The stepmother of a 9-year-old Alabama girl who was allegedly run to death as punishment is asking a judge to lower her bond.

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Leader guilty of hate crime in Amish beard-cutting

Samuel Mullet, Sr.

/ WKBN/U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Ohio

(CBS/AP) CLEVELAND - The jury in a federal hate crimes trial has found the leader of an Amish breakaway group in Ohio guilty of hate crimes by orchestrating the beard- and hair-cutting attacks against members of his own faith in a dispute over religious differences. His followers were found guilty of carrying out the attacks.

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Chrysler factory employee kills co-worker, self

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(AP) DETROIT -- Police say a Chrysler employee fatally stabbed a co-worker at a Detroit factory before killing himself at a city park.

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Man arrested for blogged threat to kill children

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(CBS/AP) VALENCIA, Calif. - A Los Angeles County sheriff's statement says a man with guns in his Valencia home that overlooks two schools wrote an Internet post saying he was watching kids and wouldn't mind murdering them. He was arrested on suspicion of making terrorist threats.Continue »

Texas, N.D. colleges evacuated due to bomb threats

People evacuating the campus of the University of Texas, Austin on Sept. 14, 2012

/ KEYE

(CBS/KEYE) AUSTIN, Texas - University of Texas campus buildings have been evacuated after a phone threat about bombs placed around campus, reports CBS affiliate KEYE. North Dakota State University in Fargo, N.D. is also evacuating after a bomb threat. It is unclear whether the two threats are related.

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Closings set in Ohio Amish hair-cutting trial

Amish men leave the U.S. Federal Courthouse Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, in Cleveland.

/ AP Photo/Tony Dejak
(CBS/AP) CLEVELAND -- A trial for 16 people accused in hair- and beard-cutting attacks against fellow Amish is wrapping up in Ohio.Continue »

Cops: Woman kills husband, mistaken for intruder

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(AP) NEW ORLEANS -- Authorities say a New Orleans woman shot and killed her husband after mistaking him for an intruder.Continue »

NJ mayor arrested in corruption probe

Trenton Mayor Tony Mack

/ File,AP Photo/Mel Evans

(CBS/AP) TRENTON, N.J. - Tony Mack, the mayor of New Jersey's capital city of Trenton, was caught taking bribes as part of an FBI sting, court papers show. The mayor, his brother, Ralphiel, and supporter Joseph Giorgianni were arrested Monday and charged with conspiring to obstruct, delay and affect interstate commerce by extortion under color of official right.

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Freed Ohio death row inmate enjoys new life

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(CBS/AP) CLEVELAND -- A murder defendant freed after spending nearly 25 years on death row in a botched prosecution had a chance to watch an unobstructed sunrise Friday -- and then plan a family reunion.Continue »

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