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Inspector of collapsed Phila. building commits suicide

Jun 13, 10:58AM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Emergency personnel respond to a building collapse in downtown Philadelphia, Wednesday, June 5, 2013.

/ AP Photo/Dino Hazell
(CBS/AP) PHILADELPHIA - Ronald Wagenhoffer, an inspector who surveyed a downtown building weeks before it collapsed, killing 6 people, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound a week after the accident, authorities said Thursday.Continue »
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Jury questioning enters fourth day in Zimmerman trial

Jun 13, 10:42AM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

George Zimmerman, right, with jury consultant Robert Hirschhorn, responds to questions from Judge Debra Nelson about the jury selection process in Seminole circuit court during his trial, in Sanford, Fla., Wednesday, June 12.

/ AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool

(CBS/AP) SANFORD, Fla. - After three days of trying to seat a jury, prosecutors and attorneys for George Zimmerman have interviewed two dozen potential jurors but are still 10 short of being able to go into the next round of questioning.

PICTURES: George Zimmerman in court

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"Doctor" sought in fatal Fla. butt-injection procedure

Jun 13, 9:44AM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter
(CBS) MIAMI, Fla. - Police in Miami are trying to determine the identity of a man who posed as a doctor from Venezuela and allegedly administered butt-enhancement injections to a 28-year-old woman who died hours after the April procedure, CBS Miami reports.Continue »
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Denver cop Abbegayle Dorn resigns amid steroid accusations

Jun 13, 9:01AM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Abbegayle Dorn

/ CBS Denver
(CBS) DENVER - Abbegayle Dorn, a Denver police officer and former competitor on the 2008 season of the television show "American Gladiators," resigned from the Denver Police Department Tuesday amid accusations she allegedly procured and used steroids, CBS Denver reports.Continue »
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Fla. man executed for prison guard's murder

Jun 13, 8:54AM by Crimesider Staff Topics 911 , Daily Blotter

William Van Poyck

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(CBS/AP) STARKE, Fla. -- A Florida man was executed Wednesday night for the murder of a guard during a botched 1987 prison van ambush intended to free an imprisoned friend.Continue »
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More potential jurors questioned in Zimmerman trial

Jun 12, 5:51PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

George Zimmerman, right, leaves a Seminole County courtroom during a recess, with his attorney Mark O'Mara, on the first day of his murder trial in Sanford, Fla., Monday, June 10, 2013.

/ AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank/Pool

(CBS/AP) SANFORD, Fla. - As jury selection stretched into its third day in the George Zimmerman murder trial, attorneys had interviewed 18 potential jurors by mid-day Wednesday. More than 70 jury candidates had been dismissed by the end of the day on Tuesday.

PICTURES: George Zimmerman in court

READ: Trayvon Martin Shooting: A timeline of events

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Prosecutors still plan to pursue death for Jodi Arias

Jun 12, 4:34PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Jodi Arias reacts in court to being found guilty of first-degree murder

/ CBS

(CBS/AP) PHOENIX - Authorities plan to try again to secure the death penalty for convicted murderer Jodi Arias after jurors in her trial deadlocked last month on a sentence.

PICTURES: Jodi Arias pleads with jurors for a life sentence

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Woman pleads not guilty to plotting murder of ex-boyfriend

Jun 12, 4:24PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Barbara Wu

/ CBS Los Angeles
(AP) RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A University of California, Riverside, student has pleaded not guilty to soliciting an ex-boyfriend's beating and murder by another boyfriend, who secretly recorded the alleged plot.Continue »
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Cops: 2 men held in connection with death of Ind. teen

Jun 12, 3:37PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

The body of Katelyn Wolfe, 19, was found missing in a rural Indiana county. Two men are being held in connection with her death.

/ WTHI
(AP) LINTON, Ind. - A southwestern Indiana police chief said late Tuesday that a 19-year-old woman whose body was found a few days after she vanished apparently died from asphyxiation.Continue »
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Feds accused R.I. school for disabled of running sweatshop

Jun 12, 3:31PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

The Harold H. Birch Vocational School in Providence, R.I. mistreated developmentally disabled students, the U.S. Justice Dept. alleges.

/ WPRI
(CBS/AP) PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The U.S. Justice Department has found that a Providence vocational school ran what amounted to a sweatshop involving developmentally disabled students.Continue »
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