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Natalee Holloway Center Aims at Crime Prevention

May 31, 7:00AM by Stephen A. McCain Topics Daily Blotter

Natalee Holloway (AP)

Washington DC (CBS) Five years ago, in May 2005, Alabama high school student Natalee Holloway disappeared during a senior class trip to Aruba. Next week the Natalee Holloway Resource Center (NHRC) will open in Wash., D.C., in a joint effort between Holloway's mother and the National Museum of Crime & Punishment.Continue »

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Purse-Snatching Ends in Death of ASU Student

May 28, 1:32PM by Stephen A. McCain Topics Daily Blotter

Kyleigh Sousa (AP)

TEMPE, Ariz, (CBS/AP) A 21-year-old Arizona State University student, Kyleigh Sousa,  who was dragged alongside a car during a purse-snatching in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, has died from her injuries.

PICTURES: Kyleigh Sousa: A Life Cut Short

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Deported Man Returns to U.S., Kills Ex Say Cops

May 27, 6:50AM by Stephen A. McCain Topics Daily Blotter

Gregorio Luna-Luna appears in court (KEPR)

PASCO, Wash. (CBS/AP) A man accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death Monday in the eastern Washington city of Pasco was deported to Mexico three weeks earlier, but somehow made his way back to the U.S. to commit the crime, authorities say.

Franklin County Superior Court documents say Gregorio Luna-Luna had been jailed from January to March for alleged domestic violence, and then was held at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma until he was deported on May 1.Continue »

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Death Penalty Sought for Alleged Carjack Killer

May 27, 6:15AM by Stephen A. McCain Topics Daily Blotter

Surveillance photo from N.J. hotel of suspect in a deadly carjacking, rape (CBS)

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (CBS/AP) Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in the suburban Philadelphia trial of Omar Cash, accused of carjacking a couple, raping the woman and killing her boyfriend, in May 2008.Continue »
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Lost Computer Data Card Leads to Porn Arrest

May 26, 7:05AM by Stephen A. McCain Topics Daily Blotter

Scott Smallwood, 27 (Courtesy of Prince George's County Police Dept.)

GREENBELT, Md. (CBS/AP) Federal prosecutors say a school bus driver has been charged with producing child pornography, after a computer data card he left at a convenience store gave him away.

Twenty-seven-year-old Scott Smallwood of Upper Marlboro, Md. was arrested Friday, May 21. Continue »

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Jon Lovitz Sued by L.A. Dodgers in Ticket Feud

May 25, 12:23PM by Stephen A. McCain Topics Daily Blotter

Actor Jon Lovitz Feb. 21, 2007 in Los Angeles, Calif. (Getty Images/Marsaili McGrath)

LOS ANGELES (CBS) The Los Angeles Dodgers are suing actor Jon Lovitz for not paying for three premium seats he purchased for the current baseball season.Continue »

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"Elvis" Robbed by Tatooed Man; Evidence Written All Over His Face, Say Cops

May 25, 6:50AM by Stephen A. McCain Topics Daily Blotter

Brandon Gonzalez (AP Photo)

PUEBLO, Colo. (CBS/AP) Police say a suspect in a Colorado home invasion had the evidence written all his face.  A tattoo above the upper lip of 20-year-old Anthony Brandon Gonzales led to his arrest last week, in connection with the April home invasion of an Elvis impersonator in Pueblo County.Continue »
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UNC Murder Suspect Pleads Guilty

May 24, 12:20PM by Stephen A. McCain Topics Daily Blotter

Eve Carson, student body president at the UNC Chapel Hill

Eve Carson, who was was student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (AP Photo/The Daily Tar Heel, Beth Ely)

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (CBS/WRAL/AP) Demario Atwater, one of two men charged in the murder of University of North Carolina student body president Eve Carson, has pleaded guilty to several federal charges related to her death.Continue »
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