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Teens accused of rape in Audrie Pott case are released

Audrie Pott

/ AP Photo/Family photo provided by attorney Robert Allard

(CBS) - The three teenagers charged with the sexual battery of a 15-year-old California girl who later committed suicide have been released from juvenile hall and given home detention, reports CBS Los Angeles.

Pictures: Calif. teen commits suicide after alleged rape

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Defending Tsarnaev: "His attys will investigate every angle"

Bombing suspect says brother's radical Islamist views drove attacks

19-year-old bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

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(CBS) - It was about 9:30 at night and attorney Stephen Jones was at home when he got the call asking if he would be willing to defend Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh. Jones was honored to be chosen for such a high profile case, but said he needed a day to talk it over with his family.

PICTURES: Boston bombing victims
PICTURES: Boston Marathon bombing suspects

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Report: Steubenville coach renewed amid rape inquiry

Trent Mays (left) and Ma'lik Richmond sit at the defense table before the start of their trial on rape charges in juvenile court on March 13, 2013 in Steubenville, Ohio.

/ Pool,AP Photo/Keith Srakocic

(CBS) - On April 19, the city of Steubenville, Ohio extended high school football coach Reno Saccoccia's administrative contract for another two years, reports the Herald-Star newspaper.

PICTURES: Steubenville Rape Trial

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"Did you hear about the Boston explosion? I did that"

amerlan Tsarnaev, third from left, who was dubbed Suspect No. 1 and second from left, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, who was dubbed Suspect No. 2 in the Boston Marathon bombings by law enforcement.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, second from right in white T shirt, and to his left, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. This picture of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects is said to have been taken 10 to 20 minutes before the blasts.

/ AP Photo/Bob Leonard

(CBS) - According to the federal criminal complaint against the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, one of the Tsarnaev brothers confessed to the bombing while allegedly carjacking a man in Cambridge, Mass.

PICTURES: Boston bombing victims
PICTURES: Boston Marathon bombing suspects

"Did you hear about the Boston explosion?," one of the suspects allegedly told the victim. "I did that."

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Boston manhunt 1st major post-9/11 terror test for police

SWAT teams searched homes along Winsor Avenue in Watertown while searching for one of the two suspects in the terrorist bombing of the 117th Boston Marathon earlier this week

SWAT teams searched homes along Winsor Avenue in Watertown while searching for one of the two suspects in the terrorist bombing of the 117th Boston Marathon earlier this week.

/ Aram Boghosian/Boston Globe/ Getty

(CBS) - The thousands of heavily armed law enforcement officers and scores of military-style tactical vehicles amassed around Boston Friday might have looked chaotic to many watching the hunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev unfold on television. But the man who heads the LAPD's counter terrorism and special operations bureau says the city-wide lockdown makes perfect sense.

PICTURES: Boston Marathon bombing suspects

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FBI releases images of Boston bombing suspects

The FBI announced Thursday that they consider the men in these pictures to be suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings and are asking for the public's help in identifying them

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(CBS) - The FBI released video of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing at a press conference Thursday and asked for the public's help in identifying the two men.

PICTURES: Boston bombing victims
PICTURES: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line

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FBI: "We will go to the ends of the earth" to find bomber

FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers, far right, speaks as Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, left, and Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick, center, listen during a news conference in Boston Tuesday, April 16, 2013

/ AP Photo/Elise Amendola

(CBS) -- Deval Patrick, the governor of Massachusetts, told reporters Tuesday that "two and only two" explosive devices were found on Monday. Patrick said Bostonians should expect to see "continued heightened police presence" as the investigation continues  into the bombing that killed 3 and injured 176 people near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

PICTURES: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line

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Parents: Audrie Pott wrote "my life is ruined" before death

Larry and Sheila Pott, parents of Calif. girl Audrie Pott who killed self after alleged rape and bullying.

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(CBS) - The parents of a 15-year-old California girl who committed suicide last year after allegedly being raped by three friends at a party spoke for the first time Monday. They told the media "there is absolutely no doubt as to the reason she took her life," and called for the teens' case to be escalated to adult court.

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Report: Audrie Pott peers say photos never went "viral"

Audrie Pott was 15 when she took her own life. Authorities say it was after photographs of her on the night she was incapacitated and raped were circulated online.

/ CBS News

(CBS) - Students at the high school attended by Audrie Pott told the campus newspaper over the weekend that a photo from the night of Pott's alleged rape did not go "viral," but rather was seen by an estimated 10 people.

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Expert: Girls' suicides show cyber-bullying "getting worse"

Audrie Pott (l) and Rehtaeh Parsons both committed suicide after they were allegedly raped and photos of the assaults went viral

/ AP Photo/Family photo provided by attorney Robert Allard; Facebook

(CBS) - For 21-year-old Texas college student Anna Combrink, the suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons, the Canadian teen who hung herself after allegedly being raped and cyber-bullied, hit very close to home.

PICTURES: Mom blames rape, bullying for teen's suicide

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