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Ex-baseball slugger accused of sex assault, tweets about it

Jose Canseco

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(AP) LAS VEGAS - Former baseball slugger Jose Canseco Jr. has been accused of sexual assault in Las Vegas, in an investigation that the former baseball slugger made public with postings on a social media website claiming that a woman falsely accused him of rape.

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3 teens charged with raping girl, 12, putting video on web

Part of the Engelwood neighborhood in Chicago, where three teen boys are charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in December, 2012, and then posting video of the attack on Facebook.

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(CBS) CHICAGO -Three teenagers accused of raping a 12-year-old girl at gunpoint and posting the video of the assault on Facebook were charged with sex assault as adults on Friday, said the Chicago Tribune.

PICTURES: Facebook-related crimes

According to the paper, the three boys were held in custody in lieu of $900,000 bail.

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Colorado mob attacks man thought to be sexual predator

Arkansas River Walk in Pueblo, Colo.

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(AP) DENVER - Residents of Pueblo, Colo. angry that police had not warned them about sex assaults on children took matters into their own hands, chasing down a man they thought was the attacker, pelting him with rocks and leaving him with a bloody face, authorities said Monday.Continue »

Fla. newspaper carrier shoots suspected attacker

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(CBS/AP) WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - A man delivering newspapers in central Florida shot and wounded a gunman who had been following him, said Winter Haven police.

The gunman - who allegedly fired first - apparently thought someone else was driving the newspaper delivery truck in the first place.

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"Too Many Pickles": Reason to throw a punch?

How many pickles are too many? That is the question behind a scuffle at a Quincy, Mass. restaurant

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(CBS/AP) QUINCY, Mass. - In the category of criminal motives, you can add this one to the list: "Too many pickles."

Police say a woman in Quincy, a suburb south of Boston, is accused of punching a restaurant worker who put more pickles on her steak and cheese sandwich than she could stomach.

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Arrests made in death of Malcolm X's grandson

Malcolm Shabazz, undated photo

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(AP) MEXICO CITY - Mexico City prosecutors say they have arrested two men in connection with the death of Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of political activist Malcolm X.Continue »

Reports: Teen used eyeliner pencil to attack Mass. cop

A 15-year-old girl allegedly attacked a police officer in Salem, Mass., with an eyeliner pencil

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(CBS) SALEM, Mass - An eyeliner pencil turned into a weapon when a teenage girl being brought into the Salem, Mass., police station Wednesday attacked an officer who wound up hospitalized, CBS Boston reported.

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Calif. woman allegedly slaps cop... to quit smoking?

A woman in Sacramento, Calif., reportedly wanted to be put in jail - so she would be forced to top smoking cigarettes.

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(CBS) SACRAMENTO - A woman's plan to stop smoking allegedly involved slapping a sheriff's deputy, CBS Sacramento reports.

Believe or not, there's a unique brand of "logic" to it.

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Texas health teacher allegedly had sex with two students

Marlena Mints

/ CBS DFW
(CBS) CEDAR HILL, TEXAS - A school health teacher near Dallas has been arrested for allegedly having sex with two students, according to CBS DFW

PICTURES: Notorious teacher sex scandals 

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Houston man sentenced to death in courthouse killing

Bartholomew Granger, center, flanked by his attorneys James Makin, right, and Sonny Cribbs on Monday, April 22, 2013, before the start of his trial in Galveston, Texas.

/ AP PHOTO/THE BEAUMONT ENTERPRISE, DAVE RYAN

(CBS/AP) GALVESTON, Texas - Bartholomew Granger, a Houston man who admitted opening fire on his daughter outside a Southeast Texas courthouse, was sentenced to death Tuesday for fatally shooting a 79-year-old bystander.

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