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NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. A Pasco County Judge has ruled that the state must pay a cosmetologist up to $150 a day during John Allen Ditullio's trial for murder and attempted murder charges to apply makeup to cover up the elaborate tattoos that cover his neck and face.

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TUCSON, Ariz. - Kumari Fulbright, the former beauty queen accused of kidnapping and torturing former boyfriend Josh Conway in December 2007, has plead guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping and aggravated assault Tuesday in Pima County Superior Court.

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NEW YORK - Maybe Jeremy Olson should have practiced with a target before attempting to pelt Sarah Palin with tomatoes at a book signing in Minnesota Dec. 7.

Olson, 33, who police say has no permanent address, was arrested at the Mall of America in Minn. after two tomatoes meant for Sarah Palin failed to hit their mark and landed squarely on two Bloomington police officers, according to Commander of Professional Standards Mark Stehlik. Commander Stehlik said that Olson’s aim was off by "maybe ten feet to the left, it wasn't close to her."

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JUPITER, Fla. - Paul Merhige, the man police believe shot and killed four members of his extended family on Thanksgiving day and has since been on the run, was seen on surviellance video inside a gun shop a day before the killings.

Police say Merhige murdered his aunt, two twin sisters, one of whom was pregnant, and a 6-year-old girl, at a Jupiter, Fla. Home, after a family meal on Thanksgiving day.

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PERUGIA, Italy - An Italian jury has reached a verdict in the trial of American Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who are standing trial for the murder of Knox' British roommate Meredith Kercher.

The court is expected to announce the verdict at 6 p.m. EST, from the eight members of the jury, including two judges, who were sequestered in a room in the Perugia courthouse.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - It just doesn’t pay to be a good Samaritan anymore. That’s the lesson that Julia Corker, the 22-year-old daughter of U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, may walk away with after being carjacked Wednesday night December 2, by a man asking for directions.

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NEW YORK - Jaimee Grubbs, a Los Angeles cocktail waitress who claims she is Tiger Woods' mistress and had a secret sexual affair with the swing king for more than a year, has a secret she hasn't been so eager to share, namely a criminal record for theft.

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PERUGIA, Italy - As her lawyers make their last efforts to convince a jury of her innocence, Amanda Knox also made a final statement to the court and swore she was not an "assassin" in the 2007 murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher.

Knox addressed the court in Perugia, Italy Thursday, before the eight members of the jury go into deliberations.

Her voice breaking as she fought back tears, Knox said in Italian she is "scared of having the mask of an assassin forced" onto her.

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SEATTLE - Prosecutors say Darcus Allen drove his old prison buddy Maurice Clemmons to a Seattle café where Clemmons shot four police officers and then, as Clemmons stumbled out with a bullet in his side, Allen helped him escape.

Now, they are considering charging Allen with aggravated first degree murder, which carries the same penalties as if he had shot the officers himself – life without release, or execution.

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Police say they found blood on the kitchen floor of Raymond Clark III, the Yale lab tech who is charged with killing Yale graduate student Annie Le days before her wedding, and they also witnessed him trying to cover up evidence in the lab where her body was later found, according to search warrant affidavits released Wednesday.

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