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<NEW YORK Even as Richmond, Calif., police interrogated a sixth suspect in the October 24th gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a homecoming dance, prosecutors let one go.

Contra Costa prosecutors declined to file charges against 21-year-old Salvador Rodriguez, who had been arrested previously, citing insufficient evidence. Rodriguez was scheduled to be released from County Jail last Friday.

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LOS ANGELES - It's been three weeks and still no sign of 24-year-old Mitrice Richardson.

Since the substitute teacher from Los Angeles went missing on Sept. 17, more than 180 officers and volunteers have combed the rugged heart of the Santa Monica Mountains, from the Malibu-Lost Hills station to the coastline.

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NEW YORK - Two shocking cases, one about ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, who was the victim of a hotel stalker that filmed her naked and the case of Connie Francis, a singer who was brutally raped and robbed three decades ago, have shined a critical light on the hotel industry and its guest privacy standards.

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NEW YORK - A Clinton Correctional Facility staffer told Crimesider that New York Rapper Shyne was released from prison today after serving more than eight years for his role in a 1999 New York night club shooting involving mentor Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and actress Jennifer Lopez.

But a late Monday report from MTV News says that the Combs protégé remains in custody at an "unspecified facility in Western New York State," while U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement decides his fate.

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CHICAGO - Prosecutors say Michael David Barrett, accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, apparently also uploaded videos of other women to the Internet.

Federal prosecutor Steve Grimes said Monday the videos were shot through hotel peepholes and uploaded under an online name used by the 47-year-old suburban Chicago man.

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CHICAGO - Michael David Barret, the man accused of videotaping ESPN reporter Erin Andrews nude, may have been released on bond yesterday, but if he expected a job waiting for him ...he has another thing coming.

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MALIBU, Calif. - A woman who was arrested at a Malibu, Calif. restaurant went missing after she was released hours later from a sheriff's station, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Mitrice Richardson, 24, was reportedly intoxicated and unable to pay her $89 bill at Geoffrey's restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu about 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, the newspaper reported.

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LAS VEGAS Few in Nevada legal circles believe O.J. Simpson has any real chance at freedom when the state's Supreme Court justices consider letting him trade a prison cell in rural northern Nevada for a golf course in Miami while he appeals his conviction in a gunpoint hotel room heist.

What really has them abuzz is that Nevada's only appellate court agreed to schedule oral arguments Aug. 3 to hear Simpson's plea to be allowed to post bond.

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