Crime Stories from January 22, 2015 (Change date)
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Correction: Campus Sexual Assault storyJan 22, 2015 10:00 pm - RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - In a story Jan. 22 about legislation on sexual assault on college and university campuses, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Claire Wya...
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Vanderbilt gang-rape defense points to campus cultureJan 22, 2015 10:00 pm - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors spent more than a week showing jurors photos and videos taken by Vanderbilt football players in a dorm-room sex assault. In response,...
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After 37 years in prison, innocent North Carolina man freedJan 22, 2015 10:00 pm - WHITEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - For the first time in nearly 40 years, Joseph Sledge woke up behind bars with a chance of becoming a free man. The 70-year-old man needed one mor...
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Sri Lanka's once-powerful ex-president faces backlashJan 22, 2015 10:00 pm - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Their friends have deserted them. Their houses have been raided. Their power - near-absolute on this island nation just a month ago - has melte...
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Denver woman who tried to help terrorists receives 4 yearsJan 22, 2015 10:00 pm - DENVER (AP) - A 19-year-old suburban Denver woman who tried to go to Syria to help Islamic State militants was sentenced to four years in prison Friday, even as she tear...
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Task force will investigate slayings of elderly Ohio coupleJan 22, 2015 10:00 pm - CLEVELAND (AP) - A multi-jurisdictional task force will investigate the abduction and slaying of an elderly couple whose bodies were found in their burned-out car, the s...
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Top NY politician's arrest prompts calls for ethics overhaulJan 22, 2015 10:00 pm - ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - There was the assemblyman who took a bribe from a carnival promoter. The former Senate leader accused of using envelopes stuffed with cash to grease ...
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Relationship between city, police at issue after shootingJan 22, 2015 10:00 pm - BRIDGETON, N.J. (AP) - A fatal shooting by police officers of a man who defied their orders by stepping out of a car during a traffic stop but had his hands raised has o...
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Convict charged with 1976's 'Gypsy Hill' murdersJan 22, 2015 10:00 pm - REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - Investigators say DNA evidence has linked an Oregon prison inmate to at least two of five killings of young women that terrified the San Fran...
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Kidnapped French aid worker freed in C. African RepublicJan 22, 2015 10:00 pm - BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) - A French aid worker kidnapped in Central African Republic has been released, France's foreign minister said Friday. Laurent Fabiu...