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Richard Moreau Murder Charges: Vail Bar Killer May Have Had PTSD

AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Richard Moreau, Bar, Murder, Sandbar Sports Grill, Vail Colorado, Homicide, Gary Kitching, Shooter, Vail Bar Shooter, Carbondale, Denver News

VAIL, Colo. — A 63-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting one person and wounding three others in a Vail bar has been arrested in what autho...

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Bill Sparkman Murder: Tragic Details About Census Worker Found Hanged

Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: William Sparkman, Census Bureau, Daniel Boone National Forest, Homicide, Fed, Suicide, Fbi, Bill Sparkman, Kentucky, Census Worker, London, Ky, Politics News

William E. Sparkman Jr. was a 51-year-old single father who once battled Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma while he pursued his teaching degree, according to a Mar...

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We Killed Michael Jackson

Tamara Conniff | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Epic Records, Jermaine Jackson, Michael Jackson, Thriller, Concerts, Michael Jackson Death, Tommy Mottola, Michael Jackson Burial, Homicide, Janet Jackson, Radio, Urban Outfitters, Aeg, Invincible, Entertainment News
Tamara Conniff

Michael Jackson was a desperate man in pain and everyone threw stones at him. Now it's fashionable to be a fan.

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Michael Jackson's Death A Homicide, Coroner Rules

AP | THOMAS WATKINS and JUSTIN PRITCHARD | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Jackson Autopsy Report, Los Angeles County Coroner, Anesthetic Propofol, Homicide, Jackson's Death, Michael Jackson Autopsy, Lorazepam, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson's death was a homicide caused primarily by the powerful anesthetic propofol and another sedative, the coroner anno...

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Diane Schuler Was OK At Restaurant Before Taconic Crash: Police

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 09.08.2009 | New York

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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Police investigating a head-on highway crash that killed a suburban mother and seven other people said Friday she was fine a...

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Taconic Drunk Driver Diane Schuler Was Diabetic, May Have Suffered Stroke, Says Lawyer

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 09.06.2009 | New York

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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — She couldn't have been drunk and stoned. Her husband had never seen her intoxicated before. And there were absolutely no mar...

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Bastardi Family To Sue In Diane Schuler Taconic Car Crash [UPDATE]

Posted 09.03.2009 | New York

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UPDATE 8/5, 4:33pm: The lawyer for the family of Michael and Guy Bastardi, two of the three victims in the car struck by Diane Schuler on the Taconic ...

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Domestic Violence: Time to Man Up

Norm Stamper | Posted 08.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Murder, Male Aggression, Stalking, Domestic Violence, President Obama, Homicide, Violence Against Women Act, XY Chromosomes, Living News
Norm Stamper

We've got to make it clear, via instruction and example, that a boy's gender does not entitle him to treat women as chattel. Who's best equipped to provide this modeling, this instruction? Men, of course.

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Experts Agree: Death Penalty Not a Deterrent

Tamar Abrams | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Execution, Homicide, Traci Lacock, Crime, Saudi Arabia, Georgia, John Van De Kamp, Criminologists, Death Penalty, Michael Radelet, China, Troy Davis, Deterrence, U.S. Supreme Court, California, Politics News
Tamar Abrams

Only three countries in the world -- China, Iran and Saudi Arabia -- execute more prisoners than the U.S each year; a practice that costs the nation hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

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Young People Fight to Push Urban Violence to the Top of Obama's Agenda

Heather Box | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homicide, Milwaukee, Youth Promise Act, Homicide Rate, Urban Violence, Youth Urban Violence, Youth Homicide Rate, Politics News
Heather Box

Young people represent 62.5 percent of all murder victims. And for young people of color, the statistics tell an even grimmer story.

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Von Brunn Affadavit: "Obama Was Created By Jews" (FULL TEXT)

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Von Brunn, Von Brunn, Homicide, Von Brunn Complaint, Document, Civil Rights, Criminal Complaint, Legal Documents, Von Brunn Charges, Hate Crime, Holcaust Museum, Politics News

Authorities are charging an 88-year-old white supremacist with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and...

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Death on the Home Front

Ann Jones | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq PTSD, Homicide, Ptsd, Intimate Partner Violence, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Politics News
Ann Jones

No society that sends its men abroad to do violence can expect them to come home and be at peace. Wake up, America. The boys are coming home, and they're not the boys who went away.

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Josef Fritzl Pleads Guilty To All Counts On Third Day Of Trial

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN and WILLIAM J. KOLE | Posted 04.18.2009 | World

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ST. POELTEN, Austria — Josef Fritzl abruptly pleaded guilty to all of the charges against him Wednesday _ a surprising twist amid disclosures th...

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This Economy is a Real Killer

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Unemployment, Child Abuse, Social Indicators, Homicide, Human Costs, Suicide, Social Costs, Recession, Domestic Violence, Obama, Joblessness, Stimulus Plan, Living News
Peter Dreier

Every day, week, and month that the current recession continues, and even deepens, more people die, get seriously injured physically, and suffer emotional hardships that can scar them for life.

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The Human Costs of Extending the Recession

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Social Problems, Unemployment, Economic Stimulus Package, Homicide, Economic Recession, Stimulus Package, Recession, Business News
Amitai Etzioni

The longer we allow the recession to drag on, the greater the human and social price people are made to pay, above and beyond the economic costs.

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The Grinning Skull

Rebecca Solnit | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Katrina, Hurricane Deaths, Hurricane Katrina, Homicide, Katrina Deaths, Killing, New Orleans, Superdome, Murder, Shootings, Louisiana, Racial Tension, Tension, Attempted Murder, Killings, Race Relations, Politics News
Rebecca Solnit

While the media demonized the New Orleans' black population for crimes that turned out not to have happened, they ignored the group of white men who went on a shooting spree across the river.

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Domestic Violence Deadly for Women

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 11.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Gun Violence, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Domestic Violence, Violence Against Women, Female Homicide Victimization, Homicide, Family Violence, Violence Prevention, Living News
Josh Sugarmann

New findings demonstrate how domestic violence can escalate to homicide, often with the help of a gun -- a fact that has not gone unnoticed even in the most pro-gun states.

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