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Karen Read trial starts with opening statements as prosecutors use past interviews against her

Karen Read’s second trial started Tuesdsay with opening statements and witness testimony in the high-profile Massachusetts murder case. Read, who is accused of hitting her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him to die in the snow in Canton in 2022, is being retried less …

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UC Riverside student accused of building AR

Riverside County prosecutors charged a UC Riverside with two felonies after he allegedly built an AR-15-style rifle in his campus apartment.  When campus police searched his home, they found an AR-15-style rifle registered to the student, as well as several high-capacity magazines, ammunition and “hand-drawn images in a journal depicting …

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8 Northeast High School students shot in Philadelphia near SEPTA bus stop; 4 suspects wanted: police

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Police believe they’ve recovered the getaway car involved in Wednesday’s shooting that left eight Northeast High School students injured near a SEPTA bus station at Rising Sun and Cottman avenues in Northeast Philadelphia. Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore said Thursday that a 2018 blue Hyundai Sonata was found …

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Murder suspect sentenced after Pennsylvania jail escape, kidnapping of elderly couple

 A homicide suspect who escaped from a northwestern Pennsylvania prison last year and was on the run for more than a week before a pet dog led to his recapture has been sentenced to decades in prison. Michael Burham, 35, was sentenced Friday in Warren County Court to serve from …

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BOSTON – The WBZ-TV I-Team uncovered two sex ring websites with explicit nude photographs and a detailed menu of services. Prosecutors seized the sites and shut them down, alleging they were used to advertise the women available at brothels in Watertown and Cambridge.  Former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer says that …

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Philadelphia police issue arrest warrant in Josh Kruger murder

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — An arrest warrant has been issued for 19-year-old Robert Davis in the murder of journalist and activist Josh Kruger, Philadelphia police said Friday. The arrest warrant includes charges of murder and related offenses. Investigators believe Kruger and Davis were acquaintances, and Kruger was in the process of …

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How “Boy in the Box” mystery will help solve other cases

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — For 65 years the nation has been waiting for investigators to determine the identity of the boy who became known as America’s Unknown Child or “The Boy in the Box.” Now, we know that child was Joseph Augustus Zarelli.  Investigators used modern forensic techniques, including forensic genetic …

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