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Mississippi murder suspect captured after throwing contraband over jail walls, officials say
Fri,07/14/23-5:14PM , 187 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man suspected of fatally wounding a teenager in a drive-by shooting and then evading police for over a month was arrested by U.S. Marshals days after surveillance video showed him throwing contraband over a fence and into the grounds of a Mississippi jail, officials said Friday.
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Illustration of detained Ukrainian civilians digging into frozen ground. (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

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Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more
By LORI HINNANT, HANNA ARHIROVA AND VASILISA STEPANENKO - Associated Press
Wed,07/12/23-11:24PM , 63 Reads
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian civilians woke long before dawn in the bitter cold, lined up for the single toilet and were loaded at gunpoint into the livestock trailer. They spent the next 12 hours or more digging trenches on the front lines for Russian soldiers.
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Fotios "Freddy" Geas appears for a court proceeding in his defense in the Al Bruno murder case, on April 14, 2009, in Springfield, Mass. Federal prosecutors say they will not pursue the death penalty against two men charged with the prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger. Prosecutors said in a court filing on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, that they will not seek a death sentence in the event Geas, a former Mafia hitman, and Paul J. DeCologero, a Massachusetts gangster, are convicted of first-degree murder in Bulger’s beating. (Don Treeger/The Republican via AP, File)

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Prosecutors won't seek death penalty against men charged in Whitey Bulger's prison killing
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press
Wed,07/12/23-1:42PM , 71 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors will not pursue the death penalty against two men charged with the prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, according to court papers filed Wednesday.
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This combination of file photos shows Charles Manson on Aug. 14, 2017, left, in a photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and on Dec. 22, 1969, right, leaving a Los Angeles courtroom. Leslie Van Houten, one of Manson's followers, was released from prison on parole on July 11, 2023. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, left, and Wally Fong, right, via AP, File)

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The Manson 'family': A look at key players and victims in the cult leader's killings
By ROBERT JABLON AND JOHN ROGERS - Associated Press
Wed,07/12/23-12:07AM , 152 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 1969, Charles Manson dispatched a group of disaffected young followers on a two-night killing rampage that terrorized Los Angeles. The killings remain etched in the American consciousness.
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