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Cathy Scott

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Rodney King: His Race, His Plea, His Death - Forbes

Rodney King: His Race, His Plea, His Death - Forbes

Forbes — After the story broke with the news that Rodney King was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool, a journalist recalls her coverage 20 years earlier of the Los Angeles riots, where she was on assignment for a daily newspaper.
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The Unsolved Murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls

The Unsolved Murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls

crimemagazine.com — While conspiracy theories abound, the murders of two of rap's biggest stars go unsolved.
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Now Acquitted And An Admitted 'Sinner,' What's Next For John Edwards? - Forbes

Now Acquitted And An Admitted 'Sinner,' What's Next For John Edwards? - Forbes

Forbes — In a stunning fall from grace played out before the nation, former presidential hopeful John Edwards stood before reporters following his acquittal from a charge of federal conspiracy and admitted he'd made bad choices.
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Jerry Sandusky Guilty On 45 Counts: A Wake Up Call For Abusive Behavior - Forbes

Jerry Sandusky Guilty On 45 Counts: A Wake Up Call For Abusive Behavior - Forbes

Forbes — The jury in the sexual abuse trial of Jerry Sandusky has returned guilty verdicts on 45 of 48 charges. The jury of seven men and five women deliberated for 21 hours. The former Penn State assistant football coach faces 442 years in prison, which means he could likely die behind bars. [He has not yet been sentenced.] Jason Carroll, on TV reporting for CNN, described Sandusky as staring straight ahead as each verdict was read. After the reading of the verdicts, a request by Sandusky's defense team to keep Sandusky on house arrest until his sentencing, to be scheduled within 90 days, was denied by the judge.
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Tupac Shakur: Music World Celebrates Late Rapper's Birthday - Forbes

Tupac Shakur: Music World Celebrates Late Rapper's Birthday - Forbes

Forbes — American hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur, known by 2Pac on stage, would have celebrated his forty-first birthday today had he not been gunned down on a Las Vegas street fifteen years ago. His birthday is remembered today, June 16, with a celebration in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Tupac once lived in a low-income housing project dubbed "The Jungle" with his mother, former Black Panther Afeni Shakur.
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Etan Patz Case Solved: 'A Tragedy That Broke The Hearts Of Millions' - Forbes

Etan Patz Case Solved: 'A Tragedy That Broke The Hearts Of Millions' - Forbes

Forbes — Investigators, skeptical a day earlier, have now officially named a New Jersey man a suspect in the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz three decades earlier. While still cautious, police, however, do appear to have gotten their man.
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From the Hangar to the Vineyard

From the Hangar to the Vineyard

Best Friends Magazine — A front-page newspaper article makes all the difference in the remaining years of a 14-year-old cat's life.
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Crime, She Writes

Crime, She Writes

www.psychologytoday.com — Eating Disorders Education Environment Ethics and Morality Evolutionary Psychology Gender Happiness Health Integrative Medicine Intelligence Law and Crime
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Legal Team Discusses Suit Brought by Author Ann Rule

Legal Team Discusses Suit Brought by Author Ann Rule

www.psychologytoday.com — High-profile author Ann Rule is suing a weekly Seattle newspaper for defamation after a 2011 lengthy cover story slammed her New York Times best-selling book, Heart Full of Lies. The true-crime book covers the case of convicted killer Liysa Northon, an Oregon woman who served 12 years in prison after she was convicted of killing her husband in 2000. Northon claimed she was a battered spouse who fatally shot her husband, airline pilot Chris Northon, to protect herself and her children. She was released from prison in fall 2012.
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Expert: Humane Treatment Long Overdue for Puppy Mill Dogs

Expert: Humane Treatment Long Overdue for Puppy Mill Dogs

www.psychologytoday.com — When animal hoarders are discovered with dogs and cats who have been inhumanely treated, criminal neglect and abuse charges are often brought against them. That's not necessarily so at many substandard puppy mills. In the case of longhaired Chihuahuas Pansy and Jackie, the neglect they experienced at the hands of a commercial breeder was evident in both their medical and mental conditions after they were rescued. Today, life for the pair could not be better. They've been rescued. Jackie now lives with me, and Pansy was adopted out to a home with two other dogs.
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A 19th Century Lobbyist, An Arrest, And The Birth Of Mother's Day

A 19th Century Lobbyist, An Arrest, And The Birth Of Mother's Day

Forbes — Anna Marie Jarvis lobbied for more than a decade to have her nation remember mothers, in honor of her own mother's wishes. Then, she fought to end it. At the end of the 19th century, her mother, Ann Jarvis, had founded Mothers' Day Work Clubs in five cities to help improve sanitary and health conditions for mothers and their children.
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