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Inside the Jameis Winston rape case file

Inside the Jameis Winston rape case file

CBS News — Documents from the investigation into the rape allegation against Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston reveal conflicting stories about the sexual interaction, and an 11-month lag between the initial report and when police interviewed witnesses.
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Congress has one week to renew ban on non-metal guns

Congress has one week to renew ban on non-metal guns

CBS News — In seven days, a 25-year-old law making it illegal to manufacture firearms that cannot be detected by metal detectors is set to expire. This does not sit well with Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), a sponsor of the re-authorization of the Undetectable Firearms Act.
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Police blasted for handling of Jameis Winston rape case

Police blasted for handling of Jameis Winston rape case

CBS News — The family of a Fla. woman who accused star college football player Jameis Winston of rape in January is blasting the Tallahassee Police Department's "questionable" handling of the case, and now, ESPN reports that Winston's DNA was found in the alleged victims underwear.
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Deeds attack highlights mental health care problems

Deeds attack highlights mental health care problems

CBS News — (CBS) - The story of Gus Deeds, who police believe stabbed his father and killed himself on Tuesday, has brought two major problems with the nation's mental health care system - lack of beds and poor communication - to the doorstep of Wash., D.C.
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Homeowner charged in Renisha McBride shooting

Homeowner charged in Renisha McBride shooting

CBS News — (CBS) - Prosecutors announced Friday morning that they have charged Theodore P. Wafer with second degree murder and manslaughter in the death of Renisha McBride on Nov. 2 in Dearborn Heights, Mich.
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Autopsy: Renisha McBride had .218 blood alcohol

Autopsy: Renisha McBride had .218 blood alcohol

CBS News — (CBS) - As prosecutors prepare to make an announcement about whether charges will be filed against the man who shot and killed Renisha McBride, a toxicology report has revealed that the 19-year-old had a blood alcohol level of .218 at the time of her death - more than twice the legal limit for driving.
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AG: Only 3% of "stop and frisks" end in conviction

AG: Only 3% of "stop and frisks" end in conviction

CBS News — (CBS) - The New York attorney general released a report Thursday claiming that only three percent of arrests made using the controversial "stop and frisk" tactic lead to a conviction, and just 0.1 percent lead to an arrest for a violent crime.
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Sheriff: Bullied girl, tormentor had "disturbing" backgrounds

Sheriff: Bullied girl, tormentor had "disturbing" backgrounds

CBS News — (CBS) - The 12-year-old Florida girl whose suicide prompted the arrests of two young girls who allegedly bullied her grew up in a "disturbing environment," not unlike the one her accused bully was raised in, says Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.
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Expert: Erroneous releases like ones in Fla. "not uncommon"

Expert: Erroneous releases like ones in Fla. "not uncommon"

CBS News — (CBS) - As Florida authorities search for two convicted murderers set free due to forged paperwork, many are asking, how could something like this happen? As it turns out, so-called "releases in error" are not uncommon
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Why didn't Baby Hope's family report her missing?

Why didn't Baby Hope's family report her missing?

CBS News — (CBS) - Twenty-two years after her body was found inside a cooler in a wooded area in Upper Manhattan, "Baby Hope" finally has a name: Anjelica Castillo. And her cousin, Conrado Juarez, has been arrested for her sexual assault and murder. But the question remains: why didn't anyone in her reportedly large family come forward to report the 4-year-old missing? It turns out that nationwide, immigrants - even those in the country legally - are often reluctant to report crimes to law enforcement for fear of endangering their own immigration status, or the status of their relatives.
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Insiders: Rabbi arrests reveal perils of Orthodox divorce

Insiders: Rabbi arrests reveal perils of Orthodox divorce

CBS News — (CBS) - It sounds utterly bizarre: a group of ultra-Orthodox Jewish rabbis allegedly accepting tens of thousands of dollars to kidnap and torture Jewish men to force them to grant their wives a divorce.
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Calif. "revenge porn" law inadequate, experts say

Calif. "revenge porn" law inadequate, experts say

CBS News — (CBS) - Dr. Charlotte Laws became the "Erin Brockovich of revenge porn" by accident. In January 2012, her 25-year-old daughter learned that her computer had been hacked and that a topless photo she'd taken of herself was posted on a website called IsAnyoneUp.com, and was making the rounds on social media.
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VIDEO: Fla. man dies after being run down by cop car

VIDEO: Fla. man dies after being run down by cop car

CBS News — (CBS) - The family of a Florida man who was killed after being run over by a police cruiser in May wants charges filed against the officer behind the wheel.
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Times Square shooting turns attention to police, mentally ill

Times Square shooting turns attention to police, mentally ill

CBS News — (CBS) NEW YORK - To former New York City police officer Eugene O'Donnell, the shooting that left two bystanders wounded in Times Square on Saturday night is yet another illustration of the "gigantic" problem police have when dealing with citizens with mental illness.
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Have D.C. police been mishandling rape cases?

Have D.C. police been mishandling rape cases?

CBS News — (CBS) - Human Rights Watch Senior Researcher Sara Darehshori has documented human rights abuses in Darfur, Serbia and Iraq - but she says that the most resistance she's ever received to one of her reports was when she began researching how police handled sexual assault cases in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C.
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Should the blind be allowed to carry guns in public?

Should the blind be allowed to carry guns in public?

CBS News — (CBS) - When Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA's School of Law and a scholar on gun issues, read the news Sunday that sheriffs in Iowa have been issuing gun carry permits to the blind, he says he "got a good chuckle." While it may seem that no detail surrounding the Second Amendment hasn't been debated or litigated in the past decade, Winkler says that whether legally blind citizens should be allowed to carry guns is "an issue that the law has rarely addressed."
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Why wasn't Aaron Alexis prosecuted for earlier shootings?

Why wasn't Aaron Alexis prosecuted for earlier shootings?

CBS News — (CBS) - Twice before he shot and killed 12 people in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard on Sept. 16, Aaron Alexis was arrested for discharging a firearm - once in his Ft. Worth apartment, and once outside his grandmother's home in Seattle. Neither time was he prosecuted for a crime. Now, the question is why not.
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Defending Tsarnaev: "His attys will investigate every angle"

Defending Tsarnaev: "His attys will investigate every angle"

CBS News — (CBS) - It was about 9:30 at night and attorney Stephen Jones was at home when he got the call asking if he would be willing to defend Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh. Jones was honored to be chosen for such a high profile case, but said he needed a day to talk it over with his family.
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Boston manhunt 1st major post-9/11 terror test for police

Boston manhunt 1st major post-9/11 terror test for police

CBS News — (CBS) - The thousands of heavily armed law enforcement officers and scores of military-style tactical vehicles amassed around Boston Friday might have looked chaotic to many watching the hunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev unfold on television. But the man who heads the LAPD's counter terrorism and special operations bureau says the city-wide lockdown makes perfect sense.
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Expert: Girls' suicides show cyber-bullying "getting worse"

Expert: Girls' suicides show cyber-bullying "getting worse"

CBS News — (CBS) - For 21-year-old Texas college student Anna Combrick, the suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons, the Canadian teen who hung herself after allegedly being raped and cyber-bullied, hit very close to home.
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Fox News reporter could be jailed over Aurora shooting case

Fox News reporter could be jailed over Aurora shooting case

CBS News — (CBS) - Fox News reporter Jana Winter is scheduled to attend a hearing Wednesday as part of an ongoing attempt to compel her to reveal the law enforcement source who told her that the suspect in the Aurora movie theater shooting had mailed a notebook of writings to a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado, Denver, before the massacre.
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Robert Zimmerman, Jr.: Tweet shows "Trayvon Martin 2.0"

Robert Zimmerman, Jr.: Tweet shows "Trayvon Martin 2.0"

CBS News — (CBS) - Two days after he tweeted a controversial image comparing Trayvon Martin to an alleged baby-killer, Robert Zimmerman, the brother of the man accused of murdering Martin, told CBS News' Crimesider that the tweet was meant to "provoke discussion" about the difference between how Martin portrayed himself online, and the way he has been portrayed in the media.
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Expert: Steubenville witnesses didn't see acts as rape

Expert: Steubenville witnesses didn't see acts as rape

CBS News — (CBS) - As she listens to the testimony of witness after witness who saw two Ohio teens allegedly rape a 16-year-old girl during a night of partying, Katie Hanna, the executive director of the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence, says she can't help but think one thing: "These kids weren't clear what rape is."
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Steubenville Rape Trial: How drunk is too drunk to consent?

Steubenville Rape Trial: How drunk is too drunk to consent?

CBS News — (CBS) How drunk is too drunk to consent to sex? That is the question an Ohio juvenile court judge will be asked to consider this week in the case of two Steubenville High School football players accused of sexually assaulting a teen girl during an alcohol-fueled night of partying last August.
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