Crime & Law Enforcement

Two years after he was extradited from a maximum-security California prison, where he is serving double life sentences, Valentine Underwood remains in solitary confinement at Middleton Jail, awaiting trial for the aggravated rape and kidnapping...

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Jurors find Claudette Hulsey guilty on all counts in Jack Be Nimble fire

Defendant Claudette Hulsey showed no visible signs of emotion when jurors found her guilty on all counts Saturday afternoon following a weeklong arson and fraud trial tied to a 2011 fire at her Jack Be Nimble children's clothing boutique in...

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Mall area drug activity low despite big busts

Mobile drug dealing has turned popular retail areas like the Dayton Mall into hot spots for drug dealers because of the high traffic volume, local police said. The distribution of heroin, marijuana and crack cocaine is easier for drug...

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Officer safety has been goal of Gordon's career

Not far from Dean Gordon's office in the Center for Public Safety of Surry Community College is a classroom recently dedicated in memory of Sgt. Greg Martin, a policeman killed during a traffic stop. From now on, a sign outside that...

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A fire, a body, a murder trial in Kingman after more than two years

On Monday, two years and 20 days after Vashti Forrest Seacat's body was found in the charred remains of her Kingman home, attorneys will start picking jurors who will be asked to decide between two arguments already raised in court: That...

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Details of deadly Hoquiam standoff released

After more than a month of investigation, the report is in on the 20-hour standoff in Hoquiam which led to police killing a man who had shot a Hoquiam officer and barricaded himself inside his Aberdeen Avenue home. The report contains a...

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Jack Be Nimble, Day 5: Hulsey loses composure talking about alleged attack

DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Claudette Hulsey lost her composure Friday afternoon when she told her story about what happened the night her store burned. Hulsey said Jan. 26, 2011, was a routine day at her Jack Be Nimble clothing boutique in...

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MPD prepares for big move

Members of the Meridian Police Department working from the cramped, aging police station on Sixth Street are looking forward to the upcoming move to the new police station on 22d Avenue where renovations are about complete. MPD Acting...

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Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo, Lena Mitchell column

Last week, Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps noted that the state parole board has severely decreased the number of inmates awarded parole, which in turn keeps the prison population high. When I was a police beat reporter in...

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One injured in single-car accident in Bourne early today

One person was taken to the hospital early this morning after crashing a sports car into a sign, a dumpster and a building on Barlows Landing Road. Bourne police were called to the scene of a single-car crash at 380 Barlows Landing Road...

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Castro case exposes gaps in Ohio law

Cleveland kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro escaped without scrutiny for years -- and remained in his job as a public school bus driver -- despite an extensive history of violence that included threats to neighbors, physical abuse and a troubling...

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Books: Author investigates woman's 1937 murder in China

It was a fact buried in a footnote -- a mention of the murder of a young English woman in Peking in the winter of 1937. The woman, Pamela Werner, was the daughter of a former British diplomat and Chinese scholar. On Jan. 8, 1937, her body...

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EDITORIAL: A dishonorable level of sex crimes among the ranks

In 2011, Newsweek published a sobering piece on sexual assaults in the military. The magazine reported that women are more likely to be sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier than to be killed in combat. And, according to the Pentagon,...

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Lindenwood's first Belleville graduation shows how far school has come in 10 years

On a warm spring day, students at Lindenwood University-Belleville took time from studying for finals to play Frisbee in the sunken garden in front of the college at 2600 W. Main St. The parking lot was full of cars as students buzzed...

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Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say

When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze, suggesting that even amid an international looting scandal, museums had continued to do business with the...

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Oakland police struggle to rebuild -- using fewer resources

It was a quiet evening by this city's standards, and still the police emergency lines were lighting up. As screams rang out behind her, a caller said her neighbor was being beaten. A woman reported that a front door down the street had...

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Girl charged in father's death struggled with mental health

Morgan Lane Arnold, an emotionally frail 14-year-old freshman, navigated the hallways of her Howard County high school each day filled with anxiety, unable because of a learning disorder to decipher the social cues, jokes and emotions of her...

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Budget could be death of Hamilton County Medical Examiner's office

Last year, the Hamilton County medical examiner probed 140 deaths that police deemed suspicious. The office is an important link in the chain of solving crime and identifying public health threats. But if the Hamilton County...

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