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For centuries, tribal rule has been overshadowed by federal laws that gave jurisdiction to federal authorities. But that's changing. Delete the scoop?
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Police are investigating the apparent homicide of a 1-year-old boy who was found unresponsive in West Miami-Dade. Delete the scoop?
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Authorities in Kentucky have charged a man who officers say had an overnight feast in a closed supermarket outside Louisville.
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Two bartenders have been arrested in connection with the killing of the grandson of civil rights activist Malcolm X, according to the office of the Mexico City attorney general. Delete the scoop?
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Lee County, Florida (News-Press) - A Punta Gorda motorcyclist is dead and an Estero woman is behind bars on DUI charges after a Thursday night crash in south Lee County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Donna Lynne Brown, 54, is being charged with DUI manslaughter and property damage, hit and run with death, DUI and careless driving.
After making a U-turn at Constitution Boulevard, Brown was driving south on U.S. 41 and failed to see a motorcycle ahead of her. She rear-ended Carl Patrick's motorcycle and dragged it, along with Patrick, for about three miles...
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Hoping to wean people off bazuco, a crack-like drug, the city of Bogota will be experimenting with marijuana. Delete the scoop?
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Investigators are trying to unravel what three abducted women, one now a mother, were subjected to for the past decade. Delete the scoop?
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Opa-Locka trying to fire South Florida cop who's already been fired 8 times by 3 departments (VIDEO)
MIAMI (CBS4) – Police Lt. Alexander Hernandez pulled back the chambering lever on the AR-15 assault weapon and it slapped forward with a loud clack, reverberating around the conference room. The menacing-looking weapon was exhibit A at a hearing Wednesday as the Opa-Locka Police Department argued Sgt. German Bosque should be fired for leaving the rifle with his girlfriend’s father while out on leave last year.
It’s not every day a rapid-fire assault weapon is put on loud display in a city hall conference room, but Bosque is not your everyday cop. He’s the most disciplined, fined, fired, arrested police officer in the state. He has been fired eight times by three departments. Opa-locka is now trying to fire him – for the sixth time – with none of its previous efforts succeeding.
Bosque has successfully beaten back allegations over the years including:
- Having busted the skull of a handcuffed suspect. - Beating Juveniles - Having dope and booze in his squad car - Ripping off suspects - Falsifying reports - Participating in an unauthorized chase where four people were killed - And calling in sick…from Cancun
The system has given Bosque more chances than nine cats have lives. Like many law enforcement officers, he enjoys civil service and union protections...
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Adam Justin Griffith spotted himself a gorgeous lady playing with her kids in the playground at the Anderson Snow... Delete the scoop?
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A 20-year-old man stripped naked inside a Daytona Beach convenience store and told officers that he was a monkey, according to police.
Daylen Holloman, of Palm Coast, was arrested on a charge of indecent exposure after the incident, which occurred Wednesday at 12:30 a.m. at the 7-Eleven at 623 N. Oleander Ave.
A Daytona Beach police officer later arrived at the store and asked Holloman what he did know, and Holloman said, "I know I am a monkey," police said.
The officer told Holloman that monkeys don't wear clothes and Holloman said, "Oh, really?" and started stripping, Daytona Beach police said, adding that he exposed himself to a female store clerk and customers... (click pic to continue reading) Via Billy Corben Delete the scoop?
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The Boston Marathon bombing is easily the most crowdsourced terror investigation in American history, with the FBI soliciting videos, cellphone pictures, and anything that could lead to the capture of whoever set off those pressure cooker bombs. Via Genevieve Valle 
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April 17, 2:00 PM
Federal law enforcement is crowdsourcing in an attempt to identify a suspect in the Boston bomber case. Interestingly, social media websites like Reddit and 4Chan are answering that call with a number of theories about suspects in the recent tragedy. (Check this out: http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA) On one hand, I am intrigued by the interesting and fascinating interplay of social media and the legal system. I think an example like this says so much about how social media has changed both the speed and ease of how we get our information. (But could it also shed light on the evergrowing problem of misinformation on the Internet?) On the other hand, I am skeptical as to the soundness of internet investigations carried out by laypersons and what that could potentially mean for an innocent person singled out in a viral Internet posting. In the end, it seems that the input of the masses will at least speed up the process and encourage law enforcement to focus it's investigation even further to identify a suspect(s). Here's hoping that's the case! Delete the scoop?
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George Zimmerman's mother writes that her son was charged "solely to placate the masses" in the death of Trayvon Martin. Delete the scoop?
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Authorities say the man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a Houston-area college randomly attacked his victims with a razor utility knife.
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LEE COUNTY, FL - Former Lee County deputy Piotr Urbanski arrested for not only possessing marijuana but growing it with his girlfriend Shannon Clancy on their lanai.
The Lee County Sheriff's Office found dried marijuana in the kitchen, two pipes for smoking, and 23 live plants on the lanai. Seven additional plants were found in a small trash can on the porch.
Sheriff Mike Scott tells us the couple claims they had a reason for growing it: "His story was that he doesn't use it and she does for medicinal purposes and whatever. It doesn't matter. It's illegal it's a crime," said Scott.
Urbanski was only with the Lee County Sheriff's Office for about a year and now he's out -- Sheriff Scott wants to reassure the community when people commit crimes, they go to jail.
When he applied to LCSO, Urbanski admitted he used Marijuana three times in 2007 for experimentation.
Sheriff Scott says his office does very thorough background checks, but in the future those might include going to the applicant's home and checking that out as well...
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May 16, 3:56 PM
Another horrendous crime out of Florida... This pre-med student, John Welden, sent his pregnant girlfriend to see his OB/GYN father. Welden told his girlfriend that his father diagnosed her with an infection requiring her to take antibiotics. Welden swapped the anibiotic pill for Cytotec, the abortion pill. He instructed his girlfriend to take the "antibiotics" three times a day for a week. His girlfriend only learned about the abortion pills when she showed up to the emergency room a week later, having aborted the pregnancy. Welden's girlfriend was six weeks pregnant and communicated her intent to carry the pregnancy to term to all of her friends and family. Federal authorities have since charged 28-year-old Welden with first degree murder and tampering. Normally, a 6 week old fetus would not be considered viable, but federal law provides otherwise. Under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004 (18 USC 1841), an "unborn child" is defined as “member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb.” The Act further provides that if an unborn child is killed during the commission of a federal crime, it will constitute murder. Here, Welden's tampering with his girlfriend's prescription (a federal crime) allows authorities to tack on a first degree murder charge. Welden faces life in prison for his crimes. It is not clear what role, if any, his OB/GYN father played in the commission of these crimes. Delete the scoop?
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by TARA CULP-RESSLER
(Credit: Change.org)
On Friday afternoon, the Associated Press ran a story about a young woman in Washington state who alleges that her high school’s officials failed to protect her from a 16-year-old boy who raped her on school property, and even allowed the boy to remain in the same classroom with her after her guardian reported she was being harassed by him. The school continues to deny most of her claims, and she is seeking at least $400,000 in damages.
In its headline about the story, the AP chose to characterize the encounter — which took place in a bathroom at the high school — as “restroom sex”:
[More by clicking the headline] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay, Deanna Dahlsad 
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May 14, 9:54 AM
The substitution implies "consentual". The AP should be ashamed. Delete the scoop?
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Prosecutors have uncovered 21 people, based out of local clinics, involved in elaborate scams that totaled almost half a million dollars in phony medical bills. Via Miami Criminal Law 
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May 2, 10:53 AM
Elaborate false medical bill scams totaling nearly $500,000 and involving 21 people have been discovered by prosecutors. Four clinics in South Florida have reportedly generated phony medical claims to more than half a dozen of Florida’s largest car insurers. Authorities anticipate further arrests in the case. Delete the scoop?
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According to the Indian River County Sheriff's Office, what's being described as one of the Treasure Coast's largest meth labs ever was found at 1913 22nd Avenue in Vero Beach.
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Jurors took just over two hours to convict Walter Bailey of September 2006 slayings; he now faces the death penalty. Delete the scoop?
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Good police practices, thorough training, carefully crafted policies and appropriate allocation of resources in law enforcement can ensure public safety and prevent abuses in encounters between police officers and citizens....
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The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. Delete the scoop?
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One morning in February 2002, 43-year-old Brenda Heist dropped her two children off at school in a small town in Lancaster County, Pa. Delete the scoop?
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Gay Scout leaders would continue to be excluded under a proposal to be submitted to the group’s National Council.
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A U.S. official confirms there is an arrest in the investigation of recent mailings of ricin to President Obama and a senator, CBS News has learned Delete the scoop?
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Authorities say a man who lived like a hermit for decades in the woods of central Maine and may be responsible for more than 1,000 burglaries has been captured.
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