Suspect in 6 slayings once ran for mayor
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Many people in this southern Illinois town thought Bruce Mendenhall was loud, hot-tempered and a little peculiar, but they were still stunned to hear police say he has confessed to killing six people.
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A new report finds evidence that onetime police hero Jon Burge used violence against suspects
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Suffolk Police hunting a feared serial killer have confirmed the identity of a fifth victim, and said for the first time they are linking all five murders.
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A man suspected of killing seven prostitutes over the past five years was charged with murder Tuesday, and police said he is a suspect in as many as 14 deaths in the city since 1999.
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KIRKWOOD, Mo., Feb. 7 -- A gunman with a history of acrimony against civic leaders stormed City Hall during a council meeting Thursday night, killing two police officers and three city officials before law enforcers fatally shot him, authorities said. The mayor was critically injured in the rampage,...
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U.S. forces said on Wednesday they had  detained six suspects in the assassination of the Baghdad  governor a week ago.
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Timothy Krajcir got away with murder for decades, police say. In fact, his killings were so calculated police wondered if they were hunting for one of their own. "There was some speculation, of course," Cape Girardeau Police Chief Carl Kinnison told CNN.
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An ex-con accused of two sexual assaults linked to the Baseline Killer case that has terrorized the city is facing three more criminal counts.
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Police said Thursday they have evidence linking a sexual assault suspect already in custody with the nine killings attributed to the "Baseline Killer," a serial predator who terrorized the Phoenix area for months.
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Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton always seemed to be fighting City Hall. Even before he shot and killed five people at a City Council meeting, thousands of dollars in parking tickets and citations piled up against the asphalt company owner. He raged at meetings over the years that he was being persecuted, mocking city officials as "jackasses" and accusing them of having a racist "plantation mentality."
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Imad Mugniyah, one of Americaâs most wanted men, was accused in a string of bombings, hijackings and kidnappings.
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HAYWARD, Wis. - A man suspected of killing six hunters told investigators that he began firing after a shot was fired at him and some of the victims called him racially derogatory names, according to documents filed yesterday.
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Authorities on Tuesday searched for a man wanted in two slayings after a pair of women reported that someone matching his description broke into a home and sexually assaulted them.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said on Thursday the mayors of more than 100 other U.S. cities have joined their effort to get illegal guns off America's streets after a spike in violent crime.
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PHILADELPHIA -- The incoming mayor of this city is proposing a sweeping plan of aggressive police tactics, including limiting the movement of people in high crime neighborhoods and directing officers to increase searches of people on the street for illegal weapons, all in a desperate effort to cu...
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BOSANSKI SAMAC, Bosnia  - A Bosnian Serb who was  convicted of war crimes and who preached reconciliation between  Serbs, Croats and Muslims after leaving jail is running for  mayor of his war-scarred town in this weekend's election.
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MINNEAPOLIS - A man suspected in 23 bank robberies in the Twin Cities during the last year and a half was well-known to authorities as a public nuisance with a temper and a long history of criminal activity, according to police records.