3 acquitted in Chicago club stampede
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A nightclub owner, manager and party promoter were acquitted of involuntary manslaughter Friday in the 2003 stampede that killed 21 people at Chicago's E2 club.
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North Belfast loyalist William "Mo" Courtney is acquitted of murdering a former associate of UDA leader Johnny Adair.
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Federal prosecutors Wednesday charged more than three dozen members of a Chicago street gang with running a drug ring that sold crack cocaine, marijuana, heroin and the potentially lethal prescription painkiller fentanyl.
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Two men accused of furnishing money and fresh recruits to the militant Palestinian group Hamas were acquitted by a federal jury Thursday of racketeering but convicted on lesser charges.
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Two former midlevel executives at America Online were acquitted Tuesday on all counts of charges that they conspired with a now-defunct Las Vegas software firm to inflate its revenue with secret side deals and backdated contracts.
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LAS VEGAS -- More than $81,000 in cash belonging to Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam ÃÂ¿PacmanÃÂ¿ Jones was seized by police, who say the money sparked a weekend melee and a triple shooting at a strip club.
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A federal jury in Chicago acquitted two men yesterday of charges that they were part of a long-running conspiracy to finance Hamas activities in Israel -- marking the latest defeat for the Justice Department in cases involving support for radical Palestinian groups.
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Jurors on Tuesday convicted two men of murdering three young relatives whose bodies were nearly decapitated. Policarpio Espinoza, 24, and Adan Canela, 19, were found guilty of slashing the children's throats.
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Three Asian men are found guilty of murdering a black IT worker during a riot in Birmingham last year.
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One of seven Miami men accused of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to blow up Chicagoâs Sears Tower was acquitted, and a mistrial was declared for the six others after the federal jury deadlocked.
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People injured in a night club fire are treated outside the club in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Friday. Photo AP. Buenos Aires, Dec 31.
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A fire that raced through a packed Buenos Aires nightclub during a rock concert killed at least 174 concert-goers and injured about 410, and investigators were looking into survivor accounts that the building's emergency exits were locked.
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An Egyptian who allegedly bragged that he masterminded the 2004 Madrid terror bombings that killed 191 people was acquitted of all charges Wednesday by a Spanish court. At least four others were convicted of murder, culminating a divisive trial over Europe's worst Islamic militant attack.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A jury yesterday acquitted a leader of a paramilitary group accused of killing thousands, after a 14-hour murder trial that angered human rights groups and provoked criticism of the new US-backed government.
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill.  - The 19-year-old girlfriend  of jailed former hockey player Mike Danton was acquitted by a  jury on Monday of conspiring with him to murder his agent.
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CLEVELAND - A Playboy Playmate accused of karate-kicking the ex-girlfriend of NFL quarterback Jeff Garcia was acquitted Wednesday of a misdemeanor assault charge.