Locals' fury over rapist's escape
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Residents of Usk demand an end to a policy of housing sex offenders at an open prison following a inmate's escape.
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NEW ORLEANS -- It was an ill-advised journey to a moribund city, the place of my birth and upbringing. Family and friends, all living elsewhere, begged me not to come here. My wife, Mary Anne, feared that I would become depressed.
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By WELHAM, Keri  POLICE are worried about the safety of a woman they believe was in a house that exploded in suburban Wellington.   The kitchen of a flat at the back of a house in The Parade, in Island Bay, was blackened in the blast just after midday yesterday.
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Venturing into the street is perilous for the Chechen minority here after a recent terror wave.
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To Louisiana's attorney general, the doctor and two nurses arrested this past week are murderers. But many in the medical community are outraged at the arrests, saying the three caregivers are heroes who faced unimaginable horrors as Hurricane Katrina flooded the city and trapped them and their patients.
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A Ballymena man is warned he faces a life sentence for an attack on a man who had to feign death.
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Residents of the Russian town of Beslan,  scene of a hostage bloodbath at a school last year, took to the  streets on Friday to protest at what they consider an official  cover-up of the tragedy.
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The mayor of Pitcairn Island was sentenced to three years imprisonment for the rape of young women on the remote and isolated home of descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers, British authorities in New Zealand said Friday.
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Police appeal for witnesses after a young woman is subjected to a "serious sexual assault" near Belfast.
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WINNIPEG (CP) - Residents of a northern Manitoba town expressed skepticism, disgust and resignation Thursday at hearing news the pedophile convicted of strangling a local 13-year-old girl admitted committing other crimes police don't know about.
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A VIOLENT sex offender was being questioned by police today after absconding from a bail hostel for the third time within a year. John Phillips, 53, went missing from a hostel in Oldham where he went voluntarily to live on the same day he was released from prison last Thursday.
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Prosecutors, lawmakers and rights activists criticized Venezuela's judicial system for the acquittal of a man who had been accused of torturing and repeatedly raping a woman.
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As Heath Ledger's hometown prepared for the arrival of his remains, locals expressed dismay at speculation in the media that the actor had used drugs.
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A convicted rapist who escaped with three federal inmates from the town jail, using metal torn from a mop bucket to carve a hole in the ceiling, was captured Friday, police said.
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Comment is free: Gary Younge: The racial tensions which flared in a small southern town have laid bare the bias infecting the nation's justice system.
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A high-risk sex offender is on the run in Oxfordshire after failing to keep a curfew, say police.
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A convicted murderer's claim that he killed three women in this tiny Louisiana town in the 1980s, part of a sensational tale of dozens of slayings across the country, is creating challenges for the area's top lawman.