Town rallies around wrongly convicted man
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Since a judge threw out Tim Masters' murder conviction and freed the 36-year-old after almost a decade behind bars, the town of Fort Collins, Colorado, has showered him in letters, gifts and general good will. Though he remains a suspect in the 1987 slaying, Masters says he hasn't had time to be bitter because "people have been so nice."
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A six-year sentence given to a man described as the ringleader in the beating death of a gay man drew criticism Tuesday from the man's family and the city's gay community, which wanted the case treated as a hate crime.
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One San Diego community wrestles with the pending release of a violent offender.
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About 300 people, many from Philadelphia and other parts of the state, rallied Sunday in opposition to the city's crackdown on illegal immigrants.
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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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Hundreds of locals rallied in the town of Stavropol in southern Russia on Tuesday, demanding the eviction of ethnic Chechens, witnesses and media said, reviving memories of racial riots in other parts of the country.
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By Tomio Geron STAFF WRITER  City leaders and community  organizers Saturday asked for open communication and healing in response to the verdict in the Long Beach Halloween beating case.
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The beating of a leader of a budding movement to uphold motoristsâ rights in the face of police corruption has prompted an outcry.
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Police in Manchester launch a hunt for a man who was released from prison by mistake.
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A man is given a suspended jail term for ignoring an order banning him from his home town.
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JENA, La., Sept. 20 -- Thousands of demonstrators jammed the streets of this rural Louisiana town Thursday to protest what they view as excessive criminal charges against six black teenagers involved in a schoolyard brawl.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 9--Three more people, including a Gulfport man, have pleaded guilty to crimes involving hurricane-related fraud.
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The mayor of Pitcairn Island, Steve Christian, leaves court in Adamstown after being convicted on five counts of rape. Photograph: AP.
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Officials planned to seek the man who won almost &#36;315 million at Powerball on a bail violation charge after he was arrested on a DUI count in another county.
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JENA, Louisiana  - Thousands of people from across the United States descended on a small town in central Louisiana on Thursday to protest what they say is injustice against six black teenagers charged over a high school fight.
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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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Townspeople had a hard time squaring an unsavory past with their wholesome self-image.