Court tosses kidnap raps against Mo. dad
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A state appeals court Tuesday overturned the most serious kidnapping convictions against a man who was accused of taking his two children to terrorize his ex-wife and has since confessed to killing them.
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The district attorney prosecuting Michael Jackson on child molestation charges can stay on the case. That ruling came down Thursday from Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville in Santa Barbara County, California.
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A man accused in a deadly, two-state shooting rampage was trying to prevent space aliens from abducting his daughter, his attorney said Tuesday at the start of his murder trial.
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Lawyers for Michael Jackson have asked a judge to dismiss the child molestation charges against him, claiming that prosecutors were improperly trying to "shock and intimidate" the pop star when they raided his Neverland Valley Ranch two weeks ago.
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A father fights for access to information about his son's death during a law enforcement chase, only to find that Mississippi's sunshine laws don't require the public release of investigative records.
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LOS ANGELES - Child molestation allegations by a 12-year-old boy provided authorities with legal justification for a massive search of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch last year, a judge ruled, rejecting defense efforts to challenge the search as illegal.    In his ruling Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville short-circuited a plan by Jackson's lawyers to call multiple witnesses in an effort to show that prosecutors had insufficient information to justify the invasion of Jackson's estate last November...
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A federal appeals court cleared the  way on Friday for Connecticut to execute a serial killer who  wants to die but gave the man's father a last-minute chance to  ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.
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JACKSON, Mississippi  - A former Ku Klux Klansman was found guilty of kidnapping on Thursday in the 1964 deaths of two black men in Mississippi, a case that highlighted white supremacist violence during the civil rights era.
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A Maine couple accused of tying up their 19-year-old daughter, throwing her in their car and driving her out of state to get an abortion were upset because the baby's father is black, a Maine sheriff said Tuesday.
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Competency hearings are scheduled to begin today for the man accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart. Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee are accused of kidnapping the teen in 2002 and keeping her for nine months.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor's lawsuit against her daughter over family money has been dismissed.
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A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a jury's &#36;8.5 million award to the family of a boy paralyzed in a car seat.
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The Kansas woman accused of stealing the baby from another woman&#39;s womb is now in federal custody in Missouri. 36-year-old Lisa Montgomery was back in court in Kansas City Thursday.
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A judge set a court hearing for next month to determine whether a 9-year-old boy who ran away from home and talked his way onto two flights on his way to Texas may be charged in a car theft and police chase.
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Lawyers for Michael Jackson have asked a judge to dismiss the child molestation charges against him, claiming that prosecutors were improperly trying to &#39;shock and intimidate&#39; the pop star when they raided his Neverland Valley Ranch two weeks ago.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif  - A military court on Thursday set the court-martial of a U.S. Marine suspected of being the ringleader in the kidnap and murder of an Iraqi grandfather for April 23.
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LOS ANGELES - The state attorney general's office has concluded that Michael Jackson was not "manhandled" by sheriff's deputies who took him into custody last year on child molestation charges, CBS News reported Sunday.    The findings were contained in a three-page letter Martin A...