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Woman waits two hours, doesn’t get to testify in Family Court marshal case

Monica Contreras, who alleged on Family Court videotape she was groped by a marshal in August 2011, entered the federal courthouse Tuesday morning to testify before a grand jury hearing allegations of excessive force. But after waiting more than two hours outside the grand jury room, she was told her testimony was not needed Tuesday.

 
13-year-old girl testifies man raped her outside school

“A bad thing happened” early Aug. 28 the petite, blond-haired 13-year-old girl with a soft, tender voice told a Las Vegas judge Thursday.

 
Zimmerman’s girlfriend claims he pointed gun at her

Deputies say George Zimmerman’s girlfriend accused him of pointing a shotgun at her during an argument at the home they shared in Florida.

 
Family and dogs dead after Phoenix shooting

Authorities released details Sunday from a weekend shooting attack that left four family members and two dogs dead at a central Phoenix townhouse before the gunman turned the weapon on himself.

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Bally’s shooting suspect expected to survive

The man facing murder charges for an early morning shooting at Drai’s After Hours nightclub inside Bally’s on the Strip is expected to make a full recovery, his relative said Wednesday.

 
Moms: Wounded sons weren’t targets in Sparks school shooting

Parents of two boys wounded by a seventh-grader who fatally shot their teacher before turning a semi-automatic handgun on himself said Wednesday they don’t believe their children were targeted in the schoolyard rampage.

 
Sparks police pursuing motive in deadly school shooting

Police are still trying to find out why a 12-year-old boy took a handgun to Sparks Middle School Monday morning, shot two boys, killed math teacher Michael Landsberry and then shot himself to death.

 
Police: Worker set off LAX dry ice bombs as prank

A baggage handler arrested after dry ice bombs exploded at Los Angeles International Airport planted the devices as a prank, police said Wednesday.

 
House of filth: Denver parents appear in court

A Denver couple accused of keeping four malnourished young children in a filthy apartment pleaded guilty to neglecting three other children under strikingly similar conditions in 2006, court records show.

 
Holder goes after mandatory federal drug sentences

Attorney General Eric Holder announced a major shift Monday in federal sentencing policies, targeting long mandatory terms that he said have flooded the nation’s prisons with low-level drug offenders and diverted crime-fighting dollars that could be far better spent.

 
Simpson wins parole, but has plenty of Nevada prison time left to serve

Former football star and actor O.J. Simpson was granted parole Wednesday on two kidnapping and three other charges stemming from his 2007 robbery of two memorabilia collections at Palace Station.