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The police said Sandra Birchmore's death was a suicide. Then the FBI accused a cop of murder

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A former Massachusetts police detective is being tried on charges that he killed a pregnant woman to hide that he had begun sexually abusing her when she was 15

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Charges dropped against man arrested in mass shooting at Ohio festival that wounded 12

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<p>Eljay Crisp-Carr, 20, spent five months behind bars before prosecutors asked to dismiss charges</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ohio">Ohio</a> prosecutors on Friday dropped charges against a man arrested in connection

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A man who witnessed a deadly Oregon helicopter crash recalled the gut-wrenching moment that the choppers collided and one “dropped straight down” — leaving no survivors. “I heard the helicopter noise, I bent over to do something and then bo

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The police said Sandra Birchmore's death was a suicide. Then the FBI accused a cop of murder

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