A convicted child sex offender was still missing Sunday, two days after his GPS monitor sounded a tamper alert at a San Diego worksite and supervisors arrived to find him gone, authorities said. Merle Wakefield, 69, was working in Rancho …

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A Texas mental health clinic owner was convicted by a federal jury after prosecutors said he orchestrated a $26 million scheme to defraud the military’s health care program, using some of the proceeds to fund luxury purchases, including a gold-plated …

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Georgia investigators are searching for potential victims of a convicted Florida sex offender after DNA linked him to three sexual assault cases involving women allegedly lured through Craigslist job ads. Julius Hunter, 42, faces rape, aggravated sodomy and kidnapping charges …

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“I’ve never had one like this.” Texas criminal attorney Dick DeGuerin has been practicing law for six decades; he is currently representing Lee Gilley. Gilley, 39, is the Houston husband accused of murdering his pregnant wife Christa Bauer Gilley, 38, …

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PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington has fired back after the lawyer of the lone juror who wanted to convict her accused him of filing “Looney Tunes” motions that threaten the Constitution. “I think Ed ought to …

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A 76-year-old Florida man with a suspended license allegedly admitted during a traffic stop that he had been drinking rum — later telling deputies he had also recently used cocaine — just four months after a separate DUI arrest, authorities …

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A Washington state man fell 800 to 1,000 feet to his death while hiking last weekend, authorities said. Gary Idleburg, 66, fell from Sauk Mountain in the Northern Cascades, northeast of Seattle, while navigating a switchback trail last Saturday, according …

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A civilian assailant was detained outside MacDill Air Force Base in Florida on Saturday after the person “violently engaged” security personnel, according to reports, citing the 6th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs Office. The civilian breached the perimeter of the …

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Police in Georgia charged 18-year-old Kingston Lammar Bradley with malice murder Friday after allegedly discovering trash bags filled with dismembered remains in the trunk of his car. Witnesses spotted Bradley walking in his apartment complex with a container, and when …

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