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Mark Hughes in Baltimore: 'Wire' star joins real fight against crime
The latest instalment of our crime reporter's job-swap with his counterpart at 'The Baltimore Sun' focuses on community efforts to tackle the US city's crime problem
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Decision day looms for Obama's troop dilemma
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
President accused of dithering by Republicans as opposition to war grows
Bear Stearns fund managers found not guilty
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
In a huge setback for government prosecutors, a jury in New York City last night acquitted two former hedge-fund managers with Bear Stearns of lying to clients about the safety of their money even when they themselves allegedly saw disaster around the corner because of the imploding sub-prime mortgage market.
Seattle's teenage Jesse James
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
As an outlaw in the grand tradition, 18-year-old Colton Harris-Moore has both infuriated and impressed the Pacific North-West with his escapades. Now he's back on his home turf
Security firm in Iraq 'tried to bribe officials with $1m'
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
The private security firm once known as Blackwater offered as much as $1m (£600,000) in bribes to Iraqi officials to dampen their criticism after employees killed 17 people in Baghdad in 2007 and the firm feared losing its contracts with the US government, the New York Times reported.
'DC sniper' loses last hope of reprieve
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Governor denies clemency to one of the gunmen behind killings in 2002
Washington sniper John Allen Muhammad executed new
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that left 10 dead, was executed as relatives of the victims watched, reliving the killing spree that terrorized the Washington DC area for three weeks in October 2002.
Youth trapped on ice floe forced to shoot polar bear
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Jerome Taylor: The bear ventured too close while rescuers desperately tried to locate him from the air.
The Crime Exchange: The trials of 'Baltimore's Boris'
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
In the latest instalment of our crime reporter's job-swap Mark Hughes looks at the combustible relationship between politicians and the police force.
Tensions grow as Chavez masses troops on border
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Threat of bloodshed as Venezuelan president tells his people to prepare for war with Colombia
Pushchair maker defends lack of EU recall
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Maclaren today defended its decision not to organise a European recall of children's pushchairs at the centre of a safety scare despite doing so in the US.
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