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Twenty-four men suspected of being held against their will have been found during a raid at a travellers' site. Three men and a woman were arrested on suspicion of committing slavery offences in the raid at Greenacre travellers' site, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire on Sunday. The men, who are...

A judge set bail at $530,000 on Friday for a Link Removed due to 404 Error man accused of possessing and transmitting child pornography, according to Palm Beach County State Attorney Michael McAuliffe. Read Full Story: Link Removed

A Palm Coast couple bailed out a woman from jail but then tried to take her back after she started abusing prescription pills again, Volusia sheriff's deputies said. Read Full Story: Link Removed due to 404 Error

A Broward Sheriff's Office jail deputy is accused of inappropriate behavior toward female inmates, in a case with claims of topless, dancing inmates, an "orgy''-like atmosphere and a text-messaged photo of a penis alongside a toothbrush. Read Full Story: Link Removed

A 23-year-old man has been charged with rape in Karlskrona, after Rapports Opus, southern Sweden's only police dog specialised in sniffing sperm, caught a whiff of his case. Read Full Story: Link Removed

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Florida man has two wives, two families and two marriage certificates, but under Florida's current bigamy law, the state cannot do a thing about it. Watch Video: Link Removed due to 404 Error

NEW YORK— Police say a 42-year-old Sebring musician hurled a newspaper box through the recently repaired glass doors of the Link Removed Theater days after another man did the same thing. Read Full Story: Link Removed due to 404 Error

On Aug. 31, 2008, Sarasota Sheriff's deputies were called to the Osprey Inn hotel, where Freeman first stayed after moving here, to find Freeman drunk and one child with swelling and knots on her head and another child with choke marks on his neck, according to a sheriff's report. Read Full...

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Only 4 states continue a ban on fireworks. The other states bring in a lot of revenue. Read Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/business/03fireworks.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper

Mexico City (CNN) -- Mexican authorities captured the top leader of one of the country's most violent drug cartels Tuesday, officials said. There's been a lot of bloodshed over the various drug cartels. At least they've got one. Read Full Story: Mexican authorities: Top cartel leader...

Microsoft has failed in a Supreme Court bid to overturn a $290 million patent violation ruling. Not only is it the largest such award ever upheld, but this final ruling has significant consequences for patent law. Read Full Story...

Lyn Benedetto, a California mother, slit her daughters’ throats before slitting her own early Friday evening, claiming that “the Tribulation” was going to occur and she wanted to keep them from having to endure it. Benedetto, 47, told her children to lie on a bed and then took a knife to their...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – The popular online file-sharing service LimeWire has agreed to pay $105 million to settle charges that it was a platform for music piracy. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said Thursday that the negotiated settlement came as jurors in a federal court...

Neighbors reported a bad smell and police arrested a 63-year-old man on a parole violation Link Removed - Invalid URL Santa Cruz Police arrested I. John Clauer, 63, of the 1100 block of East Cliff Drive Tuesday after they were called to his apartment to investigate a bad smell...

Mr. Caesar, who escaped police custody in New York while handcuffed to a chair, has been caught. Red-faced police managed to track down and recapture Caesar after he broke out from the police station before questioning. He was said to have been recaptured while riding a bike with the...

Ryan Stephens has been charged with teasing Timber the police dog after he was found barking and hissing at the animal. The 25-year-old claimed ‘the dog started it’ when officers asked why he was barking at the K9 dog in a patrol car in Cincinnati, Ohio. Police said he appeared...

Scientists of earth, sea and sky, scholars of law, politics and philosophy: In three intense days cloistered behind Chicheley Hall's old brick walls, four dozen thinkers pondered the planet's fate as it grows warmer, weighed the idea of reflecting the sun to cool the atmosphere and debated the...