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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A trusted family friend who confessed to police that he bludgeoned to death a 9-year-old Indiana girl in his care then dismembered her just days before Christmas was formally charged Friday in the killing. Michael Plumadore , 39, was charged in Fort Wayne with murder, abuse of a corpse and removing a dead body from the scene in the Dec. 22 death of Aliahna Maroney-Lemmon. Allen County prosecutor 's office chief investigator Danielle Edenfield said the charges will be read to Plumadore in jail, where he was being held without bond. An initial court hearing on the formal charges is scheduled for Wednesday. Edenfield said she couldn't comment on a possible motive before the case went to trial. Plumadore had been looking after Aliahna and her two younger sisters because their mother was sick. He had looked after Aliahna's dying grandfather and her family had considered him a trusted friend and neighbor. According to court documents, Plumadore ...

December 30, 2011 | By Darran Simon, Inquirer Staff Writer Sister Helen Cole (back to camera) prays with others at the regular noon Mass at the Cathedral… (TOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer) Each November, when Sister Helen Cole starts planning her annual candlelight vigil to remember Camden's homicide victims, she starts with the latest death and works backward, setting aside an hour for each person. She mails letters of invitation to victims' relatives and hopes the death toll doesn't rise. But each year, a handful of people are killed after the vigil is planned. Last year, a 31-year-old man was killed during the final day of the vigil, and he was remembered, too, sharing an hour with another victim. This year, seven more homicide victims, including a popular Cramer Hill grocer, will share the 42d hour of the three-day vigil with 39-year-old Tara Ryan of Woodbury, found fatally shot in a car with another victim on Nov. 11. On Thursday, Cole lighted t...

Steven Brigham and Nicola Riley are awaiting extradition hearings to bring them back to Maryland, police said. The doctors were arrested earlier this week in New Jersey and Utah They face five counts of first-degree manslaughter and five of second-degree manslaughter A prosecutor says the charges stem from abortions on viable, late-term fetuses Elkton, Maryland (CNN) -- Two Maryland doctors face manslaughter charges related to abortions performed on late-term fetuses that were viable, authorities said Friday. Steven Brigham and Nicola Riley are in jails in New Jersey and Utah, respectively, awaiting extradition hearings to bring them back to Maryland, police in Elkton, Maryland, said in a news release. The two face identical charges -- five counts each of first-degree manslaughter, five of second-degree manslaughter and one of conspiracy to commit first-degree manslaughter. The cases did not fall into the exceptions for aborted fetuses under Maryland law, Kerwin Mille...

Two people charged with manslaughter after two sisters were killed in a horror crash on Christmas day have appeared in Tauranga District Court this morning. The pair have been charged with two counts of manslaughter over the deaths of Merepeka Morehu Clark, 14, and Brooklyn Morehu Clark, 13. The sisters died after they were struck by a car on Welcome Bay Rd last Sunday. An Auckland man had also been charged. He faced two charges of manslaughter. The man, 20, who had name suppression, appeared in Tauranga District Court earlier this week. He was remanded in custody and would reappear next week. - © Fairfax NZ News Email Facebook MySpace Digg StumbleUpon Delicious Reddit Linkedin Read More @ Source Canvas Print, Manslaughter - 20x30 Image Title: Manslaughter Canvas Print stretched over wood frame, 20x30 inches. Proudly made in the USA by skilled American labor. FREE SHIPPING when you buy 2 or more Canvas Prints from ClassicPix. See more details be...

Posted at 12:07 PM ET, 12/31/2011 District homicide detectives are investigating the death of an unidentified man found near a creek under the pathway in the 4200 block of Hunt Place NE. Police spokesman Araz Alali said the man was found shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday. Alali said the cause of death has not been determined, but "it is a homicide." There were no further details available. By Ovetta Wiggins  |  12:07 PM ET, 12/31/2011 Previous: Loudoun hotel employee robbed Next: FBI seeking "Dapper Bandit" in bank robberies Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Two doctors have been charged with murder after an investigation into a botched abortion uncovered 35 fetuses in a Maryland clinic's freezer, authorities said on Friday, calling the case the first of its kind. The doctors, Steven Chase Brigham , 55, and Nicola Irene Riley , 46, were both arrested on fugitive warrants on Wednesday, police in Elkton, Maryland said. "They have been indicted based upon a fetal homicide statute. This is probably the first case that Maryland has ever seen with this factual scenario using this statute. It's a unique situation," Maryland State Attorney Ellis Rollins told Reuters in an interview. Brigham was arrested on Wednesday in Voorhees, New Jersey, according to a statement by the Elkton Police Department . Riley was arrested at her home in Salt Lake City without incident, according to Lt. Justin Hoyal, spokesman for the Unified Police of Greater Salt Lake. Prosecutors were expected to seek their extraditio...

PICKENS — A sensational homicide case and the closing of one of Pickens County's oldest textile mills happened in 2011, a year that saw school district budget problems and the expansion of high-tech automotive manufacturing facilities. It was a year when veterans were honored in spectacular fashion at Clemson University, the city of Clemson banned texting while driving and a university president retired. Susan Hendricks, 48, was charged with murder in the deaths of four of her family members. Authorities said it is believed the four were killed for life insurance money. Hendricks' ex-husband Mark Hendricks, her sons Matthew and Marshall and their stepgrandmother Linda Burns were killed. All the victims were found dead on property that Hendricks shared with her family members. Alliance Pickens, in conjunction with the South Carolina Department of Commerce, made public in the last six months of 2011 that several high-tech manufacturing companies plan to locate in the county...

NBCPhiladelphia.com advertisement As 2011 comes to a close, the city of Philadelphia finds itself at the top of a disturbing list. This year the city has the highest homicide rate of the nation's 10 most populous cities, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. A total of 324 homicides occurred in Philadelphia in 2011 as of Wednesday, compared to 306 last year. The city also has a murder rate per 100,000 population of 20.7, the highest of America's 10 largest cities. The homicide total includes the eight alleged victims of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell who died in previous years but are counted in 2011. The Daily News also reports however that the murder rates for smaller cities such as New Orleans, St. Louis and Detroit are higher than Philly's. Philadelphia Homicide Totals 2001 309 2002 288 2003 348 2004 330 2005 380 2006 406 2007 392 2008 333 2009 302 2010 306 2011 324 Murder rate per 100,000 population, 10 largest U.S. cities ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder, an unusual use of a law that allows for murder charges in the death of a viable fetus. Dr. Steven Brigham , of Voorhees, N.J., was taken into custody Wednesday night and is being held in the Camden County jail, according to police in Elkton, Md. Authorities also arrested Dr. Nicola Riley in Salt Lake City and she is in jail in Utah. Each is awaiting an extradition hearing. The two doctors were indicted by a grand jury after a 16-month investigation, police said. The investigation began in August 2010 after a botched procedure at Brigham's Elkton clinic. An 18-year-old woman who was 21 weeks pregnant had her uterus ruptured and her bowel injured, and rather than call 911, Brigham and Riley drove her to a nearby hospital, where both were uncooperative and Brigham refused to give his name, according to documents filed...

9:29 a.m. CST , December 30, 2011 MISHAWAKA, Ind. -- Police say they're investigating the death of an 84-year-old woman inside her northern Indiana home as a homicide. Officers found 84-year-old Lois Hickey at her Mishawaka home after a neighbor called Thursday to report a front window was broken open. County homicide unit Lt. David Wells tells the South Bend Tribune it appears someone forced their way into the house and that Hickey might have been dead for more than a day. Roy Housan tells WNDU-TV that his wife saw the broken window and yelled into Hickey's house but got no response. He says Hickey lived alone and hadn't been seen for a few days. Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

Staff report 12:09 p.m. CST , December 29, 2011 A Woodstock man was charged with involuntary homicide in what appears to have been an accidental shooting Wednesday evening, McHenry County sheriff's police said. Maxwell Cannon, 21, of the 1200 block of Club Road, also was charged with reckless discharge of a firearm. Cannon had taken the magazine out of his gun, not realizing there was still a bullet in the chamber when he pointed the weapon at an acquaintance and fired, said Undersheriff Andrew Zinke. Police said the shooting occurred shortly before 8:40 p.m. at a residence in the 1900 block of Woodlawn Park Avenue in unincorporated McHenry County. The victim was identified by the coroner's office as Anthony Kloeckner, 19, of McHenry, who was pronounced dead at Centegra McHenry Hospital at 9:25 p.m. Other people were present at the time, police said. Read More @ Source SPIDERDUB6: Manslaughter a serious crime Video Rating: ...

Each November, when Sister Helen Cole starts planning her annual candlelight vigil to remember Camden's homicide victims, she starts with the latest death and works backward, setting aside an hour for each person. She mails letters of invitation to victims' relatives and hopes the death toll doesn't rise. But each year, a handful of people are killed after the vigil is planned. Last year, a 31-year-old man was killed during the final day of the vigil, and he was remembered, too, sharing an hour with another victim. This year, seven more homicide victims, including a popular Cramer Hill grocer, will share the 42d hour of the three-day vigil with 39-year-old Tara Ryan of Woodbury, found fatally shot in a car with another victim on Nov. 11. On Thursday, Cole lighted the first of 16 votive candles at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Market Street in Camden in memory of the first group of this year's 49 homicide victims - the tally as of Thursday evening. S...

(Reuters) - A Louisiana appeals court this week upheld the 2009 murder conviction of Corey Miller , the rap artist who recorded and performed under the name C-Murder. Miller was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison two years ago for the 2002 killing of a 16-year-old fan at a nightclub in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana . Miller appealed the verdict, saying he had been denied a fair trial because the judge had allowed prosecutors to share "prejudicial and unsubstantiated" testimony with the jurors, including claims that Miller had threatened witnesses in the case. Miller also alleged that prosecutors "systematically eliminated black people from the jury" and that the judge should have declared a mistrial when the jury indicated at one point that it was could not reach a verdict. The deadlock was eventually broken and 10 members of the 12-person jury convicted Miller of second degree murder . On Wednesday, a three-judge appeals court ...

COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. -- The 2011 homicide rate in the state of California was down almost 8 percent, according to the California Department of Justice, but locally, the Coachella Valley homicide rate rose, authorities said.Several cases remain unsolved.There is no clear indication as to why there was an increase in homicides, authorities said.This year, the homicide rate has increased more than 25 percent in the Coachella Valley.So far in 2011, there have been four homicides in Cathedral City and four in Desert Hot Springs -- three of those unsolved.There have been two in Palm Springs and five in Indio -- two of them unsolved.The Riverside County Sheriff's Department also investigated the cases of 10 homicide victims in unicorporated county areas for a total of 25.By comparison, last year in Cathedral City, there were three homicides, three in Desert Hot Springs, one in Palm Springs, seven in Indio and six victims of a homicide investigated by the Sheriff's Department for...

Each November, when Sister Helen Cole starts planning her annual candlelight vigil to remember Camden's homicide victims, she starts with the latest death and works backward, setting aside an hour for each person. She mails letters of invitation to victims' relatives and hopes the death toll doesn't rise. But each year, a handful of people are killed after the vigil is planned. Last year, a 31-year-old man was killed during the final day of the vigil, and he was remembered, too, sharing an hour with another victim. This year, seven more homicide victims, including a popular Cramer Hill grocer, will share the 43d hour of the three-day vigil with 39-year-old Tara Ryan of Woodbury, found fatally shot in a car with another victim on Nov. 11. On Thursday, Cole lighted the first of 16 votive candles at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Market Street in Camden in memory of the first group of this year's 49 homicide victims - the tally as of Thursday evening. Si...

WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia officials say the city is on course to record the lowest homicide rate in nearly half a century. The decline mirrors a nationwide trend of falling rates in major American cities . But it's startling in a city that was ravaged by the crack epidemic two decades ago and where homicides totaled 479 in 1991. There were 108 homicides as of Thursday. He says the number hasn't been that low since the early 1960s. D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray told The Associated Press on Thursday that people feel safer in the city. He attributes the continued declines in part to community policing and to strong leadership in the traditionally more violent neighborhoods of southeast Washington. Gray and Police Chief Cathy Lanier plan to announce the progress at a news conference Friday. Read More @ Source Justifiable Homicide 3 - The Plan to Depopulate 3rd World/Darker Nations Justifiable Homicide: Black Youth in Peril Pt. 2-...

NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana appeals court has upheld the murder conviction and life sentence for rapper C-Murder. C-Murder, whose real name is Corey Miller, was convicted of shooting a teenager to death in 2002. (Alex Brandon, file/Associated Press) - FILE - This Aug. 16 file photo shows Rapper Corey Miller, who once went by the stage name of C-Murder, in New Orleans. A Louisiana appeals court has upheld the murder conviction and life imprisonment sentence of rapper Corey "C-Murder" Miller for a teenager's 2002 shooting death. A three-judge panel from the state's 5th Circuit Court of Appeal on Wednesday rejected Miller's argument that he didn't get a fair trial. In 2009, a jury convicted Miller of second-degree murder for shooting 16-year-old Steve Thomas during a confrontation at a nightclub. Miller claims the judge who presided over his trial allowed jurors to hear prejudicial and unsubstantiated testimony that he threatened witnesses to the sh...

TULSA - Homicide investigators say two men involved in a fatal shooting of a convenience store employee may have robbed another store four days earlier. Peggy Gaytan, 55, was shot dead by a masked man Dec. 22 at a Shell gas station near 36th and South Harvard. Authorities say the two men may have intended to only rob the store, but one of the suspects instead shot Gaytan from point blank range.   Two masked men wearing similar clothing and shoes robbed a Ryan's convenience store near 21st and South Garnett Dec. 18. No one was hurt in the Dec. 18 robbery. Investigators say  the men involved have likely spoken about the incident. "We are confident that this heinous crime so close to Christmas will be solved by someone that has been told about this crime from one or both of the suspects," said Sgt. Dave Walker with the Tulsa Police Department. Police describe the shooter involved in Gaytan's murder as a white man, between 19 and 23 years old, about 5 feet 8 inch...

Barthelemy Dias , a leading member of Senegal's socialist opposition involved in clashes last week in which a man was killed, was detained and charged with murder Wednesday, his lawyers told AFP. Dias, who supporters say, was defending himself from an attack by backers of President Abdoulaye Wade , was also charged with assault and illegal possession of a firearm over the incident in Dakar on December 22. Dias' bodyguard has also been detained and charged with complicity in the killing, said Boussa Bocar Thiam , one of the two men's lawyers. The socialist party said the clashes happened after five vehicles packed with supporters of Wade converged on a local council building in Dakar. Earlier Wednesday, police were also holding two people suspected of having organised the attack on the building, one police source told AFP. But it was not clear if they too had been charged. One person died and three people were wounded in the clashes, said police. But the socialist p...

KERRY MCBRIDE, BLAIR ENSOR AND SARAH HARVEY A 20-year-old Aucklander will today appear in the Tauranga District Court facing manslaughter charges over the deaths of two teenage sisters in a car crash. Merepeka Morehu-Clark, 14, and Brooklyn Morehu-Clark, 13, both of Tauranga, died on Christmas day. They were passengers in a car driven by the 20-year-old that collided with a red Mitsubishi ute after overtaking another car. The sisters, who were on their way to visit their grandmother's grave when the accident happened, were not wearing seatbelts. Three hundred people mourned their deaths at Tahuwhakatiki (Romai) Marae yesterday, on the same road where they died. ''I told them to buckle up,'' grieving father Wiremu Clark told One News. ''Our children are the best things you can ever have. And I've lost two.'' The 20-year-old man was interviewed by police after being discharged from hospital in Tauranga and will face two counts of mans...

29 December 2011 Last updated at 04:39 ET Barthelemy Dias is his party's youth leader and a mayor of a district in the capital A leading member of Senegal's opposition Socialist Party has been arrested on murder charges after a man was shot dead during recent political clashes, his lawyers say. Barthelemy Dias says he fired his guns in self-defence after his office was attacked by ruling party activists. The death has raised tension ahead of February's presidential election. Senegal is normally seen as one of West Africa's most stable and democratic countries. It is the only country in the region never to have experienced a military coup. Mr Dias, PS youth leader and mayor of a district in the capital, Dakar, says his town hall came under attack from supporters of President Abdoulaye Wade's Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) on 22 December. Video of him repeatedly firing two pistols has been widely aired in the Senegalese media. "Barthelemy Dias h...