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Rapist sues police over car damage Niklas Lindgren, the 'Haga Man' rapist sentenced to 14 years imprisonment earlier this year for a series of brutal attacks in Umeå, is demanding compensation from police for damage caused to his car during their investigation. Police forensics experts cut up a seat belt in Lindgren's car as they searched for evidence linking him to the crimes, Västerbottens-kuriren reports. Traces of blood on the seat belt were believed to have come from a woman whom Lindgren attacked and raped. Instead of sending the whole car to the laboratory in Linköping, the police cut off...

Although Florida governor Jeb Bush has for all intents and purposes tossed in the towel in any eleventh-hour rescue of Terri Shiavo, at least one former legal advisor is admonishing the chief executive for not using the state's criminal laws as authority to intervene – without the need for family or judicial approval – and reinsert the hospice patient's feeding tube. Richard Thompson, the president and chief counsel of the Thomas Moore Law Center, says doing so would preserve the life of a material witness in a potential criminal case. The launching of a formal criminal investigation into possible abuse...

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(Brownsville, IN)--A gruesome discovery near Brownsville in Union County...The body of a missing woman was found late Wednesday afternoon in a wooded area off of Brownsville Road about a mile north of State Route 44. The body has already been identified as that of 20-year-old Julie Homick of Middleburg Heights, Ohio. Middleburg Heights is a suburb of Cleveland. A passer-by noticed the body lying not far from the East Fork of the Whitewater River. She was reported missing from the Cleveland area on February 2nd. Her abandoned car was found in Fayette County one day later. The Fayette County Sheriff's...