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Police made two more arrests Friday in the MGM Grand group beating case, after a massive late-night SWAT raid at the home of the first teen charged in the attack. Demarcus Smith, 18, and a teenager whose name was not released because he is a juvenile were taken into custody shortly after midnight, Las Vegas police said. Smith remained jailed at the Clark County Detention Center late Friday.

IMETTE: I BLAME SOCIETY & NOT KILLERS By HEATHER GILMORE Imette St. Guillen wrote about murder 15 days before she died. April 9, 2006 -- Just 15 days before she was brutally slain, Imette St. Guillen wrote of her compassion and understanding for juvenile killers - blaming poor education and rising unemployment for a troubling rise in homicide in Boston, her hometown. "I strongly believe that the reason for the increase in juvenile homicide in Boston during the past 15 years stems not from criminal justice policies and programs but from a lack of job opportunities for young people, a...