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Homicides and overall violent crime are down in Prince George’s County this year, despite an increase in rapes and carjackings, new statistics show.

Montgomery County investigators filed more bomb-related charges against an 18-year-old Bethesda youth yesterday, saying he had tested different types of pipe bombs in a field in Gaithersburg.

AP - The mother of two children whose bodies were found stuffed in trash bags under an apartment building pleaded guilty to capital murder Thursday, just before her trial was set to begin.

Reuters - Republican Sen. Ted Stevens pleaded
not guilty on Thursday to charges of concealing more than
$250,000 in gifts from an oil services company, and he will get
a chance to clear his name at trial before the November
election.

A suburban Kansas City man was found guilty Thursday of murder in the videotaped sexual torture and slaying of a 41-year-old woman. He could be sentenced to death.

A person in custody in connection with a homicide early today after a woman’s body was found on fire inside a house near downtown San Jose.

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A man was arrested Thursday after he allegedly claimed in hoax Internet videos that he had poisoned millions of bottles of baby food because he wanted to kill black and Hispanic children.

AP - The judge in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping case ordered a man to be brought to court with a recording that may contradict sworn testimony from a key witness against Simpson.

AP - A judge denied bond Thursday for a part-time evangelist charged with murder in the death of his wife, a mother of eight whose body was kept in a freezer for at least three years.

Four social workers were among nine people charged Thursday in the death of a disabled 14-year-old girl who authorities say wasted away from neglect before dying at 42 pounds.