Word: arresting
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...Simpson pal Al Cowlings, who drove the football star on his odyssey through the L.A. Basin before O.J.'s arrest on June 17, will not be charged, L.A. officials declared. But he still has to appear in court Friday. Also today, a Baltimore lab began DNA tests on the blood samples gathered at O.J. Simpson's estate and at the scene where his wife and her friend were murdered. Despite last-minute wrangling over a judge's decision, O.J. Simpson's attorneys agreed to accept only a small percentage of the prosecution's blood samples to test on their...
Media magnate and new Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi edged closer to being implicated in a corruption scandal when prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for his brother. Paolo Berlusconi, who ran several of his sibling's companies, has been charged with bribing financial regulators. He's since vanished, with police now negotiating with his attorney for his surrender. This isn't the first embarrassment for the new government of Prime Minister Berlusconi, who himself has been trying to soften his party's ultranationalist edges. In a country plagued by political and financial scandal, will this latest news tarnish the Teflon...
...researchers that the right interventions can prevent such dreadful outcomes. "If you can have an impact with these kids, you can change whether they go to jail or to Harvard Law School," says psychologist James Swanson at the University of California at Irvine, who co-authored the study of arrest histories. And yet, despite decades of research, no one is certain exactly what the optimal intervention should...
...suspect started running and was uncatchableto a cop in a car. But the police on bikes wereable to chase the suspect and arrest him on theother side of the park...
Disturbingly, the very pieces of paper designed to protect women -- divorce decrees, arrest warrants, court orders of protection -- are often read by enraged men as a license to kill. "A restraining order is a way of getting killed faster," warns Dietz. "Someone who is truly dangerous will see this as an extreme denial of what he's entitled to, his God-given right." That slip of paper, which documents his loss, may be interpreted by the man as a threat to his own life. "In a last-ditch, nihilistic act," says Roland Maiuro, director of Seattle's Harborview Anger Management...