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...extensive work of one Texas dog handler whose use of scent-ID techniques is under fire in the federal courts. At the heart of the study is the work of Deputy Keith Pikett, a canine officer with the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office, just southwest of Houston. The first case studied involves Calvin Lee Miller, who was charged with robbery and sexual assault after Pikett's bloodhounds alerted police to a scent on sheets that Pikett said matched a scent swipe from Miller's cheek. DNA evidence later cleared Miller, but only after he served 62 days in jail...
When members of three law-enforcement agencies made a surprise search of the Houston medical practice of Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray on July 22, it marked a dramatic turn in the inquiry into the pop star's death: the first official mention of a possible manslaughter investigation...
...combined force of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency along with two robbery-homicide detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department and Houston Police officers conducted a three-hour search of Murray's office after producing a search warrant, DEA officials and Murray's lawyer confirmed. (Read "Jackson's Death: How Culpable Are the Doctors...
Cronkite loved the news business, plain not fancy. He began as a teenage stringer for Houston newspapers and then made his way into radio before being hired by the United Press, the spunky cousin of the Associated Press. During World War II, Walter was UP's man in London, a colleague of the legendary Homer Bigart of the New York Herald Tribune, later of the New York Times; Andy Rooney, then with Stars and Stripes; and Ed Murrow, the incomparable voice of CBS News. Murrow was stunned when Cronkite turned down an offer to become one of Murrow's Boys...
...books out there about exonerated prisoners hadn't told the whole story. So we started a program called Voices of Witness, and the first book we put out was about exonerated prisoners. Then Katrina hit and that became the subject of our second book. We sent volunteers to Houston and Knoxville and New Orleans to interview people about their stories. Zeitoun was one of them...