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...million last year. Such news heartens Baltimore residents, who sometimes jokingly call themselves Balti-morons for living in a city so grim it inspired NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street series. Drug use and crime in general are down, although O'Malley has only slightly dented the murder rate, which is five times New York...
...years at city hall, Daley, 62, has presided over the city's transition from graying hub to vibrant boomtown, with a newly renovated football stadium, an ebbing murder rate, a new downtown park, a noticeable expansion of green space and a skyline thick with construction cranes. As federal and state dollars flowing to the city have dried up, he has used his influence to persuade corporations and the wealthy to kick in for big-ticket attractions, like the $475 million Millennium Park, nearly half of which was paid for by private donations...
There was no such delay for Florida volunteer Glen Ocha, 47, who was put to death earlier this month for a 1999 murder. While on death row, Ocha fired his lawyer and tried to change his legal name to Raven Raven. Of the last 12 criminals executed in Florida, eight were volunteers...
...CONVICTION OVERTURNED. FOR SHE XIANGLIN, 39, former security guard who spent the past 11 years in prison for the murder of his wife, Zhang Zaiyu; following the revelation that Zhang was still alive; in Jingmen, China. After his wife's disappearance in 1994 and the discovery of an unidentified woman's body in a reservoir near their home, investigators apprehended She, who said upon his release that he confessed to his wife's murder after being beaten and deprived of sleep during a 10-day interrogation. Zhang resurfaced in her hometown last month after a decade spent living in another...
...disposable-diaper factory, Afula is an unlikely setting for an outpouring of political protest. But last week, as a crowd of 5,000 gathered to mourn the death of a local resident named Albert Bukhris, the town became a focal point of anti-Arab feelings aroused by the murder of 17 Israelis over the past 15 months...