The people we spoke with out in Ahwatukee didn’t seem surprised that a teenager would do something so stupid and so very dangerous.

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The paperwork, filed with the Seminole County clerk as closing time approached, included a list of witnesses the state plans to call and identified several pieces of the evidence prosecutors expect to use to support a second-degree murder charge in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

Late Monday, Zimmerman attorney Mark O’Mara confirmed he had received the evidence at his office. It consists of dozens of CDs and “numerous” paper documents.

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Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, is to be charged over allegations that she tried to conceal evidence from detectives investigating phone hacking and alleged bribes to public officials.

Brooks, one of the most high-profile figures in the newspaper industry, will be charged later on Tuesday with three counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in July last year at the height of the police investigation, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced.

She is accused of conspiring with others, including her husband, Charlie Brooks, the racehorse trainer and friend of the prime minister, and her personal assistant, to conceal material from detectives.

Brooks and her husband were informed of the charging decision – the first since the start of the Operation Weeting phone-hacking investigation last January – when they answered their bail at a police station in London on Tuesday morning.

They are among six individuals from News International, along with the company’s head of security, Mark Hanna, to be charged over allegations that they removed material, documents and computers to hide them from officers investigating phone hacking. The

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North Carolina is the last state in the South to add such an amendment, and supporters hoped for a resounding victory.

Incomplete returns show the amendment up 61.05 percent to 38.95 percent.

Primary turnout was heavy. Though there were many other races on the ballot, including primaries for statewide offices and congressional seats, the amendment appeared to drive much of the political discussion.

Marriage rights for gay couples has been a topic of national debate this year, and North Carolinas amendment and the campaigns for and against it drew international attention.

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But that changed Tuesday as the law firm began laying off associates with one week of notice in a conference room meeting, reports the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. The article relies on information from an unidentified lawyer who attended the meeting and says other such meetings were expected later in the day.

We are pretty happy to have some closure instead of this drip torture, one associate told the blog. It says the terminated associates’ last day at the firm will be May 15.

An Above the Law post, based on anonymous tips, says those laid off were told associates will not get paid after May 15 and will get no severance.

The Lawyer reports that Dewey associates in London were told at a Tuesday lunch meeting they may not get paid after May 31.

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Both people were taken to OU Medical Center. The driver of the minivan is “very critical,” Patty said, and the SUV driver’s injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.

Alcohol is thought to have played a factor in the crash, she said.

The pair, named locally as Suzanne Jones and her son William, were declared dead at the scene at an address in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, on Friday night.

North Wales police said a local man had been charged with the murders following a “domestic-related incident”.

A spokesman for the force did not name the man. Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the inquiry.

No formal identification of the bodies has been made and a major incident room has been set up.

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Police executed a search warrant a the home of 28-year-old Matthew Flandera. They say they took computer related items and some contained child pornography. Flandera was charged with three counts of possession of sexual performance by a child. He was also charged with three counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child.

Flandera was arraigned and taken to the Justice Center in lieu of $25,000 cash/$30,000 bond.

The investigation is continuing and police say additional charges may be pending.

Plenty of bigger towns and cities in Britain would love to have Bristol’s problems. Medieval tax records suggest it was up there with Norwich and York as one of the richest places in the country outside London. Tobacco and the slave trade have since come and gone. But the ancient port still thrives, along with high-end engineering, aerospace, a strong financial services sector and creative industries whose global superstars, Wallace and Gromit, were named-checked in George Osborne’s budget.

It’s still rich – and looks good despite its relatively mild recession, beating Zurich and Antwerp to a “best small city of the future” prize only last week. S

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The victim, an Intervention Specialist for Duval County Public Schools, ran into a classroom with another employee to calm a disturbance, according to a police report.

According to the victim, Ezekial Dequan Scott was causing the disturbance, and the victim tried to speak with him about his behavior.

That’s when Scott poked him in the right eye with his finger, then attempted to punch him in the face but missed.

The two employees then attempted to subdue Scott.

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Robert George Arcieri was also sentenced to five years of probation.

In 1987 — he was about to be arrested for a murder-for-hire scheme.

So he faked his own drowning in the Colorado River.

A tip recently brought police to Palm Springs, where they found him living under an assumed name.