Law_Crime

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Indian women carrying signs demanding “Justice” and “Respect” march to the Mahatma Gandhi memorial in New Delhi on Wednesday to demand change in the way crimes against women are treated. The march was part of the reaction to the Dec. 16 gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old university student on a bus. A petition to be considered Thursday asks that legislators charged with crimes against women be suspended. (Associated Press)

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Following the lead of two of its rental car competitors, Enterprise and Hertz, both of which already offer car-sharing services, Avis announced Wednesday that is buying Zipcar for about $491 million. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Nov. 28, 2012, photo, a worker constructs a home in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

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Venjah Hunte was one of five people charged in connection with Redskins safety Sean Taylor's murder. (Miami-Dade Corrections)

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James Holmes faces multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the July 20 Colorado theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., and hasn't yet entered a plea. (AP Photo/Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office)

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A wounded man is pulled from the site of a Syrian government airstrike on a gas station in the eastern Damascus suburb of Mleiha, Syria, on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. This citizen-journalist image was taken from video that was authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

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** FILE ** In this Dec. 18, 2012, file photo, a school bus rolls toward a memorial in Newtown, Conn., for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Nearly three weeks after the shooting rampage, classes are starting Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, for the Sandy Hook students at a repurposed school in the neighboring town of Monroe, where the students' desks have been taken along with backpacks and other belongings that were left behind in the chaos following the shooting on Dec. 14. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

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Indian women carry placards and banners as they offer prayers for a gang rape victim, at Mahatma Gandhi memorial, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

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Pakistani men, chant prayers, during the funeral procession of aid worker Lubna Mahmoud, 26, who was killed on Tuesday, by gunmen, in Swabi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)