Law_Crime

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Job-seekers wait to talk with potential employers at a job fair sponsored by National Career Fairs in New York on Monday, Dec. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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Potomac Heritage Homes has completed construction on a six-bedroom home at 8703 Irvington Ave. in Bethesda's Bradmoor section. The home is on the market for $1,695,000.

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Nooses hang in the replica of the gallows at Pretoria Central Prison. In background are plaques to those political prisoners who were executed. A prison employee who said he had been a death row guard helped ensure the new museum's details are correct, down to the thickness of the ropes.

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Houston quarterback Case Keenum will end his college career as the leading passer in NCAA history, but he's not considered a starter on the NFL level. (Associated Press)

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Washington Wizards' JaVale McGee(34) goes for a score against the Philadelphia 76ers in the second half of a preseason NBA game Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, in Philadelphia. The 76er's won 101-94. (AP Photo/H. Rumph Jr )

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Washington Wizards' Shelvin Mack (22) Ronny Turiaf and Roger Mason Jr defend as Philadelphia 76ers' Spencer Hawes (00) looks to pass in the first half of a preseason NBA game Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/H. Rumph Jr )

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George Mason senior guard Andre Cornelius was suspended 10 games for pleading guilty to misdemeanor credit card fraud in November. (Associated Press)

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Kevin Harpham has pleaded guilty in connection with a plan to detonate a bomb at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane, Wash., on Jan. 17. (Associated Press)

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In this film image released by Sony Pictures, Rooney Mara is shown in a scene from "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo." (AP Photo/Sony, Columbia Pictures, Merrick Morton)

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This Dec. 27, 2010 photo released by the Madison County Sheriffs Department shows Amber Portwood, Prosecutors in central Indiana have filed felony domestic battery and child neglect charges against the star of the MTV reality show "Teen Mom." (AP Photo/Madison County Sheriffs Department) Amber: Madison County Sheriff Ron Richardson has confirmed that Amber L Portwood has been booked into the Madison County Detention Center. Portwood was processed at approximately 4:21pm Mondat, her charges are as follows: Domestic Battery a Class D Felony, Ct-2 Domestic Battery a Class D Felony, Ct-3 Domestic Battery a Class A Misdemeanor and Ct-4 Neglect of a Dependent a Class D Felony. Bond $5,000.00. According to Sheriff Richardson Portwood's Bond has already been posted, but she will remain incarcerated in a holding area until she is eligible for release in twenty four hours.

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** FILE ** This Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, file booking photo provided by the Sudbury, Mass., Police Department shows Tarek Mehanna, of Sudbury, after he was arrested and charged with conspiring to plot terror attacks. The jury found him guilty, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, on four terror-related charges and three charges of lying to authorities after deliberating for about 10 hours. (AP Photo/Sudbury Police Department, File)

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Thomas Horn plays an 11-year-old boy whose father died on Sept. 11 in director Stephen Daldry's new Warner Bros. Pictures drama, "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close." (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted from a security vehicle to a courthouse at Fort Meade, Md., on Dec. 19, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Women collapse in tears as North Koreans gather on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, in Pyongyang, North Korea, after learning of the death of their leader, Kim Jong-il. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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Jerome Isaac is led out of the 77th Precinct in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011, following his arrest in the death of a woman set afire in an elevator. Isaac told police he set 73-year-old Deloris Gillespie on fire because he was angry that she owed him $2,000, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)

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Kathleen Casey looks for a job in Cambridge, Mass. A case of mistaken identity landed Miss Casey on the streets without a job or a home. The company hired to run her background check for a potential employer mistakenly found the wrong Kathleen Casey, who lived nearby but was 18 years younger and had a criminal record. (Associated Press)

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This Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, surveillance photo provided by the New York Police Department shows a suspect wanted in connection with a homicide in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A woman burned to death in the elevator of her Brooklyn apartment building Saturday afternoon after a man ambushed her, sprayed her with liquid and set her afire with a Molotov cocktail, police said. (AP Photo/New York Police Department)

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FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2011, file photo, Chicago Bears wide receiver Sam Hurd watches teammates practice during NFL football training camp at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Ill. Hurd was in jail Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, after authorities accused him of trying to set up a drug distribution network in the Chicago area and arrested him after he allegedly agreed to buy a kilogram of cocaine from an undercover agent. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

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Colton Harris-Moore, right, also known as the "Barefoot Bandit," stands with his attorney, John Henry Browne, in Island County Superior Court, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, in Coupeville, Wash. Harris-Moore pleaded guilty Friday to burglary and theft charges in the Barefoot Bandit case. The 20-year-old softly answered affirmatively when the judge asked if he understood his rights. He said guilty when the judge asked how he wanted to plead. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)