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A Phoenix woman is thankful to be alive after a neighbor came to her rescue and fatally shot her 29-year-old son as he was stabbing her in a meth-fueled rage. (KPHO/KTVK)
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Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden listens to a question as part of the NFC coaches' breakfast at the owners' meetings on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at the Arizona Biltmore hotel in Phoenix. (Zac Boyer/The Washington Times)
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Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden listens to a question as part of the NFC coaches' breakfast at the owners' meetings on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at the Arizona Biltmore hotel in Phoenix. (Zac Boyer/The Washington Times)
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Several legal analysts predicted that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, 28, who faces confinement for life if convicted, will receive a more lenient sentence in a plea deal to avoid a drawn-out trial that just provides more bad publicity for the Army after a year of media scrutiny on the conditions around Sgt. Bergdahl's disappearance in 2009. (Associated Press)
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Melanie Marie Toney, 52, faces felony assault charges after she allegedly threw an ignited Molotov cocktail toward a group of pro-life protesters outside a Planned Parenthood facility Monday night. (Austin Police Department via American-Statesman)
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Rep. Sean P. Duffy, Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the Financial Services subcommittee on oversight and investigations. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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In a Friday, March 20, 2015 photo, Tarrant County District Clerk Tom Wilder holds historical records concerning attempted legal action against Melvin Belli, Jack Ruby's defense attorney, stored in the Tarrant County District Clerk's office in Fort Worth, Texas. The nearly forgotten gem _ an old Tarrant County court file that included documents trying to prevent the late, famed attorney Melvin Belli from representing Jack Ruby, who shot Lee Harvey Oswald _ was recently unearthed . (AP Photo/Star-Telegram, Rodger Mallison) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST); INTERNET OUT
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Hillary Rodham Clinton's email practices are now becoming a legal headache for the Obama administration, which for the first time has admitted to a court that the former secretary of state withheld her emails. (Associated Press)
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Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo said that the purported rape victim declined to give a statement to investigators. (Associated Press)
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Construction workers gather outside the scene where a section of scaffolding collapsed at a high-rise construction project, killing three people and sending another to a hospital, Monday, March 23, 2015, in downtown Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Harry Lynch)
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FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2013, file photo, Debra Jean Milke listens to a judge during a hearing at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. A judge on Monday, March 23, 2015, dismissed the murder case against Milke, who spent more than 20 years on death row in the 1989 killing of her 4-year-old son. Judge Rosa Mroz ended the case after prosecutors lost their last appeal last week. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool, File)
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Former NFL football player Aaron Hernandez looks over his shoulder during his murder trial at Bristol County Superior Court, Monday, March 23, 2015, in Fall River, Mass. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to murder and weapons charges in the June 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, Dominick Reuter, Pool)
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Fatma Laabidi, mother of victim Yassine Laabidi, gestures as her son's coffin is transported from his home, in Jallez Cemetery, prior to his funeral, in Tunis, Sunday, March 22, 2015. The two extremist gunmen who killed 21 people at a museum in Tunis trained in neighboring Libya before caring out the deadly attack, a top Tunisian Security official said. (AP Photo/Salah Ben Mohamed)
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FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 9, 2015 file photo, former grand slam tennis doubles champion Bob Hewitt walks outside a court in Johannesburg, South Africa. A South African judge on Monday, March 23, 2015 convicted former Grand Slam doubles tennis champion Bob Hewitt of rape and sexual assault decades after the alleged assaults. (AP Photo, File)
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In addition to announcing proactive legal status for 4 million illegal immigrants, President Obama in November also ordered immigration agents not to bother deporting most of the rest of the illegal immigrant population and to focus only on serious criminals. (Associated Press)
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Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday granted pardons to 83 people. An announcement by Brown's office said that each person has been out of state prison for at least 10 years and leads a productive life with no new criminal convictions. Most of them had been convicted of drug and robbery cases. (Associated Press)
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In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech in a public gathering in the city of Mashhad, northeastern Iran, Saturday, March 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)
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Maryland's Jonathan Graham, back right, celebrates with teammates after an NCAA tournament college basketball game against Valparaiso in the Round of 64, Friday, March 20, 2015, in Columbus, Ohio. Maryland won 65-62. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
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FBI agents meet outside a portable command post in Port Gibson, Miss., as they continue their investigation into the circumstances surrounding the hanging death of Otis Byrd, an ex-convict reported missing by his family more than two weeks ago, Friday, March 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)
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This handout photo provided by the Prince George's County, Md., Police Department, taken June 14, 2012, shows Officer Jenchesky Santiago, center, welcomed to the department by Deputy Chief Administrative Officer for Public Safety Barry Stanton, left, and Police Chief Mark Magaw at the First Baptist Church of Glenarden Worship Center in Upper Marlboro, Md. Santiago has been indicted on assault charges after prosecutors say he held a gun to the head of a man who hadn't committed a crime. Police and prosecutors announced Friday that a grand jury indicted Prince George's County Officer Jenchesky Santiago on charges including first-degree assault and misconduct in office. He had been suspended with pay since police began investigating the incident last June, and now is been suspended without pay. (AP Photo/Prince George's County, Md., Police Department)
