On January 20, 2010, a Cleveland, Ohio, woman pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter following the death of her boyfriend.

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Crystal Mangum, the woman who set off a huge scandal when she lied and accused the Duke University lacrosse team of raping her, was arrested yesterday on several charges, including attempted murder and arson.

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Michael A Butler, 30, of Loris, South Carolina, was arrested Tuesday in connection to a fatal, three-vehicle crash. He is charged with felony driving under the influence.

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"There's a small hole that you [can] squeeze your way through in the [Osceola County Jail's] C-section with a butter knife," said a caller to an inmate in the Florida jail. The January call was recorded. The caller went on: "It looks like it's about three hours worth of work. If you do a half hour a day ... [for] six days and then you can push your way through because a rat already started making the hole."

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Arrested on February 27th for kidnapping and robbery, Darrell Smith decided to forgo his hearing on Monday, March 1st. He claimed he was sick and needed to go back to jail. On the way back to jail, however, he made a break for freedom, deputies say.

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By all accounts, Robert Shannon, 35, of Hammond, Ind., is an all-around great guy. His mother says she raised him to lend a hand to anyone who needed it. A friend says Shannon checks on him regularly. "He does that," Patrick Derkacy said. "He gets my groceries."

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A nursing student at Husson University in Bangor, Maine, was afraid of her estranged husband, and took out a restraining order against him to keep him away. University officials warned the man -- Horst Wolk, 45 -- that he was not welcome on University property and would be charged with criminal trespass if he entered their property.

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Charles J. Clements, 69, was proud of the lawn in front of his University Park, Ill., house. He even won the town's "beautification and lawn upkeep award". But he was known to threaten people who stepped upon his pride and joy.

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This gent is Eduardo Ibarra Perez, 29, and he's on the "Most Wanted List" issued by the Los Angeles, Calif., Police Dept. He is a suspect in a murder.

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A domestic dispute on June 17 led police to discover and solve a murder they didn't even know had been committed. And we've met the suspects before!

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Brian Downing, 50, allegedly stabbed a man in what appears to investigators to be a jealous rage.

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Police in Steubenville, Ohio, released a "composite sketch" of a murder suspect there.

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