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BEIJING (AP) -- Every workday at 7:20 a.m., colleagues pick up Yao Lifa from his second-floor apartment and drive him to the elementary school where he taught for years....

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia State Police said late Saturday they had found four bodies in a wooded area and believe they are those of a missing man, his girlfriend and his two young children.

Police said in a news release that the bodies were found about a mile ...

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- Campaign banners from an election that was violently interrupted still hang in the main thoroughfare of this steamy capital, a reminder that a stable government is far from the country's grasp....

A man in his 40s and a woman in her 30s are killed and several others injured in an accident at a motor rally in County Cavan.

Two rebel groups that seized northern Mali two months ago agree to merge and turn their territory into an Islamist state, both sides say.

Relying on a tip of men selling drugs in Cleveland, the officers approached defendant and he admitted smoking PCP earlier. That was reasonable suspicion to pat him down for officer safety. State v. Hunter, 2012 Ohio 2302, 2012 Ohio App. LEXIS 2023 (8th Dist. May 24, 2012)*:

[*P19] In our view, the record establishes that the officers proceeded to investigate the area in good faith reliance upon the tip of men selling drugs. During their conversation with the men, defendant was sluggish, appeared dazed and confused, and repeatedly failed to answer the officers' questions. Although the officers demanded that defendant take his hands from his pockets, the record demonstrates that as the officer took a few steps closer to defendant, he quickly detected the distinct odor of PCP from defendant. Defendant then told the officers that he had smoked PCP earlier, and this created a reasonable suspicion, based upon specific and articulable facts, that an individual is or has been engaged in criminal activity such to justify a search of defendant's outer clothing under Terry. Accord State v. Wilson, 8th Dist. No. 94097, 2010 Ohio 5478 (patdown permissible where officers detected odor of PCP); State v. Dunn, 8th Dist. No. 85435, 2005 Ohio 3477.

Hunter is here. What’s this gratuitous use of “good faith” for an encounter? Sloppy appellate court writing--completely unnecessary, and a prosecutor will later use this case to argue the good faith exception applies to warrantless searches.

The drink-drive limit in Scotland will be lowered "as a priority", the Scottish government has said

The co-chair of the Conservative Party is involved in a dispute over whether she paid rent while staying at a house in London, for which she claimed expenses.

Susanne Posel | Same agency that disseminates Agenda 21 policies will be centralized into global agency with powerful international backing.

The product of the wiretap in this case gave probable cause to believe that defendant had drugs in his car when he showed up as predicted. United States v. Carey, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72846 (S.D. Cal. May 24, 2012).*

A juvenile’s school photo ID was used in a photo lineup. He claimed an expectation of privacy in it, and the trial court granted a motion to suppress. Remanded for a determination of how all this came about because it can’t be determined whether there is a reasonable expectation of privacy on this record. “Such evidence might also help resolve whether the student identification card and photograph form part of the confidential ‘student record’ under State and Federal education regulations; if they are part of the student record, that fact would also bear on whether the juvenile had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the photograph.” Commonwealth v. Zachary Z., 2012 Mass. LEXIS 370 (May 24, 2012).*

The Afghan Taliban deny carrying out poison attacks on girls' schools, as 40 children are admitted to hospital in the latest incident.

By affidavit in response to the motion to suppress, the government showed that the drug dog was reliable and the motion to suppress is denied without a hearing. United States v. Sandoval, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72776 (E.D. Cal. May 24, 2012):

"Based upon [these undisputed facts], the Government has met its burden of proving [Darco's] reliability." United States v. Neatherlin, 66 F. Supp. 2d 1157, 1160-61 (D. Mont. 1999)(stating evidence that the narcotics detection dog trains eight hours every two weeks, is tested and certified annually, and does not alert where no drugs are present "shows, by a preponderance of the evidence, that [the dog] is reliable"); see also Spetz, 721 F.2d at 1464 (stating a "mistake in the affidavit [supporting a search warrant] as to [the narcotics detection dog's] record was unimportant because the difference in figures[, i.e. alerting correctly 56 out of 61 occasions versus 60 out of 66 occasions,] is immaterial and would not have affected the magistrate's judgment of the dog's reliability").

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tens of thousands of fans glistening with sunscreen and toting coolers filled with ice and water descended on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday for what could be the hottest Indianapolis 500 on record.

Temperatures were forecast to climb into the mid-90s during the afternoon's race, and ...

Lady Gaga canceled her concert in Indonesia, her management said Sunday, citing security concerns after Islamic hardliners denounced her costumes and dance moves as too risqué.

Philip Weiss | he Baghdad talks on Iranian nuclear enrichment have failed without an agreement.

Red Bull's Mark Webber wins the Monaco Grand Prix by half a second, making him the sixth driver in six races to win in 2012.

A family finds both fame and misfortune when they buy Madonna's home and try to sell it on eBay.

A man is arrested following the death of a driver who crashed into a tree in Leicester after a row with another motorist.

Wakefield faith school pupils may lose their access to free school transport as the city council looks to make savings.

A Nato air strike has killed eight members of a family in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia, according to local officials.