Newly developed Cobain photos show suicide scene

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SEATTLE (AP) — Police say recently developed photos show the greenhouse room above a garage where grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain killed himself 20 years ago. The four rolls of crime scene photos were developed by a cold case detective in anticipation …
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Nebraska lawmakers advance prison reform bills

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The bill would increase funding for vocational training, mental health and substance abuse services. Lawmakers also advanced a bill that would study the creation of a facility in Hastings designed to serve mentally ill inmates and to provide drug and …
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Kentucky House panel OKs anti-heroin measure

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President Pro Tem Katie Stine, R-Covington, said the bill would allow courts to treat high-volume heroin trafficking charges as a homicide, and that the already-existing Agency for Substance Abuse Policy will be charged with educating and coordinating …
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Woman faces sentence for man-on-car murder

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A substance-abuse counselor who drove 2 miles through a Los Angeles suburb with a dying man on her windshield faces a maximum prison term of 45 years to life at her sentencing scheduled for Wednesday. A jury last month found …
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