B.I.G. trouble at the Los Angeles Times - Two Times reporters covering the LAPD scandal named a suspect in the murder of rap star Biggie Smalls. Then a colleague's story said they were wrong. In a broad critique of capital punishment in Texas, a new report concludes that the state's death penalty system is in dire need of change because of problems like prosecutorial misconduct, racial bias, phony experts and inadequate lawyers for poor defendants. She is accused of the ultimate abuse of her power as a nurse killing four patients at a veterans hospital and trying to kill three others. A golfing buddy who testified that a San Antonio millionaire was responsible for arranging the 1997 murder of a mother of quadruplets has recanted his story.
Statistics say it is rare for a child to be abducted by a stranger in Canada.
Statistics show that violent crime against children is not on the rise. They sit alone before a room full of people and a stranger in a black robe, recounting the most traumatic events of their lives. Sometimes they have witnessed assault or murder. Other times, they are the victims of abuse or neglect. They are children, and they are asked to remember.