Peninsula crime articles
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Crime Alert Berks Crime of Week 4/28/24: Exeter police seek shoplifting suspects
Exeter Township police are seeking to identify two people who have been shoplifting in the area, including the Giant store on Perkiomen Avenue in the township.
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Concord Man Sentenced For Hate Crimes
A North Carolina man was sentenced to 41 months in prison on federal hate crime charges in two separate incidents about a year apart.
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The "Twinkie defense": What we know about diet and crime
In 1978, Dan White murdered San Francisco city Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. Of this, there was no doubt. White had turned himself in, then tearfully and remorsefully confessed to shooting each of the men — his former colleagues — multiple times. At White’s 1979 trial, the only question was how stiff his penalty would be. White’s lawyers ran a skillful defense during the court proceedings. They claimed that their client’s mental capacity was diminished by stress and severe...