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Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 6:18 am

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Breakfast reading from the Village Voice Empire: Hoggan and a pal allegedly wanted to explode a device during a school assembly to maximize the body count. On his "Heil Hoggan" Twitter account, he wrote, "I know I'm a fuck up, but I didn't know I was that bad." Westword has the story.

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Friday, October 21, 2011 at 6:01 am

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Breakfast reading from the Village Voice Empire: Houston-area investigators think they may have arrested a modern Jack the Ripper. Steven A. Hobbs is facing charges ranging from murder to assault involving a half-dozen women; cops say they will check into the deaths of 15 others, mostly prostitutes. Hobbs was a security guard who studied to become a cop.DESCRIPTION GOES HERE. THREE LINES ONLY. Houston Press has the story.

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Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 2:30 pm

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Afternoon reading from the Village Voice Empire: Seventeen years before 9/11, the terrorist was a 19-year-old engineering student in N.C. who found most Americans to be "debauched and racist." He also had a police record. Seattle Weekly has the exclusive.

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Monday, September 12, 2011 at 6:00 am

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Breakfast reading from the Village Voice Empire: ​Of all the brutal and shocking crime stories we've reported this year there's no doubt that this was among the most heinous. Seattle Weekly has the story.

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Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 10:35 am
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UPDATE: Michael Hance may have been a kook, but he was a kook with very good aim. Police say nearly all of his victims died quickly after being shot at close range in the head, according to the initial autopsy results. See update after the jump...

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Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 7:04 pm

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Bedtime reading from the Village Voice Empire: The convicted sex offender is accused of stabbing his wife, then stabbing two of the couple's four children to death, before setting their house on fire, killing the remaining two kids. Seattle Weekly has the story.

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Monday, August 8, 2011 at 6:58 am
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They called themselves "Day Zero," an unoriginal name for three unoriginal punks. The 15-year-old boys had spent the summer planning in detail for their first day of school at Lakeshore High in Mandeville, Louisiana. That morning, they would enter the school heavily armed...

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Monday, July 18, 2011 at 5:09 am
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Reader Moet responds to Susan Smith Kills Her Children to Win Back Small Town's Most Eligible Bachelor. She says Findlay was only using Smith for convenient sex. Had he been honest, she would have known she had no chance of becoming his wife...

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Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 9:14 am
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UPDATE: This story just gets sadder. It seems Nadia Braxton may have killed herself and her three kids because they were about to lose their house to foreclosure. The bank had already begun proceedings to sell the house at auction. See update after the jump...

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Monday, July 11, 2011 at 8:02 am
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Wheatland, Wyoming is a mellow ag town, population 3,600, located about 70 miles north of Cheyenne. Here, the sight of American flags flapping in the Great Plains' wind is commonplace. It's where sleepy quiet is a way-of-life. And it's where Everett Conant III called home...

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