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  • Zimmerman had broken nose A medical report by George Zimmerman's family doctor shows that the neighborhood watch volunteer was diagnosed with a fractured nose, two black eyes and two lacerations on the back of the head after the controversial killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
  • Prosecutors release evidence list Prosecutors released a summary of evidence Tuesday in the case against neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who is accused of second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin.
  • Judge: Zimmerman can keep money  George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of wrongly killing Trayvon Martin, will not immediately have to turn over the $204,000 in donations to his website, a Florida judge said Friday.
  • Defense rests in John Edwards trial No more witnesses will be called in John Edwards' corruption trial, including the former senator. Closing arguments are scheduled to begin tomorrow, and jury deliberations will likely begin on Friday.
  • Edwards legal team begins defense After weeks of hearing from prosecutors, jurors in the corruption trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards heard Monday from his defense team, which opened its case with testimony from a former financial officer.
  • Judge rejects motion to dismiss The federal judge presiding in the John Edwards corruption trial on Friday turned down a motion to dismiss the charges, setting the stage for the former presidential candidate to defend his case.
  • Attorney asks to postpone trial  An attorney for Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach charged last year with more than 50 counts involving sexual acts with minors, has asked for his client's June 5 trial be delayed in a motion filed Wednesday.
  • AG: Date of alleged sex assault shifts  Prosecutors say the alleged sexual assault of a boy observed by a former Penn State graduate assistant, a key witness in the child sex abuse case against Jerry Sandusky, took place about a year earlier than what was originally alleged, causing defense lawyers for two former Penn State officials to argue that one of the charges should now be dropped.
  • Sandusky team: More accusers? New court documents filed by attorneys for Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach embroiled in a child sex abuse scandal, suggest that there are at least 17 accusers, a far higher number of alleged victims than the 10 detailed in the charges.
  • Report: Isa dad kept from kids According new reports, the dad of missing girl Isabel Celis is now being kept from seeing his two sons.
  • Isa's parents break silence  After days of avoiding the media spotlight, the parents of missing Isabel Celis' parents spoke out.
  • Arpaio: No govt. monitoring Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he's not going to let the federal government run his office.
  • Hubby: Spray tan killed wife A man is charged in the death of his wife says an allergic reaction to her spray tan is what killed her.
  • Justice Department investigates rapes The Justice Department is investigating rapes in Montana amid questions about whether local officials did enough.
  • Parents charged in death of 6-year-old Emaciated and with "too many scars to count," a 6-year-old boy is dead and his biological parents are being charged.
  • Highway shooting deaths connected Ballistics tests have linked the shooting deaths of two people along roadways in Mississippi, a source who has been briefed on the investigation said Thursday.
  • Sole survivor of shooting dies The sole survivor of a shooting last month at a Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Restaurant near Cleveland died Tuesday, her family said.
  • Strauss-Kahn countersues maid Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, is filing a countersuit for at least $1 million against the Manhattan maid who accused him of sexual assault.
  • Mobster's body exhumed The body of a mobster buried among cardinals and bishops on a Vatican property has been exhumed in an investigation into a teenage girl's disappearance.
  • FAMU band suspension remains Florida A&M University's Board of Trustees meets Monday to discuss the future of the college's popular marching band in the aftermath of the hazing-related death of a member.
  • Sex offenders' moms share burden Christine Smith will never forget the moment she watched her 21-year-old son being led out of a Florida courtroom in handcuffs.
  • Leahy urges: Keep health care law A leading senator is urging the Supreme Court to "do the right thing" and uphold the constitutionality of the sweeping health care reform law championed by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats.
  • Official: Cartel violence 'irrational' The 49 decapitated bodies authorities found on a roadside in northern Mexico over the weekend were likely the result of a fierce feud between rival drug cartels, a top Mexican official said Monday.
  • NYPD defends stop-and-frisk policy New York police on Sunday touted the impact of their much-criticized "stop, question and frisk" policy, saying it has helped get guns off the street and coincided with a falling murder rate.
  • March spotlights search for missing Delia Garcia traveled hundreds of miles to spend Mother's Day marching in Mexico's capital. Holding signs with pictures of their missing sons and daughters, they said they came with the hope of being heard.
  • Killer at Churchill Downs? Wilson Perez believes his father's killer is one of the hundreds of stable workers who live and care for horses in an area known as the "backside" of the Churchill Downs horse racing grounds.
  • 'Daddy, help! They're killing me!' Ruben Navarrette:The cops accused of beating a homeless, mentally ill man to death need to be treated the same as any alleged killers.
  • U.S. suing Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio The U.S. Justice Department plans to file a civil lawsuit against Maricopa County, Arizona, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio over civil rights violations.
  • Obama's most courageous move Charles Kaiser: President Obama has obliterated the doubts of millions of his gay supporters with a truly tranformational move to support equal marriage rights.
  • Obama supports same sex marriage President Barack Obama's announcement that he now supports same-sex marriage came sooner than planned as a result of comments made by Vice President Joe Biden, he said in an interview broadcast Thursday.
  • N.C. gay marriage ban passes Advocates begin their battles Wednesday to overturn a North Carolina amendment that defines marriage as solely between a man and a woman, one of about 30 states with such a ban in its constitution
  • N.C. gay amendment embarassing Radio host Jay Thomas gives his thoughts on North Carolina's Amendment 1, which targets same-sex marriage.
  • Aiken: Amendment targets straights Clay Aiken weighs in on Amendment 1, which would ban same-sex marriage and could affect heterosexual domestic partners.
  • Casting Casey Anthony Lifetime is going to make a movie based on the Casey Anthony trial. But who will play Casey Anthony?
  • Mexican police seek DNA of missing to identify dismembered bodies Mexican authorities are asking for DNA samples from families of missing persons nationwide in their efforts to identify 49 decapitated bodies, an official said Wednesday.
  • John Doe #2 drops out, ends Travolta sexual battery lawsuit The remaining plaintiff in the sexual battery lawsuit against John Travolta fired his lawyer, bringing an end to the case, the lawyer told CNN on Thursday.
  • Closing arguments set in Edwards trial Closing arguments are set for Thursday in the corruption trial of John Edwards, after his defense team rested its case without calling the former Democratic presidential candidate's ex-mistress to testify.
  • Feds offer reward in probe of letters with white powder Federal agents have been stymied in their long and fruitless search for a man who mails envelopes containing white powder and usually a message of some kind.
  • Custom-order vehicle theft ring busted Authorities have busted a luxury-vehicle theft ring that took orders from clients in Africa and then stole the cars from New York.
  • Bosnia's hope is tied to justice in a courtroom in the Netherlands, it is the women of Srebrenica who have the moral weight to slug it out with former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic, says CNN's Nic Robertson. Eight thousand murders in Srebrenica alone. This is what gives their families such power: There are so many of them.
  • Experts: Florida slayings 'really unusual' The early-morning slaughter of four Florida siblings at the hands of what authorities say was their mother is an "almost unheard of" case, crime experts said Wednesday.
  • Groom prime suspect in young bride's stabbing death Estrella Carrera was found dead from mutiple stab wounds two days after she married Arnoldo Jimenez in Chicago. He is the prime suspect.