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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. died from asphyxiation due to hanging, an autopsy revealed on Thursday, in an apparent suicide at the family's suburban New York home. A spokeswoman for the Westchester County Medical Examiner's Office, Donna Greene, said the autopsy performed on Mary Kennedy, 52, revealed she died of suffocation. "The cause of death was put at asphyxiation due to hanging," Greene said. Results of toxicology tests would not be ready for several months, she said. ...
Thu May 17 10:50:12 UTC 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Police Department announced changes on Thursday to its controversial crime-fighting tactic known as "stop and frisk," saying it would revise the way it trains officers and make clear to them that its policy prohibits racial profiling. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly outlined the changes in a letter to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a leading critic of the policy which, some say, unfairly targets black and Latino New Yorkers and alienates minority communities. ...
Thu May 17 11:58:31 UTC 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prisons and other facilities where residents are forcibly confined must put in place standards to prevent thousands of incidents of sexual abuse every year, the White House and U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday. Advocates of a 2003 law to eliminate prison rape see sexual assault in U.S. prisons as rampant and grossly overlooked. "Sexual assault crimes committed within our correctional facilities can have devastating consequences - for individual victims and for communities far beyond our jails and prisons," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. ...
Thu May 17 11:57:57 UTC 2012