EU police in Kosovo arrest alleged hit man

European Union police in Kosovo said Monday a man claiming to be a hit man for former ethnic Albanian rebels has been arrested on suspicion of murder and participation in organized crime.

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Confession stands in murder of Detroit cop's wife

A judge on Friday refused to throw out a confession by a self-described hit man who is charged with killing the wife of a Detroit police officer, a crucial ruling that clears the way for his first trial in eight fatal shootings.

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Mich. woman gets prison in online bid for hit man

A Michigan woman who advertised online seeking a hit man to kill her lover's wife has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison.

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Inmate admits to planning hit job on head of NYPD

A jail inmate admitted that he tried to hire a hit man to blow up the New York Police Department's headquarters and kill its commissioner, prosecutors said Wednesday.

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German prosecutor charges admitted Nazi hit man in 3 murders

A German prosecutor has filed new murder charges against an admitted Nazi hit man who has avoided jail for nearly six decades despite being convicted in the Netherlands of killing civilians in reprisal for resistance attacks during World War II.

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FBI: Woman Sought Hit Man on Craigslist

A woman advertised on the popular Internet site Craigslist for an assassin to kill the wife of a man with whom she'd had an affair, authorities said Saturday.

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A Columbia County man was taken into custody by the FBI when they learned he was trying to hire a hitman from across the country to kill his wife.

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Want custody of your granddaughter? Just hire a hit man to lay low your own daughter, police allege man rationalized.

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My favorite story this month is about the hit man who was allegedly hired by a husband to kill his wife, a 51-year old nurse. The alleged hit man whacked the nurse with a hammer, which only pissed her off, so she strangled the hit man with her bare hands.

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-- Police may have ignored a warning years ago that a woman with five dead spouses was trying to hire a hit man to kill one of the men, investigators in North Carolina said Monday.

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Excerpt: "A 16-year-old in St. Mary's County offered a truck to have his mother and stepfather killed, authorities said yesterday.

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IN THE colourful annals of American criminal incompetence, there have been few plots as misconceived as Thomas and Rosemarie Uva's demented spree of robberies against New York social clubs controlled by the mafia.

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An 18-year-old pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his ex-girlfriend's nearly full-term fetus and was sentenced to more than six years in prison.

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A new e-mail scam is trying a new tactic to gain a victim's confidence: It claims that he or she is the target of a hit man.

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Dentists, doctors, lawyers and other professionals in the Pittsburgh area have been targeted by a "hit man" e-mail scheme, receiving messages that tell them to pay up to spare their lives, the FBI said.

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