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An appellate court in Florence should reconsider the possibility that Amanda Knox killed Meredith Kercher during a sex game, the Italian Supreme Court stated. The murder may have been the result of ” a group erotic game that blew up and got out of control,” the court said in a 74-page ruling released on Tuesday, explaining its March decision that Knox be retried. Prosecutors had brought up the sex game theory during her original trial, but then dropped it. Knox …

Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, provided information of the U.S. government’s spying program to The Washington Post and The Guardian. But this weekend, to show their support hundreds of people took to the streets in Hong Kong, where he is hiding, according to CBS News. As of June 16, more than 80,000 people signed a petition on the website “We the People,” asking President Obama to pardon Snowden, calling him a national hero for revealing excesses of …

Use of medical marijuana is legal in 18 states and the District of Columbia. Colorado and Washington also allow recreational use. At the same time, many employers have zero-tolerance drug policies. Marijuana is different from alcohol. It can be detected in the body for weeks after it has been used. An employee could use it on the weekend and still test positive at work the next week, even when he or she is no longer impaired. This raises some interesting …

Opening arguments were held Wednesday in the trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, the accused mob murderer who was a fugitive from justice for 16 years before he was arrested in California two years ago. The former head of the Winter Hill gang, 83,  is charged with the murder of 19 people over the course of two decades, during which he sat atop an Irish crime organization in Boston. He was described by Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Kelly during opening statements …

A Texas man was acquitted of murder last week after he shot and killed an escort who he said refused to have sex with him. San Antonio resident Ezekiel Gilbert, 30, contacted Lenora Frago through Craigslist and paid her $150 when she visited his house late night Christmas Eve in 2009. He thought he was buying sex. Frago had other ideas, and took the money to a driver in a vehicle waiting outside. When the car started to pull away, …