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Navy veteran Norman Breidenbaugh, 81, wired $400,000 to Jamaica over six years chasing a lottery prize that didn't exist.

A 16-year-old girl in Ulhasnagar alleged her parents let a family friend abuse her for two years over a Rs 50,000 debt; police booked all three on Saturday.

In June 2012, Danielle Mehlman was found stabbed to death in a Delaware motel; the Cognizant employee wanted in her murder was later found dead in New Jersey.

In May 2012 a CBI court moved to put Rajesh and Nupur Talwar on trial for the 2008 murders of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj — India's most