Ad for "Mary Jane" on Craigslist attracts arrest

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(CBS/AP) ROSWELL, N.M. - The ad placed in Craigslist's "casual encounters" section by a New Mexico woman said she was new to town and "looking for Mary Jane."

Roswell Police Sgt. Ty Sharpe said the ad was such a blatant request for marijuana, he had to make sure it wasn't posted by another undercover officer.

It wasn't.

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Search for Ariz. girl, 5, missing since Tuesday

Jahessye Shockley

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(CBS/KPHO) GLENDALE, Ariz. - More than 100 law enforcement personnel and other people were continuing to search Thursday for a 5-year-old Glendale girl reported missing Tuesday afternoon, according to CBS affiliate KPHO.

Police in the city near Phoenix issued an Amber Alert Wedensday for Jahessye Shockley after her mother reported her missing when she discovered the child was not with her siblings at her family's home in the Autumn Leaves Apartments.

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Verdict reached in deadly Conn. home invasion

Joshua Komisarjevsky

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(CBS/AP) NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A Connecticut man has been convicted of killing a woman and her two daughters during a gruesome 2007 home invasion in which family members were tied up, molested, doused in gas and left to die in a fire.

Pictures: Petit family

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Cops: Houston woman stalked, vandalized ex

Toni Jo Silvey, accused of felony stalking of her ex-boyfriend

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(CBS/KHOU/AP) HOUSTON - A 49-year-old Houston woman who blogged under the name "woundedpoeticsoul" is facing felony charges for allegedly stalking her ex-boyfriend.

According to court documents, Toni Jo Silvey repeatedly vandalized her ex-boyfriend's property, called him over 1,000 times and sent him more than 700 emails in a recent three-month period, reports CBS affiliate KHOU.

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Mistress guilty in murder of Texas pastor's wife

Tyonne Palmer

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(CBS/KHOU) HOUSTON  - Tyonne Palmer, the mistress of a Houston pastor convicted of murdering his wife, was found guilty Thursday of murder and tampering with evidence for her involvement in the murder-for-hire plot of Pastor Tracy Burleson's wife, Pauletta.

Pictures: Saved? Religious leaders in trouble

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Propofol expert testifies against Jackson doctor

Dr. Conrad Murray, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, in downtown Los Angeles.

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(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors have called a leading expert on the anesthetic propofol to testify against the doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death.

Pictures: Who's who in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray
Pictures: Michael Jackson's Doctor Trial
Video: Dr. Conrad Murray manslaughter trial begins

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Police have suspect in Md. mom's death

Missing 11-year-old William McQuain.

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(CBS/AP) GERMANTOWN, Md. - Montgomery County police say a suspect is now in custody in the killing of 51-year-old mother Jane McQuain and the disappearance of her son William McQuain. 

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Sleep expert testifies in Jackson doc trial

Dr. Conrad Murray

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(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - Testimony resumed Thursday in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's physician with Dr. Nader Kamanger, a UCLA sleep expert, being cross-examined by Defense Attorney J. Michael Flanagan about Jackson's insomnia.

Pictures: Who's who in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray
Pictures: Michael Jackson's Doctor Trial
Video: Dr. Conrad Murray manslaughter trial begins

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Accused salon shooter's ex said he was "abusive"

Police officers stand with who was being held in a patrol car at the scene of the arrest of a suspect near the Salon Meritage in Seal Beach, Calif., where a shooting left eight people dead and one critically injured Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011. Seal Beach police have identified the suspect in the salon massacre as Scott Evans Dekraai.

Scott Evans Dekraai (r.)

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(CBS/KCBS/AP) SEAL BEACH, Calif.- The ex-wife of the man suspected in the hair salon shooting rampage that left eight dead in Seal Beach, Calif., claimed in court filings this year that he was unstable and physically abusive to her during their marriage.

Pictures: Seal Beach salon shooting

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5 Amish men accused of beard-cutting free on bond

Sam Mullet, leader of a breakaway Amish group, five of whose members are accused in a beard-cutting incident targeting another Amish man

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(CBS/AP) MILLERSBURG, Ohio - Five men suspected of forcefully cutting the beards of fellow Amish were arraigned Wednesday and each released on $50,000 bond posted by the leader of their breakaway group.

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