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An author of a book that allegedly advocates pedophiles having sex with children was arrested for simply selling the last copy of his book to a Florida undercover cop and is charged with breaking the state's obscenity law.

A day of boisterous protests over cuts to higher education that included thousands of students swarming the state Capitol ended with dozens of arrests after demonstrators refused to leave the building. Authorities on Monday evening arrested 68 people, most of whom will be charged with trespassing, the California Highway Patrol said.

People Arrested for Cannabis Law Offenses this Year 113,159

Police arrested an estimated 858,408 persons for cannabis violations in 2009. Of those charged with cannabis violations, approximately 89 percent were charged with possession only. An American is arrested for violating cannabis laws every 30 seconds.

Source: Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation

A special investigation by south Florida newspaper, the Sun-Sentinel, brings to light the unnecessary deaths and injuries caused by speeding cops over the past several years.

Cicero (WSYR-TV) - The Onondaga County Sheriff's Office has arrested a Cicero Police sergeant and charged with attacking a child while off duty.

Sgt. John Baldini, 37, has been charged with misdemeanor assault and endangering the welfare of a child in relation to an incident Onondaga County Sheriff's Deputies say occurred at Commissio's Pizzeria in North Syracuse.

A Minnesota man accused of violating the state's raw milk laws was just the middle man in a voluntary arrangement of people sharing food, his attorney argued Wednesday.

Alvin Schlangen, an organic egg producer in central Minnesota, is charged with three misdemeanor counts including distributing unpasteurized milk, operating without a food handler's license and handling adulterated food. Minnesota law prohibits raw milk sales except directly to consumers on the farm when it's produced.

By at least one measure, illegal immigration is not the problem that it used to be for the United States -- the number of arrests of people trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally has decreased sharply in the last five years, according to federal statistics.

Nearly 1 in 3 Young People Will Be Arrested by Age 23

A recently released study claims that nearly 1 in 3 U.S. youths will be arrested for a non-traffic offense by age 23. Zero-tolerance policies and a broadened definition of alcohol offenses are the cause of the trend.

In recent decades, more than 100 police officers have had sex with Explorers they were entrusted with mentoring, the vast majority of them underage, including an incident in 1999, just twenty miles west of St. Louis, down Interstate 44.