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An Iranian woman sentenced to death for killing a man who tried to rape her told her mother goodbye and prepared to die, even as the Islamic republic’s president was meeting with world leaders at the United Nations. Rayhaneh Jabbari, 26, is set to be executed Tuesday, according to reports from Iran. On Monday, her mother, Shole Paravan, recounted on her Facebook page an emotional farewell call her daughter made when a sympathetic guard loaned her a cellphone before she was taken to Rajaiy Shahr Prison to be hanged. […] In April, a court postponed Jabbari’s execution in the face...

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A woman kidnapped from Pembroke Pines and driven to a Davie mobile home park avoided being raped by fighting off her attacker and trying to shoot him with his own gun. The 22-year-old woman had been driving west along Pines Boulevard about noon on Tuesday when she was targeted by a man who, police say, would later tell investigators that he decided to kidnap and rape a stranger. Before the afternoon was over, the woman would be driven at gun- and knifepoint 10 miles along two interstates to the mobile home park, where she resisted an attacker who left her...

PROVO -- A 19-year-old Cedar Hills man found guilty of two first-degree felony sex crimes will not be getting a new trial. Sergey Tyler Millett was in court Friday as his attorneys debated new evidence that had arisen since his trial in April as well as the possibility of a new trial. The evidence seemed to indicate that the 15-year-old victim in the case was somehow coerced to give statements to the police regarding the relationship she'd had with Millett when she was 14 and he was 18. However, defense attorney Barbara Gonzales withdrew her motion for a new trial...

Former Baptist pastor indicted Minister who left Flower Mound in 2001 faces sex charges 02/08/2003 By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News A former Flower Mound Baptist pastor has been indicted by a Denton County grand jury in connection with sexual misconduct involving a 14-year-old girl and a woman in her 30s. Grand jurors issued two indictments this week against Michael Wayne O'Guin, 34, who left The Church at Wichita Creek in Flower Mound amid allegations of misconduct in August 2001. Mr. O'Guin, who arrived at the church in fall 1999, now lives in Tennessee. Denton County District...