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Oregon City - Killer's re-sentencing: $450,257.78 The bills are in: The defense of serial killer Dayton Leroy Rogers in his third sentencing trial cost Oregon taxpayers $450,257.78. Rogers' attorneys submitted their bills to the Office of Public Defense Services, which this month tallied them at the request of The Oregonian. During a seven-week trial that ended in March, Rogers' defense team argued for life in prison, but a 12-person jury sentenced him to death. Rogers had twice been sentenced to death for the 1987 murders of six women, whose bodies he dumped in the Molalla area woods, but the Oregon...

WHITEWOOD, Sask. (CP) - While police in Western Canada were searching for two missing boys and a notorious pedophile, a Saskatchewan town was left to contemplate how such an unsavoury individual was in their midst. Mounties issued a Canada-wide warrant Monday for Peter Whitmore, 35, for the abduction of 10-year-old Zachary Miller of Whitewood, who disappeared a day earlier. They said Whitmore was also believed to be travelling with 14-year-old Jordan Bruyere, who was last seen July 22 in Brandon, Man. A missing person's report had been issued for Jordan, but Winnipeg police were not treating his case as a...

Teacher faces trial in secret tapings By Malaika Fraley, STAFF WRITER REDWOOD CITY — Investigators found images of 3-year-olds engaged in sex acts with adults on former Central Middle School teacher Neal Sato's computer, a San Carlos police detective said. The detective's graphic testimony at the former middle school P.E. teacher's preliminary hearing Friday caused the mother of one of 11 girls Sato is accused of covertly videotaping while they undressed to gasp in horror. Detective Marti Overton was the only witness at the hearing where Judge John Runde ruled there is enough evidence to bring Sato, 34, to trial...

RUSKIN, Fla. — Police said Saturday they found an unidentified body in a creek near the home of a missing 13-year-old who disappeared a week ago.