What We've Found: AIDS march, pre-diabetic Brits, feds relax pot policy, DNA indictments, Philly cop faces rape charge and Delaware diocese delays trial with bankruptcy filing

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What We've Found: AIDS march, pre-diabetic Brits, feds relax pot policy, DNA indictments, Philly cop faces rape charge and Delaware diocese delays trial with bankruptcy filing

POSTED: Monday, October 19, 2009, 3:00 PM
Filed Under: What We've Found

Julia Harte with your morning fix.

Fifteen thousand people met outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art and walked along the Schuylkill to raise money and awareness for victims of HIV/AIDS, which afflicts Philadelphians at a rate five times the national average.

7 million Brits were diagnosed with "pre-diabetes" -- a condition of extra-high blood sugar levels, which makes someone twelve times more likely to get diabetes than a regular individual -- by the charity Diabetes UK.

Medical marijuana users and suppliers who conform to their state's law on the treatment will no longer be arrested by federal agents, Obama mandated in new policy guidelines that were sent to the Department of Justice.

New York City prosecutors were indicting the DNA profiles of miscreants in lieu of a real person, in rape cases where the actual criminal could not be identified but traces of DNA were left on the victim. So far, 18 DNA profile-indictments have led to the arrests of actual people.

A Philadelphia police officer was preparing to defend himself against charges of sexual assault after another officer caught him engaging in sexual acts with a prison inmate.

A sex abuse case against a Delaware Catholic diocese that was scheduled to be heard today was delayed by the diocese's last-minute decision to file for bankruptcy protection. The diocese bishop claimed that the move was necessary to ensure the diocese would be able to compensate all its claimants.

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