71.   But it has also emerged in court that the two may have been involved in crimes as serious as murder.

72.   But local officers tracked down only a few fugitives, most guilty of no crime more serious than entering the country illegally.

73.   But school officials said the suspects were treated like anyone else accused of a serious crime.

74.   But none of them had been sentenced for so serious a crime, or received so long a sentence, as the prisoner released on Thursday.

75.   But residents seemed skeptical Thursday, saying it took a serious crime to get officials to cut the weeds back.

76.   But the real solution, he said, is to change federal deportation law to target offenders of more serious crimes.

77.   But the court is designed to deal with the most serious international crimes, and will try people only if they are not prosecuted at home.

78.   But they were never charged with the more serious crime of inflicting the wounds.

79.   But urban areas reeling from serious juvenile crime are rediscovering them, too.

80.   By law, Turkish politicians convicted of serious crimes while in office are forbidden ever to re-enter politics.