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• Murderous Mom Spared Death Penalty
DAYTON, Ohio -- A woman who killed her 1-month-old daughter by microwaving her was spared the death penalty Wednesday when the jury couldn't reach a decision on a recommended sentence. After deliberating for five hours, the jury told the judge it ...
• O.J. Simpson goes to trial, dogged by his past
But the stabbing death of his ex-wife more than 14 years ago makes those early days seem like a fairy tale for Simpson. It was a life before allegations of murder, robbery and kidnapping, before the world he knew ended and a new, darker one began.
• Did Caylee’s mom chloroform her? Evidence mounts
... good reason to look up chloroform,” Brown alleged. “And if you combine that with that fact that it was found in the trunk, then you’ve got a whole bunch of evidence putting [it] together, the puzzle all fits, and you have a cause of death which ...
• School shooter jailed over new weapons charge
At the time, Johnson was traveling with Justin Trammell, who had been found delinquent after shooting his father to death with a crossbow in 1999.
• Hanna bears down on Southeast as Ike weakens
Meanwhile, Haiti's government more than doubled Hanna's death toll late Thursday to 137. It had previously been 61. Eighty of the deaths occurred in the flooded region of Gonaives and another 22 people died in areas immediately surrounding the port ...