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SAN BERNARDINO - Testimony concluded Monday in the trial of an Ontario woman charged with murdering her husband nearly four years ago. Attorneys in the case are expected to deliver closing arguments today, and afterward jurors will begin deliberating.
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A Charleston man has been sentenced to 16-21 years in the penitentiary for the shooting death of Robert Veltri, 22, last summer and the wounding of his brother, Anthony, in the same incident. Charles Christopher Poore, 23, apologized to Veltri's father and brother in court Tuesday, saying the killing happened as the two scuffled for a gun. He pleaded guilty previously to voluntary manslaughter and unlawful wounding.
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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egypt's foreign minister said his country is upset by the accidental killing of an Egyptian citizen by a U.S. Navy-contracted ship in the Suez Canal, and called the incident "unacceptable," the state-run-news agency reported. Ahmed Aboul Gheit's comments were Egypt's first official response to the incident, which occurred Monday when a navy-contracted ship fired warning shots at approaching motor boats in the Suez Canal.
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Where is the middle ground? Are zoos a place of refuge for elephants, a safe haven where visitors learn about these majestic mammals?
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A woman who accidentally shot a locksmith last year is being sued by the deceased man's family. Judy Windfelder had asked her friend and co-worker, Patrick Reuland, to change the locks on the front door of a condominium she was inspecting near 9200 S. Riverside Drive (700 West), according to a lawsuit filed in the 3rd District Court by the man's daughter and common law wife.
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Ten years ago, Kathy Gwinn bought a Welsh corgi puppy for her then 11-year-old son, who has Down syndrome. Since then, the aptly named Buddy has been inseparable from his owner, 21-year-old Timmy Merrill. But recently Gwinn, 56, of Scott Depot, was forced to take the animal to her veterinarians office for 10 days, causing Timmy severe distress. The quarantine was required under a controversial Putnam County Health Department policy, which requires any animal that bites a person to be quarantined for 10 days in a veterinarians office or the county animal shelter. All counties require rabies quarantines, but most allow the pet owner to confine the pet at home. Buddy bit an adult family member on Oct. 23, Gwinn said. She referred to the bite as more of a nip, saying the person received a v...
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Whenever Field and Perrotta (who collaborated on the script) aren't observing and deriding suburbanites in groups but are concentrating on individuals-on Sarah; on her lover Brad (psychological sibling to John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom); on Brad's pal Larry, an ex-cop with terrible memories of the accidental killing of a child; and even on the child molester, Ronnie, who is ashamed of his perversion but smirkingly stoking it-the movie proves discomfiting, poignant, unpredictable, occasionally shocking, and always fascinating. The soundtrack is unusually gratifying: the whirr of cicadas, the rush of an oncoming summer storm among tree branches, the pygmy fanfares of cell phones, the flurry of overlapping conversations around the community pool mixed with the cries of children splashing a...
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BANGOR - Jurors were expected to begin deliberations today following closing arguments in the murder trial of a Glenburn man accused of killing a friend two years ago, then dismembering and burying the body. The defense rested Wednesday afternoon after Jimmy Lipham, 45, took the stand in his own defense in the trial being held in Penobscot County Superior Court. The prosecution rested its case Tuesday.
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RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) -- A retiree who accidentally shot a friend to death during an initiation ceremony at a Masonic lodge pleaded guilty Friday to criminally negligent homicide and was sentenced to five years' probation. Albert Eid, 77, past master of the Long Island lodge, appeared tearful as he told a judge he was sorry for shooting William James.
