NEW BERN (AP) — A frantic and bloodied mother whose three sons were killed in a knife attack jumped from an upstairs window and ran across the street for help, according to neighbors. A couple, who, like the suspect and ...
Read More »‘American Sniper’ evidence details defendant’s arrest
STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — Eddie Ray Routh spoke of insanity, anarchy and the apocalypse when police tried to arrest him after the shooting deaths of “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle and his friend. Much of the dramatic evidence presented by ...
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Read More »Inmate pleads guilty in Anson County prison death
CHARLOTTE (AP) — An inmate has pleaded guilty in the stabbing death of another inmate at a prison in Anson County. The Charlotte Observer reported that Gregorio Cortez Vazquez pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder in court in Wadesboro and ...
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Read More »Prosecutor wants 10 years in prison for Pistorius
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The chief prosecutor in the Oscar Pistorius trial urged the judge on Friday to send the Olympic athlete to prison for at least 10 years, calling it the minimum acceptable term and noting the horrific ...
Read More »Man wanted in killing SC girlfriend arrested in NC
MONCKS CORNER (AP) — U.S. marshals say a man wanted in the stabbing death of his girlfriend in South Carolina has been arrested in North Carolina. Marshals arrested 59-year-old Lee Dell Bradley in a parking lot in Charlotte on Tuesday. ...
Read More »4th Circuit upholds MS-13 member’s death sentence
RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court has upheld a gang member’s death sentence for killing two brothers at a North Carolina restaurant, deciding, for the first time in the circuit, that the Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses does ...
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