“It was a normal day of judicial proceedings,” prosecutor Kellie Hill told the jury Monday.
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The elementary school moms didn’t ask a lot of questions about this man Bill.
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Georgia’s parole board on Friday denied clemency for a man set to be put to death for killing a police officer, even though seven of the nine witnesses who testified against him have since changed their stories.
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The dregs of Hurricane Gustav are beating down on my parents’ house tonight.
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Fabiola Pena considered running away from her factory job when she realized she was being targeted in a federal immigration raid.
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With the latest forecasts predicting that Hurricane Gustav could strike New Orleans as soon as Labor Day, city leaders warned Friday that anyone who failed to evacuate would find no government-provided shelter.
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All around Mario Romero’s strip-mall travel agency, this immigrant neighborhood was alive with commercial traffic, all of it moving to a clave rhythm clunking from an outdoor speaker.
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Jesus Suarez, a Santeria priest, had slit the throat of one goat that June afternoon.
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The state of Mississippi moved Tuesday to improve what critics have called one of the nation’s most poorly monitored criminal autopsy systems – one that may have resulted in two innocent men spending years in prison.
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