Missouri minister struggles with recent murder
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The Reverend Harold Hamon says he probably was addressing Christmas cards Thursday when his neighbor was being strangled and her fetus cut from her body.
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A minister&#039;s wife charged with murdering her husband told police she shot him after they argued over family finances and then told him &quot;I&#039;m sorry&quot; as he lay dying in their bedroom, according to testimony at a bond hearing Friday.
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One of the bloodiest chapters in Colombia&#039;s recent history is being revisited in a Bogota courtroom: A former justice minister is on trial for allegedly masterminding the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan.
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ST. LOUIS Thomas Umphrey was spared the death penalty for killing a woman in Illinois. Now, he could go back to death row -- this time in Missouri -- if convicted of killing his boss in St.
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Lebanon began three days of mourning on Wednesday for an anti-Syrian cabinet minister whose assassination, blamed by his allies on Damascus, revived fears that factional violence could spiral.
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A MAN wanted for questioning over the murder of Australian federal policeman Adam Dunning is also under investigation for shooting at peacekeepers in the Solomon Islands in October.
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A Roman Catholic archbishop's call this week for Saint Louis University to discipline its popular basketball coach for publicly supporting abortion rights has put the Jesuit school in a bind.
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A Lutheran congregation is grappling with how to deal with a convicted sex offender who says his church attendance is an important step toward rehabilitation.
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the murder of an eight-months-pregnant woman in Missouri and the abduction of her fetus. After a 24-hour search, the premature baby
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The latest clash in the struggle among mainline Protestant denominations over gay clergy hits a critical point Wednesday with the church trial of a United Methodist Church minister who declared in a sermon last year that she is a lesbian living with her partner.
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A Swedish Pentecostal minister who was sentenced to a month in jail last year for preaching against homosexuality appealed the verdict yesterday.
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When the controversial Dutch artist and filmmaker Theo van Gogh was slain in an Amsterdam street last week by a Muslim suspect, it was more than a murder story.
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THE French Health Minister summoned a crisis meeting on safety in public hospitals last night after the gruesome double murder of a psychiatric nurse and a care assistant in southern France.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The gunman believed to have killed four people at a megachurch and a missionary training school had been thrown out of the school a few years ago and had been sending it hate mail, police said in court papers Monday.
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A killer whose life was spared last year when Illinois' governor emptied out death row could again face a death sentence &#151; this time in Missouri &#151; if convicted of murdering his boss in St. Louis.
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BEIRUT, Nov. 23 -- Allies of a slain Lebanese Christian minister Pierre Gemayel transformed his funeral into protest, pulpit and show of force Thursday, as tens of thousands surged into downtown Beirut to vent their anger against a Syrian government they blamed for his assassination and to press demands at the heart of a crisis as pronounced as any since the end of Lebanon's 15-year civil war....
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Just a few years ago, Missouri trailed only Texas and Virginia in the number of convicted killers put to death. Today, Missouri's death row is gradually being emptied out by the courts.