Colo. grandma not guilty in tot slaying
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A 53-year-old woman who claimed she received spiritual messages from geese before allegedly stabbing her toddler granddaughter to death was found not guilty by reason of insanity Friday.
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CHALMETTE, Louisiana  - The owners of a New Orleans-area nursing home where 35 people drowned in one of the worst tragedies of Hurricane Katrina pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to multiple charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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BOULDER, Colo.  - Two weeks after the stunning   arrest of John Mark Karr for the long-unsolved murder of   6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, Colorado prosecutors   on Tuesday tried to explain how the case fell apart and were   left wondering if they would ever find her killer.
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A grandmother has been found guilty of growing and possessing cannabis, a court spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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FORT HOOD, Texas -- The defense for Specialist Charles Graner Jr. rested its case yesterday without the accused ringleader of abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison taking the stand.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas Time may be running out for a woman on death row in Texas. Frances Newton is scheduled to get a lethal injection tomorrow evening for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two small children.
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OREM, Utah - Family and friends of Lori Hacking gathered Saturday for a memorial service to remember the woman whom authorities believe was slain by her husband while she slept.    About 600 people attended the service, including the parents of both Lori Hacking and her husband, Mark, who has been charged with her murder...
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Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Monday she will not interfere with plans to put a serial killer to death next month in what would be the first execution in New England since 1960.
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - A woman accused of digging up and taking her boyfriend's cremated remains more than a decade ago - and drinking the beer that had been buried with them - won't face federal charges, a prosecutor says.
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The state of Maryland has paid $200,000 to the parents of a slain 9-year-old boy to settle their claim that the killer, a convicted sex offender, was wrongly freed from prison five days before the murder. But the boy's mother may seek more, her attorney said.
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Special prosecutors in Colorado said Friday that DNA found on a murder victim does not match the man convicted for her murder. Tim Masters should be freed immediately while he awaits a new trial, they added. The case of the horrific 1987 killing and 1999 trial has pitted cop against cop and raised many questions about whether an innocent man was convicted.
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(CBS/AP) In the end, it wasn&#39;ta fingerprint or a blood spatter that led authorities to the woman suspected of strangling a mother-to-be, cutting the baby from her womb, taking the baby home and passing her off as her own newborn.
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The owners of St. Rita's Nursing Home, where 35 people died in the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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A mother who was wrongly convicted of the murder of two of her children will get no compensation, she says.
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Police say the only survivor of a shooting that left his wife and three children dead in their sport utility vehicle was questioned and is not a suspect in the attack.
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A woman who spent about two years in prison for the stabbing death of her 10-year-old son was acquitted at her retrial Wednesday, after the defense insisted the murder was carried out by a masked intruder, possibly a Texas death-row inmate who has confessed.
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SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - A grandmother found with a trunkful of marijuana was convicted of drug running in what prosecutors said was an attempt to earn cash for a bingo habit.