HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Only weeks before a nurse was slain and another woman was sexually assaulted on opposite sides of the country, a New York judge released the suspect without bail in a separate strangulation case — not knowing ...

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island woman is appealing her conviction for suffocating her daughter, arguing police officers who accidentally kill detainees in similar ways are not convicted. The Providence Journal reports 44-year-old Kimberly Fry recently brought her case ...

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THERESA — An Army soldier killed his wife and a state police trooper who had responded to reports of shots fired at the couple’s rural upstate property, authorities said Monday. Staff Sgt. Justin Walters surrendered after the Sunday night slayings ...

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On social media, Markeith Loyd’s persona — documented in dozens of Facebook Live videos — was as fluid as his latest mood. Sometimes, he was a down-to-earth, God-fearing boyfriend who was eagerly looking forward to fatherhood. Other times, he was ...

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NEW YORK — The woman at the center of the trial of Emmett Till’s alleged killers has acknowledged that she falsely testified he made physical and verbal threats, according to a new book. Historian Timothy B. Tyson told The Associated ...

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NEW YORK — After spending a quarter-century in prison on a conviction that got overturned, Johnny Hincapie was waiting to hear whether he’d finally be cleared of suspicion in an infamous tourist killing. He got both a yes and a ...

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When police responded to a home in Bentonville, Arkansas, one Sunday morning in November 2015, they discovered Victor Collins’ dead body in the backyard. Police records describe a grim scene: Collins’ body was floating face up in a hot tub, ...

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A Rochester man has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for a 2014 murder. Monroe County Supreme Court Justice Alex R. Renzi sentenced Brian Baxter Jr., 20, for the Nov. 6, 2014, killing of Quadrey Henderson-Speed. 19. ...

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Even though a teenage gang member did not inflict the fatal stab wounds to a 16-year-old boy, his participation in the murder was enough to support his conviction of first-degree manslaughter. The Appellate Division, Fourth Department on Friday affirmed the ...

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Angelo Cruz, 39, of Rochester, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to distribute 280 grams or more of crack cocaine, while also admitting he helped in the October 1998 murder of Francisco Santos on the Seneca Nation of Indians Reservation in ...

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SYRACUSE (AP) — A prominent central New York physician has been sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for killing his estranged wife inside their mansion and trying to cover up the crime. Sixty-three-year-old Dr. Robert Neulander was sentenced ...

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    ROCHESTER (AP) — The state’s highest court has overturned a murder conviction in which the suspect accused Monroe County’s district attorney of prosecutorial misconduct.’The court reversed the 2007 murder conviction of Howard Wright. He claimed that District Attorney ...

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