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U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 17, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A Berkeley woman was sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter for killing her 9-year-old son with an apparent overdose of a prescription drug, authorities said today. Misti Mina Hassan, 31, entered her plea Fr.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

Washington Post -- A sniper sprayed dozens of bullets at a courthouse, killing a police officer and wounding a sheriff's deputy and a civilian, then apparently killed a caretaker and himself Sunday in a nearby church, police said. Investigators think the gunman deliberat.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 9, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

CNN -- Just hours before his execution by injection, a Tennessee death row prisoner who was convicted of killing a police officer ordered his final meal -- pizza for a homeless person. Philip Workman, 53, requested a vegetarian pizza be delivered to a homeles.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 12:53am neoform

Alter Net -- The attorney for the NYC police officer accused of killing Sean Bell believes his client will be acquitted. This is not typical attorney bluster; the odds are that he is right. New York Attorney Phillip Karasyk minced no words when a reporter asked abo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Feb 18, 2007 @ 12:20am neoform

Yahoo News -- A Marine who said he never fired a shot in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man was sentenced Saturday to 8 years in military prison — the longest sentence yet in the case. Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington, 22, also was reduced in rank and given.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 10:01am neoform

CNN -- Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would cause a "mass killing" late in 2007... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 17, 2006 @ 8:23am neoform

Reuters -- One of four U.S. soldiers accused of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl before killing her and her family was conditionally sentenced on Thursday to up to 90 years in prison with the possibility of parole... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 30, 2008 @ 8:07am neoform

SF Gate -- A 24-year-old San Francisco man has been sentenced to 77 years to life in prison after being convicted of a killing that authorities say was part of a gang feud in the city's Western Addition four years ago. A San Francisco jury convicted Kevin Carradi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 28, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- A man whose lawyers claimed he was mentally disabled has been executed for killing a convenience store owner in Virginia. Kevin Green was pronounced dead Tuesday at 10:05 p.m. EDT in the first execution in Virginia in nearly two years. The 31-year-old'.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 28, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- A teenager who had recently moved back home after breaking up with his live-in girlfriend is accused of gunning down and killing four family members, stunning friends and neighbors. Nathaniel Dickson, 18, was arrested Saturday night at a home in Belton.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 11, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- A Marine suspected of killing a pregnant colleague told police he slept in fields and survived by eating fruit that he found during a three-month manhunt that ended with his arrest in western Mexico, authorities said. FBI agents and police in the small.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 31, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," died Sunday. He was 65... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 11, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- A parolee was convicted of first-degree murder Monday for shooting and killing a woman on a Fremont street as she walked to a school holding her young daughter's hand. Manuel Urango, 30, appeared surprised when Alameda County jurors returned with a gui.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 6, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- A massive fire erupted at a natural gas pumping station in a rural area, spreading to houses and killing an undetermined number of people, authorities said. Officials weren’t sure what started the fire late Tuesday at the Columbia Gulf Natural Gas pu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 18, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- A Nicaraguan appeals court Monday ruled that an American convicted of killing his former girlfriend should be set free. Eric Volz, of Nashville, Tennessee, was convicted in 2006 of raping and killing Doris Ivanez Jimenez and sentenced to 30 years in priso.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 7, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

MSNBC -- I called him my Dudley-do-right,” Kim Scharf said, “I’m sure he got in front of other people” and took a bullet that might have hit someone else. “There’s no doubt in my mind, I promise you. That’s who he is, to a fault.” Trent, a store.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

SF Gate -- A San Francisco car enthusiast goes on trial Monday for an 18-year-old killing in which the man who confessed to pulling the trigger will never serve a day in jail. Instead, he'll be the prosecution's star witness when the murder trial gets under way i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 19, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- A sport utility vehicle ran off a Central California road and landed upside down in a canal, killing seven people inside, including four children and a baby, authorities said Sunday. The SUV was going more than 55 mph Saturday night near Kettleman City.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 9, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

USA Today -- Ted Paque usually exchanges friendly greetings with everyone he encounters on his way to work at Pitts Bus Service. On Monday, though, there were no cheery hellos as this grieving town of 1,961 tried to understand why an off-duty sheriff's deputy murdered.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 10, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

USA Today -- A storm system spawned tornados as it swept across the upper Midwest and into Pennsylvania, killing at least one person, flooding basements and leaving tens of thousands of homes and businesses without power early Friday. In western Pennsylvania, Alleg.. Read More