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NORRISTOWN, Pa. – D. Bruce Hanes, an elected county clerk in the suburbs of Philadelphia, has become something of a gay rights hero for granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of Pennsylvania law. But the Civil War buff and married father of two says he is only doing what’s right.
Ariel Castro, who was sentenced to life in prison plus 1,000 years last month for imprisoning and raping three women in his Cleveland home, was found hanged in his jail cell, a prison spokeswoman said early Wednesday.
Ariel Castro, who was sentenced to life in prison plus 1,000 years last month after pleading guilty to imprisoning and raping three women for a decade in his Cleveland home, was found dead in his jail cell, a prison spokeswoman said early Wednesday.
WASHINGTON – Eight days, 20 witnesses and 70-plus pieces of evidence later, the Article 32 hearing into allegations that three Naval Academy midshipmen sexually assaulted a female student concluded Tuesday night.
Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man who was sentenced to life in prison plus 1,000 years in July after pleading guilty to imprisoning and raping three women for a decade, was found dead in his jail cell, a prison spokeswoman said early Wednesday.
Dave Bing went there.The Detroit mayor, understandably annoyed at Boston Mayor Tom Menino's comments over the weekend that he would "blow up" Bing's bankrupt city "and start all over," responded Tuesday in a style the Pistons' Bad Boys of the 1980s would have admired: with a sucker punch.
Crews battling a massive California wildfire near Yosemite National Park made significant gains Tuesday, boosting containment up to 80 percent, as officials lifted evacuation orders and advisories that had loomed over several Sierra Nevada communities.
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist sentenced to death for the Fort Hood shooting rampage, has been forcibly shaved, an Army spokesman said Tuesday. Hasan began growing a beard in the years after the November 2009 shooting, which left 13 dead and 30 wounded.
A meeting between the Wyoming chapter of the NAACP and an organizer for the Ku Klux Klan over the weekend is believed to be the first of its kind. The meeting between Jimmy Simmons, president of the Casper NAACP, and John Abarr, a KKK organizer from Great Falls, Mont.
