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Investigators say a Pittsburgh man killed his wife with a pickaxe after the couple had an argument.Bruce Cook, 62, was charged Thursday with criminal homicide and abuse of a corpse in the death of 57-year-old Lois Cook.A friend called police Wednesday because Lois Cook missed work. Police said they arrived at the Cooks' home Wednesday night and found dried blood on the floor of the kitchen hea...
The gun was small and light, the training wheels of firearms. The .22-caliber, single-shot Crickett rifle turned deadly on Tuesday, officials in Kentucky said, when a 5-year-old Cumberland County boy shot and killed his 2-year-old sister in what the coroner described to a local paper as “just one of those crazy accidents.”The toddler was shot when the boy was playing with the rifle, as Kentucky st...
NEW YORK -- Attorneys for a New York City man serving a 25-years-to-life sentence for the murder of a retired police officer on Thursday filed a motion demanding a new trial for their client, calling the Manhattan district attorney’s decision not to toss out the verdict after an extensive re-investigation of the case a “cruel joke.”The mother of Jon-Adrian Velazquez, the man convicted of the killi...
Rhode Island became the final state in New England and the 10th in the country to legalize gay marriage after independent Gov. Lincoln Chafee on Thursday signed a bill that will allow same-sex marriage."I know that you have been waiting for this day to come," Chafee said to the state's gay and lesbian community at a bill-signing ceremony in front of hundreds. "I know you have loved ones that dream...
A federal judge said Thursday that a man accused of sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other officials should remain in jail without bond, and ruled that a grand jury will decide on formal charges, local media reported.“It appears to the court that there is probable cause to hold the defendant,” U.S. Magistrate S. Allan Alexander said Thursday in a preliminary hearing, the ...
President Barack Obama vowed Thursday during a trip to Mexico to continue pushing for new, tighter gun control rules in the United States, saying his proposals’ recent defeat in Congress was “just the first round.”Speaking following a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, whose country has been ravaged by gang violence supported in part by gun trafficking into Mexico, Obama vowed to r...
The brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombings originally planned to set off explosives on July 4 — but changed their minds and decided on Patriot’s Day, officials with knowledge of suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s interrogation told NBC News.Investigators also now have a good idea of how and where the pressure-cooker bombs used in the attack were constructed. But they still are trying to determi...
