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(Huffington Post) - Stephanie Rochester, a 35-year-old Superior, Colo. mother accused of smothering her 6-month-old son because she believed he had autism, will not face first-degree murder and child abuse charges, The Denver Post reports.
Stan Garnett, Boulder County District Attorney, says that he does not think prosecutors would be able to prove that she was sane at the time of the 2010 killing.
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(Huffington Post) - An unidentified Sikh man in his mid-50s was stabbed while waiting for his flight on Sunday evening at Fresno’s Yosemite International Airport.
The man was waiting for his flight around 5:30pm on Sunday in the airport near the security checkpoint with his translator when a 26-year-old white man came up to him and stabbed him in the upper torso, Fresno Police Lieutenant Tom Rowe told the Fresno Bee.
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(Daily Mail) - A 69-year-old Palm Springs woman has been arrested after allegedly trying to cut off her husband’s penis with a pair of scissors.
Palm Springs police said that Virginia Valdez was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, spousal abuse and mayhem.
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(Daily Mail By CHRIS BROOKE) - A woman freed herself ‘against all the odds’ after being buried alive in a wood inside a cardboard box, a court heard yesterday.
Michelina Lewandowska, 27, was initially shot with a 300,000 volt Taser stun gun by her boyfriend Marcin Kasprzak, 25, who allegedly wanted to ‘get rid of her’ by killing her.
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(Daily Mail By PAUL THOMPSON) - A wife is accused of pouring boiling water over her ex-husband for seeing another woman.
Jesua Tatad is said to have scalded her former spouse as he slept and then beat him with a baseball bat.
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(Daily Mail) - Two women are accused of using a baby as a weapon by wildly swinging the baby’s car seat at security guards after they were stopped for allegedly shoplifting.
Jodie Willis, 25, and 21-year-old Megan Kelley, of Orlando, Florida, are also accused of trying to use the shopping cart, with Kelley’s baby daughter in it in a car seat, to push past the guards when they were first stopped at the city’s Walmart store.
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(Associated Press By KELLI KENNEDY) - A North Florida man has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder after authorities say he beat a man and a woman to death with a baseball bat and then photographed their bodies.
Authorities said Saturday that Craig Arron Lede, 40, of Spring Hill is being held without bond after telling investigators that he killed John Ketsemidis, 29, and Dana Nelson, 28, at Lede’s house on Wednesday when he became enraged that a debt couldn’t be repaid.
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(Daily Mail) - A British soldier has been jailed and dismissed from the army for stabbing a 10-year-old Afghan boy, the Ministry of Defense has confirmed.
Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook was sent to military prison for 18 months for bayoneting Ghulam Nabi.
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(CBS Tampa) - A 65-year-old mother claims that her Pasco County son hit her in the head with a glass eggnog bottle and a metal oxygen tank, and struck her several times with a stun gun.
Ramey Newkirk, 45, was arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated battery for allegedly physically abusing his mother.
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(Daily Mail By MARK DUELL) - A father has been jailed for beating his mentally ill wife to death with a flashlight after she strangled their son and tried to kill their daughter.
Christopher Smeltzer, 39, of New Hampshire, was jailed for up to 30 years after pleading guilty to killing Mara Pappalardo in November 2010.
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