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  • Ohio State shooter complained bosses were unfair (AP)

    In this ID photo released by Ohio State University, is shown Nathaniel Brown. Brown, a university custodial employee, reportedly shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio, according to officials. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Ohio State University) NO SALESAP - An Ohio State University janitor who shot two supervisors, one fatally, and then killed himself had complained that he was being treated unfairly, though records show he slept on the job and was late to work during his probation.




  • Calif. jury recommends death for serial killer (AP)

    Convicted serial killer Rodney James Alcala, right, is escorted into the courtroom after jury deliberations during the penalty phase of his trial at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana, Calif. on Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Jurors took just an hour to return the death recommendation after a six-week trial. (AP Photo/Pool, Sam Gangwer)AP - It was 2005 when Bruce Barcomb received the call he'd been awaiting for nearly three decades: Police had finally identified the man who raped and murdered his little sister in a remote canyon on a dark night in 1977.




  • Partner convicted in NY execution-style slaying (AP)
    AP - A Long Island man has been convicted in the execution-style slaying of his business partner in the parking lot of a Korean restaurant.

  • Accused Letterman extortionist pleads guilty (Reuters)

    Robert Joel Reuters - A television producer pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to extort $2 million from U.S. talk show host David Letterman by threatening to reveal his affairs with women who worked on his late-night program on CBS.




  • Man who caused Newark airport breach pleads guilty (AP)

    Haisong Jiang appears in Newark Municipal Court on a charge of defiant trespassing, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Jiang is accused of breaching security at Newark Liberty International Airport in January. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Lara, Pool)AP - A lovesick graduate student from China who slipped under a rope barrier at Newark Liberty International Airport to say goodbye to his girlfriend, prompting a security breach and leading to worldwide flight delays, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge Tuesday and apologized publicly for the first time.




  • Eritrean pleads not guilty to aiding terrorists (AP)
    AP - Evidence collected by the United States against an East African charged with providing support to a Somali terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida includes lengthy statements he made to authorities, a prosecutor told a judge Tuesday.

  • Ohio doctor gets 20-to-life in wife's poison death (AP)
    AP - Relatives of the victim sobbed and held each other as a judge handed down a life prison term Tuesday for a doctor convicted of killing his wife by lacing her calcium supplement with cyanide so he could be with his mistress.

  • Man pleads not guilty in Colo. to smuggling drugs (AP)
    AP - A man charged with helping smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine from Mexico to the United States has pleaded not guilty in Denver federal court.

  • Assisted suicide network members indicted in Ga. (AP)

    FILE - In a March 17, 2009 file photo, Thomas E. Goodwin, former president of the Final Exit Network, is pictured during an interview with The Associated Press, in Atlanta. A Georgia grand jury indicted Goodwin and three other members of the assisted suicide group Final Exit Network Tuesday, March 9, 2010 on charges they helped a 58-year-old with cancer kill himself. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)AP - A grand jury indicted four members of an assisted suicide group Tuesday on charges they helped a 58-year-old man with cancer kill himself, clearing the way for a trial that could not only decide their fate but also help validate — or repudiate — their work.




  • TV producer admits attempting Letterman shakedown (AP)

    FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2009 file photo, Robert J. Halderman is arraigned in State Supreme Court in New York on charges of trying to blackmail David Letterman for $2 million to keep quiet about the comic's sexual affairs. Halderman, a CBS producer, pleaded guilty Tuesday, March 9, 2010 to attempted grand larceny. He is being sentenced to six months in jail and 1,000 hours of community service. (AP Photo/Steve Hirsch, Pool, File)AP - A former television producer pressured by debt and riven by jealousy admitted Tuesday he tried to extract vengeance and money by shaking down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon's affairs with staffers.




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