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• Juror didn't feel defendant expected teen's death (AP)
  

  AP - The jury forewoman in the internet suicide trial said she didn't feel the defendant expected the teenage victim would harm herself after being subjected to an Internet hoax.

  
  
  
  
• Mich. police capture fugitive convicted murderer (AP)
  AP - Authorities say a fugitive who served time for murder and is suspected of leading a group of teenage burglars has been captured, four days after escaping from a northern Michigan jail.
  
  
• Plea deal offered to 8-year-old murder suspect (AP)
  

  AP - Prosecutors have offered a plea deal to an 8-year-old boy charged with murder in the shooting deaths of his father and another man in their eastern Arizona home, court records show.

  
  
  
  
• Police: Tip led to arrest of Reno rapist suspect (AP)
  

  AP - Early in their investigation into the kidnapping and slaying of a young college woman, Reno police were convinced the suspect they described as a serial rapist was a chameleon who blended in with a community grieving the loss of Brianna Denison.

  
  
  
  
• Police nab suspect in anchor's death, seek answers (AP)
  

  AP - Police for weeks had neither a suspect nor a motive in the beating death of a popular television anchorwoman. A suspect is now in custody, but many questions remain unanswered.

  
  
  
  
• Convicted fundraiser Rezko wants sentencing date (AP)
  AP - The pivotal figure in a major Illinois political corruption scandal asked Wednesday for a federal judge to set a sentencing date, a signal that he may have ended his cooperation with prosecutors in an ongoing investigation.
  
  
• Mass. nurse accused of plotting to free rapist (AP)
  AP - A Massachusetts nurse has been charged with trying to help a convicted rapist accused of stabbing his attorney escape from prison.
  
  
• 'Rockefeller' to get half his gold coins back (AP)
  

  AP - The man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller will get back about half of the gold coins and cash seized by authorities after he was arrested for allegedly kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter.

  
  
  
  
• Former mayoral aide pleads guilty in sex scandal (AP)
  

  AP - Stoic and publicly silent through months of a sex scandal, the woman whose relationship with former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick led to his downfall broke her silence Monday, shedding tears as she pleaded guilty.

  
  
  
  
• Informant: Fort Dix suspects trained for 'jihad' (AP)
  AP - An FBI informant testified Monday at the trial of five men accused of plotting to kill soldiers at the Army's Fort Dix that a trip they took to Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains was intended as training for a holy war.