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Neighbors Reflect On Sharlotte McGill Murder Charge

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 21st

SPOKANE, Wash. - When police charged Avondre Graham with Sharlotte McGill's murder, some of her neighbors were thrilled. "I was ecstatic," Valerie Johnson said. "I am going to sleep so well, haven't slept in quite awhile. Very well," Johnson said. Johnson wasn't the only one who more

Key Miss. River lock reopens after emergency fixes

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 20th

By JIM SUHRAP Business Writer GRANITE CITY, Ill. (AP) - Shipping resumed Thursday through one of the Mississippi River's busiest locks, after crews completed emergency repairs that took days and that stranded hundreds of barges destined for points north or south. By the time the U.S. Army

Rainfall easing drought in certain corn states

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 20th

By JIM SUHRAssociated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) - With hopes of a once-stellar corn crop dimmed by a summer of drought, Gerald Jenkins doesn't expect the unfolding harvest to burden his co-op's grain elevators, which are capable of storing 9 million bushels of the grain it buys from growers

Ohio executes man for killing 2 strangers in 1989

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 20th

By AMANDA LEE MYERSAssociated Press LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio death-row inmate used his last words Thursday to repeatedly apologize to the family members of his two victims and tell them that he hopes they can let their pain die with him. Donald Palmer, 47, was executed by lethal

Kremlin halts USAID work in Russia

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 18th

By BRADLEY KLAPPERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States said Tuesday it is ending the U.S. Agency for International Development's operations in Russia after a Kremlin demand that the aid organization leave the country, dealing a blow to President Barack Obama's policy of

Fiat to meet gov't on strategy amid closure fears

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 18th

ROME (AP) - Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne will meet Saturday with Italian Premier Mario Monti to discuss the automaker's "strategic prospects" amid increasing fears about possible plant closures in Italy. The government announced the meeting in a statement Tuesday, days after two

DOJ report due out on gun-smuggling operation

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 17th

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Family members of an Arizona U.S. Border Patrol agent killed in connection with a botched gun-smuggling operation said they won't have closure until someone is held accountable for his death. Brian Terry's mother, sisters and cousin from the Detroit area are in Tucson

Idaho couple works to recovers drowning victims

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 16th

By JESSIE L. BONNERAssociated Press KUNA, Idaho (AP) - Gene Ralston and his wife left their home in southwestern Idaho less than a week after he had a coronary angioplasty, putting another 2,400 miles on their motorhome while traveling to and from Canada with their aluminum boat. Ralston's

Wisconsin fetal abduction, murder trial to begin

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 16th

By CARRIE ANTLFINGERAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) - It's been almost a year since Maritza Ramirez-Cruz bled to death when her full-term fetus was cut from her womb, and her three surviving children don't go a day without asking about her. The children and their father, Christian

Murder Victim And Possible Suspect Lived In Same Apartment Complex

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 15th

SPOKANE, Wash – When Sharlotte McGill was randomly, brutally attacked while walking her dog on Tuffy's trail outside her apartment one Thursday morning in May, her murder went unsolved for months. She had just moved in to the complex the week prior, did not know her attacker, had