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Mother: Execution brings relief, not closure

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 31st

By DIRK LAMMERS and KRISTI EATONAssociated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Tina Curl was so eager to see her 9-year-old daughter's killer executed Tuesday night that she couldn't even take her seat in the witness room. "I was right up to the glass," she told The Associated Press after

Diplomat: Texas agents should have seen people

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 30th

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMANAssociated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) - Texas law enforcement agents were close enough to a pickup truck to see it was carrying people, not drugs, before one opened fire, killing two Guatemalan immigrants hiding under a cover in the vehicle's bed, a diplomat said

10 Things to Know for Today

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 29th

By The Associated Press Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about on today: 1. SUPERSTORM NEARS EAST COAST Sandy is expected to come ashore Monday night in New Jersey bringing high winds, soaking rain and a surging wall of water up to 11 feet

Facebook used to kidnap, traffic Indonesian girls

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 29th

By MARGIE MASONAssociated Press DEPOK, Indonesia (AP) - When a 14-year-old girl received a Facebook friend request from an older man she didn't know, she accepted it out of curiosity. It's a click she will forever regret, leading to a brutal story that has repeated itself as sexual

Facebook used to kidnap, traffic Indonesian girls

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 29th

AP Top News at 3:45 a.m. EDT

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 29th

East Coast grinds to a halt as superstorm nears NEW YORK (AP) - A late-season hurricane is bearing down on the East Coast. It threatens to inundate New York with an 11-foot wall of water and has sent coastal residents fleeing for higher ground and shuttered major financial

NYC cannibal case tests lines of fantasy, threat

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 26th

By TOM HAYSAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - In Internet chats as breezy as they were bizarre, a police officer accused of plotting to kidnap and eat as many as 100 women was once cautioned not to be wasteful when cooking a victim because "there is nearly 75 pounds of food there." But no one was

NYC police officer charged in cannibalism plot

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 25th

By COLLEEN LONG and TOM HAYSAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - A city police officer dreamed up plots to kidnap, torture, cook and eat at least 100 women whose photos, names and addresses he pulled from a confidential law enforcement database, authorities said Thursday. Gilberto Valle's

NYC officer arrested in ghoulish kidnap plot

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 25th

By COLLEEN LONG and TOM HAYSAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - A city police officer was charged Thursday with leading a ghoulish double life by using a law enforcement database and fetish chat rooms to dream up a plot to torture women and then cook and eat their body parts. Gilberto Valle left a

2 men acquitted under new US gay hate crime law

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 25th

By BRETT BARROUQUEREAssociated Press LONDON, Ky. (AP) - The first U.S. prosecution under a new federal law against anti-gay violence ended with a Kentucky jury acquitting two cousins of hate-crime charges while finding them guilty of kidnapping in a 2011 attack on a gay man. Prosecutors had