Ice storms lash Plains to Northeast. Oklahoma hit hard
A wintry storm coated the center with ice, blacking out more than 600000 homes and businesses. At least 15 deaths in Oklahoma and Missouri were blamed on slick highways and outages. Oklahoma declared a state emergency as warnings extended to Missouri Kansas Nebraska Iowa and Illinois. Missouri activated the National Guard and Oklahoma utilities reported a record outage as lines and branches failed.
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Gunman linked to two Colorado church attacks identified
Matthew Murray, 24, home-schooled in a deeply religious family, had been expelled from a missionary training program about three years earlier and sent hate mail. He killed four people at Youth With a Mission in Arvada and at New Life Church in Colorado Springs before he was shot dead by a security guard. police say both shootings likely involved the same suspect.
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Supreme Court grants judges leeway in crack cocaine sentencing
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that federal judges may reject guidelines if prison terms would be longer than necessary, boosting calls to narrow crack versus powder cocaine penalties. The decision, ahead of a Sentencing Commission vote, could reduce sentences for up to 19,500 inmates, though mandatory minimums still bind 70 percent of cases.
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Fujimori supporters protest outside Lima trial site
Supporters of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori shout slogans outside the courthouse in Lima where his trial is taking place. Protests unfold as legal proceedings proceed in the capital.
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Peru's Fujimori on trial for death squad killings
Former president Alberto Fujimori faces trial in Lima on charges he authorized a 1992 death squad killing of nine at La Cantuta University and a 1991 Barrios Altos massacre, plus kidnapping of a journalist and a businessman. He denies wrongdoing and could receive up to 30 years pending conviction.
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