Man who falsely confessed to NY murders dies at 68
NEW YORK (AP) - A man who confessed to three New York City murders he did not commit and spent more than three years in prison has died at age 68.
George Whitmore Jr. died Oct. 8 in a nursing home in Wildwood, N.J. The Radzieta (rad-ZEH'-tuh) Funeral Home in Cape May Courthouse, N.J., says services will be Thursday.
Whitmore was 19 in April 1964
...Teen arrested after man's body found
SODDY-DAISY, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities in Soddy-Daisy have charged a teen with criminal homicide in the death of a man who disappeared in July.
City Police Chief Phil Hamrick told WTVC-TV (http://bit.ly/PzM0ei ) Tuesday morning that officers arrested 19-year-old old Keith Steward in the killing of 24-year-old Casey Burgiss.
Investigators found
...Biden due at funeral Tuesday for ex-Sen. Specter
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Arlen Specter was known as a political moderate unafraid to buck the leadership of his own party and work with colleagues across the aisle - a stubborn independent streak sure to be recalled as Pennsylvania's longest-serving senator is laid to rest.
Hundreds of people were
...Gitmo war court back in session minus 3 defendants
Associated Press
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - The military tribunal for the Sept. 11 terrorism case resumed Tuesday without three of the five defendants, the result of a judge's ruling that the men could not be forced to attend the session.
Among those who chose to sit out the second day of a weeklong
...Father charged with stabbing son over last beer
ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - When it got down to the last beer, it got physical in Rogersville.
According to The Kingsport Times-News (http://bit.ly/Tpucy6 ), Hawkins County deputies were called to a hospital emergency room after 21-year-old Brandon Justin Crabtree showed up with stab wounds.
Crabtree told officers he and his father, 45-year-old
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