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Huguely-Love murder trial resumes Saturday, Day 9

George Huguely and Yeardley Love (UVA Media Relations)

George Huguely and Yeardley Love

/ UVA Media Relations
(CBS) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - When the case against George Huguely started on February 8, the judge promised the jury it would take two weeks and they would have the case by Friday (yesterday). It didn't happen.

Because one of Huguely's lawyers was ill, his murder trial for the death of ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love was delayed for two days. To make up for lost time, the judge has ordered everyone back to court to resume the proceedings on Saturday at 9 a.m. This is the first time I've covered a trial that's in session on a Saturday.

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Woman pleads guilty to cutting baby from womb

Kathy Coy of Morgantown, Ky., on April 19, 2011, in Bowling Green, Ky.

/ AP Photo/The Daily News, Miranda Pederson
(CBS/AP) BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - 34-year-old Kathy Coy has pleaded guilty and now faces a life sentence for murdering a young pregnant woman and taking her baby from the womb last April.

At Friday's hearing, prosecutors said 21-year-old Jamie Stice was shocked with a stun gun before having her wrists and throat cut. Coy then cut Stice's baby from her womb and left the woman dead beside a rural dirt road.

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Josh Powell had sexualized cartoons on computer

Missing mom's husband kills self, sons: Why?

Josh Powell is surrounded by reporters as he leaves a Pierce County courtroom in Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 23, 2011.

/ AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

(AP) OLYMPIA, Wash. - Documents released Friday show that investigators in Washington recovered hundreds of disturbing, sexualized cartoon images from Josh Powell's computer.

Pictures: Missing Utah mother Susan Powell

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Beverly Hills clothing designer sued post-mortem

The Bijan showroom

/ CBS Los Angeles
(CBS) BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The Beverly Hills boutique House of Bijan and its late founder Buan Pakzad are being sued by a former employee who alleges she was sexually harassed by Pakzad, CBS Los Angeles reports.

Brittany Anderson maintains she was fired for complaining about the supposed harassment, according to the station. She alleges retaliation and discrimination based on race in the lawsuit she filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday.

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FBI: Plotting suicide bomber arrested in D.C.

The US Capitol building

/ SAUL LOEB

(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - The FBI says it has arrested a man who thought he on his way to carry out a bombing attack at the U.S. Capitol building, but who, in reality, was dealing with FBI undercover operatives all along.

According to a Capitol Hill source, the suspect is Amine El Khalifi, 29, a Moroccan citizen who has lived in the U.S. for over 12 years. Law enforcement officials said he was arrested Friday morning after he put on what he thought was a vest containing explosives. In fact, the Justice Department says, the vest had inert material that was not explosive.

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Cops: Missing Ill. mom, sons may be in Indiana

Police searching for missing Ill. mom Laurie May and her 3 sons

Laurie May

/ Personal Photo

(CBS) AURORA, Ill. - Police sat a 29-year-old woman and her three young sons who were reported missing by the woman's fiance on Wednesday may be in Indiana.

Pictures: Police searching for missing Ill. mom, her 3 sons

According to the Chicago Tribune, police said in a statement that credit card records and an unconfirmed eyewitness report indicate that Laureth "Laurie" May and her children were in the northern part of the state, possibly stopping in Gary and at a Hobart Wal-Mart.

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Huguely murder trial delayed again for ill lawyer

George Huguely and Yeardley Love

George Huguely and Yeardley Love

/ AP/Daily Progress via Charlottesville Police Department

(CBS/AP) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The murder trial of former University of Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely V has been delayed again because a defense attorney is sick.

Pictures: Yeardley Love Murdered; George Huguely Charged

Huguely's first-degree murder trial for the death of Yeardley Love had resumed Friday morning, despite the absence of a member of his defense team, who was ill for a second day. But by mid-morning the defense said it didn't want to proceed without attorney Rhonda Quagliana, and the judge relented.

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Cops: 16-year-old shoots two teens during parade

Police vehicles in front of the parade during which the shooting occurred. Feb 16, 2012

/ CBS/WWLTV
(CBS/WWLTV/AP) NEW ORLEANS - Police say two teens were shot in the leg during a Carnival parade in New Orleans Thursday night.

Police spokesman Frank Robertson says neither victim was seriously hurt. One was only grazed by the bullet.

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Strange journey: American faces Mexico murder trial

Bruce and Monica Beresford-Redman

/ (CBS/Family Photo)

(CBS) CANCUN, Mexico - Bruce Beresford-Redmond arrived in Cancun shortly before midnight February 8th - much to the surprise of virtually everyone - from the general in charge of security for the area, to the prosecutor of the murder case, and even his own defense attorney.

Pictures: Bruce and Monica Beresford-Redman

When the government owned jet landed, Beresford-Redman was immediately whisked away to the Cancun prison, considered one of the worst in Mexico. What followed was a legal drama unlike any this reporter has seen. 

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Search on for missing Ill. mom and her 3 sons

Police searching for missing Ill. mom Laurie May and her 3 sons

Laurie May

/ Personal Photo

(CBS) AURORA, Ill. - Police are now seeking information about a 29-year-old woman and her three young boys who were reported missing by the woman's fiance on Wednesday.

Pictures: Police searching for missing Ill. mom, her 3 sons

According to the Chicago Tribune, Laureth "Laurie" May reportedly left her fiance's house around 3:30 am Wednesday after an argument. Police say she woke up her boys, ages 4, 2, and 1, and loaded them into her white 2001 Volvo with an Illinois license plate 9590986 and a pink cancer ribbon on the rear.

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