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LAS VEGAS - Michael Lane, a British motivational speaker and "spiritual healer" told police he wanted to help 44-year-old Ginger Candela achieve a deeper state of medication. Then he hit her with a frying pan and killed her, say Las Vegas police.

Lane told investigators that he and Candela were in her bedroom when he compressed her carotid arteries to help her achieve a deeper state of meditation, an arrest report released Monday says.

Police say Lane told them he then decided to kill her, striking her with a frying pan and using an electrical cord to strangle her.

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PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. - In a disturbance call that went terribly wrong, gay porn star Andrew Grande lost his life for a bag of marijuana. And it was all caught on tape.

A camera crew from Zoo Productions, working for truTV, was on a ride-along with Panama Beach police when they responded to a physical disturbance call at the Executive Inn on Front Beach Road Friday Dec. 11.

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NEW YORK - Connecticut resident Anna Bambino wanted a threesome so badly that she just wouldn't take no for an answer, say Connecticut police, who arrested the 30-year-old and charged her with breach of peace, according to the Republican American.

Bambino was arrested after a married couple in Monroe, about 20 miles west of New Haven, complained that she was harassing them about having a ménage à trois, according to the paper.

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RALEIGH, N.C. - Jason Young, the North Carolina man who has long been suspected of killing his pregnant wife, Michelle Marie Young, while having adulterous affairs, has been arrested and charged with bludgeoning her to death.

Authorities have charged Young, 35, with first-degree murder after a three-year-long investigation, Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison said.

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TEPOZTLAN, Mexico - The Mexican government’s war on drugs crashed a reputed drug cartel's Dec. 11 Christmas party and netted Latin Grammy winner Ramon Ayala during a dangerous shootout that left three dead.

Ayala, the Texas-based norteño singer, was performing in a gated community of mansions outside the mountain town of Tepoztlan when a raid was carried out as part of the government's campaign to crack down on drug gangs. Ayala was detained and questioned at length on Saturday Dec. 12, and then released. Officials say they found no grounds for criminal charges.

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MADISON, Wis. - During what police say was a 20-year killing spree in Milwaukee, Walter Ellis left his DNA behind all along the way — everywhere but the one place where it might have saved a life.

Ellis should have given a DNA sample to the state crime databank during a prison stint in the early part of this decade, but he had another inmate pose as him, authorities say.

As a result, when analysts tried to identify DNA in bodily fluids from one of the slayings back in 2003, no matches turned up.

Investigators didn't connect Ellis to the crimes until this fall, when they seized genetic material from his toothbrush. By then, it was too late for the woman police say was Ellis' seventh and final victim.

"If they would have got his DNA when they were supposed to get it, maybe my cousin would still be here," said Sarah Stokes, whose cousin, 28-year-old prostitute Ouithreaun Stokes, was found beaten and strangled in an abandoned rooming house in 2007.

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SAN JUAN, Texas - Police in south Texas found a horror under the Christmas tree of Ruby Lee Medina and Javier Gonzalez - the remains of an aborted 7-month-old fetus stuffed neatly inside a gift box.

Medina, 31, and Gonzalez, 37, of Mission, have been charged with abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence.

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LOS ANGELES - Courtney Love has lost legal guardianship over Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter she had with rock legend Kurt Cobain, according to court documents which say the 17-year-old has been placed in temporary guardianship.

A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner granted control over Frances Bean Cobain to Kurt Cobain's mother Wendy O'Connor and his sister Kimberly Dawn Cobain.

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NEW YORK - Tiger Woods' doctor, Dr. Anthony Galea, is suspected of providing athletes with performance-enhancing drugs, according to The New York Times.

The Canadian doctor who has treated the golfing great is reportedly under FBI investigation. The Canadian doctor has also treated sprinter Donovan Bailey, figure skater Patrick Chan and various NFL players.

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NEW YORK - MTV is pulling its punches – well, at least one punch – that landed on "Snooki" Polizzi during filming of an episode of the reality series, "Jersey Shore."

The network has announced that it is removing a controversial scene in which cast member Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is sucker-punched by an angry man at a bar. The attack, which was filmed in August, got 24-year-old Brad Ferro arrested for assault and disorderly conduct, according to the New York Post. But it also got MTV in hot water with some who have criticized the network for showing violence against women.

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