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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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NEW YORK - Troy Young’s friends were concerned because they hadn’t heard from the 29-year-old drummer in a couple of days. So they contacted police. Turns out they had good reason to be worried.

Young was found shot to death Dec. 11 in his basement apartment in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, shot once in the head and once in the shoulder, piercing his heart. Investigators don't know how long his body lay there.

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(CBS/AP) - Jamie Kuhne strangled his wife, stuffed her dead body into a suitcase, took his 1-year-old son to day care and then walked in to the Herndon, Va. police department and confessed to the crime, according to police.

Herndon Police Lt. Jeff Coulter said that at around 7 a.m. on Friday morning, Kuhne, 34, walked calmly into police headquarters and handed a note to one of the dispatchers at the front desk. Coulter would not disclose the full contents of the note, but revealed that it said Kuhne had killed his 36-year-old wife and her body was in their Herndon apartment, about 30 miles west of Washington D.C.

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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - 100-year-old Elizabeth Barrow should have changed nursing home roommates when she had the chance.

Police say her 98-year-old roommate Laura Lundquist strangled her to death. On Sept. 24, police found Barrow dead, with a plastic bag over her head, at the Brandon Woods Nursing Home.

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PERUGIA, Italy - Amanda Knox sounded casual, surprised even, by the simple question as it came through the door of her prison cell in English on Sunday: "How are you?"

"OK, thanks. How are you guys?" said the American student, who had been sentenced eight days earlier to 26 years in prison for the murder of her British roommate. But minutes later, Knox confided, in answer to a question from an Associated Press reporter in her cell: "I am scared because I don't know what is going on."

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Alyssa Bustamante pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing her 9-year-old neighbor, Elizabeth Olten, who police say was slain because the teen wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone.

The 15-year-old Missouri girl sat silently as an attorney entered a not guilty plea on her behalf to first-degree murder and armed criminal action in Olten's Oct. 21 death.

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TACOMA, Wash. - A procession of 2,000 cars followed the flag-draped caskets of four slain police officers to a memorial service Tuesday as thousands of mourners, mostly members of law enforcement from across the country, lined the streets.

They came to honor Sgt. Mark Renninger and Officers Ronald Owens, Tina Griswold, and Greg Richards, who were gunned down in a Seattle-area coffee shop at the end of November.

Lori Lightfoot and Sheila Chandler, police detectives from Fresno, Calif., were among officers who traveled from as far away as New York, Chicago and Canada.

The pair said the deaths of the four Lakewood officers brought back memories of four Oakland police officers killed during a traffic stop and a shootout in March.

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ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. - Jeffrey Tidus, a well-known Los Angeles attorney with a long list of high profile clients including a defunct subprime lender and Isuzo Motors, died Tuesday after he was shot in the head outside his California home.

Tidus was shot Monday around 8:30 p.m. as he was getting a laptop from his car.

His wife heard a single gunshot ring out and rushed outside to find him lying in the driveway behind his blue Toyota Prius, sheriff's homicide Lt. Dave Dolson said.

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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Jamie Serich and Colin Hart were two Ohio high school seniors, found shot to death as they lay next to each other in a local cemetery.

But was this tragedy a murder or a suicide-pact?

That is what police are trying to figure out in the small city of Boardman, Ohio, just outside of Youngstown.

Serich, 17, and Hart, 18, were both students at Cardinal Mooney High School, whose football team just won the Ohio Division III championship Friday - its seventh state title.

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JUPITER, Fla. - Paul Merhige, the man police believe shot and killed four members of his extended family on Thanksgiving day and has since been on the run, was seen on surviellance video inside a gun shop a day before the killings.

Police say Merhige murdered his aunt, two twin sisters, one of whom was pregnant, and a 6-year-old girl, at a Jupiter, Fla. Home, after a family meal on Thanksgiving day.

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