The attorney for a man who has spent nearly three decades on Nevada’s death row for raping, beating and burning alive an Ely teenager told the Nevada Supreme Court on Wednesday that Robert Ybarra is mentally disabled and ineligible to receive the ultimate punishment.
The curious tale of a $1.3 million painting a middleman said he lost in a drunken haze has gotten stranger: A part owner of the canvas identified its co-owner as an admitted art thief, her lawyer said.
A doctor whose decomposing body was found in a narrow chimney suffocated after she tried to get into the house of her boyfriend in Bakersfield, Calif., authorities said Wednesday.
SILVER SPRING, Md. — A man who railed against the Discovery Channel’s environmental programming for years burst into the company’s headquarters with at least one explosive device strapped to his body Wednesday and took three people hostage at gunpoint before police shot him to death, officials said. The hostages — two Discovery Communications employees and a security guard — were unhurt after the four-hour standoff.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
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