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New video backs accusation of Family Court abuse
 

A businessman’s claim he wasn’t combative with marshals before he was beaten and stunned with a stun gun while handcuffed in custody appears to be backed up in Family Court security video that has recently surfaced.

 
Online kill plot: ‘Jihad Jane’ gets 10 years in prison

A troubled Pennsylvania woman who called herself “Jihad Jane” online and plotted to kill a Swedish artist was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison after telling a judge she had been consumed by thoughts of a Muslim holy war.