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Missing Alaska family died in a murder-suicide

Investigators have determined that four members of an Alaska family, whose remains were discovered in March after being reported missing a year ago, died in a murder-suicide, police said on Wednesday.

 
NH man wanted for parents’ murders in 2014 caught in Fla.

A man who landed on the U.S. Marshals Service’s most-wanted list for the slayings of his parents in New Hampshire last year was captured in Florida on Wednesday after an anonymous tipster recognized him from news reports, authorities said.

 
Lawyers want death penalty for men charged with rape of student

Tennessee prosecutors said on Wednesday they would seek the death penalty for the three men charged with the kidnapping and murder of nursing student Holly Bobo, who disappeared in 2011, and whose remains were found about three years later.

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2 suspects in officer assault dead after 3-hour chase by police

Two men suspected of assaulting a police officer in Texas and stealing his vehicle were killed after a three-hour chase, one of them shot by police and the other found dead inside the vehicle, authorities said on Wednesday.

20,000 London police to be equipped with body cameras

London’s police officers are to be equipped with 20,000 body-worn cameras, more than in any other city, to help them gather evidence and improve public confidence in them, authorities said on Wednesday.

 
Hope fades for finding more survivors in capsized Chinese ship

Rescuers searched a sunken cruise ship in the Yangtze River on Wednesday for more than 400 missing people, many of them elderly, but hopes of finding more survivors were fading in what could be China’s worst shipping disaster in almost 70 years.

 
College friend of Boston Marathon bomber sentenced to 6 years in prison

As part of that plea agreement, prosecutors had recommended a sentence of seven years — a year more than what he received — for Kadyrbayev, a Kazakh national. The plea deal also requires him to be deported after serving his sentence.

 
Troopers release dashcam of Oklahoma flood rescue shooting

This much is clear: Nehemiah Fischer — a 35-year-old pastor — is dead. Brandon Fischer, a restaurant owner, is behind bars on charges of assault and public intoxication. Authorities are investigating. And their father says a family in mourning is searching for answers.

 
CIA used more sex abuse, torture than reported, witness says

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency used a wider array of sexual abuse and other forms of torture than was disclosed in a Senate report last year, according to a Guantanamo Bay detainee turned government cooperating witness.