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Judge rules to release Death Row inmate after 33 years

District Judge Douglas Herndon upheld his decision to dismiss murder charges against Death Row inmate Paul Browning. That decision came five months after an opinion from the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found “a mixture of disturbing prosecutorial misconduct and woefully inadequate assistance of counsel” led to “extreme malfunctions” at Browning’s trial.

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Police investigate link between Brown shooting and killing of MIT professor, AP sources say

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Authorities said Thursday that they’re looking into a connection between last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and one two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Ex-NASCAR star killed in NC plane crash, sources say

Greg Biffle has died at the age of 55 following a plane crash on Thursday, Dec. 18, according to Rep. Richard Hudson, a North Carolina congressman and a family friend of the Biffles.