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Judge accepts insanity defense from babysitter in Irvington child's slaying (The Star-Ledger)
A judge's ruling today that an Irvington babysitter who stabbed her 5-year-old nephew 57 times is not guilty by reason of insanity was followed by screams of agony from the dead child's father. After Superior Court Judge Peter Vazquez read...

KRIKORIAN: Startling developments on sporting scene (Long Beach Press-Telegram)
You depart the continent a few weeks, foolishly squander modest resources not even Bernard Madoff was interested in heisting, and return to discover the usual mixture of startling developments and cloying normalities gracing the sporting landscape.

Anne Arundel teen suffers brain injury after car plunges into ravine (Baltimore Examiner)
The thrill-seeking high school senior had tested his luck many times and never suffered more than a scratch, but a freak car accident has left the Davidsonville teen fighting for his life with a serious brain injury, his family said Monday.

Missouri women surprise even themselves (Columbia Daily Tribune)
Not since 2001 had the MU women?s basketball team seen a scoreboard bear such a one-sided early score, and Shakara Jones could scarcely believe it.

The Year in Review: THE QUEENS COURIER 2008 (Queens Courier)
What a year it was! This past year, 2008, was a groundbreaking year for Queens and for The Courier. We reported on all Queens news ranging from heartbreaking stories of Queens soldiers losing their lives while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan to a St. John?s fencer almost losing his life to a rare blood disease overcoming the odds to win an Olympic silver medal in Beijing. We covered all of the ...