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Speaker Nancy Pelosi canceled a planned trip to visit troops in Afghanistan Friday, after -- her office alleged in a statement -- the White House leaked the details of the congressional delegation's commercial plane travel.

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Los Angeles Lakers forward Michael Beasley appeared to have a bit of a brain fart before he attempted to enter Thursday night's game against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

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Pelosi says Trump derailed trip plans again with leak; White House calls claim 'flat out lie'

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office accused the Trump administration on Friday of leaking plans for a congressional delegation to fly commercial to Afghanistan after they were denied military aircraft, saying the related security risks have forced them to postpone the trip -- in the latest escalation of the bitter feud over the partial government shutdown.

For his part, President Trump seemed to stand by his decision a day earlier to revoke the military aircraft citing the need to negotiate a shutdown resolution.

"Why would Nancy Pelosi leave the Country with other Democrats on a seven day excursion when 800,000 great people are not getting paid?" Trump tweeted Friday.
TRUMP DENIES PELOSI AIRCRAFT FOR FOREIGN TRIP, AFTER CALL FOR STATE OF THE UNION DELAY
But moments later, Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill put out a detailed statement on what allegedly happened after Trump's stunning decision on Thursday.

He said the delegation had planned, after being denied military transport, to fly commercially. However, her office said that the State Department then told them Trump's announcement "significantly increased the danger to the delegation and to the troops, security, and other officials supporting the trip." Hammill said they learned Friday morning that the commercial travel plans were leaked as well.

"In light of the grave threats caused by the President's action, the delegation has decided to postpone the trip so as not to further endanger our troops and security personnel, or the other travelers on the flights," Hammill said.

The White House has not responded to Pelosi's leak claim.

A day earlier, Trump wrote to Pelosi denying military aircraft for the trip, citing the ongoing partial shutdown -- now the longest in history. The notice came after Pelosi's call to delay Trump's State of the Union over the shutdown impasse.

"Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed. We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over. In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate," Trump wrote. "I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the Shutdown. Obviously, if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative."
SHUTDOWN STANDOFF: PELOSI RENEWS CALL TO DELAY STATE OF THE UNION, TRUMP SAYS DEMS 'HIJACKED' BY 'FRINGE'
The contentious back-and-forth suggests that both sides are only digging in in their respective positions over the shutdown. Democrats and Republicans have been at a stalemate over funding for a wall on the southern border. Trump has demanded almost $6 billion in funding for a wall or barrier, but Democrats have balked at that request -- and have only agreed to less than $2 billion for general border security.

Trump made reference to the immigration debate in his tweet, "Also, could somebody please explain to Nancy & her "big donors" in wine country that people working on farms (grapes) will have easy access in!"

This appeared to be a reference to concerns from farmers, particularly in California, that tough immigration measures would restrict the ability of seasonal workers from south of the border to come and be hired by farms.
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This week, Trump addressed the American Farm Bureau Federation and got applause from farmers when he re-assured them and said he wanted to make it easier for migrants to come and work.

"It's going to be easier for them to get in," he said.
Fox News' Brooke Singman, Chad Pergram, John Roberts and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Pelosi says Trump administration derailed trip plans again, with leak and security warning

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office accused the Trump administration on Friday of leaking plans for a congressional delegation to fly commercial to Afghanistan after they were denied military aircraft, saying the related security risks have forced them to postpone the trip -- in the latest escalation of the bitter feud over the partial government shutdown.

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Ford unveiled the most powerful factory-produced Mustang the company has ever made at the Detroit Auto Show Monday. The new Shelby GT500 has a supercharged V8 engine that will produce more than 700 horsepower.

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Chiefs get ready to clap the Patriots as the AFC championship game approaches

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Chiefs defense will see a stern test from Tom Brady and the Patriots offense.

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The Kansas City Chiefs are on the doorstep of an AFC Championship, and they are there - in no small part - due to the efforts of their defense.
Just like we all predicted... right?
The Chiefs face the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship Game this Sunday night to see who gets to go on to Atlanta. This is what it's all about. While much has been made of Bill Belichick plotting to stop Patrick Mahomes, the newly revamped Chiefs defense will see a stern test from Tom Brady and the Patriots offense.

Since I previewed and recapped the original matchup in Week 6, I won't do my normal personnel breakdown. Instead I will focus on the changes both teams have made since then. I'll look at some more of the Patriots' tendencies, and we'll see some of the ways the Chiefs can defend an offense that hung 43 points on them in their first matchup.

The personnel

The Patriots offense are largely the same as the Week 6 matchup - with two exceptions:

Running back Rex Burkhead is healthy and will be the third back in the Patriots backfield. He's not quite the pass catcher that James White is, and he's not quite the runner that Sony Michel is, but his versatility can be used to exploit matchups this week.

New England did lose one key component from the first matchup: wide receiver Josh Gordon. He saw a team-high nine targets in Week 6, hauling in five of them for 42 yards. Chris Hogan, Cordarrelle Patterson, and Phillip Dorsett will try to make up those targets in the passing game.

On the other side of the ball, the Chiefs defense has undergone a number of changes since the Patriots saw them last. Justin Houston will be on the field in place of Breeland Speaks, who played 97% of the snaps and was targeted regularly by the Patriots offense the last time around. Both Ron Parker and Josh Shaw played significant snaps at safety for the Chiefs, and both are now gone. Daniel Sorensen and Eric Berry look to be joining Jordan Lucas on the field this time around.

Orlando Scandrick has been replaced by Charvarius Ward - a player who has been targeted more than any other cornerback since his entry into the starting lineup three weeks ago. Finally, players like Terrance Smith, Jarvis Jenkins, and Frank Zombo all got multiple snaps against the Patriots, and none have seen snaps in recent weeks due to injuries, depth, or simply not being off the roster.

How to defend
21 personnel
New England will mix some things up, but one of the tells of this offense is the propensity to run when Michel and James Develin are on the field together in 21 personnel. According to Next Gen Stats, this season the Patriots ran the ball on 75.6 percent of Michel's snaps, and 70.1 percent of Develin's. Against the Los Angeles Chargers, the Patriots ran the ball on 90 percent of the snaps when the two were on the field together.

Quite simply, when the Chiefs see this 21 personnel package, they should be expecting the Patriots to run.

With that in mind, the level of hesitance we see in this play shouldn't happen this week. After identifying the handoff, Reggie Ragland takes an extra lateral step directly into the climbing offensive lineman - despite the gap is open for him to attack.

With the Chiefs inside linebackers have played downhill much more often in recent games, there will be openings for Ragland and Anthony Hitchens to step up into pursuit this week.

The Patriots like to utilize wham blocks - using a tight end or a fullback to block down on an exposed defensive lineman - and both Rob Gronkowski and Develin get opportunities to use them often. It's a way to let the offensive linemen around the defender to get to the second level quickly, and hope that the smaller blocker can surprise - and sometimes earhole - a bigger defensive lineman.

Derrick Nnadi has been a major contributor for the Chiefs - and has grown throughout the year - but early in the season, one of the spots where he struggled was recognizing these wham blocks; he was getting tagged in the games against the San Francisco 49ers and the Patriots.

Much like last week against the Indianpaolis Colts' pulling blockers, Nnadi - and the rest of the Chiefs defensive line - needs to beat the blocker to the spot and wreck the blocking scheme. Getting to the back early (and often) with penetration can help eliminate these calls from the Patriots' playbook.

But the Patriots don't run only out of 21 personnel for - especially lately.

Here against the Chargers, New England lines up Burkhead and White in the backfield in a split-back formation. The weak side number one runs a fade, followed by a wheel route by the weak side number two. This clears the coverage defenders out of their zones, and White is open in the flat for an easy nine yards.

If the second-level defenders were in man coverage, a back side defender responsible for White would have to cross the entire field of play and sort through the trash to get to White. That's a tough task. Defensive coordinator Bob Sutton has been liberal with his use of outside linebackers in coverage against Brady, and this is a prime example of a situation where dropping one can pay dividends.

On this particular play, kicking a coverage defender out against Burkhead on the wheel route - and putting a pass rusher in the flat - would make Brady have to pull this ball and try to hit the back side dig route. Forcing a longer-developing play would give the superior Chiefs pass rush time to get home.
Containing James White
White absolutely destroyed the Chargers zone defense in the divisional round game, and has beaten many a team by getting the best of inferior coverage linebackers with his superior route-running abilities. Sutton and the Chiefs coaching staff understood this in the first matchup, and treated him as a receiver.

By putting a safety on White, the Chiefs were able to help nullify some of the damage White has done to defenses throughout his career. Jordan Lucas and Daniel Sorensen were implemented in this fashion last week against Nyheim Hines and the Colts. It helps to keep a comfortable coverage defender on a strong, dynamic receiving option.

Keeping a safety spied on White would also allow the defensive front to ignore some of the flash motion that the Patriots like to implement.

In this play, a play-action dive and a fake end around are executed to freeze the defenders in the box. This allows the offensive line to pull blockers into space so they can get out in front of White for the screen pass.

By using a safety to spy on White, the Chargers had the ability to ignore the fakes and beat the blocks to the flat. Even though it was a nice play design, thanks to the focus on White, it resulted in a tackle for loss.

White doesn't get a lot of carries, and while he will run between the tackles, the Patriots like to get the ball to him in space. Their preferred way do this is working out of condensed formations, which compacts the defense. Utilizing jet motion - which New England will use for a running play often enough to keep defenses honest - they are able to toss to the short side of the field with the defense moving away from the play.

Here we see that White's speed allows him to beat the unblocked defenders left behind by pulling linemen, and let his blockers spring him for big yardage. The New York Jets play this pretty well, swapping coverage responsibilities so that the force defender can turn White back inside, but the late reaction by the linebackers and defensive linemen prevent them from attacking the run successfully.

As Rob Gronkowski has become less dynamic, Julian Edelman has become the Patriots' scariest receiving threat. Luckily for the Chiefs, the rest of the Patriots receiving corps shouldn't strike fear into the hearts of defenses.

In their last meeting, the Chiefs focused on helping Shaw by having the deep safety sit over the top of Gronkowski's routes on a number of snaps, attempting to deny him the ball. This left both Gordon and Edelman with one-on-one matchups that they could exploit. With Gordon's absence and Gronkowski's decline, the Chiefs can shift the scheme to bracket Edelman so they can help Ward, Steven Nelson, and Kendall Fuller.

This would leave Gronkowski, Hogan, Patterson, and Dorsett as the benefactors of single coverage against the Chiefs secondary - a matchup with which Chiefs fans could feel a little more comfortable.

In conclusion

The New England Patriots have a very good offense. Their approach in 21 personnel - against which the Chiefs defense is at its worst, with a just 38 percent success rate - can pound the rock and move the chains. Receivers like White, Edelman - even an older Gronkowski - can take full advantage of a defense caught by play-action to get chunk plays. And despite what Brady says, the offense decidedly doesn't suck.

But the Patriots offense is not invincible.

Brady hates being hit. That's why he gets the ball out even faster than Andrew Luck. He throws short and lets players work in space against bad matchups. It's a great plan, but it's one that the Chiefs have seen - and rendered ineffective - in the last two games.

The Patriots offensive line is another good one, but we've seen this pass rush - and their newfound rush plan - be able to get the best of good offensive lines in Arrowhead. Dee Ford, Houston, and Chris Jones have been monsters to close out the year, and we shouldn't expect any less this week.

With a good game plan - and by pulling all the tricks out of their sleeves - the Patriots are going to score points this week. But with the defensive additions, a revitalized schematic approach - and the Arrowhead crowd behind the Chiefs defense - it'll be very difficult for the Patriots to score 40+ points again.

Something tells me that this week, they're going to need that many.

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How the Chiefs defense beats the Patriots offense for the AFC Championship

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The Kansas City Chiefs are on the doorstep of an AFC Championship, and they are there - in no small part - due to the efforts of their defense. Just like we all predicted... right? The Chiefs face the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship Game this Sunday night to see who gets to go on to Atlanta.

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Prominent Democrat donor Terry Bean was indicted earlier this month on two counts of sodomy and one count of sex abuse for allegedly having sex with a teenage boy. Bean was arraigned Thursday on the charges, TV station KGW8 reported. He pleaded not guilty and was taken into custody at Lane County jail in Oregon. He was released Thursday and told KGW8 he was “innocent.”

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Prominent Democrat donor Terry Bean was indicted earlier this month on two counts of sodomy and one count of sex abuse for allegedly having sex with a teenage boy.

Bean was arraigned Thursday on the charges, TV station KGW8 reported. He pleaded not guilty and was taken into custody at Lane County jail in Oregon. He was released Thursday and told KGW8 he was "innocent."

The indictment was filed on Jan. 4 but made public following the arraignment.
OBAMA FUNDRAISER, DONOR FACING SEX ABUSE CHARGES
Bean, a gay rights activist who donated almost $70,000 of his own money to former President Barack Obama's campaign, was charged with sexual abuse in 2014 but the case was dismissed after the alleged victim did not testify. Prosecutors refiled the charges after this, court records stated, according to The Oregonian. The "alleged victim is not named in the new indictment" but the dates are similar to the previous charges, KGW8 noted.

Bean, a real estate developer, and his former boyfriend, Kiah Lawson, allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old boy in a Eugene, Oregon, hotel in September 2013. They allegedly used the app Grindr to arrange the sexual encounter. Lawson was also charged but his case was dismissed.
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Bean's lawyer, Derek Ashton said in an emailed statement to KGW8: "This case is a continuation of the 2014 blackmail scam by [Lawson] and others, including today's accuser. Mr. Bean is the victim and he has paid enough. We will see them in court."

The media outlet reported that political candidates accepted campaign contributions from Bean after the case was dropped against him.
Fox News' Mike Emanuel contributed to this report.

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Prominent Democratic donor Terry Bean indicted on sex abuse charges

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Prominent Democrat donor Terry Bean was indicted earlier this month on two counts of sodomy and one count of sex abuse for allegedly having sex with a teenage boy. Bean was arraigned Thursday on the charges, TV station KGW8 reported. He pleaded not guilty and was taken into custody at Lane County jail in Oregon.

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The sheriff's office in North Carolina's Robeson County fired an investigator following an internal probe into overlooked evidence that might have saved the life of 13-year-old Hania Noelia Aguilar, who was abducted, sexually assaulted and killed in November.

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The sheriff's office in North Carolina's Robeson County fired an investigator following an internal probe into overlooked evidence that might have saved the life of 13-year-old Hania Noelia Aguilar, who was abducted, sexually assaulted and killed in November.

Robeson County Sheriff Burnis Wilkins, Jr. announced in a press release Thursday that he had terminated investigator Darryl McPhatter based on findings from the probe. McPhatter had previously been suspended after preliminary findings.

Major Anthony Thompson, who was also suspended, resigned from his post with the Robeson County Sheriff's Office on Jan. 9. He served in law enforcement for more than 34 years, according to Wilkins.

FBI via AP

"The dedicated men and women of the Robeson County Sheriff's Office are proud public servants. My expectations of them are to serve the public with the utmost respect and to the best of their ability as trained law enforcement professionals," the sheriff said in a statement Thursday.

Aguilar was kidnapped outside her family's home in Lumberton just before dawn on Nov. 5. Three weeks later, her body was found in a lake some 10 miles away.

Michael Ray McLellan, 34, was arrested on Dec. 8 and faces 10 felonies relating to Aguilar's killing: first-degree murder, first-degree forcible rape, statutory rape, first-degree sexual offense, statutory sexual offense, first-degree kidnapping, larceny, restraint, abduction of a child and concealment of death, according to a press release from the FBI.

Robeson County Sheriffs Office via AP

The following week, Robeson County District Attorney Johnson Britt revealed that the sheriff's office had DNA evidence linking McLellan as a possible suspect in a 2016 rape, but investigators never followed up.

An email including that information was sent to the sheriff's office in 2017, copying the district attorney's office, according to Britt.

At that point, Britt said that information should have given the sheriff's office probable cause to seek a search warrant, obtain a DNA sample from McLellan and compare that sample to the 2016 rape kit.

FBI via AP

"I don't know what happened, if it got lost at the sheriff's department, if it got buried on somebody's desk, if it got placed in records division there and just vanished," Britt told reporters on Dec. 12. "In all likelihood, had this gone forward and we established a case against him at that time, Hania would not have died. And for that, I can't tell you how much that hurts, I can't tell you how sorry I am."

The Thursday press release did not say McPhatter was fired in connection to Aguilar's case. But the sheriff confirmed to ABC's Durham station WTVD that McPhatter was being investigated in relation to overlooked DNA in a 2016 rape case that might have put Aguilar's killer behind bars before he had a chance to harm her.

"It angers me and I've got to deal with it," Wilkins told WTVD in a recent interview. "To know that that happened, to know the reports didn't follow the proper channels, that further investigation wasn't done, interviews weren't done properly -- I have a major issue with that."

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Investigator fired after missed evidence that could have saved 13-year-old's life

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Two shark researchers who came face-to-face with what could be one of the largest great whites ever recorded are using their encounter as an opportunity to push for legislation that would protect sharks in Hawaii.
Ocean Ramsey, a shark researcher and conservationist, told The Associated Press that she encountered the 20-foot (6-meter) shark Tuesday near a dead sperm whale off Oahu.

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Two shark researchers who came face-to-face with what could be one of the largest great whites ever recorded are using their encounter as an opportunity to push for legislation that would protect sharks in Hawaii.

Ocean Ramsey, a shark researcher and conservationist, told The Associated Press that she encountered the 20-foot (6-meter) shark Tuesday near a dead sperm whale off Oahu.

The event was documented and shared by her fiancé and business partner Juan Oliphant on social media.

The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources said it was aware of photos of the great white and that tiger sharks also have been feeding on the whale.

Oliphant, who photographed the now-viral images, said it's unclear if the shark is the famed Deep Blue, believed to be the largest great white ever recorded.

"She looks the part right now," Oliphant said of the shark spotted Tuesday. "Maybe even more exciting that there is another massive, you know, super-size great white shark out there. Because their populations are so dwindling."

Ramsey, who operates Oahu-based One Ocean Diving and Research with Oliphant, said she has been pushing for a bill that would ban the killing of sharks and rays in Hawaii for several years, and hopes this year the measure will actually become law.

She said the images of her swimming next to a huge great white shark prove the predators should be protected, not feared.

Still, the seasoned shark diver doesn't think the general public should recklessly get into the water with the giants, especially around a food source like a rotting whale carcass.

Ramsey said extensive training and time spent studying shark behavior has kept her team and customers safe. She teaches people about how to act and, more importantly, not act when they encounter a shark in the water.

Ramsey and her team observe behavior, identify and tag sharks and share that data with researchers as well as state and federal officials. She said she previously swam with the huge shark on research trips to Guadalupe Island, Mexico.

She also leads cage-free shark diving tours.

Unlike many marine mammals, sharks are not a federally protected species, though there are laws against the sale of their fins.

"So there's not a lot of sympathy for sharks because of the way they're portrayed in media and they don't have the cute cuddly appearance," Ramsey said. "You can't hate them for being predators. We need them for healthy marine ecosystems."

Ramsey and Oliphant want to make sure that people realize that shark bites are uncommon.

"The idea that they see people as a food source, that is rubbish and that needs to go away because really that's ultimately leading to the demise of these animals," Oliphant said.

State Sen. Mike Gabbard sponsored the shark protection legislation last session and plans to reintroduce it this year. The bill died in the House when it wasn't heard by the House Judiciary Committee.

The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources said Wednesday that the decomposing whale carcass had drifted to about eight miles (13 kilometers) south of Pearl Harbor after being towed 15 miles (24 kilometers) offshore days earlier.

Officials said there have been reports that people are climbing onto the carcass to take its teeth as souvenirs, which may be a violation of state and federal laws.

The agency's Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement Chief Jason Redull said people should stay out of the water around the dead whale.

"Understandably, some people want to get into the water either out of fascination or to get photographs, but it is truly dangerous to be around this carcass with so much shark activity," he said.

He said it's impressive that the great white survived gill nets and other dangers he called a "gauntlet of human death traps."

"It's very special," He said.

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Associated Press reporter Audrey McAvoy in Honolulu contributed to this report.

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A gas explosion during renovations on the roof of a building at the University of Lyon in France caused an evacuation and three people to sustain minor injuries.

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A gas explosion during renovations on the roof of a building at the University of Lyon in France caused an evacuation and three people to sustain minor injuries.

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Top N.Korean in Washington to prepare new Trump summit

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A top North Korean general will meet the US leadership Friday on a rare visit to Washington, in a sign of progress in arranging a new summit with President Donald Trump aimed at denuclearization and easing decades of hostility.

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A sheriff office in North Carolina fired an investigator after he missed crucial evidence that could have saved 13-year-old Hania Noeila Aguliar who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered.

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The sheriff's office in North Carolina's Robeson County fired an investigator following an internal probe into overlooked evidence that might have saved the life of 13-year-old Hania Noelia Aguilar, who was abducted, sexually assaulted and killed in November.

Robeson County Sheriff Burnis Wilkins, Jr. announced in a press release Thursday that he had terminated investigator Darryl McPhatter based on findings from the probe. McPhatter had previously been suspended after preliminary findings.

Major Anthony Thompson, who was also suspended, resigned from his post with the Robeson County Sheriff's Office on Jan. 9. He served in law enforcement for more than 34 years, according to Wilkins.

FBI via AP

"The dedicated men and women of the Robeson County Sheriff's Office are proud public servants. My expectations of them are to serve the public with the utmost respect and to the best of their ability as trained law enforcement professionals," the sheriff said in a statement Thursday.

Aguilar was kidnapped outside her family's home in Lumberton just before dawn on Nov. 5. Three weeks later, her body was found in a lake some 10 miles away.

Michael Ray McLellan, 34, was arrested on Dec. 8 and faces 10 felonies relating to Aguilar's killing: first-degree murder, first-degree forcible rape, statutory rape, first-degree sexual offense, statutory sexual offense, first-degree kidnapping, larceny, restraint, abduction of a child and concealment of death, according to a press release from the FBI.

Robeson County Sheriffs Office via AP

The following week, Robeson County District Attorney Johnson Britt revealed that the sheriff's office had DNA evidence linking McLellan as a possible suspect in a 2016 rape, but investigators never followed up.

An email including that information was sent to the sheriff's office in 2017, copying the district attorney's office, according to Britt.

At that point, Britt said that information should have given the sheriff's office probable cause to seek a search warrant, obtain a DNA sample from McLellan and compare that sample to the 2016 rape kit.

FBI via AP

"I don't know what happened, if it got lost at the sheriff's department, if it got buried on somebody's desk, if it got placed in records division there and just vanished," Britt told reporters on Dec. 12. "In all likelihood, had this gone forward and we established a case against him at that time, Hania would not have died. And for that, I can't tell you how much that hurts, I can't tell you how sorry I am."

The Thursday press release did not say McPhatter was fired in connection to Aguilar's case. But the sheriff confirmed to ABC's Durham station WTVD that McPhatter was being investigated in relation to overlooked DNA in a 2016 rape case that might have put Aguilar's killer behind bars before he had a chance to harm her.

"It angers me and I've got to deal with it," Wilkins told WTVD in a recent interview. "To know that that happened, to know the reports didn't follow the proper channels, that further investigation wasn't done, interviews weren't done properly -- I have a major issue with that."

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Investigator fired after missed evidence that could have saved 13-year-old's life

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The sheriff's office in North Carolina's Robeson County fired an investigator following an internal probe into overlooked evidence that might have saved the life of 13-year-old Hania Noelia Aguilar, who was abducted, sexually assaulted and killed in November. Robeson County Sheriff Burnis Wilkins, Jr.

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Southern California cold case investigators announced this week a breakthrough in identifying a 1987 stabbing victim whose hands had been hacked off by her killer.

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Southern California cold case investigators announced this week a breakthrough in identifying a 1987 stabbing victim whose hands had been hacked off by her killer.

The investigators identified the Jane Doe homicide victim as Tracey Hobson after 31 years using "forensic genealogy techniques," according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

Hobson was 20 and living in Anaheim when she disappeared in June 1987. A hiker found her body near a red handkerchief two months later, Patch Orange County reported Thursday. She had been stabbed in the chest.

"Our investigators are working to see if anyone filed a missing person report on Tracey," Carrie Braun, a spokeswoman with the sheriff's office, said.
FINGERPRINT LINKS 1993 COLD-CASE RAPE TO TENNESSEE MAN, OFFICIALS SAY
The nonprofit DNA Doe Project assisted in identifying Hobson using GedMatch, a public genealogical website, Patch and other local media reported.

The same technique was used to identify a man northern California police say was the notorious Golden State Killer. Jospeh DeAngelo, 72, a former cop, is accused of committing more than 50 rapes and 13 murders from 1974 to 1986.

"Forensic genealogy has provided a new tool for investigators to work cases from a different angle to bring closure to families," Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said. "We will never stop investigating these types of cases and seeking justice for victims of crime."

A DNA profile of Jane Doe was extracted in 2005, the Orange County Register reported.
CALIFORNIA MAN ARRESTED IN TWO 1990S COLD-CASE RAPES AFTER POLICE USE FAMILIAL DNA TESTING
Over the years the DNA profile was compared to other missing persons in an attempt to identify the victim with no results.

Two years ago investigators used facial reconstruction to create images of what Jane Doe might have looked like, the paper reported.
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Those images were released to the public but generated no new leads.

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Murdered 20-year-old woman finally identified 31 years later

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Southern California cold case investigators announced this week a breakthrough in identifying a 1987 stabbing victim whose hands had been hacked off by her killer. The investigators identified the Jane Doe homicide victim as Tracey Hobson after 31 years using "forensic genealogy techniques," according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

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The second of a series of storms moving across the country will bring significant snow and ice to the North and heavy rains and severe weather to the South on Friday and into the weekend.

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A series of storms moving across the country will bring significant snow to the north and heavy rains to the south Friday and into the weekend. Roughly 100 million people are under some form of a winter storm watch, warning or advisory across the United States.