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The parents of an 8-month-old girl who died last week in Coventry, R.I., have been charged with felony neglect after police said the potent opioid fentanyl was found in the infant's system.

Steven Gilchrist and Jocelyn Belmore, both 32, were arrested Tuesday. They face one felony count each of cruelty to or neglect of a child. They both pleaded not guilty Wednesday at the Kent County Courthouse.

Their daughter, Mia Dorothy Gilchrist, was found unresponsive after authorities received a call Nov. 19, Coventry police said.

The infant was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead. An investigation produced evidence of criminal neglect by the parents and a preliminary toxicology report revealed the presence of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic drug, police said.

It was unclear how the drug entered the child's system.

A judge set bail at $50,000 for the parents, and ordered them not to have contact with children under age 16. They were referred to the public defender's office.

Police say the charges could be upgraded depending on the final report from the medical examiner's office.

Gilchrist and Belmore both have minor criminal records, including larceny, shoplifting and domestic violence charges for Gilchrist and driving under the influence and traffic violations for Belmore, the Providence Journal reported.

The state Department of Children, Youth and Families is required to notify the public within two days of a child's death when abuse is suspected. The DCYF notified the public Wednesday following the criminal charges of Gilchrist and Belmore, the Providence Journal reported.

Kerri White, a spokeswoman for DCYF, said Gilchrist was known to them through an unrelated case having to do with a family member.

She said the family is the subject of an active DCYF investigation, and that the agency learned Wednesday of additional information in support of a finding of child maltreatment. White said she couldn't provide additional information because of confidentiality laws.

A fundraiser was subsequently posted to Facebook for "Baby Mia" that raised more than $4,700. One post read: "We are horrified to have to make this announcement and come to you all with this plea. This morning Baby Mia was called to heaven. Suddenly and unexpectedly, this beautiful butterfly transformed into a[n] angel."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Fentanyl found in dead baby's system; parents face charges

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The parents of an 8-month-old girl who died last week in Coventry, R.I., have been charged with felony neglect after police said the potent opioid fentanyl was found in the infant's system. Steven Gilchrist and Jocelyn Belmore, both 32, were arrested Tuesday. They face one felony count each of cruelty to or neglect of a child.

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Ellen has a security guard that was shoot in Vegas on her show

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Three workers that working on the roof stopped working when they herd the the National Anthem at a nearby school.

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Trump keeps denying that he told a widow of a fallen soldier that 'he knew what he signed up for' ..

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President Donald Trump today denied telling the widow of a fallen U.S. soldier "he knew what he signed up for" in a phone call he made Tuesday, contradicting a Florida congresswoman who said she was with the woman at the time.

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Rep. Frederica Wilson said she was with Myeshia Johnson in a car headed to Miami International Airport Tuesday afternoon to meet the body of Johnson's late husband, Sgt. La David T. Johnson, who died in Africa this month, when the president called.

In an interview with CNN Tuesday night, the Democratic congresswoman said of Trump's comment about Sgt. Johnson: "Basically, he said, 'Well, I guess he knew what he signed up for. But I guess it still hurt.' That's what he said."

Wilson said she heard part of the conversation on speakerphone.

But Trump tweeted this morning, "Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof)."

Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof). Sad!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2017

Wilson responded to Trump's tweet, calling him a "sick man" and saying she has her own proof.

"I'm not trying to prove anything with the president," Wilson said in an interview with CNN this morning. "So the president evidently is lying.

"Because what I said is true. I have no reason to lie on the president of the United States. With a dead soldier in my community. I have no time. I have no motive."

When asked by ABC Miami affiliate WPLG-TV whether she was sure about what she heard Trump say, Wilson responded, "Yeah, he said that. To me that is something that you can say in a conversation, but you shouldn't say that to a grieving widow. And everyone knows when you go to war, you could possibly not come back alive. But you don't remind a grieving widow of that. That's so insensitive."

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La David Johnson died earlier this month in Niger when he was ambushed by militants believed to be linked to ISIS. His pregnant widow broke down in tears hugging his casket Tuesday as it was unloaded from the airplane.

Wilson told WPLG, "Now I didn't hear the entire conversation, but when I tried to find out what the entire conversation was, she said I just can't remember everything that he said. But that stood out in everyone's, uh heart, on the call. You don't say that. He is the president of the United States."

"This is a soldier who gave his life for his country. He is a hero in our minds, in our communities' minds, that is an insult to the entire Miami Gardens community, to our entire District 24, to Miami-Dade County, and to this nation. And I hope he did not say that to the other 3 families that he called," she added.

The full context of the president's comment as described by Wilson is not known.

And the White House has declined to comment on the remarks that are being attributed to Trump.

"The president's conversations with the families of American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice are private," a White House official told ABC News Tuesday night.

The controversy comes just a day after Trump criticized former President Obama for not always reaching out to the family of fallen soldiers. Trump was asked why he hadn't reached out to the families of victims of the Niger attack, and he responded by criticizing former presidents.

"If you look at President [Barack] Obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls. A lot of them didn't make calls. I like to call when it's appropriate, when I think I am able to do it," Trump said on Monday. "They have made the ultimate sacrifice. So generally I would say that I like to call. I'm going to be calling them. I want a little time to pass. I'm going to be calling them."

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Trump made calls to family members of all four killed servicemen on Tuesday.

In her interview with CNN Tuesday, Wilson elaborated on her reaction, saying she wanted to confront the president.

"I asked them to give me the phone because I wanted to speak with him," she said. "And I was going to curse him out. That was my reaction at that time. I was livid. But they would not give me the phone."

As for Johnson's reaction, Rep. Wilson told MSNBC told, "She was crying the whole time and when she hung up the phone she looked at me and said, 'He didn't even remember his name.'"

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Wilson said she was not politicizing anything by sharing what she heard from the phone call.

"He died as a sergeant. He died as a hero," Wilson said.

She added, "And Mr. Trump was extremely insensitive to that family and I will stick by that. I'm not trying to politicize it, but I think it was a disgrace."

Johnson was one of four soldiers killed in Niger when a joint patrol of American and Niger forces was ambushed Oct. 4 by militants believed linked to ISIS. Johnson enlisted in the Army in January 2014 as a wheeled-vehicle mechanic and was assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group, a Green Beret unit based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The military says his body was found Friday after an extensive search; his body was initially listed as missing.

The bodies of the three other U.S. troops were recovered shortly after the attack, which also killed four Niger military members. The U.S. and Niger forces were leaving a meeting with tribal leaders when they were ambushed.

Johnson, mother to the couple's 2-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter, is expecting their third child in January.

A GoFundMe account set up to pay for education costs for the couple's three children skyrocketed on Tuesday evening. The campaign, which was set up on Tuesday, met its goal of $100,000 and kept climbing to over $146,000 by 3 a.m. on Wednesday. Over 3,100 people had donated to the fund early Wednesday. TV producer Bill Prady donated $5,000 to the campaign and offered to match donors for another $5,000.

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President Donald Trump today denied telling the widow of a fallen U.S. soldier "he knew what he signed up for" in a phone call he made Tuesday, contradicting a Florida congresswoman who said she was with the woman at the time. Rep. Frederica Wilson said she was with Myeshia Johnson in a car headed...

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crash leads into fist fight between two men- arrest on indiana race track.

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ANDERSON, Ind. - Two racecar drivers have been arrested after getting into a fistfight following a crash on an Indiana racetrack that ended with a police officer using a stun gun on one of the drivers.

A video posted online from Saturday's race at Anderson Speedway shows one vehicle driving onto the second car's hood following the initial crash.

The driver of the second car exits the vehicle and punches the other driver while he was still inside his car. An officer jogs onto the track and uses a stun gun on the driver standing outside the cars.

Both men were eventually handcuffed and led away.

The driver struck by the stun gun was identified Monday as 42-year-old Shawn Cullen. He was ticketed for disorderly conduct.

The other driver, 40-year-old Jeffrey Swinford, was charged with misdemeanor criminal recklessness.

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ANDERSON, Ind. - Two racecar drivers have been arrested after getting into a fistfight following a crash on an Indiana racetrack that ended with a police officer using a stun gun on one of the drivers. A video posted online from Saturday's race at Anderson Speedway shows one vehicle driving onto the second car's hood following the initial crash.

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The security guard that was shot in the Las Vegas shooting appeared on the Ellen show,

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Security guard Jesus Campos, who was shot by the Las Vegas gunman on October 1, appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," breaking his media silence.

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An airman missing from an airbase in North Dakota has been found in Florida with a new name to avoid charges.

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A U.S. airman missing from his North Dakota base for 40 years has been found - leading a double life in Florida with a new name.

Jeffrey Michels failed to report for duty at Minot Air Force Base on July 6, 1977 and hadn't been seen since, WFTV reported. He was recently found living in Seminole County with a wife and kids under the alias Jeffrey Lantz.

Investigators said he went by the name for years and used it in 1998 to get a license from the state of Florida for his construction business - Atlantic Development Corporation. Michels also used the fake name to buy a home in a Terra Bella neighborhood, according to the news station.

The 64-year-old Ohio native was arrested Thursday on charges of desertion and is in the custody of the United States Air Force.

Because there is no statute of limitations for the charge, Michels will stand trial in military court.

His photo in July was posted by the Facebook group " Veteran Doe " - a page aimed at bringing "attention to the many missing veteran/active duty cases and unidentified person cases where there is a possible military connection."

The post was deleted when Michels was discovered, Fox News reported. It is unclear whether the Facebook post prompted the Air Force to investigate Michel's disappearance.
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Missing airman found 40 years later living double life in Florida

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A U.S. airman missing from his North Dakota base for 40 years has been found - leading a double life in Florida with a new name. Jeffrey Michels failed to report for duty at Minot Air Force Base on July 6, 1977 and hadn't been seen since, WFTV reported.

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Old man pleads guilty but still doesnt go to jail.

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A notorious jewel thief arrested at a Walmart in Georgia got no jail time during her latest court appearance.

Now 87, Doris Payne has stolen about $2 million in jewels over six decades. She was arrested July 17 for a misdemeanor shoplifting charge after a Walmart employee said she tried to leave the suburban Atlanta store with items she hadn't paid for.

Payne had been on probation after pleading guilty in March to a felony shoplifting charge for trying to steal a $2,000 necklace from a department store in December. She was jailed for violating that probation.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Payne appeared Monday before Chamblee Municipal court Judge Angela Duncan, who told her "Don't come back."

Payne pleaded guilty in a deal that gave her credit for 58 days served from July through September.

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Guilty plea but no jail for jewel thief Doris Payne, 87

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A notorious jewel thief arrested at a Walmart in Georgia got no jail time during her latest court appearance. Now 87, Doris Payne has stolen about $2 million in jewels over six decades. She was arrested July 17 for a misdemeanor shoplifting charge after a Walmart employee said she tried to...

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A mudslide hit Puerto Rico where trump threw the toilet towels and lanterns.

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Residents in Guaynabo - where President Trump tossed paper towels to crowds - say they have seen no federal help, and now they've lost a key bridge.

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NFL refusal to impose national anthem and how it shows a disrespect to our country and teams are getting fined for kneeling.

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President Trump slammed the NFL early Wednesday for its decision to "not force" players to stand for "The Star-Spangled Banner."

"The NFL has decided that it will not force players to stand for the playing of our National Anthem. Total disrespect for our great country!" Trump tweeted.

The president's tweets come the day after the NFL commissioner and owners convened for their annual fall meeting in New York City.

In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, the NFL and the NFLPA said that owners and players had "a productive meeting" to focus on how to "work together" and "promote positive social change and address inequality in our communities."

The NFL reviewed and discussed "plans to utilize" their platform "to promote equality and effectuate positive change," but seemingly did not make it a league-wide rule to require players to stand for the national anthem, despite the president's wishes.

"Everyone who is part of our NFL community has a tremendous respect for our country, our flag, our anthem and our military," the statement read. "In the best American tradition, we are coming together to find common ground and commit to the hard work required for positive change."

The NFL's statement comes one week after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell sent a memo to NFL executives and club presidents, aiming to move past the weeks-long feud between the White House and NFL players who have kneeled or otherwise protested during the national anthem at the start of NFL games.

"The current dispute over the national anthem is threatening to erode the unifying power of our game, and is now dividing us, and our players, from many fans across the country," Goodell wrote last week. "Like many of our fans, we believe that everyone should stand for the national anthem. It is an important moment in our game. We want to honor our flag and our country, and our fans expect that of us."

The president interpreted Goodell's words as a directive to demand players to stand.

"It is about time that Roger Goodell of the NFL is finally demanding that all players STAND for our great National Anthem -- RESPECT OUR COUNTRY," Trump tweeted last week.

Trump was clearly disappointed in the outcome of the NFL's meeting on Tuesday. The president also slammed Hillary Clinton this week for her take on the NFL players' protest, noting that it was a "reverent" position and not that it was against "our national anthem or our flag."

Trump suggested that such thinking is the "reason she lost the election."
TRUMP SLAMS CLINTON FOR DEFENDING NFL ANTHEM KNEELERS, SAYS THAT 'THINKING' IS WHY SHE LOST
The weeks-long feud began dominating the headlines last month at a rally in Alabama, when Trump called for players to be fired if they disrespected the flag, spurring the controversy.

"The NFL should have suspended some of these players for one game -- not fire them -- suspend them for one game. And then, if they did it again, it could have been two games, then three games, then for the season," Trump suggested on Monday. "You wouldn't have people disrespecting our country right now."

Brooke Singman is a Politics Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @brookefoxnews.

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President Trump slammed the NFL early Wednesday for its decision to "not force" players to stand for "The Star-Spangled Banner." "The NFL has decided that it will not force players to stand for the playing of our National Anthem. Total disrespect for our great country!" Trump tweeted.

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There's a GoFundMe for the Slain Soldier Who Trump Said 'Knew What He Signed Up For'

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Family members of Sgt. La David T. Johnson have launched a Go Fund Me campaign to raise money for his children's future college education.

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Cancer drugs grown in chicken eggs may lower their cost

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Researchers in Japan may have found a way to produce cheaper drugs that could be used to treat a range of diseases from chicken eggs.

They have successfully genetically modified hens to produce eggs containing large amounts of interferon beta protein, a protein used to treat various illnesses, including multiple sclerosis and cancer.

The protein is very expensive, costing between $300-$1000 for just one microgram, according to pharmaceutical company, Cosmo Bio who co-led the research.

For treating MS, for example, the interferon dosage can start at 30 micrograms and increase from there.

The research was jointly conducted by scientists from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization and Cosmo Bio.

According to Mika Kitahara, a spokesperson for Cosmo Bio, this technology will reduce the price of cancer drugs at least by 90% if proven successful in further trials.

The conventional production of interferon needs large aseptic (sterile) facilities, but eggs work as a protein-producing aseptic system, said Kitahara.

Isao Oishi, chief researcher from the cell and molecule mechanism research group at AIST said the research was conducted to test whether the eggs from genetically modified chickens can be used for cheap production of these proteins.

A range of biological systems can be used to try and create drugs, such as bacteria, yeast and some mammalian cells, but "some proteins just don't suit these systems," said Professor Helen Sang from the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. For those that don't quite work, "making protein from egg-white is relatively easy," she told CNN.

"Interferon was discovered as a cell-signaling protein molecule in the body which acts against viruses," said Dr. Robert Bermel, director of the Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis at the Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute. Later it was used to treat auto-immune diseases - where a person's immune system attacks their body - like multiple sclerosis, he adds.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) affects the brain, spinal cord and eyes, resulting in a range of symptoms, such as vision problems, numbness and difficulties walking.

Bermel explained that interferon protein molecule is expensive because manufacturing it is a tedious process requiring strict quality control.

"Interferon for MS can be manufactured from bacteria like insulin or from Chinese hamster ovary cells." The quantity of interferon produced this way, however, is very little. "(The new research) sounds like a relatively inexpensive way to mass produce it," he says.

Previously, the Japanese scientists tried to produce the modified protein by inserting the required genes into chicken chromosomes using a virus as a vector, but said this produced an "irregular result." The new method aims to more accurately and stably produce the protein by knocking in edited genes, using a gene-editing tool called CRISPR. The researchers are currently writing up their findings for academic publication.

More research is neededand the interferon beta protein will need safety clearance through trials before it can be used to treat patients.

However, Sang explained it's not as simple as modifying these chickens to get endless supplies of the drug at a lower cost.

"You'll have to show (the drug) is exactly the same as the drugs that have gone through all the clinical trials," said Sang, whose own team has been working on transgenic chickens for over a decade. As well as simply making the drugs in the eggs, they will also need to be purified and validated through additional research, she said.

If this new source of interferon is shown to be the same, structurally, "then there is a lot of advantage in terms of scale," said Sang. You can start with a few hens then scale up quickly, she said.

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One drug, Kanuma, produced using modified chickens has already been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency, a rare inherited condition where the body does not produce enough of a protein that helps the body break down fatty material.

The immediate hope is for the cancer-battling medicine to result in affordable medical products. The team is looking forward as well, with research underway to produce human antibodies using the same method.

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Researchers in Japan may have found a way to produce cheaper drugs that could be used to treat a range of diseases from chicken eggs. They have successfully genetically modified hens to produce eggs containing large amounts of interferon beta protein, a protein used to treat various illnesses, including multiple sclerosis and cancer.

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An Airman who disappeared from an Air Force Base in North Dakota 40 years ago is in custody of the U.S. Air Force after he was discovered last week living in Florida.

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Archaeologists find part of 4,000-year-old statue in Egypt.

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Egypt says archaeologists have discovered the head of a wooden statue, likely belonging to a female regent who ruled the country more than 4,000 years ago.

Wednesday's statement by the Antiquities Ministry says the artifact was found in the district of Saqqara, near the ancient Pyramids of Giza. It says the part of the statue is in poor condition and will have to undergo restoration

The uncovered head is believed to depict Ankhesenpepi II, the mother of King Pepi II of the 6th dynasty who ascended to the throne at the age of six. She ruled Egypt as regent during the early years of his reign.

Earlier in October, archaeologists at the same dig uncovered part of an obelisk made of pink granite that belongs to the same dynasty.

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A convicted sex offender whose signature killing method prompted him to be dubbed Houston's "Tourniquet Killer" is set to die by lethal injection

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A convicted sex offender whose signature killing method prompted him to be dubbed Houston's "Tourniquet Killer" is set to die by lethal injection Wednesday evening, barring any late legal action.

Anthony Allen Shore, 55, will be the seventh Texas inmate to be executed this year. When he was arrested in 2003, he confessed to killing a 21-year-old woman by twisting a cord from a window blind around her neck and dumping her in the drive-thru lane of a Dairy Queen in 1991.

"He said, 'I have a tip for you. There's a serial killer on the loose.'"
- Barbara Robertson, KPRC assignment manager

Maria del Carmen Estrada's slaying went unsolved for more than a decade until a tiny particle collected from beneath her fingernail matched the DNA of Shore.

When police arrested Shore, who was on probation for his 1998 conviction for sexually assaulting two relatives, he also confessed to killing three others, including a 9-year-old girl and two teenage girls. All were Hispanic, and three had been sexually assaulted.

"There were voices in my head that I was going to have her, regardless, to possess her in some way," Shore, a former tow truck driver, phone company repairman and part-time musician, told detectives about Estrada. The then-21-year-old Estrada was walking to work about 6:30 a.m. on April 16, 1992, when he offered her a ride she accepted.

It wasn't until five years after Shore's DNA went into a state database following his 1998 sexual assault conviction that the match to Estrada's murderer was made.

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg has described Shore as a "true serial killer" who terrorized young Hispanic females in the Houston area for years.

Besides Estrada, Shore confessed to the slayings of Laurie Tremblay, 15, found beside a trash bin outside a Houston restaurant in 1986; Diana Rebollar, 9, abducted while walking to a neighborhood grocery store in 1994; and Dana Sanchez, 16, who disappeared in 1995 while hitchhiking to her boyfriend's home in Houston.

At the time of the Sanchez murder, Shore called Houston television station KPRC to report the location of a body.

"I pick up the phone and I say, 'Tipline,'" former KPRC assignment manager Barbara Magana Robertson said. "He said, 'I have a tip for you. There's a serial killer on the loose.'"

Robertson said the nearly 40-minute call became serious when the man started giving her directions to the location of a body, including details on how it was positioned.

"He gave me clues to like four or five different murders and I had no idea. I'm thinking I'm getting one murder details and he knew I was getting several different murders," said Robertson.

At his trial in 2004, with the confession and DNA results in evidence, a jury convicted Shore of capital murder. The next day, Shore's lawyers told jurors that, against their judgment and advice, their client wanted the death penalty. Jurors then heard four days of prosecution evidence about the three other slayings and heard from three women who testified he raped them.

The trial judge ultimately asked Shore directly if his lawyers' statements about him wanting the death penalty were accurate.

"This is very accurate," he replied.

In appeals, lawyers appointed for Shore argued he suffered from brain damage early in life that his trial attorneys didn't discover, and the brain injury affected his decision about wanting the death penalty. A federal appeals court earlier this year turned down his appeal and two weeks ago the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his case.

The six-member Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously rejected a clemency petition Monday.

"I would describe Anthony's demeanor as that of any condemned man, that even though his life is severely altered by being in prison, especially on death row, he would rather have that than death," Knox Nunnally, one of Shore's attorneys, said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A convicted sex offender whose signature killing method prompted him to be dubbed Houston's "Tourniquet Killer" is set to die by lethal injection Wednesday evening, barring any late legal action. Anthony Allen Shore, 55, will be the seventh Texas inmate to be executed this year.

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Slain Muslim teen was raped,indictment charges

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Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, is accused of abduction, rape, sexual assault and capital murder in the death of Nabra Hassanen, who was attacked and killed early on June 18, as she walked back to a mosque with friends ahead of the daylong Ramadan fast.

The eight-count indictment, obtained by CNN affiliate WJLA, confirms investigators' claims in the days after Nabra's slaying that the teen may have been sexually assaulted.

A trial date is expected to be set at a Thursday morning hearing, a Fairfax County Circuit Court clerk told CNN. Torres was ordered held without bond in June after an initial charge of murder. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.

An attorney for Torres could not be identified.

He is being represented by the county public defender's office, which did not immediately return CNN's request for comment.

At a court hearing on Friday in Fairfax County, Nabra's parents saw Torres in person for the first time. Nabra's mother threw a shoe at Torres and shouted "I'll kill you" in the courtroom, according to CNN affiliate WJLA.

At that time, Torres waived his right to a probable cause hearing and a jury trial was ordered. It's unclear if he has entered a plea on the murder charge.

A handful of people were escorted out of the courtroom after the commotion. Outside the courthouse, a crowd of about 150 people had gathered with signs showing support for Nabra, according to WJLA.

Sexual assault, premeditation alleged

Torres, of Sterling, Virginia, allegedly was in his car when he first saw Nabra and her friends walking and riding bikes in the street and on the sidewalk. He became so enraged after arguing with one teen he drove up on a curb, police said. He later found the group in a nearby parking lot, chased them on foot with a baseball bat and allegedly beat Nabra.

Torres, 22, put the injured teen in his car, officials said. Her body was found Sunday evening in Loudoun County.

The indictment accuses Torres of raping and sexually assaulting Nabra with an unspecified object before killing her "with premeditation."

Nabra died from blunt-force trauma to the head and neck, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Northern Virginia said. Authorities initially believed Torres had beaten her with a baseball bat.

Immigration officials have placed a hold on Torres, a native of El Salvador, because he was in the country illegally.

Police reject hate crime claims

Local authorities have called Nabra's death a road-rage incident and declined to investigate it as a hate crime.

But some in her family and her religious community insist she was targeted because of her race and her faith. When she was kidnapped, Nabra was wearing an abaya, a traditional black cloak, her father, Mahmoud Hassanen, has said.

The Council on American Islamic Relations represents Hassanen's family in the criminal case. Their lawyer and Nabra's father did not immediately respond Tuesday to CNN's requests for comment.

CNN's David Shortell, Dakin Andone and Darran Simon contributed to this report.

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Slain Muslim teen also was raped, indictment charges

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Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, is accused of abduction, rape, sexual assault and capital murder in the death of Nabra Hassanen, who was attacked and killed early on June 18, as she walked back to a mosque with friends ahead of the daylong Ramadan fast.

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Kevin James explains TV wife's onscreen death

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Star Kevin James has broken his silence about the storyline death which made way for a reunion with his "The King of Queens" costar Leah Remini.

"I get that people are like 'Whoa, why would you do this," James recently told the New York Daily News. "But it really felt like a thing like this was needed for this show to drive forward."

Erinn Hayes portrayed James's onscreen wife in the series and fans were surprised when news broke this summer that she would not be returning for season 2.

According to James, the series was originally written to feature his character, retired police officer Kevin Gable, as a single father but producers decided to instead make him a family man.

But after the first season, James said, "The plot of the show didn't have enough drive."

"If we got through a second season, I wouldn't see us getting through a third one," he said. "We were literally just running out of ideas."

One idea that panned out was bringing Remini, who played his wife on "The King of Queens," on last season for a two-part finale in a guest role as Gable's former police partner, Vanessa Cellucci.

"Fans loved it, everybody on the crew loved it," James said. "We just knew right away, so we thought, 'How can we get her here full-time to be on the show?'"

The second season of "Kevin Can Wait" kicked off on September 25.

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Star Kevin James has broken his silence about the storyline death which made way for a reunion with his "The King of Queens" costar Leah Remini. "I get that people are like 'Whoa, why would you do this," James recently told the New York Daily News.

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'Tourniquit killer' Anthony Shore, who terrorized Texas woman, Finally set to die

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A convicted sex offender whose signature killing method prompted him to be dubbed Houston's "Tourniquet Killer" is set to die by lethal injection Wednesday evening, barring any late legal action.

Anthony Allen Shore, 55, will be the seventh Texas inmate to be executed this year. When he was arrested in 2003, he confessed to killing a 21-year-old woman by twisting a cord from a window blind around her neck and dumping her in the drive-thru lane of a Dairy Queen in 1991.

"He said, 'I have a tip for you. There's a serial killer on the loose.'"
- Barbara Robertson, KPRC assignment manager

Maria del Carmen Estrada's slaying went unsolved for more than a decade until a tiny particle collected from beneath her fingernail matched the DNA of Shore.

When police arrested Shore, who was on probation for his 1998 conviction for sexually assaulting two relatives, he also confessed to killing three others, including a 9-year-old girl and two teenage girls. All were Hispanic, and three had been sexually assaulted.

"There were voices in my head that I was going to have her, regardless, to possess her in some way," Shore, a former tow truck driver, phone company repairman and part-time musician, told detectives about Estrada. The then-21-year-old Estrada was walking to work about 6:30 a.m. on April 16, 1992, when he offered her a ride she accepted.

It wasn't until five years after Shore's DNA went into a state database following his 1998 sexual assault conviction that the match to Estrada's murderer was made.

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg has described Shore as a "true serial killer" who terrorized young Hispanic females in the Houston area for years.

Besides Estrada, Shore confessed to the slayings of Laurie Tremblay, 15, found beside a trash bin outside a Houston restaurant in 1986; Diana Rebollar, 9, abducted while walking to a neighborhood grocery store in 1994; and Dana Sanchez, 16, who disappeared in 1995 while hitchhiking to her boyfriend's home in Houston.

At the time of the Sanchez murder, Shore called Houston television station KPRC to report the location of a body.

"I pick up the phone and I say, 'Tipline,'" former KPRC assignment manager Barbara Magana Robertson said. "He said, 'I have a tip for you. There's a serial killer on the loose.'"

Robertson said the nearly 40-minute call became serious when the man started giving her directions to the location of a body, including details on how it was positioned.

"He gave me clues to like four or five different murders and I had no idea. I'm thinking I'm getting one murder details and he knew I was getting several different murders," said Robertson.

At his trial in 2004, with the confession and DNA results in evidence, a jury convicted Shore of capital murder. The next day, Shore's lawyers told jurors that, against their judgment and advice, their client wanted the death penalty. Jurors then heard four days of prosecution evidence about the three other slayings and heard from three women who testified he raped them.

The trial judge ultimately asked Shore directly if his lawyers' statements about him wanting the death penalty were accurate.

"This is very accurate," he replied.

In appeals, lawyers appointed for Shore argued he suffered from brain damage early in life that his trial attorneys didn't discover, and the brain injury affected his decision about wanting the death penalty. A federal appeals court earlier this year turned down his appeal and two weeks ago the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his case.

The six-member Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously rejected a clemency petition Monday.

"I would describe Anthony's demeanor as that of any condemned man, that even though his life is severely altered by being in prison, especially on death row, he would rather have that than death," Knox Nunnally, one of Shore's attorneys, said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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'Tourniquet Killer' Anthony Shore, who terrorized Houston area, set to die

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A convicted sex offender whose signature killing method prompted him to be dubbed Houston's "Tourniquet Killer" is set to die by lethal injection Wednesday evening, barring any late legal action. Anthony Allen Shore, 55, will be the seventh Texas inmate to be executed this year.

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US planes spy on ISIS from edge of space The U.S. is using cold-war era bombers to spy and gather intelligence on ISIS.

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The U.S. is using cold-war era bombers to spy and gather intelligence on ISIS. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.

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The U.S. is using cold-war era bombers to spy and gather intelligence on ISIS.

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Jennifer Lawrence said that she was made to stand in a nude line-up and told to lose weight by film producers at the start of her career.

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Amazon Exec Roy Price's Fiancée Cancels Wedding After Sexual Harassment Allegations

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Lila Feinberg, a TV writer and playwright, has cancelled her wedding with Amazon executive Roy Price, who was recently put on leave after Isa Hackett claimed that Price made sexually suggestive comments to her, Feinberg's manager confirmed to Variety.