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The air of suspense is already apparent, and, as the wins pile up for the Toronto Raptors, the question everyone wants Kawhi Leonard to answer is sure to only loom larger: Are you staying? Asked at his first press conference after being dealt to the Raptors by the San Antonio Spurs, Leonard essentially said he didn't know yet. Canadians, being a polite bunch, haven't asked since. Now every move, word, gesture, rare facial expression is captured and examined for clues. Teammates, along with Raptors coaches and executives, are asked what they've learned about him in their first few months together, which is another way of asking if they know the answer to the other question.

The answer to another equally important question, though, is taking shape. Which is: After missing most of his seventh season in the league and leaving a franchise seemingly tailor-made for a shy superstar, exactly who is Kawhi Leonard?

The answer, so far: not the inscrutable, aloof guy he was made out to be by last year's events in San Antonio, when it was whispered that Leonard over-dramatized a quad injury merely to get out of town.

Take this early November game in Sacramento, for example. He logs 31 minutes and grabs 11 rebounds to go with his 25 points against the Kings. After the game, he tells the media waiting by his locker to interview the other Raptors first. Soon he can be seen in the training room going through a split-squat stretching exercise as physiotherapist Alex McKechnie, the team's director of sports science, pays close attention to his right thigh and knee.

Finished with that, Leonard sits down at his locker, wraps ice bags around both knees, sticks his feet in a bucket of ice and chats with his locker mate, Danny Green, before showering and then addressing the media.

"He's a hard worker," said first-year Raptors head coach Nick Nurse, "and a really good dude."

Adds point guard Kyle Lowry, who wasn't happy about seeing his friend DeMar DeRozan get traded for Leonard: "He's a really cool guy. He's a good man. A fun guy. And he does talk to his teammates."

One Eastern Conference executive insists Leonard never deserved to be viewed any other way, but being in conflict with one of the league's most successful franchises-and coaches in Gregg Popovich-put him in the crosshairs of anyone who had to pick a side to blame.

"The San Antonio mafia is real," the executive said. "When the Godfather (Popovich) speaks, they're coming for you. He's the nicest kid in the world and all of a sudden he's an evil villain? He's not an angry kid. He's a sweetheart."

No one was saying that about Leonard five months ago. There were conflicting reports surrounding a quad injury that limited him to nine games, reports that raised questions about its severity and his physical toughness. Rumors had him being upset that he wasn't getting the endorsements and national recognition a player of his ability might warrant, thanks to San Antonio being a small market and the team's custom of keeping the media at arm's length. He was supposedly sick of the Spurs' vaunted culture and homesick for Southern California. There was a players-only meeting in which he was confronted by the other Spurs about his commitment to them. Popovich flew to San Diego to meet with Leonard, presumably to plead with him to remain a Spur. The drama finally ended with Leonard and Danny Green being dealt to the Raptors for DeRozan, Jakob Poeltl and a protected future first-round pick.

There were major questions about just what Toronto was getting and for how long. Did he bail on his teammates? Was the quad injury really that severe? What was his priority, chasing another championship or living closer to where he grew up, Riverside, California? Would he even show up in Toronto, and if he did, would he use the same tactic he allegedly used in San Antonio to get moved again?

The hope, of course, was that Toronto would get the Leonard who was a two-time All- NBA first-teamer, champion, Finals MVP and heir presumptive to Tim Duncan as the most low-maintenance superstar in the league.

People who have been around him this season believe Leonard has been all that and more.

"He seems more aggressive," Sacramento Kings guard Yogi Ferrell said. "Maybe now that he's with a new organization, he wants to make a statement to the rest of the NBA. It's all about how you fit with an organization, and right now he looks like he fits better with Toronto than he did in San Antonio."

Ferrell isn't alone. After the Raptors dispatched the Kings, 114-105, to push their record to 11-1 and complete the first undefeated road trip four games or longer in franchise history, commentator and former swingman Doug Christie said, "He scored an eeeeasssy 25. I think he's kind of opening it up. He looks in control."

Leonard acknowledged that the Raptors offense affords him greater freedom. "It's a lot different," he said. "With Kyle, he likes to push the pace a lot. It's just a whole different style of play. Coach Pop and Nick Nurse are totally different coaches. This is [Nurse's] first year, so he's still learning on the fly. Obviously, coach Pop, being with the same organization for 22 years, so, um, you really can't compare them. It's very different."

As for Ferrell's observation, Leonard said: "I look more aggressive? The offense is a little freer, but I guess people forgot just from one year [away]. I used to take 17 to 18 shots and averaged 25 points."

An Eastern Conference scout agreed that the Raptors' simpler style allows Leonard to be more aggressive.

"They don't have a lot of the same structure San Antonio did," the scout said. "Pop was great at getting Kawhi the ball in his sweet spots, but there was always structure to it. Toronto is playing so free and fast that the defense doesn't know with as much certainty when and where he's going to get the ball. He is definitely handling the ball more in random pick-and-roll situations as well as set pick-and-roll calls."

No matter what Leonard does this season, the mysteries surrounding just what went wrong in San Antonio last season and where he'll be playing next season will hang in the air.

The Spurs' organizational structure is legendary and includes a stone wall between any internal issues and the public or media. Leonard, while clearly wanting to be elsewhere as much as Minnesota's Jimmy Butler did, never publicly violated the team code, while Butler, now in Philadelphia, was very vocal about his desire to be elsewhere. Both ultimately got their wish to be moved, but Leonard arguably had his character impugned far more harshly.

"Jimmy was like, 'Get me out of here and I'm going to tear down this thing on the way out,'" the executive said. "Kawhi doesn't talk to the media. Why would he call someone in the media to kill San Antonio for him? Let's face it: San Antonio screwed up."

Leonard's reticence makes sense when one understands his devotion to economy-as in the sparing use of available resources. The next time you see him put flourish into a fake will be the first time. He gets to his place of operation on the floor with a physique surprising in its similarity to those of LeBron James and Blake Griffin and then does whatever needs to be done with as little wasted motion as possible. His three-point shot is flat-footed, and his step-back jumper is more of a slide-back. Even his free-throw form is a study in minimalism-no knee bend, no elaborate pre-shot spin or dribble.

He is the quintessential direct-line player, his drives barely deviating between his starting point and the rim; once he angles one of his shoulders past a defender, he's going until someone or something makes him stop.

Celebrate a big play with a shimmy or pantomime or any extravagant use of added energy? Forget it.

The same goes with words. It was assumed Leonard did not like to be interviewed because in San Antonio he rarely was. The media who are around him on a regular basis in Toronto, however, say he can be perfectly engaging and then suddenly an invisible timer will go off in his head that will make him abruptly end the interview. Same goes with actual sentences. Once he feels he has conveyed whatever he wants to say, he will stop, even if the sentence isn't complete.

General manager Bobby Webster accompanied the team on its four-game swing, presumably for the front office to take every and any opportunity to get to know him better. With one of the stops being in L.A., it would also be prudent to be around to monitor with whom he might cross paths, as well, but Raptors players and executives downplay the idea that they're in any way anxious about fighting off Leonard's other suitors. Lowry said he will not make a point of trying to convince him to stay. "I don't ever do any of that stuff," he said. "My teammates are my brothers. Above anything else, I want them to do whatever makes them happy."

Perhaps out of deference to his friend and former teammate DeRozan, Lowry has been circumspect publicly about how much Leonard has improved the team. But a league source said Lowry privately has expressed amazement at just how good Leonard is. "Lowry has told people, 'This guy is something else,'" the source said.

Is it something that could propel the Raptors to their first Finals appearance? That remains to be seen. All that seems certain is this: He's something other than he was made out to be in San Antonio last season. For the Raptors, for now, that appears to be plenty.
Ric Bucher covers the NBA for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Twitter: @RicBucher.

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Four members of a family have been arrested in connection with the brutal, execution-style murders of seven adults and one teen at a home in Ohio in 2016, the state's attorney general announced Tuesday. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said the suspects, a husband, wife, and their two adult sons, were arrested in connection with the Rhoden family murders. "Following an extensive investigation by my office's #OhioBCI and the #PikeCounty Sheriff's Office, we have arrested four people accused of the murders of eight people in Pike County on April 22, 2016," DeWine said on Twitter. The Ohio A.G. release identified the suspects as George "Billy" Wagner III, Angela Wagner, and sons George Wagner IV and Edward "Jake" Wagner. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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Stan Lee, former editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics and the creator of beloved characters including Spider-Man, Iron Man, X-Men, and more, has died, ABC News has confirmed.

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An attorney for the Lee family, Kirk E. Schenck, said that Lee "did pass away this morning in Los Angeles."

Lee was 95 years old.

"Stan Lee was as extraordinary as the characters he created. A super hero in his own right to Marvel fans around the world, Stan had the power to inspire, to entertain, and to connect," said Bob Iger, chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company. "The scale of his imagination was only exceeded by the size of his heart."

Lee was an innovator and his work with Marvel Comics was groundbreaking, no more so than as in recent years with movies dominating the box offices involving his most prized characters such as Spider-Man, The Avengers and X-Men.

The New York City native was born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922 to Celia and Jack Lieber, and said that as a child, he loved to read, though he wasn't particularly interested into comic books. However, in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he got a job as an assistant at Timely Comics, which would eventually become Marvel Comics. Lee's duties included proofreading, refilling ink for the artists and other remedial duties, he once said in an interview.

In 1941, he made his comic debut writing a Captain America book, and used the pseudonym "Stan Lee" for the first time. But it wasn't until late 1950s when Lee struck out on his own, creating superheroes for what is now Marvel Comics, and giving them human flaws, something that hadn't been seen in the comic realm.

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Before Lee, heroes like Superman in competitor DC Comics were nearly perfect and didn't have the same concerns as ordinary people. Lee changed that with characters like Spider-Man, who debuted in 1962. Peter Parker, Spider-Man's alter ego, was a lonely high school student, and one with whom readers could identify. Other characters created by Lee during this time include the Fantastic Four, The Avengers, Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk.

But it was always Parker with whom Lee said he related to most.

"He's just an ordinary guy. And underneath all this wonderful exterior, I'm just an ordinary guy. He had so many problems and nothing ever worked out perfectly for him. He was always in some sort of trouble. Yeah, I could feel for old Peter," Lee told AMC in 2012.

Timely Comics became Marvel in the early 1960s. Lee would serve as Marvel's editor-in-chief until 1972, when he became publisher. His books tackled the news of the day, including politics and the Vietnam War, also something not really touched on in comics before. Lee helped to create comics' first mainstream black superhero in 1966 with Black Panther and brought awareness to teen drug use with Spider-Man books in the 1970s. He also created strong female superheroes like She-Hulk, always drawing influence from his beloved wife Joan Clayton Boocock Lee, to whom he was married for more than 60 years before her death last year.

"She inspired me," he told the Huffington Post in 2012. "Because I've spent most of my life with such a beautiful, talented, challenging female, I feel I've gained, and am still gaining, a great deal of knowledge about the feminine mystique and about personal relationships."

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Though he became more of a figurehead in later years, Lee, who developed the catchphrase, ""Excelsior!" also became a cult icon. Starting in 1989, he made one of his first cameos in "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk," and he went on to be featured in every Marvel movie following 2000s "X-Men," including "Spider-Man" in 2002, the "Fantastic Four" and "Iron Man" in 2008.

In 2010, a movie was made about his life, "With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story." It featured actors Kenneth Branagh, Nicolas Cage, Michael Chiklis and Kirsten Dunst, among others. He also received many honors throughout his career: In 1994, he was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame and the next year, the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame. In 2008, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts, and last summer, he was named a Disney Legend and immortalized his hands, feet and signature in cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

"I'd like to be remembered as a guy who provided some entertainment for people, and who enjoyed doing it," he told the Archive of American Television in 2004. "I'm not a guy who thinks much really of posterity or how I'm remembered, because you know I've never believed in this building, this business of building statues for people, cause once you're gone you don't know about it. I mean, once I'm not here anymore it's not going to matter to me if I'm remembered or not. I'd like to be remembered while I'm alive, that would be nice."

Lee is survived by his daughter, J.C.

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An anonymous bride-to-be is seeking advice on social media after allegedly receiving an accidental text from her future mother-in-law, who described their recent dress-shopping trip as a "s--- show" and went on to complain about the bride's mom.

The woman, from northern California, took to Reddit to explain that she and her college sweetheart have been a couple for 10 years, and recently decided to tie the knot. But the drama with her soon-to-be mother-in-law supposedly began while shopping for wedding dresses. The bride's mother and good friend came up from southern California, and her mother-in-law, as well as her fiancé's sister, tagged along for the trip.

"Overall we had a great day and I got the most amazing dress. My mom cried and my fiancé's mom cried [...] it was special," the woman, who uses the Reddit handle "Bamboo2u," began.

TEXAS WOMAN'S DIVORCE ENDS IN EXPLOSION OF WEDDING DRESS FELT '15 MILES AWAY'
"At lunch my mom told everyone she suggested I keep my maiden name for work only and take my fiancé's name for personal life," she wrote. "I have a problem with clients asking to be friends on Facebook and Instagram which I cannot do because it [goes] against my work's rules. I want to keep my personal life private from my work life. My fiancé's mom agreed with my mom because that is what she does for work too."

Feeling content with the outing, and generally excited for the big day, Bamboo2u was shocked to receive a rather scathing, and apparently unintentional, text from her future MIL later that evening.

"The text said the whole day was a s--- show and that my mom advised me to not take my fiancé's name for career reasons," the Redditor wrote. "I'm so hurt that she would go around spreading lies about my mom. She knows that's not what my mom said."

Bamboo2u further claimed that her beau asked his mom to apologize, but she refused.

"Honestly, I'm more worried she is now going around to his family and saying mean things about my mom," the bride said, adding that her mother-in-law is perhaps "jealous" of her own mother.

"I'm not sure what to do at this point. I saw my future mother in law the other day and she refused to look at me or even talk to me. But I'm the kind of person who likes to kill you with kindness which seems to drive her crazy."

"What do I do from here?" she wondered.

Many commenters expressed sympathy for the woman's situation, with some offering advice and, in some cases, to keep a "distant" relationship with the woman.

"You can't really do anything about it - she's not going to change. It wasn't about your mom in the slightest," one user wrote.
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"She gave you valuable information about the kind of person she is. Believe her, and adjust your trust in her accordingly. It's painful to realize that you'll never be able to trust her enough to be close with her, but you can be polite-but-distant, so long as she is polite to your face," another suggested.

"Be careful and don't let her try and rugsweep this incident because if you allow her to act like none of this ever happened, she's going to think she gets s free pass to treat you like crap and push your boundaries to see how much she can get away with," another said. "Also be prepared for her to try and ruin your wedding day or something."

Other Reddit users, meanwhile, insisted that the bride-to-be speak up, and that killing her future mother-in-law with kindness was too weak of an approach.

"Killing with kindness is a polite way to be socially passive aggressive and it solves nothing. In fact, you're just enabling future bad actions. The truth is, you know who she is now and she can't hide it," one user argued. "There's nothing to do or say, she knows she was 'caught.' If she didn't apologize and try to right things right then and there, she won't."

"Your [future mother-in-law] is in the wrong. If she thought the entire day was a s--- show, she should have kept it to herself. She has exposed herself as unauthentic and a malicious gossip. She owes you an apology," another agreed. "Drop the rope until you receive one. Also, keep all wedding details from her. Don't give her another opportunity to cause conflict and division."

"I'm not a fan of killing people with kindness. I'm a fan of treating people the way they treat me," another simply stated.

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Prosecutors have called Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, better known as "El Chapo," the most notorious drug trafficker in the world. His trial, which begins in earnest with opening arguments Tuesday, promises to be an affair worthy of that description.

The government successfully resisted a bid from Guzmán, 61, to even have a brief embrace with his wife before prosecutors begin making their case - fearful of the intentions of a man who is said to have run a drug cartel from behind bars and is accused of ordering the murder of those who stood in his way.

Guzmán has been held in solitary confinement in one of New York City's most fearsome prisons - the frosted glass in his cell giving him light but no view of the outside world. Jurors in his trial will be escorted to and from the courthouse in Brooklyn by U.S. Marshals each day - their identities, like some witnesses in the case, kept secret out of fear they could face retaliation.

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There is reason to worry. Guzmán has twice escaped from Mexican prisons, and prosecutors say that even behind bars he has been able to connect with an extensive support network.

In 2001, he escaped in a laundry cart with help from prison officials he had corrupted, prosecutors have said. In 2015, he did so again - making his way through a tunnel that workers had dug directly into the shower in his cell from an abandoned home more than a mile away.

"These last few decades have shown that Guzmán's influence knows no bounds," prosecutors wrote in a court filing.

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Guzmán was recaptured in 2016, after a meeting with actor Sean Penn helped lead authorities to his hiding spot near the coast in northwestern Mexico. He made one last bid for freedom - scrambling down a sewer and stealing a car - but he was stopped on the highway and taken into custody. In early 2017, Mexican authorities sent him to the United States - where he had been charged over the years in multiple federal courts. Authorities decided he would face trial in Brooklyn.

Guzmán's trial, prosecutors have said, could last as long as four months, essentially tracing his rise from a teen who grew marijuana and poppies for heroin production to a ruthless drug lord who carried a gold-plated AK-47 and a gold- and diamond-encrusted handgun. He is charged in a 17-count indictment that alleges he ran a criminal enterprise that imported and distributed massive amounts of drugs into the United States.

If convicted, he faces a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison. Prosecutors are also seeking forfeiture of more than $14 billion.

Guzmán has pleaded not guilty, and his attorneys have waged an aggressive pretrial battle in the case.

Prosecutors have said they have dozens of witnesses who had face-to-face encounters with Guzmán, including a local law enforcement officer he bribed and others who can detail specific killings they carried out under his orders.

One witness, prosecutors have said in court filings, will describe how Guzmán used a house with plastic sheets over the walls and a floor drain that was meant to dispose of blood. Prosecutors also have said they have drug ledgers from cartel bosses and suppliers, as well as recorded conversations in which Guzmán discusses drug transactions.

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Stan Lee, former editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics and the creator of beloved characters including Spider-man, Iron Man, X-Men, and more, has died, ABC News has confirmed. An attorney for the Lee family, Kirk E. Schenck, said that Lee “did pass away this morning in Los Angeles.”
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Stan Lee, former editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics and the creator of beloved characters including Spider-Man, Iron Man, X-Men, and more, died on Nov. 12, ABC News has confirmed. He was 95 years old.

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Earlier this year, Lee has been hospitalized with a case of pneumonia, though he assured his fans at the time, "I've been fighting."

Lee was an innovator and his work with Marvel Comics was groundbreaking, no more so than as in recent years with movies dominating the box offices involving his most prized characters such as Spider-Man, The Avengers and X-Men.

The New York City native was born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922 to Celia and Jack Lieber, and said that as a child, he loved to read, though he wasn't particularly interested into comic books. However, in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he got a job as an assistant at Timely Comics, which would eventually become Marvel Comics. Lee's duties included proofreading, refilling ink for the artists and other remedial duties, he told the Los Angeles Times in 2009.

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In 1941, he made his comic debut writing a Captain America book, and used the pseudonym "Stan Lee" for the first time. But it wasn't until late 1950s when Lee struck out on his own, creating superheroes for what is now Marvel Comics, and giving them human flaws, something that hadn't been seen in the comic realm.

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A trip to a Mexican resort town to celebrate a friend's 30th birthday ended in tragedy Friday when a California man was found stabbed to death in a park near the famed beaches of Playa del Carmen. Taylor Kristopher Meyer, 27, arrived Wednesday at the popular beach vacation spot with a group of friends, including some members of his fraternity from his years at the University of Colorado. His body was found Friday at the Lázaro Cárdenas park, located just a block from the beach, after a reported fight, according to riviera maya news.

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A trip to a Mexican resort town to celebrate a friend's 30th birthday ended in tragedy Friday when a California man was found stabbed to death in a park near the famed beaches of Playa del Carmen.

Taylor Kristopher Meyer, 27, arrived Wednesday at the popular beach vacation spot with a group of friends, including some members of his fraternity from his years at the University of Colorado. His body was found Friday at the Lázaro Cárdenas park, located just a block from the beach, after a reported fight, according to Riviera Maya News.

"We don't want this to happen to another family," his father, Kris, told FOX31.

Meyer's parents were contacted by the U.S. Consulate and told their son had been killed in a robbery. His cousin, Tracy Goetz, told KCRG that authorities have so far given them few details about what led to the 27-year-old's death.

"This was a random act of violence," she told the television station. "They stole his shoes and his wallet."

His parents are now concerned local authorities are claiming the murder was "tourist on tourist" crime, not one committed by locals.

"We're afraid of this cover-up and we're never going to find the true story about all these unanswered questions," Meyer's father told FOX31.

Local police arrested a man Monday for his alleged participation in the stabbing, but it was not clear if he was a resident of the area or a tourist, according to Riviera Maya News. There were three people who were reported to be in the park with Meyer at the time of the robbery, the news outlet previously reported.
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"They don't want people to know that there are murders happening like this because then people are not going to go there," Goetz told the television station. "It needs to be known that it's not a safe place to go. It's not okay to go and the Mexican officials need to fess up to it."

In August, the State Department issued an update to its Mexico travel advisory, urging tourists to "exercise increased caution" when visiting the country.
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The update came after authorities confirmed the discovery of eight bodies outside the resort areas of Cancun - however, the State Department's advisory for the state of Quintana Roo, where Playa del Carmen is located, remained at Level 2 (Exercise Increased Caution), just as it did before the discovery.

In it's advisory, the state department says that the area "experienced an increase in homicide rates compared to the same period in 2016."

"While most of these homicides appeared to be targeted, criminal organization assassinations, turf battles between criminal groups have resulted in violent crime in areas frequented by U.S. citizens," the advisory notes. "Shooting incidents injuring or killing bystanders have occurred."

Meyer's family is hoping the FBI can look at the case, and are planning his funeral for Saturday in California, where he was living prior to his death.
Fox News' Michael Bartiromo contributed to this report.

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Four members of a family have been arrested in connection with the brutal, execution-style murders of seven adults and one teen at a home in Ohio in 2016, the state's attorney general announced Tuesday.

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Four members of a family have been arrested in connection with the brutal, execution-style murders of seven adults and one teen at a home in Ohio in 2016, the state's attorney general announced Tuesday. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said the suspects, a husband, wife, and their two adult sons, were arrested in connection with the Rhoden family murders. "Following an extensive investigation by my office's #OhioBCI and the #PikeCounty Sheriff's Office, we have arrested four people accused of the murders of eight people in Pike County on April 22, 2016," DeWine said on Twitter. The Ohio A.G. release identified the suspects as George "Billy" Wagner III, Angela Wagner, and sons George Wagner IV and Edward "Jake" Wagner. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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Rhoden family execution-style murders: 4 family members arrested in 2016 Ohio killings

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Four members of a family have been arrested in connection with the brutal, execution-style murders of seven adults and one teen at a home in Ohio in 2016, the state's attorney general announced Tuesday. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said the suspects, a husband, wife, and their two adult sons, were arrested in connection with the Rhoden family murders.

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Hate crime incidents reported to the FBI increased by about 17% last year compared to 2016, according to statistics released Tuesday by the FBI.

The statistics, which were released in the bureau's annual "Hate Crime Statistics" report, are a compilation of bias-motivated incidents submitted to the FBI by 16,149 law enforcement agencies.

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FBI reports hate crimes rose 17% in 2017

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Hate crime incidents reported to the FBI increased by about 17% last year compared to 2016, according to statistics released Tuesday by the FBI.

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As one wildfire keeps inflicting more tragedy in Northern California, millions of people in Southern California will face treacherous fire conditions Tuesday

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Northern California fire death toll rises to 48 | CNN

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The Camp Fire has now claimed 48 lives and 8,800 structures in Northern California, breaking state records, officials said.