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PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A judge in a South African court has set the maximum prison sentence at five years today for double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius in the killing of his girlfriend on Valentine's Day 2013. Pistorius also got a 3-year-suspended sentenced for a firearms violation. The judge last month found him guilty of culpable homicide, or negligent killing.
BOSTON (AP) — A trial is winding down for a man charged with lying to the FBI during its investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing. Closing arguments are scheduled for today in the federal trial of Robel Phillipos. The friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) allegedly lied about being in Tsarnaev's dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth while two other friends removed a backpack containing potential evidence.
BLACKSTONE, Mass. (AP) — Demolition is scheduled to begin today of a squalid Massachusetts house where the skeletal remains of three dead infants were found last month. The Board of Health in the city of Blackstone ordered the demolition, which is expected to take two days. Erika Murray, the woman who lived in the house with four children and her longtime boyfriend, is being held on $1 million bail on charges including fetal death concealment.
WASHINGTON (AP) — One expert says the end of quarantine for people who shared an apartment with the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. underscores what doctors have said all along: Ebola is not that easily spread. It's not clear why Ebola runs a different course in different people. But how rapidly symptoms appear depends partly on how much virus a patient was initially exposed to. Survival can depend in part on how rapidly someone gets care. Experts say there could also be factors beyond anyone's control.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The national wave of expanded rights for same-sex couples could sweep over Wyoming today. The state is scheduled to file a legal notice saying it won't defend a Wyoming law that defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman. After that formality, county clerks around the state can begin to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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