A Fairfax County woman who was convicted of first-degree murder for throwing her 2-year-old granddaughter to her death off a mall walkway was sentenced to 35 years in prison Friday. The longest sentence allowable, it was what a Fairfax County jury recommended in October when it found Carmela dela Rosa, 51, guilty in the killing of Angelyn Ogdoc. Read full article > >

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35 years for Fairfax County woman in granddaughter’s killing

Aspiring model LaShawna Threatt was celebrating her 30th birthday at the W Atlanta hotel in Georgia when she fell 10 stories to her death early Saturday morning. Police say Threatt was “play fighting” with friend Ciara Williams when both broke crashed…

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Woman Plunges to Her Death

An Iraqi immigrant in Arizona who allegedly killed his daughter for becoming too Western was sentenced Friday to serve 34 years for her death and the assault of a man she was with. Faleh Hassan Almalek will serve 16 years on charges of second-degree…

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AZ ‘Honor Killing’ Dad Gets 34 Years

Fairfax PoliceCarmela Dela RosaCarmela Dela Rosa, the Fairfax County woman accused of dropping her 2-year-old granddaughter to her death from a Tysons Corner walkway last year, was denied bond in court today, TBD and ABC7 report.

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Tysons grandmother denied bond

The brother of murdered Jo Yeates reveals how her death has created a “surreal hole of despair” in his life but he says he is convinced police will catch her killer.

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Jo murder left ‘hole of despair’

In perhaps a final statement on her marriage, Elizabeth Edwards cut her estranged (and unfaithful) husband, former presidential candidate John Edwards, from her will less than a week before her death last month, new documents reveal. Edwards bequeathed…

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Elizabeth Edwards Cut John from Will

Nicholas Brooks, the ex-boyfriend of slain swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay, has been charged with one count of murder in connection with her death, according to a statement from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office Tuesday. The body of Cachay, 33,…

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Ex Charged in Swimsuit Designer Murder

A County Tyrone family say they now know how their mother’s body sustained more than 30 fractures after her death four years ago.

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Family told about mother’s body

The 27-year-old girlfriend of August Busch IV, the former chief executive of Anheuser-Busch, was found dead in Busch’s St. Louis home this week. It’s not clear what caused her death or whether the beer scion was home at the time. Said Busch’s lawyer,…

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Dead Woman At Home of Bud Heir