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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A death row inmate convicted of murdering seven people was spared a lethal injection when federal courts declined to overrule a stay, frustrating the state’s plan for back-to-back executions. Despite repeated efforts by the state attorney general’s office to be allowed to execute Paul Dennis Reid before …

SALEM, Mass. – A jury deliberated just two hours Thursday before finding an Iraq war veteran acted in self-defense when he fired a shotgun into a raucous crowd of club-goers outside his Lawrence home, injuring two people. The Salem Superior Court jury acquitted Marine Sgt. Daniel Cotnoir, a 34-year-old reservist …

DETROIT – A federal judge will go ahead with hearings in a legal challenge to a terrorism surveillance program run by the National Security Agency. U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor also criticized the Justice Department for failing to respond to the legal challenge, The Detroit News reported Friday. The …