Bill: Victims get voice in major felony sentencing
March 5, 2013 in The Daily Republic
PIERRE (AP) Victims of the most serious felonies would be assured the right to testify at sentencing under a South Dakota legislative panel’s change to a marginally related bill on juvenile homicide offenders.
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NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) Newtown celebrated Christmas amid piles of snow-covered teddy bears, long lines of stockings and heaps of flowers as volunteers manned a 24-hour candlelight vigil in memory of the 20 children and six educators gunned down at an elementary school just 11 days before the holiday.
St. Mary’s School students performed their Christmas concert Wednesday night at the school. The 27 poinsettias in front of the stage represent each of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting last week.
BUCYRUS Taking a break from his work Saturday afternoon, Joey Michels looked around at the site where his mother’s house once stood.
BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) A man suspected of opening fire at a Wisconsin salon where his wife worked, killing three women and wounding four others, had a history of domestic abuse and had been arrested for slashing his wife’s tires a few weeks earlier, police said.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The children of a Minnesota couple missing since last week’s cruise ship disaster in Italy said Wednesday their parents are not among those passengers whose bodies were recently recovered. 
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