A Connecticut state official says seven people died in the crash of a World War-II airplane during an aborted takeoff from Hartford’s airport. The B-17 airplane crashed and burned Wednesday morning while attempting to land back at Bradley International Airport. A Connecticut state official says seven people have died in the crash of a World War II-era airplane.
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A convicted murderer with a rare medical condition was executed Tuesday in Missouri despite his assertion that lethal injection would cause him terrible suffering. Russell Bucklew -- who was found guilty of killing his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend in 1996, then abducting and raping her -- was pronounced dead at 6:23 pm (2323 GMT). Bucklew, 51, suffered from cavernous hemangioma, a blood vessel condition that hindered his breathing.
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Monica Blake watched closely as a Texas jury weighed the case against a white police officer charged in the fatal shooting of a black neighbor, wondering whether the panel would render a different decision than so many others in recent years. When Amber Guyger was convicted of murder Tuesday, Blake, a retired Nashville, Tennessee, officer, wept in disbelief. "I'm so happy," said Blake, who is black.
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U.S. Attorney General William Barr held two secret meetings with Italian intelligence agencies as part of an investigation by President Donald Trump's administration into the origins of the inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 American election, Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper reported on Wednesday. Without citing its sources, the newspaper said Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte had authorized the two meetings in Rome with Gennaro Vecchione, head of the DIS intelligence service, as well as other officials in August and last week.
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