Results tagged “awayfromher”

Jurors today are continuing to deliberate over the fate of Ashley Benton, the 17-year-old girl accused of murdering an MS-13 gang member during a gang fight at a Montrose-area last last summer. Jurors got the case yesterday after closing arguments during which prosecutors and defense attorneys again brought out baseball bats and knives, some of the weapons used in the fight, and summed up seven days' worth of evidence from the trial. "Gabriel Granillo has an appointment with death," defense attorney Kent Schaffer told jurors. "It was either his or someone else's." But it doesn't matter who the victim was, prosecutor Mia Magness said, "saint or sinner." more ›

Agua Dolce fourteen year old Katie Wernecke developed cancer several years ago--a sad, but all too common story. She landed in the news only when her parents refused traditional treatment for the Hodgkin's disease, which would have required chemotherapy centered on her lymph nodes. Now, the cancer, once in remission, is back. more ›

As we discussed yesterday, the Supreme Court got a little more fun today when Anna Nicole Smith made the scene to try to convince justices that she really did marry for money love. Several justices said they were concerned that the one-time Playboy Playmate was kept from pursuing a piece of her late husband's fortune. "It's quite a story," said Justice Stephen Breyer. Smith married oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when he... more ›