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After jurors deliberated for 17 and a half hours on the fate of Ashley Benton, the 17-year-old charged with the murder of a fellow teen during a gang fight last summer, we found out what'll happen to Benton — or rather, we didn't. Noting that the jury had been deadlocked for six hours, state District Judge Devon Anderson declared a mistrial Friday. Brian Wice, a member of Benton's defense team, said one juror had voted...

Now that there's a suspect in the March 28 office building fire that killed three people, there's another question on people's minds: How could she have done it? But in the case of 33-year-old nurse Misty Ann Weaver, who confessed to setting the fire to cover up the fact that she hadn't completed some office paperwork, there apparently aren't any easy answers. Weaver told investigators over the weekend that she intended to set a small...

One of the jurors who found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity last week is speaking up now, saying the verdict was all right, but what the local justice system really needs is a way to find people guilty but insane.

We all heard about the verdict in the Andrea Yates trial yesterday, sure. But now that post-trial interviews are coming out, we're finding out about something else jurors agreed on: Their job was tough.