Connecticut
Court asked to consider murder attempt charge in school plot
WASECA, Minn. (AP) - Prosecutors are asking a state appeals court to reinstate attempted murder charges against a teenager accused of plotting a school attack in southern Minnesota.
The appeals court holds a hearing Wednesday in the Waseca County case.
A judge in July dismissed four counts of attempted murder and two counts of attempted damage to property against the teen, now 18 years old. The judge allowed six counts of possession of explosives to stand.
The teen was arrested in April after authorities said they found him with bomb-making materials in a storage locker in Waseca. Court documents say they also found guns, explosives and a journal that outlined a plan to kill his family, then go to Waseca Junior and Senior High School and "kill as many students as he could."
New York
Cops: Woman in apartment under daughter may have died in 2013
GLOVERSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities say a 94-year-old woman's badly decomposed body may have been in her upstate New York apartment for more than a year before being discovered, despite her daughter living just above her.
Police and prosecutors in Fulton County tell local media that Hope Ruller may have died in her first-floor apartment in Gloversville as long as 14 months ago before being discovered Dec. 29 after police received a request from a relative to check on her welfare.
Officials say her daughter lived in the two-story home's upstairs apartment along with an adult son.
Officials say an autopsy was conducted but a cause of death couldn't be determined because of the body's severely decomposed condition.
Police say Ruller's death is being treated as suspicious. No arrests have been made, but police say their investigation is continuing.
Ohio
Facebook post lands ex-inmate back behind bars
ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) - A northern Ohio man convicted in a fatal car crash and released early from prison has ended up back behind bars after a judge and the victim's family took issue with a Facebook post he made.
The post by 22-year-old Ryan Fye of Lorain had a photo of him making an obscene gesture and a message in which he said, "Prison didn't break me. It made me." It was posted shortly after his release in December. He had been sentenced to three years in May.
The message upset relatives of the Elyria (eh-LEER'-ee-uh) man killed in the March 2013 crash, and a judge concluded it violated sanctions imposed on Fye.
Fye's attorney says his client wasn't trying to be disrespectful and didn't violate probation or the law.
Published: Thu, Jan 08, 2015
