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 Two days after Josh Powell and his two sons died in an intense fire at their Graham, Wash., home, officials say Josh Powell carefully planned the murder-suicide and brutally attacked his sons before setting the house on fire.As arson investigators continue to search through what s left of the Powell home, the medical examiner now says 7-year-old Charlie and 5-year-old Braden Powell suffered chop injuries to their heads and necks. In another report, Ed Troyer, of the Pierce County Sheriff s Department, said investigators found a hatchet that they believe was used on the boys. We recovered a hatchet -- a small ax,  he said.  It was right there with them  the bodies . The sheriff says their father, Josh Powell, then set the house on fire.  Troyer said,  They ve found two, five-gallon ca stanley water bottle ns of gas. One of them was with the bodies, the other was spread throughout the house. There were accelerants throu stanley flasche ghout the whole entire house. Authorities: Dead Powell boys had  chop  marksAuthorities: Josh Powell planned deadly fireLawyer: Powell boy spoke of mommy  in the trunk Josh Powell, kids die in alleged murder-suicideDid authorities do enough to protect Powell boys Video: Helicopter footage of explosion scene  KIRO Police say before he carried out the murder-suicide, Powell donated his son s toys to charity and left instructions about his personal effects in multiple e-mails.           He sent some emails out to family and a pastor and  botella stanley some other people making sure that everybody knew t Norv Rep. Barney Frank marries longtime partner
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 Executions should be stopped in Pennsylvania until the state can study how race affects death penalty sentences, a committee appointed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said in a report released Tuesday.The 550-page report by the Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice System calls on Gov. Ed Rendell and the court to order the mora stanley cup torium.Blacks make up 62 percent of Pennsylvania s 242 death row inmates but only 10 percent of the state s general population. Since October 1999, the committee has studied the impact of race, ethnicity and gender issues in the courts. We acted beyond our role. W stanley cup e realized that the recommended changes did not lie solely within the courts,  said Nicholas Cafardi, dean of Duquesne University s School of Law and the committee chairman.The report addressed several issues, including gender bias in jury selection, a lack of diversity in jury pools and the courts  t stanley cup reatment of sexual assault victims. It also said many defense attorneys in death penalty cases need better pay and standardized training.        In calling for a moratorium, the report cited studies of Philadelphia s courts saying black defendants are more likely to be sentenced to death.Kent Scheidegger of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, which supports the death penalty, said those studies were written by researchers biased against capital punishment.  The system is generally fair. It s been studied, reformed and tinkered with for 30 years now,  he said.Rendell, a former Phil Wzcp Judge: No death penalty in Iraq base shooting
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 Updated 3:44 p.m. ETPHILADELPHIA - Two former Philadelphia police officers have pleaded guilty in a plot to steal heroin from a suspected drug supplier.Robert Snyder and James Venziale entered their pleas Monday, admitting that they conspired with another cop and drug dealers to steal drugs from a drug dealer and then re-sell them on the street. They are scheduled to be sentenced in May.Venziale has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. He faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison after admitting he t stanley cups uk ook part in a staged traffic stop of the dealer in May.Snyder, who is not cooperating, faces a mandatory 10 years on drug and gun charges related to the scheme.        Prosecutor Maureen McCartney says the scheme started with a traffic stop.  The obje stanley canada ct of the traffic stop was to allow one of the other co-defendants to allegedly be arrested, but then to be able to released along with the drugs that had not been paid for,  McCartney said.  Then basically, you re getting the drugs for nothing and you sell them and everybody makes money off of it. Snyder also admitted conspiring with his wife and another officer, Mark Williams, stanley website  to steal money from a suspected mafia bagman, CBS Station KYW Philadelphia reports. The plot, which ultimately did not happen, would have had Williams allegedly stealing a police wagon to carry out the phony car stop.Federal prosecutors say a third co-defendant, suspected dealer Angel Ortiz, is set to plead guilty Tuesday.Snyder s wife, former officer Nwja More Human Remains Found At Ground Zero
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 One of the U.S.-Canada border s busiest crossings was closed for about an hour Monday after guards found a grenade in the glove compartment of a car leaving the United States, Canadian officials said.The driver, a woman from Houston, was taken into custody but released after interviewers determined she hadn t known the grenade was in the car, Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman Tim Shields said. The woman s husband works for the U.S. military and is apparently stationed at Fort Lewis, south of Tacoma, he said. According to her, she was intending to drive toward Vancouver, Wash., not Vancouver, British Columbia,  Shields said. Vancouver stanley cup spain , stanley tumblers  Wash., is on the state s border with Oregon, some 250 miles south of the Canadian city. She was apparently new to the area,  he said.The 28-year-old woman didn t realize her mistake until she arrived at the Peace Arch border crossing in Blaine, and she had no choice but to drive through Canadian customs. An officer searched the car, which is registered to her, and found the grenade, he said.        She claimed to have no idea the weapon was there and  appeared to be quite traumatized,  Shields said.No charges were expected from Canadian authorities against the woman, who was returned to the United States Monday afternoon, said Canadian customs spokeswoman Paula Shore.But a Homeland Security spokesman in Seattle says FBI and customs agents detained the woman when  stanley uk she re-entered the U.S. Authorities are trying to learn where the grenade came Wsry There   s a Skate Park In an Old Tunnel Under London, And You Can Visit
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