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Tuesday, June 04, 2013  A judge has accepted James Holmes plea of not guilty by reason of insanity in the Colorado theater shootings.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013  A Chenango County man accused of killing his wife is back in the county jail less than a week after he and relatives posted $300,000 bail.

Tuesday, April 09, 2013  A 68-year-old Roman Catholic nun with a gambling addiction has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $130,000 from two rural western New York parishes.

Monday, March 18, 2013  Town of Trenton Supervisor Mark Scheidelman pleaded not guilty in Oneida County Court today to a single charge of first degree sexual abuse.

Thursday, November 22, 2012  The attorneys for a man charged in the beating death of his girlfriend in her New York college dorm room plan to base their defense on what they say was their client's "extreme emotional disturbance" at the time of the slaying.

Tuesday, November 06, 2012  A 67-year-old nun has pleaded not guilty to a grand larceny charge stemming from the theft of nearly $130,000 from two Catholic Church parishes in western New York.

Thursday, October 25, 2012  A Utica-area college student has pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder in the beating death of his girlfriend inside her dorm room in September.

Friday, June 01, 2012  A 30-year-old western New York woman has been accused of falsely claiming she had breast cancer and accepting more than $20,000 raised on her behalf.

Friday, May 25, 2012  Ralph Ash appeared in Onondaga County Court Friday morning after he was accused of threatening officers with a weapon in December 2011.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012  The driver in a deadly Megabus crash was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in Onondaga County Court Tuesday morning.

Thursday, January 26, 2012  Authorities say a woman pulled over for suspected drunken driving had left her 15-month-old daughter alone at home in western New York.

Thursday, December 01, 2011  A 30-year-old woman whose newborn daughter was found dead in a garbage bin at a suburban Syracuse apartment complex has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and two manslaughter charges.

Thursday, October 20, 2011  David McNamara has been charged with murder, accused of killing the mother of his child, Katie Socci.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011  Police say Mark Richter when he crashed, killing 23-year-old Debra Brown.

Thursday, July 07, 2011  Casey Anthony will be freed next week after spending nearly three years in jail on accusations she murdered her 2-year-old daughter, a case that captured the nation's attention and divided many over whether a killer had been acquitted.