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Jefferson Shreve's win sets up a November election battle against two-term incumbent Joe Hogsett, who won the Democratic primary and has been Shreve’s main target throughout the primary election season.

The question is whether the cigar-chomping, straight-talking populism of political pundit Abdul-Hakim Shabazz will be enough to overcome the deep pockets and measured approach of wealthy businessman Jefferson Shreve.

The teenager was killed in 1975 and three men convicted of his murder have always denied it.

IT is deplorable how other people sometimes depict Scots as violent, drunken, welfare scroungers. We’re quite capable of depicting ourselves like…

>> i was seeing a lot of cases where there were no facts that supported what i was seeing on these convictions. when youre seeing that lack over time involving the same departments, sheriffs office, police department, prosecutors office, thats what really bothered me. >> cullen and the innocence team tracked down the second eyewitness who testified he had seen malcolm and demarchoe. but police records showed he had been shot in the buttocks and his back was turned. >> common sense tells you if y...

He thought hed get out as soon as he filed his first appeal. then his second. and third. >> denied. denied. denied. >> so malcolm and his friend demarchoe started writing letters. whod you write to? >> anybody in the legal field that you could think of -- >> and what would you say in these letters? >> im an innocent man. you know, i just need somebody to look at this case and they will see. >> they wrote thousands of letters, day after day, for is 11 years. finally, in 2006 private investigator ...

And its not always right. >> cullen tracked down the first eyewitness who had identified malcolm and demarchoe as the killers. >> and he couldnt even look me in the eye. he said, man, ive been carrying around a burden. man, those boys didnt do that. >> the man told cullen he shot at the drive-by car as it sped away and claimed that detectives threatened to put him behind bars for firing his weapon if he didnt testify against malcolm and demarchoe. >> he says that they told him he could be charge...

Gop-backed audit of the results in arizonas largest county maricopa has come to an end. the final results shows president biden defeated donald trump. it has cost arizona taxpayers millions of dollars. 9 and after weeks of division house democrats are preparing to vote for bidens $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. though some democrats predict the bill will fail speaker pelosi said the vote will happen on monday. now back to "dateline." welcome back to "dateline." im craig melvin. ...

Im happy that it happened for him. >> remember, they had a pact. first one out gets the other one out. >> when i talked to my attorneys off the top, now what can we do about getting my brother out? theyre like, man you havent even enjoyed being home yourself. i wont be completely able to. i need him home. >> private investigator eric cullen was now working on coreys case. and as he pored over police and court records, he noticed that, just like with malcolm, there were several allegations of coe...

BBC News By Stephen Dempster He maintained he was framed for a notorious Troubles murder, but has died without clearing his name. Earlier this week, in a quiet corner of the County Down countryside several miles outside Rathfriland, about 30 people gathered in a churchyard. Braving an unseasonal chill in the air and the passing showers, the mourners quietly looked on as the body of 74-year-old George Kirkpatrick was lowered into the ground. The funeral service and burial were short. There was ...