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A Minnesota man found guilty of first-degree murder for beheading his girlfriend in a vehicle, dumping her corpse, and fleeing has now been acquitted due to mental illness. ....
Jaime Galicia Merino, 38, of Huron, South Dakota, was acquitted of both criminal charges filed against him related to a reported sexual assault of a girl in Willmar in 2008. Merino was 23 at the time and going by a different name. An initial investigation in 2008 identified him as a suspect. He was arrested in 2021 after a DNA test. ....
Closing arguments are next in the trial of a man accused of making threats against U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner.the pipeline company that spilled nearly 600,000 gallons of crude oil in north-central Kansas says it has cleaned up most of the oil.and a former researcher accused of concealing work he did in China while employed by the University of Kansas was sentenced Wednesday to time served and two years of supervised release. Details on these stories and more can be found in our daily news roundup. ....
A former University of Kansas researcher will be sentenced Wednesday. Prosecutors say Feng "Franklin" Tao concealed work he did for China while employed by KU. That story and other area headlines can be found here. ....
The man had told the court in his defence that there was a dispute between him and the victim over money to be paid to her for her work and that he was hence falsely implicated. ....