U.S. Army Sgt. Marquinta Jacobs, who pleaded guilty for the shooting death of 51-year-old Lloyd R. Gilbert at Fort Knox, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Friday. Jacobs had pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of premeditated murder and aggravated assault.
Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos Samour said on Thursday that most of the statements made by Aurora gunman James Holmes to law enforcement about explosives inside his booby-trapped apartment without his lawyer present can be used at his impending trial
Five unidentified suspects have been arrested for the robbery and murder of Monica Spear, the former Miss Venezuela and Thomas Henry Berry, her ex-husband, when they resisted a robbery on a roadside in Venezuela. They were killed while spending New Year's in the Angel Hills of Western Venezuela.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie publicly apologized Thursday for "the controversial lane closures last that were arranged by his associates in an apparent act of political revenge, and fired his top aide who was at the center of the scandal."
