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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Barbara Boxer, the three-term Democratic U.S. senator from California, is running for re-election against Carly Fiorina, the tea party-courting Republican nominee and former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard. As part of a Politics Daily series providing background about the major candidates in the 2010 midterm elections, here are answers to some frequently asked questions about Boxer's pre-political life. --Carl Franzen Is Barbara Boxer married? Yes. Who is Barbara Boxer's husband? Boxer's husband is Stewart Boxer. How old is Barbara Boxer's husband? Stewart Boxer is 71 years old. ...
SAN FRANCISCO (April 14) -- Joel Alcox had been drinking heavily, had stayed up all night and had taken LSD when Lompoc, Calif., police arrested him in 1986 for the murder of a motel owner. At first, Alcox insisted that he knew nothing about the murder. But over the course of more than six hours, his two police interrogators built a damning case against him. They told him his fingerprints were found at the scene and that witnesses saw him there. Neither was true, but Alcox began to doubt his own memory. Finally, he broke down and confessed to the killing. He has spent the past 23 years in ...
SAN DIEGO (March 3) - A 30-year-old convicted sex offender was charged Wednesday with murdering and raping or attempting to rape 17-year-old Chelsea King, who disappeared last week after heading out for a run in a park. John Albert Gardner III stood in court in shackles with his eyes cast downward, showing no emotion, as an attorney waived arraignment and a reading of the complaint and entered pleas of not guilty in the potential death penalty case. AP John Albert Gardner III, 30, is accused of murdering and raping or attempting to rape 17-year-old Chelsea King. San Diego County ...
(Feb. 1) – What do you call it when 68 winged men and women fall from the sky? Even the experts still aren't sure. In a rainbow of different colored suits, 68 daredevils plunged from 13,000 feet above Lake Elsinore, Calif., on Nov. 13. After weeks of training, they perfected a jaw-dropping diamond formation that many called beautiful – and others found downright terrifying. "They thought we were UFOs," says Taya Weiss of Raise the Sky, a nonprofit skydiving organization. "By the time we landed, several people had called the authorities. They didn't know what to make of us." ...
Jonathan Bird of Wylie, Texas, had just returned from a fishing trip with his fiancee's eldest son late Saturday night when a truck came barreling through his neighborhood. Bird apparently yelled at the teen drivers to slow down. The teens should have taken his advice and driven on. And Sunday, the 28-year-old Bird should have spent the day sharing fishing stories. End of story. Instead, he was fatally beaten. Five male suspects are in custody. The oldest is 17. According to reports, witnesses in the small town northeast of Dallas saw Bird being beaten, and the Wylie News Web site has ...
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