HONOLULU (AP) On Ian Schweitzer's first morning of freedom Wednesday, he woke up in a hotel room, looked over the balcony at the ocean and took in the beauty of the island he had been away from for over 20 years while imprisoned for a 1991 killing and rape he has always maintained he didn't commit.
Matthew Benson, police chief of Cumberland, R.I., forwarded the evidence to the state health department, but the forensics lab reported it was unable "to definitively confirm or refute the presence of Santa" in a young girl s home after she asked to have a partially eaten cookie and gnawed-on carrot sticks tested for DNA.