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Leland Hust, the man accused of killing 6 year-old Ariana Jade Romeo, is seen at the Valencia County District Court on Wednesday, the first day of his trial for the 2018 killing in Rio Rancho. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)
LOS LUNAS Detectives botched the investigation of the rape and strangulation death of a 6-year-old girl and later coerced an incriminating statement from the man charged with the killing, his attorney told jurors Wednesday.
Leland Hust, now 24, is charged with intentional child abuse resulting in death and rape of a child younger than 13, both first-degree felonies, in the August 2018 death of Ariana “Jade” Romeo.
A pair of the iconic ruby slippers from the 1939 “Wizard of Oz” film were recovered in a sting operation after a man approached the shoes’ insurer and said he could help get them back, the FBI said Tuesday. The shoes are one of several pairs worn by Judy Garland, who played Dorothy Gale in the classic film. This pair. actor Jun 6, 2018
Jerry Maren, the last surviving munchkin from the classic 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” and the one who famously welcomed Dorothy to Munchkin Land, has died at age 98. Maren died May 24 at a San Diego nursing home, his niece, Stacy Michelle Barrington, told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
following at this hour. at least a thousand people had to find somewhere else to sleep tonight after dozens of gas explosions and subsequent fires rocked three different boston suburbs this afternoon. at least 70 homes caught fire. we just learned one person has died, nearly a dozen people remain hospitalized. msp, the massachusetts state police, shared this map of confirmed explosions and fires. there are more. just to give you an idea of how massive the area affected is, wbts tv reporter michael rosenfield is in lawrence tonight. he s with our nbc station in boston. one of the communities where these explosions occurred. i was watching this, your coverage in real-time, michael. you had fire departments completely overwhelmed locally. they invoked mutual aid.
into this. but again, the best we can say at this point for the residents, they are being told at least by the governor of massachusetts and the local mayors and local elected officials to stay away for the time being. they just don t know how dangerous these homes and the entire neighborhoods really can be. we are waiting to hear more from columbia gas in terms of what the situation is right now, how dangerous everything is. and, of course, exactly how did this happen and how do we make sure, of course, it never happens again. we really have never seen anything quite like this. all right, michael rosenfield with our member station wbts. michael, thank you so much. back to the main subject of our coverage tonight, this hurricane off the coast of the carolinas, we re happy to be joined once again tonight by retired u.s. army lieutenant generous he will hanore. the general will remain a heroic figure for those of us in new orleans during and after katrina as his arrival marked a turn
with just minor injuries, kind of a miracle so many people did escape out of this house this evening with minor injuries. but again, there was one fatality here. across the region tonight, we re hearing in all from the 70 different scenes about 15 injuries across three different communities, lawrence, andover and north andover, massachusetts. right now, this neighborhood i m in now pretty much a ghost town. everybody has been told to evacuate. they seem to have listened and they are staying away. there really is no reason to come back at this point. there s no power. there s no gas. there s no electricity, and they just don t know how dangerous their homes and this neighborhood and all of these neighborhoods could be. thousands of people are being told to stay away for the time being while investigators, while the utility crews try to get a handle on what s safe, what isn t safe, and at some point eventually they will get an all-clear. at this point it looks like we are in this for the