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U.S. Reports Killing of Iraqi Blamed in Reservist's Death (Washington Post)November 21, 2008

BAGHDAD, Nov. 20 -- U.S. forces said Thursday that they had killed an Iraqi insurgent leader responsible for the death of a 20-year-old Army reservist who became a focus of national attention in the United States during the four years he was missing in action.

Council is fined over crush death (BBC News)November 21, 2008

Plymouth City Council is fined £75,000 over the death of a man crushed at one of its depots.

Heart disease caused man's death (BBC News)November 21, 2008

The death of a man who took penicillin is more likely to have been caused by heart disease, a jury is told.

China's shifting student death toll from quake angers parents (Los Angeles Times)November 21, 2008

Officials say 19,000 students died in May's 7.9-magnitude quake, then immediately back away from that estimate. Jiang Xujun felt the stab of his daughter's death all over again today when Chinese officials acknowledged for the first time that 19,000 students perished in May's deadly earthquake -- and then immediately backed off the estimate.

Health board probes baby's death (BBC News)November 21, 2008

NHS Tayside look into the circumstances surrounding the death of a nine-month-old baby girl.

UN vote shows growing support of death penalty ban (AP via Yahoo! News)November 20, 2008

The U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee voted Thursday for the second year in a row to urge a global moratorium on the death penalty.

Georgia death-row convict gets new hearing (AFP via Yahoo! News)November 20, 2008

A federal appeals court has agreed to take up the case of a Georgia man on death row for allegedly killing a police officer despite strong doubts about his guilt, legal sources said Thursday.

Man charged in bludgeoning death of 85-year-old woman (Birmingham News)November 21, 2008

Birmingham police have charged Antonio Reed, 31, with the January bludgeoning death of an 85-year-old woman known throughout her East Lake neighborhood as "Miss Grace." Authorities said Reed confessed to killing Grace Garner, who was found on the bedroom floor...

Drug suspect's wife charged in death of FBI agent (CNN)November 20, 2008

A Pennsylvania woman was charged in the shooting death of an FBI special agent who was killed at her Pittsburgh-area home Wednesday while serving a warrant on a suspected drug ring.

US raid kills Iraqi blamed in 2004 reservist death (AP via Yahoo! News)November 20, 2008

A father whose Army reservist son was captured, held hostage and killed in Iraq said Thursday that he's glad to learn one of the men responsible for his son's death has been "held accountable."