■ UNITED STATES
Hmong killer guilty
A jury has found a white man guilty in the shooting and stabbing death of a Hmong immigrant with whom he crossed paths while both were hunting squirrels in the northern Wisconsin woods earlier this year. The jury found James Nichols guilty of second-degree intentional homicide in the death of Cha Vang, a case that rekindled racial tensions in the northern part of the state, where a Hmong deer hunter fatally shot six white hunters three years ago. Nichols appeared to fight back tears as he left the courtroom. Pang Vue, the victim's widow, collapsed outside the courtroom after the verdict.
■ UNITED STATES
Robbery suspects arrested
The bank robbery suspects whom a sheriff offered to wed in jail if they surrendered have been arrested. The 24-year-old man and 23-year-old woman were found living in a homeless shelter in Cheyenne, Wyoming, after police traced phone calls to a pay phone, Sergeant Jason Parks told the Flint Journal. The couple, who lived together in Michigan, were wanted in the Sept. 19 robbery of a Lapeer County Bank & Trust branch in Deerfield Township, about 100km north of Detroit. They were arrested without incident and were held in a Wyoming jail pending extradition to Michigan, Parks said.
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