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Suspect in Teen Girl’s Murder Goes on Trial 37 Years Later

Matthew McDonald

The defendant, now a 57-year-old man, was apparently always a suspect in the case, in which a 16-year-old girl who went running one Friday night in 1980 in East Millinocket, Maine never came home. Prosecutors haven't said why it took them this long to charge the man.

Senate Votes To End Filibuster, Halting Three-Day Government Shutdown
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Senate Votes To End Filibuster, Halting Three-Day Government Shutdown

Daily Caller News Foundation
The Senate passed a short-term spending bill Monday to fund the government for three weeks, halting the shutdown that began Friday at midnight. The vote on the continuing resolution passed after Senate Democrats received assurances that the upper chamber would begin a floor debate on the fate of Dreamers prior to the next Feb. 8 shutdown…
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