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David DePape, the man accused of breaking into the Pelosi's home and leaving Paul Pelosi in critical condition, stated that he wanted to hold the House speaker hostage and 'break her kneecaps' if she lied to him, according to the FBI.

A North Texas psychiatrist, who was an associate professor at the TCU School of Medicine and also worked at a Tarrant County mental health and substance abuse treatment center, had his license suspended after he was arrested in Dallas on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Dr. David Henderson was carrying a handgun when he was arrested at North Park Mall and had two more guns and about 3,000 rounds of ammunition in his car at the time of his arrest, according to an affidavit. KTVT-TV reported that Dr. David Henderson was charged in two separate incidents...

Prosecutors say a former minister at First Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., charged with his wife’s murder, was trying to leave the country prior to his Jan. 1 arrest to marry his boyfriend. The latest twist in a story that has received worldwide media attention came Jan. 16 in a bond hearing for Richard Shahan, 53, who resigned recently as children and families pastor and facilities director at First Baptist, reportedly to head overseas for three years of mission work in Europe and Central Asia. Prosecutors said information gleaned from more than 3,000 of Shahan’s e-mails indicate he was planning...

A Navy panel says the service should discharge former astronaut Lisa Nowak, who lost her NASA job over a bizarre airport attack on a romantic rival. The panel made the recommendation Thursday after a daylong hearing at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville. The recommendation now goes to the Naval Personnel Command. A final decision will be made by the Secretary of the Navy. The panel recommended downgrading Nowak from captain to commander and giving her a discharge of "other than honorable." Nowak was sentenced to a year on probation last November after pleading guilty to third-degree felony burglary and...

Woman, 23, charged in Facebook-feud fatal crash By DAVID N. GOODMAN Associated Press Writer PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) -- A Facebook feud between two women who claimed to love the same prison inmate led to a high-speed chase and a crash that critically injured one of the rivals, killed her friend and left the second rival facing murder charges.

CHANDLER, Ariz. – An 18-year-old high school student caught with his 48-year-old math teacher in her bedroom was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, who was himself a former student of hers, police said Tuesday. Chandler police said 20-year-old Sixto Balbuena told them he never meant to kill Samuel Valdivia. He allegedly told police "the blade went in like going into butter" and that he just wanted to show Valdivia how much he hurt him by sleeping with Tamara Hofmann. Balbuena, a Navy sailor on leave from California, was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder after police found him...

A female student shot some people, and then shot herself at the Louisiana Technical College and then shot herself.

U.S. sailor shoots two female colleagues on Bahrain base in 'love triangle' killings Last updated at 17:04pm on 22nd October 2007 A U.S. Navy sailor allegedly shot and killed two female sailors early Monday on a U.S. military base in Bahrain, a Navy official said. Initial reports suggest the shooting was the result of a "love triangle," according to a State Department official. The alleged shooter, a male, was critically wounded in the incident in the barracks on the U.S. Naval Support Activity Bahrain base. Fortress: The shootings took place at the U.S. naval base in Bahrain The shootings took...

The live-in girlfriend of a woman who was found killed in her North Side apartment last August was ordered held in lieu of $350,000 bail Thursday after being charged with the woman's murder. Lisa Gunderson, 25, allegedly killed her roommate, Barbara Wolf, 50, after their yearlong relationship soured when Gunderson dated a man in their building at 5415 N. Sheridan Rd., said Assistant Cook County State's Atty. Sanjay Patel. Wolf's body was discovered at her home at the Park Tower Condominiums on Aug. 27, Patel said. A day earlier, Wolf told someone she was ending the relationship when she learned...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- New surveillance video was released, Friday, taken inside Orlando International Airport as former astronaut Lisa Nowak stalked and prepared to attack a romantic rival. SURVEILLANCE: Nowak Stalks Woman At OIANowak was in the airport for at least three hours, waiting for Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman. Nowak changed her appearance twice, ending up in a trench coat and wig. Orlando police said Nowak tried to kidnap Shipman in the airport parking lot, because they were both involved with Astronaut Bill Oefelein. Prosecutors released the surveillance DVD as part of their case against Nowak. They would not comment...

Excerpt - HOUSTON - Lisa Nowak chose a juggling act of dauntingly high difficulty: to be an astronaut and a mother of three. Her background — high school valedictorian, Naval Academy graduate, test pilot — seemed to equip her for the challenge. Yet as she and some of her acquaintances acknowledged, the stresses on her and her family were extraordinarily intense. On Wednesday, transformed from space hero to criminal suspect, Nowak returned to Houston for a medical assessment, a day after she was charged in Florida with attempted murder and attempted kidnapping in what police depicted as a love triangle...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- On July Fourth, Independence Day, Lisa Nowak triumphantly lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center aboard shuttle Discovery. On Tuesday, 57 miles from the launch pad, she stood before a judge and wore shackles and a blue prisoner uniform. The married mother of three was charged Tuesday with attempted murder, accused of hatching an extraordinary plot to kidnap Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman, who she believed was her rival for the affections of space shuttle pilot William Oefelein. Nowak had been charged Monday with attempted kidnapping and other counts. But after two appearances in court and worldwide...

Ms Nowak said she did not intend to harm Ms Shipman A US astronaut has been charged with trying to kidnap a woman she thought was a rival for the affection of a space shuttle pilot. Navy Capt Lisa Nowak, 43, who flew to the international space station last July, was charged with attempted kidnapping, battery and other crimes. She drove from Texas to Florida to confront Colleen Shipman, disguised in a wig and trench coat. Police said Capt Nowak, who was denied bail, used pepper spray on Ms Shipman. The man in the love triangle was said to...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- An astronaut drove 900 miles and donned a disguise to confront a woman she believed was her rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot, police said. She was arrested Monday and charged with attempted kidnapping and other counts. U.S. Navy Capt. Lisa Nowak, 43, who flew last July on a shuttle mission to the international space station, was also charged with attempted vehicle burglary with battery, destruction of evidence and battery. She was denied bail. Police said Nowak drove from her home in Houston to the Orlando International Airport to confront Colleen Shipman. Nowak believed...

ASSOCIATED PRESS ORLANDO, Fla. – A NASA astronaut charged with attempting to kidnap a romantic rival in a love triangle with another astronaut was allowed to go free on bail Tuesday on the condition that she not contact the alleged victim. The judge told Lisa Marie Nowak she could be released on $15,500 bond, then asked if she understood the conditions. She responded “yes.” Nowak, a married mother of three, stood in a jail uniform, looking down during most of the hearing. She planned to return home to Houston, and the judge ordered her to wear a tracking device. The...

Two held for killing & chopping man in 'love triangle' By Zheng Caixiong (China Daily) Updated: 2007-01-15 06:47 GUANGZHOU: Police have detained a young man and a woman suspected of dismembering a man and sending his body parts to three different cities by post. The man is an employee of a local logistics company, while the woman is a prostitute, according to the Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis News. "The case is thought to involve a murder for love," the newspaper quoted a police source as saying yesterday. The victim was a 50-year-old man who had once visited the prostitute, the newspaper...

ATLANTA (AP) -- A 78-year-old woman was indicted Tuesday on charges she shot her 85-year-old ex-beau to death as he read the newspaper in a senior citizens home. Lena Sims Driskell was charged with murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Herman Winslow was slain June 10. Police said Driskell was angry that her yearlong romance with Winslow had ended and he was seeing another woman. She allegedly shot Winslow four times with an antique handgun at the Hightower Manor retirement home in southwest Atlanta, where the two lived. ''I did it and...

An East Boston mother who became ``the other woman'' in a torrid lesbian love triangle was savagely stabbed to death in a highway hotel room by the lover prosecutors said may have wanted to end their affair once and for all. Deysi Carias' pint-sized body was folded into a small black duffel bag by her alleged killer and ``literally wheeled out the hotel room, down the elevator and through the lobby'' of a Holiday Inn two miles from her home last Saturday before being hurled onto a trash heap in Revere destined for recycling in the Midwest, prosecutors said...