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A Maryland woman is set to be released from jail despite helping her mother dismember her grandmother's body with a chainsaw and grill the remains, after attorneys argued she was simply following her mother's orders. Salia Margaret Hardy, 21, has learning disabilities that made her more susceptible to coercion, her attorneys had argued in Prince George's County Circuit Court, to which Judge Karen Mason ultimately agreed, according to the Washington Post. She decided on Wednesday to let Hardy go free after she pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact and provided damning testimony against her own mother, Candace Craig, 46....

The White House expressed its firm belief Thursday that recently-released videos attacking Planned Parenthood are “fraudulent.” Their source: Planned Parenthood. Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, was speaking with reporters when they raised the matter of the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress which appear to show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of fetal organs for profit, a violation of federal law. He claimed the videos were released in a “fraudulent way” with “not a lot of evidence” behind them. “There is ample reason to think that this is merely the tried and true tactic that...

TRENTON, N.J. — The wife of a New Jersey man whose body was hacked up, put in three suitcases and dumped in the ocean last year was arrested Thursday morning in the death. Melanie McGuire, 32, of Brick, will be charged Thursday afternoon with first-degree murder in the death of her husband, William T. McGuire, said John R. Hagerty, spokesman for the state Division of Criminal Justice. McGuire was killed April 29, 2004, Hagerty said. His dismembered body was found in his own matching luggage in the Chesapeake Bay near Norfolk, Va. Hagerty said authorities believe Melanie McGuire shot her...