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BOSTON (AP) — A grand jury has been convened in Massachusetts to hear evidence in the 1986 shooting death of the brother of a former university professor who is accused of killing three colleagues in Alabama. John Polio, a retired Braintree police chief, said Friday that he and his wife, who worked in an administrative position in the Police Department, had been subpoenaed to testify this week before a grand jury that is investigating the case against the professor, Amy Bishop. A spokesman for the Norfolk County district attorney’s office would not comment. Ms. Bishop, who lived with her family...

At a time when publishers are scrambling to keep customers willing to pay $26 for a hardcover book instead of $9.99 for an electronic version, the publisher of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s forthcoming memoir is going in the opposite direction - issuing a limited edition it plans to sell for $1,000 a copy. Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, is planning to issue 1,000 copies of a leather-bound, electronically signed edition of “True Compass’’ and sell them through the website of Hachette Book Group, the parent company of Grand Central. Although publishers and licensed contractors do occasionally produce collectors’...

Is it just me, or does it seem exceedingly suspicious to others that the only way for Terri Schiavo to shed even the slightest light on what exactly happened to her in her home that February morning in 1990 is if she could be rehabilitated to some degree – which her husband, the only other person home with her at the time of her "collapse," absolutely forbids in any way, shape, or form? Continues... =============================================================== Death by forced dehydration very peaceful. Trust us. So, from all the break-neck developments this past week, I gather that Democrats favor waging an unrelenting...