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Former Charles Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel, who is serving a life prison term for her role in the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, has again been recommended for parole, state officials confirmed today. Krenwinkel, 78, was preliminarily granted parole Tuesday at her 18th subsequent suitability hearing, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “All grants of parole are proposed decisions and become final only after a thorough and comprehensive review by the Board of Parole Hearings and the Governor,'” CDCR officials said in a statement.

More than a year after they convicted a black trash collector of raping and murdering a white fashion writer, members of a Cape Cod jury will have to return to court - and this time, they will be on the witness stand. In an extraordinary hearing scheduled Jan. 10 and 11 at Barnstable Superior Court, each of the jurors - including a woman who will be flown in from Texas - will be questioned under oath in open court by a judge about whether racially insensitive remarks allegedly made during more than a week of deliberations tainted the verdict against...