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There is growing rage in Beit El, where residents feel that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu knowingly misled them when he promised to build 300 homes instead of the 30 homes to be destroyed in Givat HaUlpana. Residents are said to be preparing for "a harsh struggle" over the homes. Tensions are running high in the community north of Jerusalem. A Defense Ministry team that came to Beit El to gauge the feasibility of moving the homes from Givat HaUlpana by a technique that has become known as "sawing" fled after being pelted with rocks and paint. No one was hurt....

Tara Grant told her husband that she would call the police, and he would go to jail for striking her, according to the account. Stephen Grant told police that he then began to choke his wife. Grant told police that after his wife stopped moving, he placed a belt around her neck and tightened it. He said he put her in the back of the SUV and covered her with plastic. On Feb. 11, he said, he drove the vehicle to the nearby tool-and-die-shop where he worked. He told police that he broke band saw blades into large pieces, wrapped...

A man accused of stabbing two people and decapitating one of the victims at a group home in Taylor was ordered Wednesday to undergo a competency hearing before the case can resume. Brandon Lee Taylor, 22, is charged with first-degree murder, felony murder and assault with a deadly weapon, Local 4 reported. Prosecutors said Taylor killed the 48-year-old caretaker of the home and then sawed off her head. Taylor is also accused of attacking a 50-year-old resident at the home. The attacks occurred in the early hours of Aug. 18. Police received a call to the home on the 26000...