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<p>BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – One of two Scottsville men charged in the murder of a Western Kentucky University student told police that he doused the victim with hairspray in her dormitory room and that the other suspect set her on fire, a police detective testified yesterday.</p>

Police announced that they have arrested the suspect responsible for the kidnapping and subsequent murder of a 7-year-old girl in Kentucky. Gabriella Doolin had been reported missing for 25 minutes before she was found dead. (Photo : Twitter Photo Section) Police have arrested a 38-year-old man and charged him with sexually assaulting and murdering 7-year-old Gabriella "Gabby" Doolin, who went missing last Saturday at a football game in Scottsville, Ky., authorities revealed. The suspect, Timothy Madden, of Scottsville, was taken into custody by the Kentucky State Police Friday morning and is being held in lieu of $1 million bail at...

The website of a New York TV network whose aim is to improve American perceptions of Islam was shut down this morning, two days after its founder admitted to the beheading of his wife. And while that irony might bring a momentary smile, another attempt to conceal the facts behind an honor killing right here in America should stir nothing short of outrage. Muzzammil Hassan, CEO of Bridges TV, whose motto is "connecting people through understanding," apparently didn't think Thursday's honor killing -- and make no mistake about what this was -- at the station might somehow blur that message....

Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband -- an influential member of the local Muslim community -- reported her death to police Thursday. Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder. "He came to the police station at 6:20 p.m. [Thursday] and told us that she was dead," Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said late this morning. Muzzammil Hassan told police that his wife was at his business, Bridges TV, on Thorn Avenue in the village. Officers...