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COLUMBIA, SC A woman who was on probation on a drug charge and has a long police record has been charged with murder in what Columbia police said Thursday resulted from an argument over her payment for sex. Natila J. Tucker, 41, has been charged with murder and possession of a stolen vehicle, in connection with Sunday’s shooting death of 25-year-old Tyron Donoven Jackson at North Columbia’s Coronet Motel, police said. Jackson was killed by a shot to the head, police said. Detectives had been looking for Tucker as a person of interest in the case. They found her early...

An Iraq veteran who thought he was buying an iPad as a Christmas present after responding to a Craigslist posting, has been shot dead in an Indianapolis parking lot by the fake sellers. New-dad Jim Vester, 32, was lured to an address on Wednesday in the west side of the city and brothers Tyron Kincade, 19, and Tyshaune Kincade, 18, have been arrested after Vester was shot dead leaving behind his one-year-old son, Gavin and wife, Jamie. In the wake of the senseless murder, nearly 1,500 people have donated $58,000 to a YouCaring.com fundraiser set up by Vester's family for...