Suspect Charged in Officer's Slaying

One suspect was charged and a second one was being sought Sunday in the killing of a police officer who was shot with an assault rifle while investigating a report of bank robbery in Philadephia. Levon Warner, age 38, was charged with murder, robbery, conspiracy and related offenses. A second man, Eric Floyd, age 33, is believed to have escaped from a halfway house in Berks County. He is being sought on a homicide charge. A third man, Howard Cain, age 33 was killed by police. The dead officer was a 12 year veteran who would have turned 40 today. He was responding to a report of a robbery of a bank inside a grocery store.

Shock at South Africa Lion Murder Aquittal

A South African man convicted of murdering a man whose remains were found in a lion enclosure, has had his life sentence overturned on appeal. White contractor, Mark Scott-Crossley and an employee were alleged to have beaten up black former worker Nelson Chisale and thrown him to lions. He was convicted of murder and given a life sentence in 2005. Now an appeal court in Bloemfontein has overturned the murder verdict and reduced his sentence to five years. The appeal court ruled that the prosecution in the 2005 trial had failed to prove that Mr. Chisale was still alive when he was thrown into the lion enclosure.

Murder Case by Pig Farmer

Defense lawyers for alleged serial killer Robert Pickton are due to begin calling witnesses, seven months after his trial began in Vancouver, Canada. Mr. Pickton is accused of murdering 26 women but is initially being tried for six murders. He has pleaded not guilty. The prosecution wrapped up its case this month after calling 98 witnesses.