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Murder charge for NYC man accused of burning woman
A New York City man accused in the torching death of a 73-year-old woman in an elevator has been charged with murder.Jerome Isaac was indicted Friday in Brooklyn on a charge of first-degree murder.Isaac was arrested Sunday on charges he killed Deloris Gillespie by dousing her with gas and setting her on fire in an elevator in a dispute over money. A security camera captured the horrific scene that

NYC police: Suspect says woman set afire over debt

As Deloris Gillespie goes up in the elevator to her fifth-floor Brooklyn apartment, carrying groceries, a man is waiting. His face is one she surely must have recognized.

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NYC man arrested in woman's elevator burning death
A New York City man has been charged with dousing a woman with a flammable liquid and setting her afire with a Molotov cocktail inside an elevator.

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Indonesia paraders set records with 3,777 torches

Officials say thousands of people from 50 countries have set two new world records by parading with more than 3,700 flaming torches in Indonesia's capital.

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IOC approves London torch relay trip to Dublin

The Olympic flame will travel to Ireland before the 2012 London Games in an historic and symbolic gesture of peace and political goodwill.

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Marchers protest burned cars in NYC Jewish enclave

Peaceful marchers sent a clear message Sunday to vandals who torched cars and scrawled Nazi swastikas in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn where Woody Allen was raised: Don't repeat the

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