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OAKLAND, Calif. — An Oakland homicide victim is giving people in dire need of organ transplants new leases on life this holiday season. Charles Butler Jr., who was shot last week in Oakland, has so far donated his liver, pancreas and a kidney to gravely ill people. Antioch resident Daniel Murphy is recovering at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center after receiving Butler's liver. Butler's family knows Murphy from their church, and intervened on his behalf to get him the badly needed transplant. Luke Barnes, a patient at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, has received Butler's pancreas and kidney. The transplants happened Christmas Day. Police on Tuesday told KGO-TV (http://bit.ly/sJKke6 ) that a suspect in Butler's killing had been identified and an arrest was imminent. KGO says two others had also received organ transplants from Butler. Butler's sister, Valerie, tells the Oakland Tribune (http://bit.ly/utsOre) knowing...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — An Oakland homicide victim is giving people in dire need of organ transplants new leases on life this holiday season. Charles Butler Jr. , who was shot last week in Oakland , has so far donated his liver, pancreas and a kidney to gravely ill people. Antioch resident Daniel Murphy is recovering at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center after receiving Butler's liver. Butler's family knows Murphy from their church, and intervened on his behalf to get him the badly needed transplant. Luke Barnes , a patient at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, has received Butler's pancreas and kidney. The transplants happened Christmas Day. Police on Tuesday told KGO-TV (http://bit.ly/sJKke6 ) that a suspect in Butler's killing had been identified and an arrest was imminent. KGO says two others had also received organ transplants from Butler. Butler's sister, Valerie, tells the Oakland Tribune (http://bit.ly/ut...

Posted: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 4:25 pm | Updated: 5:26 pm, Wed Dec 28, 2011. In DeKalb County, five individuals still have pending murder charges, with some expected to either have hearings or a trial early in 2012. Still, other killing cases reached resolution in 2011. • Karri Denise Willoughby - Willoughby is accused of killing her stepfather, Billy Junior Shaw, with a lethal injection of Propofol in April 2008, the same drug involved in the death of pop star Michael Jackson. Proceedings are expected to start Feb. 6. Willoughby's attorney Bruce Gardner has said his team expects "to be fully prepared and ready to go on that date." "It can't come soon enough for us," Gardner said. "It will be almost two years that she's been in jail when we get to [Feb. 6], so we're looking forward to it." Authorities exhumed Shaw's body in May 2009, after receiving information that Shaw had not died from natural causes as originally thou...

To the string of suicides, assaults and slayings plaguing Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, add one more: A soldier stationed there faces charges of premeditated manslaughter in the death of 19-year-old Scarlett Paxton, who was stabbed to death after returning from a late-night walk with her boyfriend. Army Pfc. Dakota M. Wolf had been scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on charges of premeditated manslaughter, but authorities announced that the arraignment had been indefinitely postponed -- presumably to allow the military to proceed first with possible charges of assault, being absent without leave and failing to report for a training exercise. The case has horrified residents in the comfortable Seattle suburb of Juanita, near Kirkland, where Paxton was attacked Nov. 30 just outside her apartment door. Authorities said Wolf, also a 19-year-old from Kirkland, was a soldier with the 2nd Stryker Brigade. He had enlisted in the Army in 2010 and arrived at Joint Base Lewi...

It has been nearly a decade since there were so few murders in Calgary, but that statistic brings little solace to the families of the 11 people killed in 2011. Ben Ongera's killing during a fight outside a Taradale condo complex in September left three children without their father, a mother without her son and an extended family missing a beloved relative. "It's terrible," said Ongera's cousin, Sam Kassiba. "I still don't believe it sometimes. I want to call him, to think he's still there and I can call him." One of Ongera's friends has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the case, one of seven in which police have laid charges. At a time when Edmonton experienced a record-setting 45 murders, Calgary has logged the fewest since 2003, when there were 10 cases. But just as no single factor pushed Edmonton to its record in 2011, there is no pat explanation for the relatively placid year in Calgary. A gang war help...

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An Egyptian soldier stands guard outside courts at the Police Academy set up for the Mubarak trial in this file picture. NEW: Mubarak supporter: Recent bloodshed proves Mubarak "has nothing to do with the killing" NEW: An anti-Mubarak demonstrator says Mubarak should be executed Mubarak is back in court on a gurney, accused of ordering the killing of protesters An appeals court rejects a motion to disqualify Judge Ahmed Refaat Cairo (CNN) -- After a months-long break, the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resumed Wednesday after an appeals court dismissed a motion to disqualify the presiding judge. The ailing Mubarak entered a Cairo court on a gurney, wearing a white defendant's jumpsuit. He is charged with ordering the killing of protesters to quash the uprising that ultimately ended his 30-year rule in February. In addition, he faces corruption charges. Mubarak has pleaded not guilty. Former Egyptian Interior Minister Habib el-Adly, s...