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8A Daily News – Thursday, May 9, 2013 WORLD BRIEFING Arias fights back tears as jury convicts PHOENIX (AP) — The jury has found Jodi Arias guilty of firstdegree murder in the death of her one-time boyfriend in Arizona. Arias initially denied involvement and later blamed the killing on masked intruders. Two years after her arrest, she said she killed Travis Alexander in self-defense. After a four-month trial that included graphic details of their sexual escapades and photos of Alexander just after his death, jurors began deliberating Friday afternoon. At a news conference, authorities gave few details on the women's ordeal. But police said earlier in the day that they were apparently bound with ropes and chains, and a city councilman briefed on the case, Brian Cummins, said that they were subjected to prolonged sexual and psychological abuse and suffered miscarriages. Cummins also said the women were kept in the basement for some time. ''We know that the victims have confirmed miscarriages, but with who, how many and what conditions we don't know,'' he said. He added: ''It sounds pretty gruesome.'' Former US Cleveland official man charged describes with raping, confusion kidnapping during 3 women Benghazi CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland man arrested after three women missing for a decade were found alive at his home was charged Wednesday with kidnapping and raping them. Prosecutors brought no charges against his brothers, saying there was no evidence they had any part in the crime. Ariel Castro, 52, was charged with four counts of kidnapping — covering all three captives and the daughter born to one of them while she was held — and three counts of rape against the three women. The former school bus driver owns the peeling, run-down home where the women were rescued on Monday, after one of them broke through a screen door. WASHINGTON (AP) — A former top diplomat in Libya on Wednesday delivered a riveting minute-by-minute account of the chaotic events during the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi last September, with a 2 a.m. call from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and confusion about the fate of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. In a slow, halting and sometimes emotional voice, Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission who was in Tripoli, described for a House committee how a routine day on Sept. 11, 2012, quickly devolved as insurgents launched two nighttime attacks on the facility in eastern Libya, killing Wrigley stopping sales of caffeinated gum Stevens and three other Americans. The hours-long hearing produced no major revelation while reviving disputes over the widely debunked comments made by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice five days after the attacks and the inability of the U.S. military to respond quickly. ''I don't think there's a smoking gun today. I don't think there's a lukewarm slingshot,'' said Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis. The session exposed bitter partisan divisions as Republicans who are pressing ahead with the investigation eight months after the attacks insist the Obama administration is covering up information and Democrats decry politicization of a national security issue. Syrian media blames Internet outage on fiber optics cable BEIRUT (AP) — A problem with a fiber optics cable was responsible for an Internet outage "Your Family Supermarket" (530) 384-1563 8049 Hwy 99E, Los Molinos, CA 1 DAY MEAT BONANZA We accept EBT, Credit or Debit Fully Trimmed Beef Choice Tri-Tip Roast (In the Bag) 3.99 $ Lb. Boneless Beef Ball Tip Roasts May 11, 2013 8am-5pm 1⁄2 or Whole Loins Pork Tri-Tips (In the Bag) 1.49 Family Pack 2.49 $ (In the Bag) 1.89 $ Lb. 99 25.99 10 Lb. box 12.99 Ea. Chicken Breasts 2.49 $ Lb. Raw Prawns (41-50 Count) 2 Lb. Bag Ea. Lb. Ribletts $ Lb. 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