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PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Jurors deliberated less than 90 minutes before returning a guilty verdict Monday at the federal death-penalty trial of a former...
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The FBI is investigating the claim by a former University of Illinois doctoral student that Yingying Zhang, the visiting scholar from China he's charged…
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Opening statements begin Wednesday morning in Peoria in the federal capital murder trial of Brent Christensen, charged in connection with the…
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U.S. prosecutors have told a judge they will seek the death penalty against a 28-year-old man charged with the kidnapping and killing of a University of…
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The family of Yingying Zhang hopes they will get answers about her disappearance when her accused kidnapper goes on trial next year. For the accused,…
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An October 11 arraignment date has been set for Brendt Christensen, after a federal grand jury returned a new indictment accusing the alleged kidnapper of…
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Lawyers for Brendt Christensen, the 27-year-old man accused of kidnapping Yingying Zhang, are asking a judge’s permission to withdraw from the…
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Brendt Christensen entered a “not guilty” plea Thursday in a federal courtroom in Urbana to the charge of kidnapping a visiting scholar from China. The…
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The family of missing Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang has increased the amount of reward money for information about her location to $50,000.By the time…
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The Justice Department says a federal grand jury has indicted Brendt Christensen of Champaign with the kidnapping of visiting Chinese scholar Yingying…