News of the Day From Across the Nation, Oct. 17
A Maryland mother, her daughter and the daughter’s boyfriend have been charged with murder in the killing of the woman’s husband and a lover, police said.
Anne Arundel County police said the wife and her husband had been part of a love triangle with a women they let move into their basement over the summer.
Police said the wife plotted with her 13-year-old daughter and they recruited the teen’s boyfriend, 18-year-old Gabriel Struss, to kill her husband and the other woman, Jacqueline Riggs.
Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, testified Friday before the House committee investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, as the panel faced fresh criticism from Republicans and Democrats about the purpose of its inquiry.
Abedin met behind closed doors for the hearing on the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. facilities that killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
The panel is under intense scrutiny after two House Republicans described the GOP-led committee as partisan and aimed at hurting Clinton’s presidential bid, a characterization the panel’s chairman rejects.
The patrol car clipped the rear of the other vehicle near Santa Monica and San Vicente boulevards and jumped a curb, striking the pedestrians, officials said.