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Atlanta man found guilty of murder in courtroom rampage

Nov. 8, 2008
Jurors rejected Brian Nichols' claim of insanity for the 2005 shooting rampage that left four dead. Nichols faces the death sentence or life in prison. An Atlanta man who claimed the delusion that he was leading a "slave rebellion" had launched him on a courthouse shooting spree was...
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Veterans etch the names of their friends inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War on May 26, 2012 in Washington, DC. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. UPI/Pat Benic