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NH student’s disappearance, death detailed in docs

This undated file photo provided by her family shows University of New Hampshire student Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott. The death of Marriott, according to court documents unsealed in May 2013, shows a tangled tale involving a karate instructor, his girlfriend, and a young victim described by a family member as gullible. (AP Photo/Britney Atwood, File)

DOVER, N.H. (AP) — Lizzi Marriott left a message saying she’d be home by midnight.

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Famed RI Cliff Walk still partly closed post-Sandy

In this Wednesday, March 27, 2013 file photo Dave Livingston, left, removes his gloves while standing near a portion of the Cliff Walk, in Newport, R.I.  Large portions of the Cliff Walk damaged by Superstorm Sandy has yet to be repaired as the summer tourist season approaches. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Newport’s Cliff Walk, which runs between the Atlantic Ocean and some of the city’s most stunning Gilded Age mansions, sustained what has been estimated at up to $8 million in damage during Superstorm Sandy. Some walkways were washed away or caved in. In other areas, huge boulders were moved by the violent surf.

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Pistorius investigation to be finished by August

In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 26, 2013 file photo, Olympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius appears in court for his bail hearing after being charged with the shooting of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in Pretoria, South Africa.  Oscar Pistorius and Caster Semenya have been left off a list of athletes to receive funding by the South African Olympic Committee ahead of the 2016 Rio Games. South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee chief executive Tubby Reddy says Pistorius wasn't included on the Operation Excellence support program because of his decision not to compete this year to concentrate on his murder trial. He's accused of shooting his girlfriend. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The police investigation into Oscar Pistorius’ killing of his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day won’t be completed until August, prosecutors said Saturday, ahead of the double-amputee Olympian’s first court appearance in nearly four months.

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Girl’s suicide after alleged attack troubles town

Sheila Pott poses with a portrait of her daughter Audrie in Los Altos, Calif., Thursday, May 23, 2013. Audrie Pott committed suicide in September 2012 after being sexually assaulted by three boys during a house party in Saratoga, Calif. Photos of the incident were circulated around Pott's high school prompting the teenager to hang herself in a bathroom at home. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

SARATOGA, Calif. (AP) — One evening last Labor Day weekend, 15-year-old Audrie Pott walked up the driveway of a classmate’s home alongside other teenagers. She’d told her parents she was spending the night with a friend. The friend claimed she was sleeping at Audrie’s. Instead, the girls were having a party. A classic teenage ploy.

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Syria regime unleashes artillery barrage on Qusair

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, gives a televised speech from an unknown location to mark the anniversary of Israel's May 2000 withdrawal from southern Lebanon, Saturday, May 25, 2013. The date is commemorated each year by Hezbollah as a major military victory, however, this year's anniversary comes at a time when Hezbollah is facing growing criticism in Lebanon for its involvement in the Syrian war. (AP Photo/SANA)

BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria’s bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a “dark period.”

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