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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. | The Latest: Counterprotesters describe devastating injuries

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.— The Latest on the sentencing of James Alex Fields Jr. for the murder of Heather Heyer (all times local):

1:15 p.m. Several people who were severely injured by a man who drove his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally have described devastating physical and psychological injuries to jurors who make a sentencing recommendation.

James Alex Fields Jr. was…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. | Jury to recommend sentence for white nationalist

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The same jury that convicted a man of first-degree murder for driving his car into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally will now decide his punishment.

The jury in the trial of James Alex Fields Jr. will reconvene Monday to hear additional evidence and come up with a sentencing recommendation for Judge Richard Moore on murder and other charges.

Fields was…

BERLIN | German couple convicted of murder for abusing, killing women

BERLIN  — A man and his ex-wife were convicted Friday of murder through neglect for luring women to their home in western Germany and abusing two so badly that they died.

In a case that has drawn national attention, AngelikaW., 49, received 13 years in prison from the Paderborn state court and her ex-husband Wilfried W., 48, was sentenced to serve 11 years in psychiatric care, the dpa news agency…