Two ex-Blackwater staff charged with Afghan murders

Investigators have discovered a large industrial incinerator on the property of the man accused of Tim Bosma’s murder, fuelling speculation of a gruesome end for the Ancaster father. Staff-Sgt. Matt Kavanagh, lead homicide investigator in the Tim Bosma case, would not confirm whether or not the machine was involved in Mr. Bosma’s death or in the disposal of Mr. Bosma’s remains. Police have seized the incinerator from the property of Dellen Millard, charged with first-degree murder in the death of Mr. Bosma.

A woman found slain in a Richmond Hill condominium complex last weekend was the sister of her accused killer, who taught Grade 5 students at a local Catholic school, police revealed Friday. The news comes as family and friends prepare to say goodbye to 38-year-old Jeannine Ross-Armstrong at a funeral in Thunder Bay next Tuesday.

The wife of the Ontario man killed after taking two men for a test drive spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday, saying she was shattered by the news her husband was dead. “Yesterday was the most horrifying day of my life,” Sharlene Bosma told reporters at the Ancaster church she and Tim attended.

FacebookTim Bosma with his wife Sharlene. HAMILTON, Ont.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday accused the Taliban and the U.S. of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence will worsen if most foreign troops leave – an allegation the top American commander in Afghanistan rejected as “categorically false.”

The wife of a fired magistrate judge in Texas has confessed to being involved in the shocking shooting deaths of two Texas prosecutors, the Associated Press is reporting.

MONTREAL — If Luka Rocco Magnotta is ordered to stand trial, it should be on a charge of second-degree murder and not first-degree, one of his lawyers said Monday. Luc Leclair told court he intends to make final arguments to that effect later this week as Magnotta’s preliminary inquiry wraps up. Magnotta, 30, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Chinese engineering student Jun Lin. He has pleaded not guilty and opted for trial before a judge and jury. A trial likely wouldn’t be heard until 2014.

A northeast Missouri man is accused of killing and dismembering a man, then hurling his victim’s arms at witnesses. The Adair County prosecutor’s office has charged 49-year-old Paul R. Potter, of Kirksville, with second-degree murder, second-degree arson and tampering with a motor vehicle. No further suspects are being sought Police officers arrested Potter on Sunday after officers responding to a vehicle fire call saw him throw the arms toward bystanders.