Confessed hit man now says NJ rabbi didn’t hire him to kill wife in their home in 1994

September 24th, 2009 NC Marine calm in 911 call reporting wife's deathJACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A North Carolina-based Marine charged with killing his wife calmly told 911 dispatchers that he had written a suicide note but was unable to kill himself.

September 22nd, 2009 NC Marine charged with murder in wife's deathCAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Police say a 22-year-old Marine based at Camp Lejeune confessed to strangling his wife in a 911 call and is being held on a charge of first-degree murder.

September 12th, 2009 Hebrew Union College past president dies at 79CINCINNATI — A spokeswoman says the former president and chancellor emeritus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has died in Cincinnati. Hebrew Union spokeswoman Jean Bloch Rosensaft says Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk died Saturday.

July 9th, 2009 NH tax evaders convicted of plot to kill agentsCONCORD, N.H. — Tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown were convicted Thursday on all counts of plotting to kill federal agents during a nine-month standoff at their fort-like home in rural New Hampshire.

July 7th, 2009 NH tax evader denies booby-trapping propertyCONCORD, N.H. — A convicted tax evader has denied at his trial that he booby-trapped his New Hampshire property to kill federal agents.

June 18th, 2009 Ex-Marine: Buddies admitted slaying sergeant, wifeMURRIETA, Calif. — A former Marine says two of his buddies at California's Camp Pendleton confessed to slaying their boss and his wife during a home-invasion robbery.

June 17th, 2009 NYC jails rabbi resigns after mitzvah at lockupNEW YORK — A rabbi who's a chaplain for the New York City jails has resigned amid an investigation into a catered bar mitzvah held for an inmate's son at a lockup. A spokesman for the Department of Correction says Rabbi Leib Glanz voluntarily resigned Tuesday.

June 7th, 2009 Ohioan becomes 1st black female rabbi in USCINCINNATI — Describing herself as the "new face of Judaism," Alysa Stanton became the first black female rabbi in the country during an ordination in Cincinnati. Stanton, of Blue Ash, was among 14 rabbis ordained Saturday at the Plum Street Temple.

May 20th, 2009 PANAJI - Anticipating public ire, the police have secretly shifted the wife of an alleged serial killer to an undisclosed location, after she was ostracised and threatened by the local community in a Goa village. Mahanand Naik has been accused of murdering 10 women over a period of 15 years.

May 9th, 2009 NY rabbi gets 30 years for child molestationNEW YORK — A New York rabbi convicted of molesting his daughter has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Monsey rabbi Israel Weingarten was found guilty in March of abusing his daughter through much of her childhood.

May 4th, 2009 PANAJI - A 40-year-old man has confessed to having raped and killed three young women in the last 15 years, police said here Monday. Mahanand Naik was arrested April 28 after being accused of rape by a woman.

February 13th, 2009 MUMBAI - The parents of the late Rabbi Gavriel, who was killed during the Nov 26 terror attacks here last year, have announced plans to raise Rs.100 million to reconstruct the ravaged Jewish centre in south Mumbai. Rabbi Nachman Holtzberg, accompanied by his wife Frieda, and their sons Avraham and Moshe, visited the Chabad House, the Mumbai headquarters of the ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jews, situated inside the better known Nariman House, near the southern tip of the city.

February 9th, 2009 RAIPUR - Inspired by television crime serials, a 26-year-old woman hired killers to murder her alcoholic husband in a village on the outskirts of this Chhattisgarh capital, police said Tuesday. Savita Verma was arrested Monday night and confessed to the police that her brother Devendra Verma, 24, had helped her hire Jurawan Verma, 24, and Ramkumar Verma, 26, to kill her husband Manoj Verma, 27, on Jan 18 in exchange for Rs.100,000.

December 24th, 2008 RAIPUR - Fed up with her husband's drunkenness and brutality towards her, a poor woman in Chhattisgarh hired contract killers to kill her husband and watched while they rained hammer blows on him, police said Thursday. The incident took place Dec 21 night in village Ringni in Raipur district, some 60 km from here.

December 22nd, 2008 NEW DELHI - A 26-year-old hawker was beaten to death by his wife and her paramour after he found them in a compromising position at his southeast Delhi home, the police said Tuesday. Geeta and her paramour Ajay, alias Vinod, were arrested Tuesday for killing Harishchander at his rented house in Ghitorni village late Monday.