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A Hartford teenager arrested last Tuesday for the murder of a 74-year-old man is also a suspect in a May 22 Manchester shooting that killed a convenience store clerk.

Manchester police arrested Charles “Blue” Wilson, 18, on Friday for the murder of Aurang Zaib Sahi, 36.

Sahi has 2 little kids and his wife is pregnant.  Customers were thrilled to hear police say they have their man.

“A lot of people couldn’t believe it.  They came into the store and cried and teared up for this guy because he was so nice,” said Saleem Daig, the clerk who now works Sahi’s shifts.

Florida’s Monique Laroche is living proof. The 57-year-old Plantation woman just received her Bachelor’s degree from Broward College. It wasn’t the economy that motivated Laroche, it was something much bigger.

Laroche is a mother of four and raising her kids was her number one priority, so college was put on hold until the kids were grown. “While I was in school my husband got sick. After two years he was diagnosed with cancer and he died,” Laroche said. “I couldn’t continue going to school.”

With her husband of 30 years gone, Laroche dropped out. Finally, she thought of her husband to get her motivation back. “The best thing for me was to get my mind preoccupied,” she said. “The minute I walked in the door I was a different person.”

That’s when Laroche started going straight to school from work. Not only helping herself, Monique was inspiring her son Vladimir. “He decided to quit his full-time job and go back school,” she says. “I’ll be completing my degree program in December and she’s been behind me the whole way,” Vladimir Laroche said. “To see her walk across the stage and be recognized for her accomplishments was a great thing.”

In an exclusive interview President Barack Obama said that if he were Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner right now, he would resign in the wake of the scandal in which Weiner admitted to sending explicit photos of himself to women online.

“I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign,’’ Obama told Curry.

Weiner has been the talk of the nation since he was caught sending lewd photos of himself to various women on multiple social media platforms, prompting the head of the Democratic National Party to call for him to step down and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi to demand an ethics committee investigation.

Pictured: President Barack Obama is interviewed by Ann Curry at Cree, Inc., in Durham, N.C., June 13, 2011.

PHILADELPHIA — Police say that a woman tried to hire someone to kill her child’s father with a simple post on her facebook profile: “I will pay somebody a stack to kill my baby father.”

It’s not your everyday status update. But police say that’s the message that one angry woman posted on her facebook profile back on May 23, after getting into an argument with the father of her child.

On June 10, police arrested 20-year-old London Eley of Philadelphia after she allegedly tried to hire someone to kill her baby’s father for $1,000.

“I never thought she would do anything like that,” said the father of London’s child. “I didn’t know she was that type of person.”

Even more shocking was the alleged first response. Investigators say 18-year-old Tim Bynum replied to Eley’s message by writing on her profile “say no more, what he look like?”

There’s a common phrase that “what goes around comes around”. However, when three Memphis robbery suspects attempted to rob a woman of her purse and backpack, they didn’t expect justice to come back to them in the form of bullets.

A woman was returning home to her apartment early Saturday, when a black car began to follow her. Nervous, the woman notified her boyfriend at home and arrived shortly afterwards.

Upon arriving home, three women jumped out of the black car and preceded to rob and pistol-whip the victim, taking a purse with $240 inside. The victim’s boyfriend witnessed the attack and came outside with a handgun creating a stand off.

The robbers soon fled and the victim’s boyfriend shot at them, breaking a glass window and injuring 20-year-old Britney Harrison. As the criminals fled, their vehicle ran out of gas and they phoned paramedics to treat Harrison’s wounds. As Harrison was rushed to the hospital, 21-year-old Tikita Bradford and 20-year-old Amber Jackson were arrested.

Harrison has since left the hospital and is now in police custody. All three suspects were charged with aggravated robbery, while the victim’s boyfriend has not been charged.

BALTIMORE — A Maryland congressman says his nephew was killed in a random shooting near Old Dominion University in Virginia.

Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings of Baltimore in a statement Sunday talked about the death of Christopher Cummings in his off-campus apartment. He says his nephew’s roommate, Jake Carey, was critically wounded in the attack Friday. Both were students at the university in Norfolk.

The congressman urged the community to cooperate with police.

He says his family remains in shock over the “senseless tragedy.”

Cummings says his nephew was an “amazing young man who was loved and admired by so many people who had the honor of knowing him.” He had a 3.5 grade-point average and “ambitious plans for his future.”

SOUTH CAROLINA — A 14-month-old baby girl was taken to the hospital, after the child was thrown from a car during a shoplifting attempt at a K-Mart store in Columbia, South Carolina.

According to reports, the child was taken to the hospital’s intensive care unit following the incident on Thursday night, and is now listed in stable condition.

The child suffered several injuries, including broken ribs, a collapsed lung and abrasions.

Reports state that 21-year-old Cortney Palmer and the child’s mother 20-year-old Courtney Nicole Francetta Mace entered the K-Mart store around 9 p.m., attempted to shoplift and were confronted by a store security guard.

A third woman, 22-year-old Kimberly Moody, waiting in the car became aware of the confrontation inside, and sped off in the vehicle.

In doing so, the 14-month-old, who was unsecured, fell out of the car.

Investigators say the women tried to steal two bottles of body spray, a bottle of body wash, a stick of deodorant, a pair of earrings, and a pack of tissue totaling $29.61.

Pictured: CORTNEY PALMER,  COURTNEY MACE AND KIMBERLY MOODY

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court unanimously upheld a 10-year prison sentence for cocaine possession Thursday, rejecting a claim that harsh penalties in federal law apply only to crack cocaine.

The court said that the provision of federal law that calls for longer prison terms for crack cocaine possession also includes other forms of “cocaine base,” coca leaves and paste.

Federal appeals courts have been split on this issue, which the court resolved on Thursday in a favor of a more inclusive reading of the law.

A Miami mother has been arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse after her 1-year-old child was badly burned Thursday morning.

Kamesha Seymour, 20, denied hurting her child, but could not explain to investigators how the toddler suffered second-degree burns over its entire body, an arrest report stated.

According to police, Miami Fire Rescue responded to a home in the 7800 block of NE 2nd Avenue after receiving a call from a neighbor. The child was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital, authorities said.

Doctors told police the burns were the result of child abuse, the report said.

Seymour, who is deaf, was taken to the police station for questioning.

Authorities said the family had no history with the Department of Children and Families. Seymour was being held on $50,000 bond.