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Physicist Gordon Shaw Dead at 72

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. – Gordon Shaw (search), the physicist whose research on classical music’s effect on the brain produced an often-quoted study that showed listening to Mozart raises a person’s IQ, has died. He was 72. Shaw died of kidney cancer Tuesday at his home, according to his family. He …

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BTK Suspect May Be Writing Poetry

For decades, Wichita, Kan., police received communications from the BTK killer (search), including letters and poems. Now the man charged with those murders has been spending long hours in his jail cell writing to people he knows. “His public defender is probably pouring his heart and soul into this case,” …

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BTK Prosecutors Rule Out Plea Deal

WICHITA, Kan. – Prosecutors vowed there will be no plea bargain in the case against a former church leader and city employee charged with 10 counts of murder in the BTK serial killings that terrorized Wichita since the 1970s. “I look forward to a trial of this case because it …

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