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Oct 30 2008, AP

A man confessed to strangling his wife during a fight over his alleged cheating, dumping her body near a highway and then making it appear as if she had been a victim of random roadside violence, police said Thursday.

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Students at the Promise Academy in Harlem, New York, listen to one of their teachers, Shakira Petit, at right on the television, talk to them from Antarctica via satellite on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. Brown was chosen to be part of a project which aims to...