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The son of legendary TV newsman Ted Koppel died early Monday after a night of drinking that ended in the seedy Manhattan apartment of a pub crawl acquaintance. Andrew Koppel, a 40-year-old attorney with the New York City Housing Authority with a history of alcohol problems, was declared dead around 1:30 a.m., according to the New York Post. Police sources told the newspaper Koppel had stumbled two and a half hours earlier into the Washington Heights apartment of Russell Wimberly, a waiter he had met 12 hours earlier in a Hell's Kitchen bar. A roommate of Wimberly, Belinda Caban, told...

JAMES CITY -- Oswaldo Martinez watches the television show "Law and Order" to learn about the American justice system. He can't hear what the characters are saying, but with the help of a sign-language interpreter, he can sometimes follow the plot. But the 35-year-old man, who can't hear or speak, still doesn't understand enough to face his own trial on rape and murder charges in the 2005 death of a James City County teenager, a psychologist testified Wednesday in Williamsburg-James City County Circuit Court.