Stories from Tuesday, January 10, 2012

A Norwood couple was charged Jan. 9 with the early-morning stabbing death on Jan. 2 of Caulfield business owner Joy Dishneau, 63. Dishneau's former employee, Elisabeth Edwina Gunter, 43, and Gunter's boyfriend, Dennis Ray Woodward, 46, were charged in Howell County Circuit Court with first-degree murder, armed criminal action, first-degree robbery and tampering with a motor vehicle...

Maybe it was early Christmas holiday spirit or, most likely, a year end rush to get long-pending criminal cases off the books, but the Dec. 5 Fulton Circuit Court session resulted in 17 cases being resolved. One defendant received an immediate prison sentence, as 16 defendants received probation, suspended disposition or deferred sentences...