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The Dr. Kermit Gosnell case is entering its final stages, with closing arguments scheduled to run throughout Monday; tomorrow, the jury is expected to be charged. TheBlaze will be in the courtroom today to hear both the defense and the prosecution make final points about the now-infamous abortion doctor — and Gosnell’s fate will likely be decided in the coming days.

While we have shared a plethora of details surrounding the Gosnell trial, it’s important to revisit the charges the doctor faces and to take a look at the lives purportedly lost at his Women’s Medical Society. Currently, five murder charges remain against Gosnell. Last week, Judge Jeffery P. Minehart dismissed three counts of first degree murder on the grounds that there was not enough proof that those three babies were born alive.  READ MORE

GREELEY, Colo. (TheBlaze/AP) — Two billboards in which images of Native Americans are used to make a gun rights argument are causing a stir with some residents who say the image is offensive and insensitive.

The billboards in this northern Colorado city show three men dressed in traditional Native American attire and the words “Turn in your arms. The government will take care of you.”  READ MORE

A California couple had their five-month-old baby “snatched” by police after they took the infant to get a second opinion on a medical procedure, they claim. 

Anna and Alex Nikolayev are described as loving parents who took their baby, who has a heart murmur, to Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento when he started exhibiting flu-like symptoms.  The family has undergone plenty of doctor visits in the last five months for the their son’s heart, and were unsettled by the treatment he was receiving. 

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The local chapter International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union – Local 103 — in Dorchester, Mass., put up a billboard in honor of the Boston bombing victims, but especially for 8-year-old Martin Richard who was from the town and is the youngest of the three killed in the blast. READ MORE

A victim of the Boston bombings Monday with some of the most graphic wounds caught on photograph reportedly woke up in a drugged haze after surgery and in recovery, saw the FBI’s pictures of the two suspects that had been released and said one of them “looked right at me.” READ MORE

• Approximately 10:20 p.m. Thursday: Robbery takes place at a 7/11 convenience store in Cambridge, near the MIT campus. Bombing suspects originally believed to be behind the crime, although that was later disputed and police at a press conference on Friday night said the suspects did not rob a convenience story.  READ MORE