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paring for a crucial once-a-decade political transition that will install a new generation of leaders. Until his fall, Bo was considered a contender for a top job.
• Key among the central leadership's main objectives in Gu's trial is to keep the focus tightly on the murder case and not on larger allegations of corruption that could further taint the communist regime, experts say. Beijing also will closely orchestrate publicity to try to convince the domestic audience that the trial has been fair and the international community that justice has been served in the slaying of a foreigner.
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• AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio man suspected of shooting his wife in the head in her hospital bed was scheduled for his first court appearance as police awaited au

topsy results that could affect the charge against him in the possible mercy killing.
• Police said the results of an autopsy, expected to occur Tuesday or Wednesday, could cause the attempted aggravated murder charge against John Wise to be upgraded to a more serious type of murder charge. Wise was to appear in Akron Municipal Court on Tuesday.
• Barbara Wise, 65, was incapacitated and in the intensive care unit before her husband of 45 years stood at her bedside and shot her on Saturday with a handgun, said Akron assistant city prosecutor Craig Morgan, who wouldn't specify the woman's ailments. She was declared dead on Sunday.
• John Wise entered his wife's room at Akron General Medical Center and fired at least one round from the handgun, police said. Hospital officials said one shot was fired.
• Violating hospital policy prohibiting guns on its campus, Wise entered the hospital through the main entrance and went up to his wife's room without drawing any attention, apparently keeping the handgun concealed, said hospital spokesman Jim Gosky.
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