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workers as they helped load her two grandsons into her van.
• It had been a day full of smiles and cupcakes for 2-year-old Alton Perry, who was celebrating his birthday, and nothing seemed amiss, said Nikki Salaun, the director of the Kidds & Co. day care.
• But instead of taking the children home as planned, Denison vanished Tuesday and left behind a suicide note. After a frantic search, she and her grandsons, 2-year-old Alton Perry and 6-month-old Ashton Perry, were found shot to death in an apparent murder-suicide.
• "We've all gone over it in our heads," Salaun said. "Did she say something that we could have picked up on? But no, there was nothing alarming."
• Relatives said Denison had struggled with mental health problems, but family and friends were left struggling to understand what could have prompted the violence.
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• DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh on Thursday sentenced the leader of an Islamic political party to death for crimes stemming from the nation's 1971 fight for independence, a politically charged decision that sparked violent protests.
• Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee was found guilty of eight counts out of 20 involving mass killings, rape and atrocities during the nine-month war against Pakistan, prosecutor Syed Haider Ali said. The verdict was announced by presiding tribunal judge ATM Fazle Kabir in a packed courtroom.
• "Justice has been done to those who lost their loved ones at the hands of Sayedee," Ali said.
• Lawyers for the defendant boycotted the tribunal during the verdict and rejected it as politically motivated. Sayedee's lawyer Abdur Razzak said they will appeal.
• Jamaat-e-Islami was enforcing a nationwide general strike Thursday to denounce the trial and to demand Sayedee be freed.
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• SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Medicare paid billions in taxpayer dollars to nursing

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