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the men as women arrive -- and what the men say concerns them, from whether women can keep up to whether the men's salty language will be too offensive.
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Chief prosecutor in murder trial of Oscar Pistorius ends cross-examination of athlete
• PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- The chief prosecutor in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius has ended his cross-examination after challenging the athlete for five days of testimony about how he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year.
• Prosecutor Gerrie Nel said he had no further questions late Tuesday morning after presenting his case that Pistorius is lying in his account of mistakenly shooting Steenkamp, and that the double-amputee runner killed her intentionally after an argument.
• Pistorius shot Steenkamp through a closed toilet door in his home before dawn on Feb. 14, 2013. The athlete says that he thought she was an intruder about to come out of the toilet to attack him.
• Pistorius faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted of premeditated murder.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Tuesday, April 15, the 105th day of 2014. There are 260 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On April 15, 2013, two bombs packed with nails and other lethal metal shards exploded at the Boston Marathon finish line, killing two women and an 8-year-old boy and injuring more than 260 people. (Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) has pleaded not guilty to 30 federal charges, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction; his brother and alleged accomplice, Tamerlan Tsarnaev (TAM'-ehr-luhn tsahr-NEYE'-ehv), died in a shootout with police.)
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• On this date:
• In 1764, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, the highly influential mistress of France's King Louis XV, died at Versailles at age 42.
• In 1850, the city of San Francisco was incorporated.
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