NY man convicted of fatally stabbing girlfriend

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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A 61-year-old man was convicted Thursday of stabbing his girlfriend to death in his bed, the latest in a long line of knife attacks on women that have kept him in prison for half his life.

After finding Lucius Crawford guilty of murder in the death of Tonya Simmons in 2012, jurors returned to their deliberations to consider yet another killing attributed to him, the 1993 stabbing of a prostitute. No verdict was reached Thursday in that case.

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