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Vang Convicted and Sentenced

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A Sawyer County judge yesterday sentenced 37 year-old Chai Vang to six consecutive life terms with no chance of parole for killing six deer hunters last November.Judge Norman Yackel said the maximum sentence was necessary beacause Vang’s uncontrollable anger made him a time bomb waiting to explode.Gil Halsted reports from Hayward…

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