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Ex-NFL star Hernandez gets life in prison for 2013 killing

By Elizabeth Barber FALL RIVER, Mass. (Reuters) – Former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for murdering an acquaintance in an industrial park near his Massachusetts home, concluding the first of two murder trials he faces this year. A Massachusetts jury found Hernandez, 25, guilty of first-degree murder in the June 2013 slaying of Odin Lloyd, who had been dating the sister

Ex-NFL star Hernandez gets life in prison for 2013 killing

By Elizabeth Barber FALL RIVER, Mass. (Reuters) – Former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for murdering an acquaintance in an industrial park near his Massachusetts home, concluding the first of two murder trials he faces this year. A Massachusetts jury found Hernandez, 25, guilty of first-degree murder in the June 2013 slaying of Odin Lloyd, who had been dating the sister