A 22-year-old former Marine accused of killing a pregnant colleague near his North Carolina base has pleaded not guilty during a brief hearing. Cesar Laurean is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach of Vandalia, Ohio, whose burned body ...

A former Marine charged with killing a pregnant colleague in North Carolina was not the father of the woman's unborn baby, according to documents obtained Friday by The Associated Press. In a report completed by the Department of Defense Armed Forces Institute of ...

In stories April 16 and April 17 about slain Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, The Associated Press reported erroneously that tests had confirmed a Marine later suspected in her killing wasn't the father of Lauterbach's unborn child. Lauterbach had told a military prosecutor that Cpl. Cesar Laurean couldn't be the father based on ...

A judge denied bond Monday for a Marine who fled to Mexico shortly before he was charged with killing a pregnant colleague in North Carolina. Cpl. Cesar Laurean, 22, wore a bulletproof vest under an orange jail jumpsuit as he appeared in Onslow County ...