ORANGE, Va. (AP) — A hospice nurse was acquitted Tuesday of charges that she fatally poisoned her husband so she could inherit his $15 million fortune.

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Judge Daniel R. Bouton ruled that prosecutors failed to prove their case that Donna Somerville, 51, administered a lethal drug overdose to Hamilton Somerville at their sprawling Virginia estate in 2001.

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