PORTSMOUTH A young crape myrtle tree had weathered its first winter, and in the heat of summer bloomed its first pale puffs of pink - Meghan Landowski's favorite color. On Saturday, the last of those blooms held on for the crowd that gathered in her memory. Meghan, 16, was stabbed to death in the family's Simonsdale home on April 10, 2008.

PORTSMOUTH Meghan Landowski's mother knows she can't change what happened to her 16-year-old daughter or lessen the torture of her final moments. Still, Angela Shortt wanted to hear Meghan's killer admit to what he did.

PORTSMOUTH The trial for the Churchland High School student accused of the 2008 slaying of 16-year-old Meghan Landowski has been moved to Tuesday – two weeks earlier than it had previously been scheduled.

PORTSMOUTH Robert Lee Barnes, 17, was indicted Thursday on new charges of capital murder and sex offenses in the 2008 slaying of Woodrow Wilson High School sophomore Meghan Landowski. Landowski's stepfather discovered the 16-year-old girl's body facedown in a pool of blood in the dining room of their Simonsdale home when he came home April 10.

PORTSMOUTH Robert Lee Barnes, 17, was indicted by a grand jury Thursday on charges of first-degree murder and burglary, according to Bill Prince, a spokesman for the commonwealth's attorney's office. Barnes was arrested Oct. 23 after a six-month investigation into the stabbing death of Meghan Landowski, 16, a Woodrow Wilson High School sophomore.

PORTSMOUTH Robert Lee Barnes, 17, will be prosecuted as an adult on charges of murder and burglary, as the result of a hearing Wednesday in Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court that revealed new details in the Meghan Landowski case. Barnes is charged in the slaying of Meghan, a 16-year-old Woodrow Wilson High School sophomore who was found dead in her Simonsdale home on April 10.

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A hearing for the Churchland High School student charged with murder in the slaying of 16-year-old Meghan Landowski has been continued to Dec. 3.

Robert Lee Barnes, 17, had been scheduled to be in Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court on Wednesday.

PORTSMOUTH Portsmouth police on Monday collected about half a dozen anonymous letters left in the mailboxes of people who lived near Meghan Landowski, the 16-year-old high school sophomore stabbed to death in her home April 10.

PORTSMOUTH He seemed like the most unlikely of suspects - a teenage boy known by most as a quiet violinist, a kid whose heroes were classical musicians.

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Detectives investigating the April homicide of a 16-year-old Woodrow Wilson High School sophomore are seeking television news stations’ interview tapes involving the case.