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2 convicted in 2003 slaying of informant

WASHINGTON — Two men have been convicted in the murder almost a decade ago of a man who was an informant responsible for the arrest of one of the defendants on drug charges.

Jurors in Washington County on Tuesday night convicted 55-year-old John Bronson Jr. of California, Pa., and 35-year-old Michael Duncan of Amherst, Ohio, of first-degree murder and criminal conspiracy in the February 2003 execution-style shooting death of 45-year-old John Newman.

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