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A jury took only four and a half hours Tuesday to find a convicted sex offender guilty of murdering a woman at the Galleria Mall because she was white. 

Phillip Grant, 44, was found guilty of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the stabbing death of 56-year-old legal secretary Connie Russo Carriero. Grant had confessed to police that he wanted to kill a white person. DNA evidence also tied Grant to the crime. Carriero?s family members became emotional hearing the verdict and said they are glad the trial is finally over.

Grant is the first person to be tried for murder as a hate crime in Westchester County. He faces 25 years to life when he is sentenced on September 11. His attorney vows to appeal the verdict.

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A jury took only four and a half hours Tuesday to find a convicted sex offender guilty of murdering a woman at the Galleria Mall because she was white.   Phillip Grant, 44, was found guilty of second-degree

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Got to love the sound of that. How fun. All right, as we wake up this morning, we are looking ahead to the weekend. Good morning, Matt. Yeah. And we are tracking a potentially significant rain and wind threat, Lisa. So I just want to bring everyone the latest information on that as we see it this morning. And this is a featurecast starting off Sunday morning, which is, it'll be a dry start on Sunday. It's really rain showers breaking out during the afternoon with temperatures actually surging into the middle and upper fifties throughout the day. On Sunday will hit a high near 60 late in the day. Now, the worst of the rain and winds will be towards the evening. So after around eight or nine o'clock Sunday night, we have moderate to heavy rain developing. And then during the overnight hours, this will begin to push out of the lower Hudson Valley to where by around say 56 o'clock Monday morning, most of this is gone. Still a little bit windy on the backside of this storm though. And I do expect it to be all rain here across the Hudson Valley, but we could be looking at some gusts over 40 MPH. A lot of times the computer models, especially several days out with a storm like this, they overdo the wind gusts. So I don't think we'll see frequent 50 mile an hour gusts here, but definitely in the 3040 mile per hour range. And that's a problem for all the holiday decorations too. So, you got to think about that a few days out before we get to those stronger winds developing throughout the day. On Sunday. Back to our Thursday. Today, it's a cold ST to the day with temperatures feeling like mostly the twenties, but even at times like the upper teens, 16 is what it feels like in Newburgh right now. 22 in Poughkeepsie. And that's with just a light breeze at around 5 to 10 MPH Doppler radar right now is dry locally, but there are some snow showers off to the west of us and a few of these will survive as at least a few flurries as we go throughout the day. A similar day to yesterday. We, we're a lot of the days dry and mostly cloudy, but a few scattered flurries will be around. It could even be a light steady or snow shower, which can lead to a quick coating in a few spots. But that's a very isolated issue just like yesterday. So, overall smile worthy weather today, most of the day is ok. A few festive snow flurries around temperatures in the upper thirties tonight. Back down into the upper twenties to near 30 under partly cloudy skies. Here's the 10 day nicer tomorrow into the weekend. Saturday. Still the pick of the week before that rain and wind moves in Sunday into early Monday. The rest of next week dry with highs in the forties.

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Man convicted of murder as a hate crime in Galleria Mall slaying