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1 “Magna Carta found in scrapbook may be worth millions”

2 Just days after four Magna Cartas were united for the first time in 800 years at the British Library in London, another ancient version of the document has been discovered by chance in a medieval coastal town in England (Feb. 9). Mark Bateson, an archivist in southern England, found the previously unknown version of the Magna Carta -- which established the principle that everybody, including the king, was subject to the law -- after historian Nicholas Vincent had asked him to look for a separate document dealing with a local forest that he was researching. After rummaging through a scrapbook of council archives, Bateson found the Forest Charter, a document issued by King Henry III in 1217, as well as a tattered page that he thought looked like the Magna Carta. "He wasn't really aware of the fact that they were either rare or that this one was indeed what it purported to be. I think, from his point of view, it was all a bit of a shock," said Vincent, professor of medieval history at the University of East Anglia. But he says there is no doubt that this is a version of the Magna Carta, or "The Great Charter," that was published in 1300 under the reign of King Edward I. The original document was issued by England's King John in 1215.

3 In Other News The man suspected of killing college student Hannah Graham has now been officially charged with her slaying. Jesse Matthew is charged with 1st degree murder in the University of Virginia student's death. Albemarle County authorities have scheduled an 11 a.m. ET Tuesday news conference where they are expected to announce details. The 18-year-old Graham went missing before dawn on September 13 after she was last spotted on surveillance cameras in Charlottesville's Downtown Mall area. In October, authorities found what turned out to be Graham's skull and bones on an abandoned property eight miles from where the college sophomore was last seen. Surveillance video and other accounts led authorities to identify Matthew as the suspect in her disappearance. Matthew was taken into custody September 24 on a beach in Galveston County, Texas, about 1,300 miles away from where Graham was last seen. Before his charge was upgraded to murder, the 32-year-old Matthew had been detained on charges of abduction with the intent to defile. Surfer killed in shark attack


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