Judge: Colo. hitchhiker competent to stand trial for murder

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Colorado judge has ruled that a hitchhiker accused of fatally stabbing a man who gave him a cross-country ride is mentally fit to stand trial. The Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1S8ms6O ) that Fourth Judicial District Judge Jann P. DuBois ruled Wednesday that 34-year-old Michael Ray understands the murder charge against him, […]