The mortar round exploded in its firing tube during an exercise, and investigators are trying to determine the cause of the malfunction.

Rebels have denied the accusation and say regime forces fired the weapon.

An analysis of federal payment records found that the government is still making monthly payments to relatives of Civil War veterans – 148 years after the conflict ended.

But a prosecutor claims circumstantial evidence left no doubt that notorious Rockefeller impostor Christian Gerhartsreiter was the killer.