Question: (CNN) -- The Tennessee Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to modify or overturn a lower court's ruling allowing Mary Winkler, convicted of killing her minister husband, visitation rights with the couple's three daughters.

Holding baby Brianna, Mary Winkler stands next to Matthew. In the foreground are Mary Alice and Patricia.

Charles and Diane Winkler, parents of slain minister Matthew Winkler, had asked the court to intervene and either revoke Mary Winkler's visitation rights or allow them to proceed only under supervision of a counselor.

The children -- Patricia, Mary Alice and Brianna -- have been living with their grandparents since their mother was arrested last year.

Winkler has not seen the children in 15 months, said Kay Farese Turner, her attorney. She said her client was "absolutely elated about the news and believes this will be her best Christmas ever."

Turner said she believes the visit may come before Christmas.

A jury convicted Winkler earlier this year of voluntary manslaughter in the shotgun death of Matthew Winkler -- not the first-degree murder conviction prosecutors had wanted. She said the slaying came after years of abuse, including physical violence and being forced to dress "slutty" for undesirable sex acts.

Winkler received a three-year sentence, but a judge required her to serve only 210 days, gave her credit for the five months she had already served and allowed her to serve the remaining 60 days in a mental health facility. She was released in August.

At the time of their father's death in March 2006, Patricia was 8, Mary Alice was 6 and Brianna was 1. 1. What was Winkler sent to jail for?
2. What charge was she found guilty of?
3. Was that what prosecutors wanted?
4. What were they hoping for?
5. What was her husband's job?
6. What caused her to kill him?
7. How did he like her to dress?
8. Why?
9. How did she kill him?
10. How many kids does she have?
11. How long ago did she last see them?
12. Where are they?
13. How old are they?
14. Who wants her visitation rights changed?
15. Who are they?
16. Do they want her to see the kids at all?
17. Which court gave her the rights?
18. Which one decided to let her keep them?
19. Did she have a jury trial?
20. When was she set free? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. killing her minister husband
2. voluntary manslaughter
3. No
4. first-degree murder
5. minister
6. years of abuse
7. "slutty"
8. undesirable sex acts
9. shotgun
10. three
11. 15 months
12. living with their grandparents
13. 9,7,2
14. Charles and Diane Winkler
15. Her husband's parents
16. no or under supervision
17. lower court
18. The Tennessee Supreme Court
19. yes
20. August.

Question: (CNN) -- Three men were sentenced to prison for forcing an African-American man out of a South Carolina convenience store, threatening him with a chainsaw and stealing his car, an incident the Department of Justice said was fueled by hate.

Thomas Blue Sr., 49, owner of the convenience store, was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison in the 2007 incident. A second man, Judson Hartley Talbert, was sentenced to nine years, the department said. Blue's son, Thomas Blue Jr., 29, was sentenced to three years.

The three pleaded guilty in December to conspiring to deprive and depriving Dahndra "Ervin" Moore of his right to engage in a federally protected activity -- entering the convenience store -- and also to conspiring to carjack and carjacking his car, authorities said. The elder Blue also pleaded guilty to depriving two other people, both white, of their right to engage in a federally protected activity and using a firearm in relation to a crime of violence against those two.

The defendants admitted that the elder Blue "forcibly escorted" Moore out of a Marlboro County, South Carolina, store known as the Stop and Shop after he entered to use the restroom, the statement said.

"Once outside, the elder Blue forced the victim to the ground and Blue Jr. threatened the victim with a chainsaw while a small crowd watched," according to the Department of Justice statement.

While the attack was occurring, Talbert stole Moore's car, authorities said. Later, the elder Blue used a pistol to threaten two white men who he thought were trying to help the victim, including one who showed up to retrieve Moore's car. 1. Who owned the store?
2. Did he have a son?
3. Who was the third person involved?
4. Who was forced out of the store?
5. What was his name?
6. What state did this happen in?
7. Did Moore enter the store to buy something?
8. Why did he go inside?
9. Was he threatened with a knife?
10. Who took his car?
11. Was a gun involved?
12. Who was threatened by it?
13. Was that considered a crime?
14. What was the store's name?
15. In what year did the incident occur?
16. Was it done out of hate?
17. Who received the longest sentence?
18. How many years?
19. Who had the chainsaw in hand?
20. Did anyone watch the incident? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Thomas
2. yes
3. Judson
4. African-American man
5. Dahndra
6. South Carolina
7. no
8. use the restroom
9. no
10. Talbert
11. yes
12. two white men
13. yes
14. Stop and Shop
15. 2007
16. yes
17. homas Blue Sr.
18. 13
19. elder Blue
20. yes

Question: Edmund Halley was an English scientist who lived over 200years ago. He studied the observations of comets which other scientists had made. The orbit of one particular comet was a very difficult mathematical problem. He could not figure it out. Neither could other scientists who dealt with such problems.

However, Halley had a friend named Isaac Newton. Who was a brilliant mathematician. Newton thought he had already which he had done it. He told Halley that the orbit of a comet had the shape of an ellipse.

Now Halley set to work. He figured out the orbits of some of the comets that had been observed by scientist. He made a surprising discovery. The comets that had appeared in the years 1531, 1607 and 1682 all had the same orbit. Yet their appearances had been 75 to 76 years apart.

This seemed very strange to Halley. Three different comets followed the same orbit. The more Halley thought about it, the more he thought that there had not been three different comets, as people thought. He decided that they had simply seen the same comet three times. The comet had gone away and had come back again.

It was an astonishing idea! Halley felt certain enough to make a prediction of what would happen in the future. He decided that this comet would appear in the year 1758. There were 53 years to go before Halley's prediction could be tested.

In 1758 the comet appeared in the sky. Halley did not see it, for he had died some years before. Ever since then that comet been called Halley's comet, in his honor. 1. Who was Edmund Halley?
2. Of what nationality?
3. How long ago did he live?
4. What did he study?
5. What could he not figure out?
6. Who was Halley's friend?
7. Who was he?
8. What years did the comet appear?
9. Did they all have the same orbit?
10. How many years apart were they?
11. What did Halley predict?
12. In what year?
13. Did the comet appear?
14. Was he alive to see it?
15. What was the name of the comet?
16. How many years did it take for the comet to come back?
17. Did other scientists try to figure it out?
18. Were they successful?
19. What shape did the comet's orbit have?
20. Who figured that out? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. a scientist
2. English
3. more than 200 years ago
4. comets
5. the orbit of a particular comet
6. Isaac Newton
7. a methematician
8. 1531, 1607 and 1682
9. yes
10. 75 t o76
11. the comet would come back
12. 1758
13. yes
14. no
15. Halley's comet
16. 76 years
17. yes
18. no
19. ellipse
20. Newton