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While Brad Cooper continues to wait in a Wake County jail cell for trial on charges of killing his wife, Nancy, her parents will go back to Canada knowing they'll be the ones to care for the couple's children.

Updated: May. 15, 2009 11:03 PM | Full story

Cooper requests kids stay in Canada

Brad Cooper's lawyers filed paperwork late Monday afternoon asking that his two girls continue to stay with their slain mother's family in Canada and that the final custody details be put on hold until after his trial on first-degree murder charges.

Updated: Apr. 28, 2009 8:10 PM | Full story

Cooper to have another lawyer added to team

Bradley Cooper will have an extra public defender added to his team of lawyers and will get limited access to a laptop so his attorneys can review the case against him, a Wake County superior court judge ordered Thursday.

Updated: Feb. 12, 2009 6:04 PM | Full story

Cooper avoids execution possibility

Prosecutor finds no aggravating factors.

Updated: Dec. 6, 2008 1:42 AM | Full story

Cary man charged with murder was collecting e-mail sent to wife

Brad Cooper was intercepting his wife's e-mail and read some messages the day before she disappeared, according to a search warrant made public Thursday.

Updated: Dec. 5, 2008 5:08 AM | Full story

Cooper told not to sell any assets

A Wake County District Court judge has ordered Brad Cooper not to sell any of his assets until the judge can determine what he should pay in child support to his two daughters.

Updated: Nov. 12, 2008 2:05 AM | Full story

Necklace, shoes seized from Cooper home

Police again searched the home of Bradley Cooper this week, days after he was charged with murdering his wife, Nancy, in July.

Updated: Nov. 1, 2008 1:23 AM | Full story

Penalty hearing set for Brad Cooper

Wake County Briefs: Bradley Cooper will have to wait more than a month to find out whether Wake prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty if he is convicted of killing his wife Nancy.

Updated: Oct. 31, 2008 2:20 AM | Full story

Shattered marriage leads to a husband behind bars

On first glance, Brad Cooper appears to be the kind of guy your mother would want you to marry. Tall and athletic, self-assured, and ambitious, Cooper earned enough to afford a nice house and fancy cars.

Updated: Oct. 29, 2008 8:34 AM | Full story

Brad Cooper charged with murdering wife

More than three months after a Cary mother's body was found on an undeveloped cul-de-sac, her husband was charged with murder. Brad Cooper was arrested Monday in the killing of his wife of nearly nine years, Nancy Cooper.

Updated: Oct. 28, 2008 7:29 AM | Full story

The Case Unfolds

Fall 1999: Bradley Cooper marries Nancy Rentz in Calgary, Canada. The two met at work and married after a courtship of less than a year.

Updated: Oct. 28, 2008 3:23 AM | Full story

Cooper girls will remain in Canada

For now, the daughters of Bradley and Nancy Cooper will live far from the Cary home in which they've grown and where police suspect their mother met her killer.

Updated: Oct. 23, 2008 7:00 AM | Full story

Testimony paints 2 faces of husband

It's not clear when Wake County District Court Judge Debra Sasser will decide on the future of the daughters of Bradley and Nancy Cooper.

Updated: Oct. 17, 2008 8:17 AM | Full story

Lead investigator in Cooper slaying may testify today

Cary Police Detective George Daniels is expected to be called to the witness stand by Nancy Cooper's family.

Updated: Oct. 16, 2008 6:06 AM | Full story

Cooper lawyers accused of 'fishing'

A Wake County prosecutor Tuesday accused lawyers for Bradley Cooper of attempting to improve his defense against a possible criminal charge by asking Cary police to turn over their entire investigative file in the murder of Nancy Cooper.

Updated: Oct. 15, 2008 6:22 AM | Full story

Former fiancee says Cooper frightened her

Bradley Cooper frightened his former fiancee so much that she moved out of her apartment when she discovered he had been going into her home when she wasn't around, she said.

Updated: Oct. 14, 2008 7:54 AM | Full story

Police: Cooper stories conflict

To help win his children back, Bradley Cooper sat down for a seven-hour talk about his life with Nancy Cooper and the days before her death in July.

Updated: Oct. 10, 2008 7:13 AM | Full story

Pressure alleged in Cooper probe

A friend and neighbor of Bradley Cooper claimed this week that Cary police pressured him to say that he helped Cooper try to establish an alibi after Cooper's wife, Nancy, was found dead July 14.

Updated: Oct. 3, 2008 4:59 AM | Full story

Brad Cooper's attorneys post video

Attorneys for Brad Cooper have posted online video of his trip to a grocery store to challenge rumors that he bought bleach on the morning his wife, Nancy, disappeared from their home in Cary.

Updated: Sep. 17, 2008 5:25 AM | Full story

Nancy Cooper's friends asked to turn over documents

Friends of Nancy Cooper are being asked to prove everything they have claimed about her troubled marriage.

Updated: Sep. 12, 2008 2:23 AM | Full story

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