Prosecutors drop effort to retry man whose conviction was overturned in 1993 New York killing
Prosecutors in Western New York on Tuesday gave up efforts to retry a man whose murder conviction in the 1993 slaying of a woman near Buffalo was set to begin, just as a new trial was set to begin. James Pugh, 63, is serving 26 years in prison for the death of Deborah Meindl. Deborah…