The charges against Josef Fritzl, 73, carry a prison sentence of ten years to life in prison.

Mr Fritzl is also charged with slavery and rape. If found guilty, he faces 20 years in jail on those charges.

He has been in custody since the case came to light in April and a trial is expected to begin early next year.

Mr Fritzl fathered seven children with his daughter Elisabeth in a cellar at his home in Amstetten, west of Vienna.

Last month he was cleared as mentally fit for trial.

The state prosecutor’s office in the town of St Poelten said Mr Fritzl was being charged with murder in connection with the death of his seventh child, who died in the cellar in 1996 shortly after birth.

Austrian prosecutors say the newborn died because Mr Fritzl failed to seek help, even though he was aware that the baby might die.

Mr Fritzl had told police that the child, one of twins, had been born dead and he had burned the body in a stove.

The 74-year-old is being held in a Sankt Poelten prison - one of Austria’s toughest - where he spends 23 hours per day in his cell watching TV and sleeping.

Prison guards allow him only two 30-minute exercise sessions per day under careful supervision because of the threat of violent reprisals by inmates who despise the incestuous rapist.

Prison staff have intercepted plans by inmates to sexually torture Fritzl before killing him. The inmates plan to rape him with toilet brushes before beating him to death.

Circuit City Stores Inc., the second largest consumer electronics chain in the U.S., said it will immediately close and liquidate 155 stores and lay off thousands of employees as it struggles to survive an increasingly dreary holiday shopping season.

Citing a deteriorating economy, tightening credit limits by its suppliers, and an updated assessment that found its inventory was worth less than it expected, Circuit City said it would close the stores in 55 U.S. markets Tuesday and immediately begin liquidation sales on Wednesday.

LISTEN TO THIS! I bet John McCain is fuming!!!!

A commercial bus heading to a casino struck and killed a pedestrian at the Gulf Freeway and Woodridge on Friday night.

The driver of the bus, who was traveling eastbound on Woodridge, told police he felt a "bump in the roadway" when making a right turn onto the southbound service road about 10:36 p.m. After pulling over, he determined he had struck a man, later identified as 55-year-old Santos Velazquez, and called police.

The driver was not speeding at the time of the incident and was not believed to be intoxicated. The accident, which remains under investigation by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, brings the number of traffic fatalities in Houston this year to 170.

THIS IS WHERE I CATCH THE CASINO BUS AT!!! I saw Video of the bus and it wasn’t the same one I take. It appeared to be the one that leaves from behind McDonalds, not the one from Denny’s Parking Lot that Omar drives.

At A Republican Rally…..

Did he get embarrassed?

Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie are set to announce the end of their almost-eight-year marriage, it was claimed early Wednesday.

In a front page story, Britain’s The Sun newspaper claimed that the couple will be issuing a statement "imminently" on the demise of their often tempestuous relationship, which has been the subject of much speculation in recent months.

Contacted by PEOPLE, a rep for Madonna declined to comment on the story.

Madonna, 50, is in the midst of her Sticky and Sweet tour and is set to play Boston tonight. Ritchie, 40, was believed to be on the set of his latest film, Sherlock Holmes.

UPDATE: The Rumors are…TRUE!
Madonna’s marriage to Guy Ritchie really is kaput , her rep told the Daily News on Wednesday.

“Madonna and Guy Ritchie have agreed to divorce after 7 l/2 years of marrige,” Liz Rosenberg said in a statement. “They have both requested that the media maintain respect for their family at this difficult time. A final settlement has not been agreed upon yet.”

SkyEye 13 pilot John Downhower and photographer Dave Garrett were killed when our helicopter crashed on its way to a breaking news scene. SkyEye HD crashed in a wooded area near the intersection of FM 1488 and Peoples Road.

We have confirmed through Hooks Airport that no distress call was issued prior to the crash, a crash that apparently happened very quickly.

“The helicopter blades, and just, ‘boom’ — it stopped,” said witness Harold Robinson.

It was just after 11am when Robinson heard the crash.

“I didn’t feel anything,” he recalled. “I just knew it was an explosion, and in my mind, I knew somebody got killed.”

Soon after, Robinson drove to the crash site in the wooded area, about a quarter mile behind his home, and his suspicions were confirmed.

“I seen no fire, just smoke,” he said. “I did not see the helicopter at any time.”

SkyEye, which is owned by Helicopters Inc. and leased to Metro, had been covering a shoot-out in southwest Montgomery County. The last images fed in to Channel 13 before the crash show the landing skid as the helicopter banked hard to the right.

Witness Riley Swanson saw it all from his backyard.

He said, “He just cleared the back side of our subdivision when I noticed his chopper made a sharp right-hand — down, straight down into the ground — turn.”

Swanson also said it looked like the pilot was flying low.

“It looks like the helicopter impacted ground at a very steep angle,” said Kenneth Hiebert with the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Both the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have been called in to investigate. The extent of the damage will be an issue, as authorities try to figure out exactly what happened.

Hiebert explained, “He gouged a decent-sized hole in the ground, and once it did that, it broke apart  from hitting the ground and also from going through the trees.”

Metcalf Funeral Home will be handling the bodies. An official with the FAA was on the scene investigating the cause of the crash Monday afternoon.

KTRK spokesperson Tom Ash released the following statement:

“All of us at KTRK-TV are deeply saddened by the tragic accident involving SkyEye13 and our hearts go out to the families of the pilot and the photographer.”

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is expected to be sidelined for a month with a broken pinkie finger on his throwing hand.

In six games this season, Romo has completed 63.7 percent of his passes for 1,689 yards with 14 touchdowns and five interceptions. He has a quarterback rating of 103.0 — second-best in the NFC.

Nooo! How Could This Happen!!! I blame this all on Candy! She cursed him!! lol.. Oh Well, the Cowboys will still continue to Rock as always! But Hurry up & Heal Romo! I bet after he comes back the whole team is just gonna explode and dominate!!!!