88-Year-Old Faces Involuntary Manslaughter Charges

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors in central Missouri's Boone County have reduced the charges against an 88-year-old man accused of stabbing his wife to death. KMIZ-TV reports that Donald Rowland of Columbia had been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death last October 31st of 86-year-old Betty Rowland. But prosecutors on Thursday amended that charge to involuntary manslaughter.