News of the day from around the nation, May 3

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“Lynch mobs”: Bill Cosby’s wife is calling for a criminal investigation into the suburban Philadelphia prosecutor behind his sexual assault conviction, saying the case was “mob justice, not real justice” and a “tragedy” that must be undone. Camille Cosby commented on the case for the first time on Thursday in a statement issued through a spokesman a week after her husband of 54 years was convicted of aggravated indecent assault. Camille Cosby called her husband’s chief accuser Andrea Constand a liar, and compared the dozens of other women who’ve accused her husband to “lynch mobs.