PARK CITY, Utah — A Utah mother of three who published a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death and was later accused of fatally poisoning him will stand trial, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Utah state Judge Richard Mrazik ruled on the second day of Kouri Richins’ preliminary hearing that prosecutors had presented enough evidence against her to proceed with a jury trial.

She faces a slew of felony charges for allegedly killing her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl in a drink in March 2022 at their home near Park City.

Richins, 34, appeared stoic as the judge delivered the news that a jury would soon decide her fate. She has been adamant in maintaining her innocence and entered pleas of “not guilty” to all 11 counts Tuesday. Her trial is set to begin April 28, with a pretrial conference Sept. 23 to discuss jury selection.

In the months before her arrest in May 2023, Richins self-published the children’s book “Are You With Me?” about a dead father with angel wings watching over his young son. The book could eventually play a key role for prosecutors in framing Eric Richins’ death as a calculated killing with an elaborate cover-up attempt.

Shakur killing: A judge on Tuesday again rejected a request to free an ailing former Los Angeles-area gang leader ahead of his murder trial in the 1996 killing of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur, saying she suspects a cover-up related to the source of the money for his bond.

The decision from Clark District Court Judge Carli Kierny came after an attorney for Duane “Keffe D” Davis said he would provide additional financial records to prove that the person offering to underwrite Davis’ $750,000 bail legally obtained the money. Kierny said she was unconvinced after receiving two identical letters apparently from an entertainment company that music executive Cash “Wack 100” Jones says wired him the funds as payment for his work.

One letter was signed with a name that does not have any ties to the company, the judge said, while the second letter included a misspelled name and a return address tied to a doctor’s office.

The hearing took a turn when Davis’ lawyer, Carl Arnold, said the bail bond agent provided instructions to the entertainment company on the language for the letters and could therefore testify about their legitimacy.

Davis has sought to be released since shortly after his September 2023 arrest, which made him the only person ever to be charged in one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries.

Mosquito virus death: A New Hampshire resident infected with the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus has died.

The Hampstead resident’s infection was the first in the state in a decade, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday. The resident, whom the department only identified as an adult, had been hospitalized for severe central nervous system symptoms.

A third of people who develop encephalitis from the virus die from the infection, and survivors can suffer lifelong mental and physical disabilities. There is no vaccine or antiviral treatment available for infections, which can cause flu-like symptoms and lead to severe neurological disease along with inflammation of the brain and membranes around the spinal cord.

There are typically 11 human cases of eastern equine encephalitis in the U.S. a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were seven cases last year, but more than 30 in 2019, which was a historically bad year in which at least a dozen patients died, according to federal data.

Fatal Delta blast: Two workers were killed and another seriously injured in an explosion Tuesday at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport.

Delta said it is working with local authorities to investigate what happened at the wheel-and-brake shop. Several Atlanta fire units and police responded to the hangar near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International shortly after 5 a.m., the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Flights into and out of the airport were not affected.

The facility where the explosion happened is part of Delta TechOps, which performs maintenance, repair and overhaul work for Delta and more than 150 aviation and airline customers around the world.

Iran nuclear talks: Iran’s supreme leader opened the door Tuesday to renewed negotiations with the United States over his country’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, telling its civilian government there was “no harm” in engaging with its “enemy.”

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s remarks set clear red lines for any talks taking place under the government of reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian and renewed his warnings that Washington isn’t to be trusted.

But his comments mirror those around the time of Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, which saw Tehran’s nuclear program greatly curtailed in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. Yet it remains unclear just how much room Pezeshkian will have to maneuver, particularly as tensions remain high in the wider Middle East over the Israel-Hamas war and as the U.S. prepares for a presidential election in November.

Khamenei has the final say on all state matters.

There have been indirect talks between Iran and the U.S. in recent years mediated by Oman and Qatar, two of the United States’ Middle East interlocutors when it comes to Iran. Khamenei’s remarks came a day after Qatar’s prime minister visited the country.

Telegram CEO: A French investigative judge extended police custody for the CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Durov was detained Saturday at Le Bourget airport as part of a judicial inquiry opened last month involving 12 alleged criminal violations. They include complicity in selling child sexual abuse material and in drug trafficking, fraud, abetting organized crime transactions and refusing to share information or documents with investigators when required by law.

A statement from the Paris prosecutor’s office said Durov’s police custody order was extended Monday evening for up to 48 hours. After that, authorities must release or charge him.

Durov is a citizen of Russia, France, the United Arab Emirates and the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis.

Russian government officials have expressed outrage at his detention, with some calling it politically motivated and proof of the West’s double standard on freedom of speech. The outcry has raised eyebrows among Kremlin critics because in 2018, Russian authorities themselves tried to block Telegram but failed, withdrawing the ban in 2020.