A witness in a murder trial testified yesterday that she laughed when the accused told her over the phone that he assaulted someone and threw him down a drainpipe because she thought it was impossible.

A jury of seven women and five men was sworn in yesterday for the trial of a man accused of murdering a homeless man whose body was discovered in a refuse chute of an apartment building in May 2013.

A murder charge was brought yesterday in the case where the body of a homeless man was discovered in a refuse chute of an apartment building in May.