 News Breaking News  Trial opens in love triangle killings
Barry L. Soldridge Jr. was his best friend. Derek K. Henry, his
"second-best friend."  The first: On trial facing the death
penalty. The other: Dead at 36 from gunshots that tore through
his face and also killed his girlfriend.  It all happened last
year at the Lehigh Township trailer home of their mutual friend,
Jason Kern. And so Monday, Kern took the stand in Northampton
County Court against Soldridge, describing a stormy night in
which, for the first time, Kern refused to step between two pals
who were feuding over a woman.  The arguments had happened
before, ever since Candice M. Shuey, 22, left Soldridge and
began dating Henry nearly a year before. But on Sept. 22, 2010,
Kern had just gotten back from work, was "dirty" and "needed a
shower" and let the men sort it out themselves.  Kern, his eyes
downcast and his left hand shielding his gaze, spoke haltingly
as he told of how gunfire erupted after Soldridge went and got
his rifle. How bullets sh