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Jurors deadlock in $1B lawsuit against Microsoft
Fri,16 Dec 2011 06:38 PM PST
AP -  A federal jury on Friday failed to reach a verdict in a company's $1 billion antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. in a case so important to the computer giant that it put Bill Gates on the stand for two days last month.
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"Barefoot Bandit" sentenced to more than 7 years
Fri,16 Dec 2011 06:11 PM PST
Reuters -  COUPEVILLE - COUPEVILLE, Wash (Reuters) - A Washington state man dubbed the "Barefoot Bandit," who staged a sensational two-year, multi-state crime spree, pleaded guilty on Friday and was sentenced to more than seven years in prison. Colton Harris-Moore, who earned his nickname by carrying out a string of thefts and burglaries sometimes in bare feet, was sentenced to 87 months. During a daylong hearing the 20-year-old self-taught airplane pilot pleaded guilty to 32 charges, including residential burglary and attempting to elude police. ...
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Bonds sentenced to house arrest, probation
Fri,16 Dec 2011 04:14 PM PST
AFP -  Barry Bonds, US baseball's all-time home run king, was sentenced Friday to 30 days of house arrest and two years probation for giving misleading testimony in connection with the BALCO probe.
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Attorney says former AAU head Dodd is "no pedophile"
Fri,16 Dec 2011 04:03 PM PST
Reuters - NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - An attorney for former Amateur Athletic Union president Robert "Bobby" Dodd said on Friday his client is "no pedophile" and is "devastated" by the allegations of sexual abuse against him. "Bobby is no pedophile," defense attorney Steve Farese told Reuters in a telephone interview. "I'm as positive as I can be of that." Dodd has been accused by two former youth basketball players of sexual abuse in the 1980s in Memphis. ... Full Story | Top |
Attorney says former AAU head Dodd is "no pedophile"
Fri,16 Dec 2011 03:50 PM PST
Reuters - NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - An attorney for former Amateur Athletic Union president Robert "Bobby" Dodd said on Friday his client is "no pedophile" and is "devastated" by the allegations of sexual abuse against him. "Bobby is no pedophile," defense attorney Steve Farese told Reuters in a telephone interview. "I'm as positive as I can be of that." Dodd has been accused by two former youth basketball players of sexual abuse in the 1980s in Memphis. ... Full Story | Top |
Jury deliberates fate of man accused of aiding al Qaeda
Fri,16 Dec 2011 02:47 PM PST
Reuters - BOSTON (Reuters) - A jury on Friday began deliberating the fate of a Massachusetts man accused of supporting al Qaeda by translating texts and videos from Arabic to English and distributing them online. Tarek Mehanna, 29, of Sudbury, Massachusetts was arrested in 2009 and charged with "providing material support to terrorists" and other crimes, including conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and lying to law enforcement officers. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of life in prison. ... Full Story | Top |
"Barefoot Bandit" pleads guilty to crime spree charges
Fri,16 Dec 2011 01:23 PM PST
Reuters - COUPEVILLE, Wash (Reuters) - The 20-year-old serial burglar dubbed the "Barefoot Bandit" pleaded guilty on Friday to over 30 charges stemming from his two-year crime spree as a sometimes shoeless teenage runaway in Washington state. Colton Harris-Moore, 20, already had agreed to plead guilty to burglary and other offenses at the hearing before a superior court judge in the Puget Sound hamlet of Coupeville, about 60 miles northwest of Seattle on Whidbey Island. ...
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'Barefoot Bandit' says broken home sparked international crime spree
Fri,16 Dec 2011 11:33 AM PST
Christian Science Monitor - Colton Harris-Moore, a high school dropout known as the "Barefoot Bandit," is painted in popular culture as a survivalist genius who rebelled against society by stealing planes, boats, and SUVs during a two-year crime spree across the US and the Caribbean, giving the law the slip at every turn. Full Story | Top |
Fugitive ex-PM Thaksin reissued Thai passport
Fri,16 Dec 2011 03:39 AM PST
Reuters - BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has reissued a passport to exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the foreign ministry said on Friday, the latest move by the government led by his sister in support of the country's most famous fugitive. Thaksin, who lives in Dubai and is on the run from a two-year prison sentence for abuse of power, was no longer considered a danger to Thailand and a passport was sent six weeks ago to the Thai embassy in the United Arab Emirates, Foreign Ministry spokesman Thani Thongpakdi said. ... Full Story | Top |
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