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More than 50 "Occupy" protesters arrested in New York
Sat,17 Dec 2011 06:40 PM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 50 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested on Saturday after they tried to climb over a chain-link fence around a church parking lot in a bid to establish a new encampment. The demonstrators had used a wooden ladder to scale a chain-link fence into the lot owned by Trinity Church, an Occupy Wall Street spokesman said. Police had no immediate figure on how many people were taken into custody, but Gideon Oliver, president of the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, put the number at about 55, including between five and 10 members of the clergy. ...
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Witnesses grilled as Manning hearing resumes
Sat,17 Dec 2011 04:07 PM PST
AFP -  Defense attorneys grilled US Army investigators Saturday about the evidence against Bradley Manning and the sexual identity of the intelligence analyst accused of spilling US secrets to WikiLeaks.
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Occupy protesters arrested in New York
Sat,17 Dec 2011 03:49 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters took to New York City's streets on Saturday in an attempt to establish a new encampment, with scores arrested as they tried to move onto church-owned land. The protesters had used a wooden ladder to climb over a chain-link fence into the lot owned by Trinity Church, an Occupy Wall Street spokesman said. ...
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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 |
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