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Brittany Killgore Murder: Second Suspect Arrested
Tue,24 Apr 2012 05:15 PM PDT
Good Morning America -  A Marine already charged with illegal possession of an assault rifle was arrested today on suspicion of murder in the killing of Marine wife Brittany Killgore.Staff Sgt. Louis Ray Perez, 45, was arrested on the new charge at Vista Detention, where he is being held.Killgore, 22, of Fallbrook, Calif., disappeared April 13, after telling friends she was going out in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. Her body was found four days later, dumped near Lake Skinner in Riverside County, Calif.Jessica Lopez, 25, was already charged with first degree murder in Killgore's death. ...
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Ex-BP engineer arrested in Gulf oil spill case
Tue,24 Apr 2012 04:44 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Federal prosecutors brought the first criminal charges Tuesday in the Gulf oil spill, accusing a former BP engineer of deleting more than 300 text messages that indicated the blown-out well was spewing far more crude than the company was telling the public at the time.
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Protesters picket Wells Fargo meeting, 24 arrested
Tue,24 Apr 2012 03:56 PM PDT
Reuters -  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Police in riot gear arrested two dozen people on Tuesday as protesters with a huge inflated rat sought to disrupt a Wells Fargo & Co annual shareholder meeting to express anger over foreclosures, executive compensation and corporate taxes. Several of those arrested were handcuffed and taken away in police vans as hundreds more chanted and waved signs outside the meeting in a building across from the bank's San Francisco headquarters. ...
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Protesters picket Wells Fargo meeting, six arrested
Tue,24 Apr 2012 01:13 PM PDT
Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Police in riot gear arrested six people on Tuesday as protesters with a huge inflated rat sought to disrupt a Wells Fargo & Co annual shareholder meeting to express anger over foreclosures, executive compensation and corporate taxes. Several of those arrested were handcuffed and taken away in police vans as hundreds more chanted and waved signs outside the meeting in a building across from the bank's San Francisco headquarters. "Banks are big and greedy," protester Julia Cheng said. "They only care about themselves. ... Full Story | Top |
Ex-Miss. mayor sentenced in inmate sex case
Tue,24 Apr 2012 11:19 AM PDT
Associated Press - A former Mississippi mayor and prison warden was sentenced Tuesday to seven months behind bars for telling an inmate to lie to investigators about sex they had in a hotel room in 2009. Full Story | Top |
Pennsylvania Honors Crime Victims, Focuses on Right to Restitution
Tue,24 Apr 2012 10:52 AM PDT
PR Newswire - HARRISBURG, Pa., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than $761 million in restitution is owed to Pennsylvania's crime victims, and a newly-formed task force plans to examine the process in an effort to find a better way to help victims and their communities get the reimbursements they deserve. Full Story | Top |
California Might Ban Death Penalty for Cost, Not Morals
Tue,24 Apr 2012 07:11 AM PDT
The Atlantic Wire - Californians like their death penalty. They tend to vote for it whenever an initiative or supporter hits the ballot. But the latest initiative to end it just might pass not because its proponents argue the death penalty's wrong, but that it's too expensive. Not only is it pricey, but the state's death penalty system, which is the largest in the nation, rarely gets used. So why pay for it? That's logic that speaks to conservatives, who would otherwise be more likely to support capital punishment. Full Story | Top |
Va fraud trial begins for head of Costa Rican firm
Tue,24 Apr 2012 07:04 AM PDT
Associated Press - The head of a Costa Rican company charged in a $670 million insurance fraud scheme lied to investors about the firm's financial assets and stability, a federal prosecutor told a jury Monday. But a defense attorney said the government's evidence is lacking. Full Story | Top |
Serial killer drama leads British BAFTA TV awards
Tue,24 Apr 2012 04:08 AM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - A British mini-series based on the life of serial killer Fred West led the BAFTA TV nominations on Tuesday with four, including best actor and actress for the two central characters. "Appropriate Adult" features Dominic West as Fred West, charged with the murder of 12 girls and young women but who was found hanging in his cell in 1995 in an apparent suicide before he stood trial. His co-star, Emily Watson, plays Janet Leach, the woman who was selected at random to act as an "appropriate adult" and who had to sit in on police interrogations of West. ...
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Death penalty repeal to go before California voters
Mon,23 Apr 2012 09:04 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California voters will decide in November whether to repeal the death penalty in a state that is home to nearly a quarter of the nation's death row inmates, after activists collected the more than 500,000 signatures needed to put the measure on the ballot. The ballot initiative focuses on the high cost of the death penalty in a state that has executed 13 people since capital punishment was reinstated in the nation in 1976. Another 723 inmates sit on death row pending lengthy and expensive appeals. ... Full Story | Top |
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