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Two arrested in Stevie Wonder extortion plot
Fri,11 May 2012 05:38 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Stevie Wonder's nephew has been arrested and charged with an extortion scheme against the singer, Los Angeles prosecutors said on Friday. Alpha Lorenzo Walker, 38, was arrested on May 2, along with another alleged conspirator, Tamara Eileen Diaz. The pair had threatened to reveal information they claimed would be embarrassing to the "Superstition" singer unless he met their demands, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office said. Celebrity website TMZ. ...
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Judge won't delay Pennsylvania politician's prison term
Fri,11 May 2012 01:42 PM PDT
Reuters - HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A judge on Friday denied a request by former Democratic Pennsylvania legislative leader William DeWeese to delay his prison term for using state employees to campaign for him for free. In rejecting the request, Dauphin County Judge Todd Hoover ordered DeWeese, 62, to surrender to the state Department of Corrections on Monday as previously scheduled to begin serving his 30- to 60-month sentence for corruption. ... Full Story | Top |
Fugitive "Fast Eddie" agrees to face the music in Britain
Fri,11 May 2012 11:44 AM PDT
Reuters - KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A British man suspected of stealing $1.6 million (996,000 pounds) from an armoured van in 1993 and then fleeing to the United States agreed to be deported to England during a hearing on Friday in Missouri, where he is in custody, according to court records. A federal magistrate in Springfield, Missouri ordered Edward Maher, dubbed "Fast Eddie" by the British media, turned over to immigration officials, according to court records. Prosecutors and Maher's defence team filed a motion seeking his deportation. No timetable was set for the deportation. ... Full Story | Top |
Girls taken by most-wanted U.S. fugitive leave hospital
Fri,11 May 2012 10:18 AM PDT
Reuters -  NASHVILLE, Tenn./GUNTOWN, Mississippi (Reuters) - The two young girls kidnapped by a man suspected of killing of their mother and older sister were released from a Tennessee hospital on Friday morning after a two-week ordeal that ended in the suicide of their captor. The girls, 12-year-old Alexandria Bain and her 8-year-old sister, Kyliyah, left Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis at about 6:15 a.m., hospital spokeswoman Anne Glankler said. "I'm so glad they're OK," Glankler said. ...
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Chen Guangcheng's Nephew Might Face Death Penalty
Fri,11 May 2012 07:08 AM PDT
The Atlantic Wire -  Chen Guangcheng has good reason to fear for the safety of his family, as his nephew has already been charged with a crime that it's not clear ever happened, and could face the death penalty. The Guardian's Jonathan Watts reported on Friday that Chen Kegui, nephew of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, has been charged with voluntary manslaughter, which carries a penalty of 10 years to death.
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Ex-NE mob boss to be sentenced in strip club plot
Fri,11 May 2012 05:11 AM PDT
Associated Press -  When 84-year-old Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio is led away to prison, the New England Mafia will lose an "old school" former boss who came up through the ranks during the mob's heyday only to be undone in his old age over his role in the shakedown of Providence strip clubs.
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Lesbian seeking marriage license arrested in NC
Thu,10 May 2012 04:51 PM PDT
Associated Press - A lesbian who sought a North Carolina marriage license with her partner and was rejected under a state law banning same-sex marriage was arrested with another person Thursday after they refused to leave a government office where several gay and lesbian couples were turned away. Full Story | Top |
'Jackie' the Ripper: Was the Infamous Serial Killer a Woman?
Thu,10 May 2012 02:10 PM PDT
LiveScience.com -  It's history's most famous unsolved crime spree. In 1888, a serial killer who came to be known as Jack the Ripper gruesomely murdered five prostitutes in London's Whitechapel district. More than 100 men, from Lewis Carroll to Queen Victoria's grandson, have since been labeled suspects, and the guesswork has spawned an entire field of study, known as "Ripperology." Now, a new book turns the speculation on its head, by arguing that Jack the Ripper was actually a woman.
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Prosecutors seek prison time in Rutgers hate crime case
Thu,10 May 2012 02:03 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Thursday recommended a former Rutgers University student be sentenced to prison, but not the maximum term of 10 years, for his hate crimes conviction because he "shows no remorse" for spying on his roommate's gay encounter. Tyler Clementi, 18, killed himself three days after learning his September 2010 tryst with an older man was seen by a computer-mounted camera his roommate Dharun Ravi had set up in the dorm room the two shared. Clementi's fatal leap off the George Washington Bridge focused a national spotlight on gay bullying and teen suicide. ...
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