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More Protesters Have Already Been Arrested in Charlotte Than Tampa
Tue,4 Sep 2012 03:16 PM PDT
The Atlantic Wire -  As far as protester arrests go, the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte already has last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa beat. Demonstrations on Tuesday, the convention's first day, disrupted Democratic National Convention buses and led to as many as 10 arrests, compared with two in Tampa. In fact, the scene on Tuesday, in which protesters sat in an intersection and blocked traffic, then spread a banner out on the ground before police moved in and arrested some of them late in the afternoon, already sounds a lot more dramatic than that in Tampa. ...
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Deliberations in Peterson trial to start Wednesday
Tue,4 Sep 2012 03:03 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Defense attorneys told jurors at Drew Peterson's murder trial Tuesday that the state's case against him is "garbage evidence." Prosecutors said it's just common sense that the former suburban Chicago police officer killed his third wife.
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Plea changes set for 3 in Ohio bridge bomb plot
Tue,4 Sep 2012 02:13 PM PDT
Associated Press -  A federal judge on Tuesday scheduled change-of-plea hearings for three of the four remaining defendants charged with plotting to bomb a highway bridge in Ohio — a development that usually signals plans by a defendant to plead guilty.
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Judge grants sex change for Mass. murder convict
Tue,4 Sep 2012 02:01 PM PDT
Associated Press -  State prison officials must provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder, because it is the only way to treat her "serious medical need," a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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6 arrested in alleged Fort Peck drilling scam
Tue,4 Sep 2012 01:47 PM PDT
Associated Press - Authorities said Tuesday that six California residents face fraud and conspiracy charges for an alleged scam in which investors were promised a stake in a fictitious oil and gas project on Montana's Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Full Story | Top |
Monastery vandalised in suspected Israel hate crime
Tue,4 Sep 2012 01:17 PM PDT
AFP -  Vandals burnt the door of a Catholic monastery west of Jerusalem on Tuesday and scrawled anti-Christian graffiti in an apparent "price tag" hate crime, police and witnesses said, putting pressure on authorities to take strong action.
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W.Va. extortion trial set for Calif. man
Tue,4 Sep 2012 11:31 AM PDT
Associated Press - A California man accused of trying to extort $13 million from a West Virginia coal executive was arraigned Tuesday in Beckley, and his trial was scheduled for Oct. 29 in U.S. District Court. Full Story | Top |
Red Bull heir arrested in deadly Thai hit-and-run
Tue,4 Sep 2012 03:26 AM PDT
Associated Press -  A grandson of the creator of the Red Bull energy drink has been arrested for driving a Ferrari that struck a police officer and dragged his dead body down a Bangkok street in an early-morning hit-and-run, police said.
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Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Cambodia
Mon,3 Sep 2012 01:45 PM PDT
BGR News -  This is probably not how Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm pictured his holiday in Cambodia ending. The Wall Street Journal reports that Cambodian police arrested Svartholm on Sunday for the alleged "illegal use of information technology" in a joint operation with Swedish law enforcement officials. The Journal says that Svartholm could now be sent back to his native Sweden, where he faces a one-year jail sentence for violating copyright law. While Svartholm would probably rather not go to jail, his one-year sentence still beats old-school pirate punishments such as keelhauling and walking the plank. Read
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Dutch boy sentenced in "Facebook murder"
Mon,3 Sep 2012 07:43 AM PDT
Reuters - ARNHEM, The Netherlands (Reuters) - A 15-year-old Dutch boy was sentenced to a year in juvenile detention on Monday for stabbing to death a girl whose Facebook posts reportedly led to a contract for her killing. The case, known in the Netherlands as the "Facebook murder", caused widespread debate about the role of social media in violent crime. The court said the boy did not know the victim and had murdered her "at the request or instructions of others". ... Full Story | Top |
Imam arrested in Pakistan Quran burning case
Sun,2 Sep 2012 12:10 PM PDT
Associated Press -  A Muslim cleric is accused of stashing pages of a Quran in a Christian girl's bag to make it seem like she burned the Islamic holy book, a surprising twist in a case that caused an international outcry over the country's strict blasphemy laws.
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Fugitive U.S. businessman deported to UAE from Yemen
Sun,2 Sep 2012 09:13 AM PDT
Reuters - SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen has deported an American businessman back to the United Arab Emirates from where he fled last month after being freed on bail while facing embezzlement charges, his spokesman and a Yemeni security official said on Sunday. Zack Shahin, former chief executive of Deyaar one of Dubai's biggest property developers, was detained in 2008 over embezzlement charges which he denied. Shahin went on a hunger strike in jail in May this year and was then released on $1.4 million bail in July after Washington expressed concern about his health. ... Full Story | Top |
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