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| Homicide trial set for Indian actor Salman Khan Wednesday, Jul 24, 2013 08:18 PM PDT  NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian movie star Salman Khan will face trial next month on a homicide charge for a fatal road accident more than 10 years ago. Full Story | Top |
| Fugitive Snowden's hopes of leaving Moscow airport dashed Wednesday, Jul 24, 2013 04:44 PM PDT  By Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) - Fugitive U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden's hopes of leaving Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport for the first time in a month on Wednesday were dashed when he failed to secure permission from Russia to leave. An airport source said Snowden, who is wanted by the United States on espionage charges for revealing details of government intelligence programs, was handed documents by his lawyer that were expected to include a pass to leave the transit area. ... Full Story | Top |
| N.Y. Man to Appeal Prison Term in $5M Lottery Scam Wednesday, Jul 24, 2013 02:24 PM PDT  N.Y. Man Sentenced 8 to 25 Years for Having $5M Stolen Scratchoff Ticket Full Story | Top |
| Snowden Reads ‘Crime and Punishment’ as Stay in Moscow Airport Lengthens Wednesday, Jul 24, 2013 01:56 PM PDT On Wednesday afternoon, a pack of reporters gathered to meet Edward Snowden outside the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where the American whistleblower, on the run from U.S. justice, has been stranded for a month. According to airport officials cited in the Russian media, Snowden was due to receive documents from Russian authorities on Wednesday that would finally allow him to leave the airport and enter Russia as a temporary asylum seeker. But it was a false alarm. Upon arriving at the airport, Snowden's Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, had no documents to deliver. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bulger crony says he confessed to murders to avoid death penalty Wednesday, Jul 24, 2013 10:52 AM PDT  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A former top henchman of James "Whitey" Bulger said he pleaded guilty to 10 murders so he could avoid the death penalty after the FBI cracked down on their gang, their boss fled Boston and other gang members started talking to prosecutors. "However you looked at it, I was dead," Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi testified. He recalled that in late 1994, a corrupt FBI agent told him and Bulger that authorities were closing in. ... Full Story | Top |
| Principal Arrested in Poison Deaths of 23 Students Wednesday, Jul 24, 2013 10:18 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan – Indian police have arrested the principal of the school where 23 children died last week after eating free lunches contaminated with insecticide. Police in India's eastern Bihar province announced the arrest today, eight days after the July 16 poisoning. The children were... Full Story | Top |
| Plea deal still possible in Ariel Castro case of kidnapped women: lawyers Wednesday, Jul 24, 2013 09:27 AM PDT  By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - An agreement is still possible for former Cleveland school bus driver Ariel Castro to plead guilty to some charges such as kidnapping and rape of three women to avoid a public trial scheduled to start on August 5, lawyers for both sides said on Wednesday. Castro, 53, is accused of imprisoning and brutalizing the three women in his home for about a decade. He has pleaded not guilty to 977 charges including 512 counts of kidnapping and 446 counts of rape. ... Full Story | Top |
| Five Russians plead not guilty in murder trial of Putin critic Wednesday, Jul 24, 2013 09:05 AM PDT  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Five men on trial for murdering Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, an ardent critic of President Vladimir Putin, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in a court case that her family has decried as illegitimate. Politkovskaya, who angered authorities by investigating high-level corruption and documenting human rights abuses by Russian forces in the North Caucasus, was shot dead in 2006 in the Moscow residential building where she lived. ... Full Story | Top |
| 3 men from UK sentenced for investment fraud Wednesday, Jul 24, 2013 06:25 AM PDT A federal judge in Florida has sentenced three British men to federal prison for their roles in an international investment fraud and money laundering scheme. U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven sentenced ... Full Story | Top |
| S.Africa honeymoon murder suspect "can be extradited" Wednesday, Jul 24, 2013 03:51 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - A British businessman accused of arranging for his wife to be murdered while they were on honeymoon in Cape Town can be extradited to face trial in South Africa, a court ruled on Wednesday. Millionaire Shrien Dewani, 33, is accused of conspiring to kill his wife, Anni, who was shot in November 2010 when the taxi the couple were travelling in was hijacked in the Gugulethu township on the outskirts of Cape Town. ... Full Story | Top |
| True-crime writer Ann Rule sues Seattle newspaper Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 11:25 PM PDT SEATTLE (AP) — True-crime author Ann Rule is suing a weekly Seattle newspaper, saying she was defamed in 2011 when the fiance of a convicted killer wrote a lengthy article accusing her of "sloppy storytelling." Full Story | Top |
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