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Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Ex-Penn State officials plead not guilty to Sandusky cover-up charges U.S. to review DEA unit that hides use of intel in crime cases Spanish pedophile pardoned in Morocco arrested in Spain Rapper 50 Cent pleads not guilty to domestic violence charge 50 Cent pleads not guilty to domestic violence Audit of Syria refugees finds organized crime and child soldiers Spanish paedophile pardoned in Morocco arrested in Spain

Ex-Penn State officials plead not guilty to Sandusky cover-up charges  Monday, Aug 05, 2013 04:51 PM PDT By Daniel Kelley PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - The trio of former Penn State administrators accused of covering up Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in court papers filed on Monday. The university's former president, Graham Spanier, 65; former athletic director, Tim Curley, 59; and former senior vice president, Gary Schultz, 63, waived their right to appear at a formal arraignment in September on charges including endangering the welfare of children, obstruction of justice and criminal conspiracy. ... Full Story	Top
U.S. to review DEA unit that hides use of intel in crime cases  Monday, Aug 05, 2013 04:16 PM PDT By John Shiffman and David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department is reviewing a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit that passes tips culled from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a large telephone database to field agents, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday. Reuters reported Monday that agents who use such tips are trained to "recreate" the investigative trail to effectively conceal the DEA unit's involvement from defense lawyers, prosecutors and even judges, a policy many lawyers said could violate a defendant's right to a fair trial. ... Full Story	Top
Spanish pedophile pardoned in Morocco arrested in Spain  Monday, Aug 05, 2013 02:41 PM PDT By Raquel Castillo MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police have arrested a convicted pedophile who was pardoned by Morocco's King Mohamed VI last week, a source at Spain's Interior Ministry said on Monday. Daniel Galvan Vina, who was serving a 30-year sentence in Morocco and was among 48 jailed Spaniards pardoned at the request of Spain's King Juan Carlos, was arrested in the south-eastern city of Murcia. A court source said Galvan would appear at one of Spain's top courts, the Audencia Nacional, early on Tuesday. ... Full Story	Top
Rapper 50 Cent pleads not guilty to domestic violence charge  Monday, Aug 05, 2013 12:29 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. rapper 50 Cent pleaded not guilty on Monday to allegedly kicking his ex-girlfriend and a judge ordered him to stay away from the woman and get rid of his guns. The Grammy-winning rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, wore a suit and stood silently at the hearing stemming from a June incident at the condominium of his former girlfriend, model Daphne Narvaez, who is the mother of his child. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Bernard Kamins ordered 50 Cent to have no contact with Narvaez and to turn over any firearms he might have to police or sell them. ... Full Story	Top
50 Cent pleads not guilty to domestic violence  Monday, Aug 05, 2013 11:55 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper and actor 50 Cent stood silently before a judge on Monday as his attorney entered his plea of not guilty to domestic violence and vandalism charges involving an ex-girlfriend who is the mother of his child. Full Story	Top
Audit of Syria refugees finds organized crime and child soldiers  Monday, Aug 05, 2013 11:27 AM PDT By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Many Syrians who have escaped their country are now desperate to escape from U.N.-run refugee camps, where women are not safe and teenage boys are recruited as soldiers to fight in the conflict, according to an internal U.N. report. The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR is trying to cope with a massive humanitarian crisis, as 1.9 million Syrians have sought refuge abroad, mainly in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. ... Full Story	Top
Spanish paedophile pardoned in Morocco arrested in Spain  Monday, Aug 05, 2013 10:03 AM PDT MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police have arrested a convicted paedophile who was pardoned by Morocco's King Mohamed VI last week, a source at Spain's Interior Ministry said on Monday. Daniel Galvan Vina, who was serving a 30-year sentence in Morocco and was among 48 jailed Spaniards pardoned at the request of Spain's King Juan Carlos, was arrested in the south-eastern region of Murcia. He will be taken to Madrid where one of Spain's top courts will handle the judicial proceedings, according to the source. ... Full Story	Top

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