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| Brazil unrest, crime are top security worry Monday, Dec 02, 2013 07:45 PM PST  With the World Cup set to kick off six months from now, Brazilian officials see street protests and resurgent criminal violence in some of Rio's slums as top security concerns. This Latin American powerhouse is pulling out all the stops to ensure security for the hundreds of thousands of visitors expected for the planet's most-watched sporting event, the first to be held in Brazil since 1950. Brazil is used to organizing mammoth events such as the Rio carnival or Pope Francis' visit, which drew three million pilgrims on Copacabana beach in July. Last year, a strategic plan worked out with FIFA, football's world governing body, spelled out the key areas to protect, coordination between public and private security firms and assessed the main threats from organized crime, terrorist attacks and football hooliganism. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. hospital worker sentenced to 39 years for spreading hepatitis Monday, Dec 02, 2013 02:48 PM PST  By Daniel Lovering CONCORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) - A former New Hampshire hospital technician who caused dozens of people to become infected with hepatitis C when he injected himself with syringes of pain killers that were then used on patients was sentenced to 39 years in prison on Monday. David Kwiatkowski, 34, admitted in August to stealing the drugs and leaving used syringes for hospital use for years despite knowing he was infected with hepatitis C, a potentially fatal virus that attacks the liver. He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante in Concord, New Hampshire, after pleading guilty to obtaining controlled substances by fraud and tampering with a consumer product. The judge said his actions verged on "cruelty." "The whole reason I got into healthcare was to help people, and my addiction took that away," Kwiatkowski said before being sentenced. Full Story | Top |
| Hacker of Koch Industries website sentenced in Kansas Monday, Dec 02, 2013 02:38 PM PST  A Wisconsin man was sentenced on Monday to two years probation after he admitted taking part in a cyber attack sponsored by the hacker group Anonymous against Kansas conglomerate Koch Industries in February 2011, federal prosecutors said. Eric J. Rosol, 38, also was ordered by the U.S. District Court in Wichita, Kansas, to pay $183,000 restitution for waging the attack on Koch Industries's, which is led by billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch who are prominent contributors to conservative political causes. Americans for Prosperity, a group founded by David Koch, launched an advertising campaign to support the proposed curbs. Full Story | Top |
| Wisconsin trucker sentenced in Koch cyberattack Monday, Dec 02, 2013 12:29 PM PST A Wisconsin truck driver who joined a cyberattack on Wichita-based Koch Industries was sentenced Monday to two years' probation and ordered to pay $183,000 in restitution for the onslaught that briefly ... Full Story | Top |
| Hospital worker to be sentenced in hepatitis case Monday, Dec 02, 2013 09:59 AM PST CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A woman infected with hepatitis C by a former hospital technician told him Monday that he handed her and others "a potential death sentence." Full Story | Top |
| Serial killer serving life sentence dies in South Dakota Monday, Dec 02, 2013 08:34 AM PST (Reuters) - A serial killer died on Sunday after serving less than three years of a life sentence for strangling seven women, according to South Dakota prison officials. Walter Ellis, 53, died at a Sioux Falls hospital, apparently of natural causes, but an autopsy is being conducted as part of a standard investigation by the South Dakota Department of Corrections, the officials said in a statement. As police searched for a suspect in the killings of seven Milwaukee women from 1986 to 2007, local media dubbed the killer "the Milwaukee North Side Strangler." Ellis, arrested in 2009, was sentenced in February 2011 to seven consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole. Ellis, who was from Milwaukee, was housed in a South Dakota prison under an interstate agreement. Full Story | Top |
| Czech fugitive appears in South African court Monday, Dec 02, 2013 07:54 AM PST  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir, who faces charges of attempted murder, assault and kidnapping, appeared in court Monday for a bail hearing amid tight security. Full Story | Top |
| New Hampshire hospital worker to be sentenced for spreading hepatitis Monday, Dec 02, 2013 04:09 AM PST (Reuters) - A former New Hampshire hospital technician who infected patients as old as 80 with hepatitis after injecting himself with stolen painkillers will learn on Monday how much of his life will be spent in prison. The technician, David Kwiatkowski, 34, in August admitted to leaving dirty syringes for hospital use despite knowing that he was infected with hepatitis C. He pleaded guilty to obtaining controlled substances by fraud and tampering with a consumer product. Kwiatkowski has asked U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante to sentence him to 30 years in federal prison. Prosecutors have requested a 40-year sentence, saying that he knowingly put patients in eight states in danger over about a decade of work as a traveling hospital technician. Full Story | Top |
| Canadian arrested for trying to sell info to China Monday, Dec 02, 2013 03:54 AM PST Police said Sunday that a Canadian man has been arrested for allegedly trying to sell classified information to the Chinese government about Canada's warship building procurement strategy. The Royal Canadian ... Full Story | Top |
| 20 Salafists arrested as Gaza group pushes into W.Bank Monday, Dec 02, 2013 02:23 AM PST  Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Palestinian security forces arrested 20 Salafists, a senior source said Sunday after a Gaza-based group affiliated with Al-Qaeda confirmed it was operating in the West Bank for the first time. But the Ramallah-based source denied that any of those arrested in a series of recent raids in the northern part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank had ties to the global jihadist group set up by the late Osama Bin-Laden. Some Salafists advocate Al-Qaeda's brand of global jihad while others are not involved in militancy. "There are no Al-Qaeda affiliated groups operating in the West Bank, but there are a few Salafist jihadist groups," he said. Full Story | Top |
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