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| 2 men sentenced in brutal attack on Giants fan Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 08:12 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — An angry judge lashed out Thursday as he sentenced two men who pleaded guilty in the savage beating of an avid San Francisco Giants fan at Dodger Stadium, calling them cowards and a nightmare for people who go to games. Full Story | Top |
| Fan arrested for groping 'Modern Family' star in Australia Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 07:07 PM PST  Australian police said Friday they had arrested a man for allegedly groping "Modern Family" star Sarah Hyland at an event for fans in Sydney, as the US actress spoke of her distress. Hyland, who plays oldest sibling Haley Dunphy in the smash-hit US sitcom, was signing autographs with fellow cast members at a cocktail function on Thursday, and reportedly left in tears. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-NFL star Darren Sharper pleads not guilty to rape Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 07:01 PM PST  By Dana Feldman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former football star Darren Sharper pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges that he drugged and raped two women in a Los Angeles hotel as investigations continue into similar sex crimes in four other U.S. states, according to police and court documents. The hearing occurred on the same day police in his home of Miami Beach, Florida, released details on one of the probes against him. Sharper, who played 14 years in the National Football League and won a Super Bowl title in 2010 with the New Orleans Saints, is accused by prosecutors of giving the prescription sleep medication zolpidem to the women in Los Angeles, causing them to pass out. In October, he met two women at a West Hollywood night club and brought them back to a Los Angeles hotel room, where he gave a drug-spiked drink to both of them and raped one, prosecutors said in court papers. Full Story | Top |
| Germany Arrested Three Very Old Alleged Auschwitz Guards Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 05:58 PM PST  Yesterday, Germany arrested three elderly men accused of being guards at Auschwitz and raided the homes of several more. The arrests followed a renewed hunt for former Nazis after the 2011 conviction of John Demjanjuk for being a guard at the Sobibor concentration camp. Demjanjuk was the first person to be convicted without evidence showing that he personally committed any atrocities while guarding the camp, which meant other men known to be guards but not to have committed any atrocities could also be arrested and tried as accessories to murder. The three men, whose names have not been released, may soon be joined by several more former guards. Full Story | Top |
| Mother of Tenn. girl arrested in New Orleans Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 03:34 PM PST MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The mother of a disabled Tennessee girl who died from gangrene and infected bedsores has been arrested in New Orleans. Full Story | Top |
| Fugitive climbs out 20th story window in Denver Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 01:46 PM PST DENVER (AP) — A man who escaped from a federal prison in Texas is in jail in Denver after trying to get away from his captors by climbing out a 20th story window. Full Story | Top |
| Mapuche Indian found guilty of Chile arson deaths Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 01:06 PM PST  SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Mapuche Indian who was shot in the neck during an arson attack was convicted on Thursday of killing an elderly couple in a region of southern Chile that the indigenous group claims as its ancestral territory. Full Story | Top |
| Egypt: Al-Jazeera journalists plead not guilty Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 12:23 PM PST  CAIRO (AP) — Three Al-Jazeera journalists pleaded not guilty Thursday and shouted from the dock that their prison conditions are "psychologically unbearable" as they went on trial with several other defendants, on terror charges. Full Story | Top |
| Vegas high-roller DeSage: I'm not guilty of fraud Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 11:33 AM PST LAS VEGAS (AP) — High-rolling Las Vegas businessman and two of his employees have pleaded not guilty to felony charges stemming from a massive fraud scheme. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-money manager to stars is arrested again in NY Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 10:35 AM PST A former money manager to celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck has been arrested again on fraud charges. It's been more than a decade since Dana Giacchetto was convicted of bilking his ... Full Story | Top |
| Three suspected former Auschwitz guards arrested in Germany Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 10:35 AM PST Three suspected former guards of the Auschwitz death camp run by the Nazis during World War Two have been arrested in southwestern Germany, the public prosecutor's office in Stuttgart said on Thursday. It said the three accused, aged 88, 92 and 94 years old, are believed to have been involved in the murder of prisoners at Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland. They were arrested after police searched six homes in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg using information released to several German states last autumn by the Central Office of the Judicial Authorities for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes. Some 1.5 million people perished at Auschwitz, mostly Jews but also Roma, Poles and others, between 1940 and 1945. Full Story | Top |
| Chile: Mapuche Indian found guilty of arson deaths Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 09:52 AM PST SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean court has found a Mapuche Indian guilty in the arson killing of an elderly couple in a southern region that the indigenous group calls its ancestral territory. Full Story | Top |
| 2nd defendant pleads guilty in Dodger Stadium beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 09:22 AM PST LOS ANGELES (AP) — 2nd defendant pleads guilty in Dodger Stadium beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow. Full Story | Top |
| 1 defendant pleads guilty in Dodger Stadium beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 09:18 AM PST LOS ANGELES (AP) — 1 defendant pleads guilty in Dodger Stadium beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow. Full Story | Top |
| Jury selection begins in NY trial of Kerry Kennedy on driving charge Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 08:44 AM PST  Jury selection began on Thursday in the trial of Kerry Kennedy, daughter of assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the ex-wife of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was charged in 2012 after swerving her car into a tractor trailer and driving away. Kennedy, 54, is charged with one count of driving while impaired, a misdemeanor. No one was injured in the accident in a suburb of New York City. Kennedy initially said a partial seizure was to blame but a toxicology report showed that she had sleeping medication in her system. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-Murdoch editor Brooks launches hacking defense, acquitted on one charge Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 07:48 AM PST  By Michael Holden and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks's meteoric rise to wield vast power from the pinnacle of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper empire should not be held against her when jurors decide whether she is guilty of phone-hacking, her lawyer told a London court on Thursday. Brooks, a close friend of the last three British prime ministers, took the stand for the first time on day 62 of her trial, explaining how she rose from an ordinary background to become one of Murdoch's leading editors in a matter of years. The case centers on widespread phone-hacking by journalists at the 168-year-old News of the World Sunday tabloid, which Murdoch closed amid huge public anger in July 2011, and on other allegations of crimes by staff on its sister daily paper The Sun, both of which she used to edit. Brooks was cleared of one of the five charges on Thursday on the judge's instruction - that of authorizing a payment to acquire a picture of Prince William in a bikini - but faces four other charges, which she denies. Full Story | Top |
| Venezuela's violent crime fuels the death business Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 07:08 AM PST  By Andrew Cawthorne and Carlos Garcia Rawlins CARACAS (Reuters) - Strewn with smashed headstones, empty whisky bottles and the odd spent bullet casing, Caracas' 19th century Southern Cemetery is a sprawling symbol of the violent crime engulfing Venezuela. Grave diggers tell of attacks on mourners by gunmen from the surrounding slums, drug-fueled parties at tombs, and night-time desecration of graves to steal bones for rituals. "Violence is the modern fashion in Venezuela. Not just the killing, but they way they behave around the dead," says Oscar Arias, 50, who has dug graves here for 33 years and recently buried his own nephew, who was shot in a nearby slum. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. Residents Experienced About 293,800 Hate Crime Victimizations In 2012 - Unchanged From 2004 Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 07:00 AM PST WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In 2012, an estimated 293,800 nonfatal violent and property hate crime victimizations occurred in the United States, an estimate not statistically different from 2004 (281,700), the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. While the numbers are similar, the motivations for hate crimes shifted significantly from 2004 to 2012. About half (51 percent) of hate crimes were motivated by ethnicity bias (that is, the victim's ancestral, cultural, social or national affiliation) in 2012, up from 22 percent in 2004. The percentage of hate crimes motivated by religious bias nearly tripled from 10 percent in 2004 to 28 percent in 2012, and the percentage of hate crimes motivated by gender bias more than doubled, from 12 percent to 26 percent during the same period. Full Story | Top |
| Hacking trial: Brooks acquitted on 1 of 5 charges Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 06:48 AM PST  Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks was acquitted Thursday of one charge at Britain's phone hacking trial as she began her defense against four more. Her lawyer told jurors that Brooks was "not ... Full Story | Top |
| British-Norwegian found guilty of killing cell mate in Congo jail Wednesday, Feb 19, 2014 11:23 PM PST By Peter Jones KINSHASA (Reuters) - A court in Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday found a British-Norwegian dual national guilty of killing his cell mate at a military prison where the two men were serving life sentences. The victim, fellow Norwegian Tjostolv Moland, was found dead in his cell in August. Congo's government initially said Moland's death appeared to be a suicide but subsequently charged his cell mate and former business partner, Joshua French, with murder. French's mother, Kari Hilde French, was in the courtroom for the reading of the verdict. Full Story | Top |
| Faith-Healing Couple Sentenced for Second Child's Death Wednesday, Feb 19, 2014 10:42 PM PST  A judge has sentenced Herbert and Catherine Schaible with up to seven years in jail after their eight-month-old son, Brandon, died from pneumonia when he was not given medical care. According to Herbert Schaible's police statement, he told investigators, "We believe in divine healing, that Jesus shed blood for our healing and that he died on the cross to break the devil's power." A deputy medical examiner told the court that he believed Brandon could have survived if given proper medical treatment. Full Story | Top |
| After ScandiNoir, French are new crime fiction stars Wednesday, Feb 19, 2014 10:32 PM PST  Police chief Camille Verhoeven is diminutive, pugnacious and brilliant. The shambolic Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg prefers intuition over logic. Victor Legris juggles bookselling with solving grim 19th century murders. After the international success of Scandinavian crime writing, France's own small army of fictional detectives and amateur sleuths is sparking unprecedented interest from English-language publishers on the lookout for the next big thing. Full Story | Top |
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