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| Brazil counter attacks on crime as World Cup looms Friday, Feb 21, 2014 06:05 PM PST  A string of violent attacks against police in "pacified" Rio de Janeiro slums shows that Brazilian organized crime is not going down without a fight as the World Cup looms. With the football extravaganza less than four months away, and despite aggressive efforts to clean up the favelas, violent crime remains a problem. Launched in 2008, Rio's Police Pacification Units (UPP) have been tasked with wresting control of the city's crime-ridden slums from drug gangs. The program has led to sharp falls in homicide rates in the favelas and across Rio as a whole. Full Story | Top |
| Former Chicago cop found guilty in slaying plot Friday, Feb 21, 2014 05:31 PM PST CHICAGO (AP) — A former Chicago police officer who spent years on death row before his murder conviction was overturned was found guilty Friday of a grisly plot to kill a businessman but was acquitted of a second plot to kill another businessman and his wife. Full Story | Top |
| 'Pay Your Taxes Now or Be Arrested': The Dirty Dozen Tax Scams You Want to Avoid Friday, Feb 21, 2014 05:28 PM PST  IRS Says It's on the Hunt for Tax-Time Cons Full Story | Top |
| Coach to plead not guilty in Missouri girl's kidnap, murder: defense Friday, Feb 21, 2014 05:10 PM PST  A seventh-grade football coach was ordered held without bail on Friday and will plead not guilty to the kidnap and murder of a 10-year-old girl snatched off a Springfield, Missouri, street and later found dead in his basement, his lawyer said. Craig Michael Wood, 45, accused of abducting Hailey Owens from a neighborhood in Springfield, made his first court appearance on Friday over a video monitor from the Greene County Jail. Witnesses said Hailey was walking along a street shortly before 5 p.m. on Tuesday when a man driving a pickup truck pulled alongside her. Witness calls to police about the abduction triggered multiple Amber Alerts in Missouri and neighboring states. Full Story | Top |
| Accused State Senator's brother pleads not guilty Friday, Feb 21, 2014 05:04 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former lawmaker charged in a corruption probe along with his state senator brother has pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles court. Full Story | Top |
| Missouri coach to plead not guilty in girl's death Friday, Feb 21, 2014 08:42 AM PST  SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A middle-school football coach accused in the kidnapping and killing of a 10-year-old girl in southwest Missouri plans to plead not guilty, his public defender said in a brief hearing Friday. Full Story | Top |
| South Africa to fight crime with new DNA law Friday, Feb 21, 2014 06:25 AM PST  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — It took a distraught Lindie Mdluli several days to summon the courage to go to a South African police station after she was raped in 2007. When she got there, Mdluli says that police officers didn't discuss the kind of investigative DNA work that she had seen on television detective shows. Full Story | Top |
| Lutheran college safety director arrested, fired for masturbating in female employee’s shoe Friday, Feb 21, 2014 05:27 AM PST The director of public safety at Concordia University Chicago has been charged with two misdemeanors because, police say, he masturbated into a shoe belonging to a female employee of the school. The alleged masturbator is Tim Margis, reports Oak Leaves, a local suburban newspaper. Police say the incident occurred on Feb. 10 at approximately 9:30 p.m. somewhere on the campus of the private Lutheran school. The unidentified female employee saw Margis, 38, leaving her office. Full Story | Top |
| Eight Russians found guilty in trial over anti-Putin protest Friday, Feb 21, 2014 03:44 AM PST MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian judge on Friday convicted eight defendants of rioting and violence against police at an opposition protest on the eve of President Vladimir Putin's inauguration to a third term in 2012. Prosecutors asked for sentences of five-to-six years in prison during what Kremlin critics have denounced as a show trial. The judge was expected to pronounce the sentences later on Friday after reading out the verdict. (Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Elizabeth Piper) Full Story | Top |
| NZ woman arrested after drugs found in Indonesia Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 11:35 PM PST BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities arrested a New Zealand woman for allegedly possessing illegal drugs in a raid on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, police and a lawyer said Friday. Full Story | Top |
| Fan arrested for groping 'Modern Family' star in Australia Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 08:49 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 |
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