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| Former Texas kicker Erxleben sentenced to prison Monday, Feb 24, 2014 08:20 PM PST Former Texas All-American and NFL kicker and punter Russell Erxleben was sentenced Monday to more than seven years in federal prison for running an illegal investment scam that netted $2 million. Prosecutors ... Full Story | Top |
| California senator pleads not guilty to corruption Monday, Feb 24, 2014 07:32 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — State Sen. Ron Calderon pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges that he accepted $100,000 in bribes in return for pushing legislation, charges that could send him to federal prison for years. Full Story | Top |
| Former NFL kicker Erxleben sentenced to 7-1/2 years for fraud Monday, Feb 24, 2014 04:11 PM PST Former NFL kicker Russell Erxleben was sentenced on Monday to 7-1/2 years in prison for running a fraudulent investment scheme that took in about $2 million trading in post-World War One German government bonds and a painting. The sentence, handed out in a federal court in Austin, came from a plea deal negotiated by U.S. prosecutors and the defense, said David Gonzalez, an attorney for Erxleben. The 57-year-old former stand-out kicker with the University of Texas also sought money from investors to purchase a financial interest in a painting supposedly by French artist Paul Gauguin, according to the document submitted by U.S. prosecutors and signed by Erxleben. Erxleben has been in federal prison before. Full Story | Top |
| Jury selection starts in NY rape-murder plot trial Monday, Feb 24, 2014 04:03 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of two men charged with conspiring to rape, torture and murder women and children as a judge said he was inclined to let jurors hear testimony about an "extremely disturbing" video found in a former Manhattan school librarian's apartment and a conversation with an undercover investigator in which he expresses sexual interest in infants. Full Story | Top |
| 'Avatar' actor Sam Worthington arrested in NYC Monday, Feb 24, 2014 03:01 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Police say actor Sam Worthington has been arrested in New York City on charges of punching a photographer after the man kicked Worthington's girlfriend in the shin. Full Story | Top |
| Pill mix-up led to Kennedy 'drugged driving' trial: defense Monday, Feb 24, 2014 02:46 PM PST  By Victoria Cavaliere WHITE PLAINS, New York (Reuters) - A Kennedy family member's groggy behavior after her 2012 arrest for side-swiping a tractor trailer in New York was not the result of a criminal act but of mistakenly taking a sleeping pill instead of thyroid medication, her lawyers argued at her trial Monday. Kerry Kennedy, 54, daughter of assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the ex-wife of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving while impaired. "This case is about a mistake, plain and simple," defense attorney Gerald Lefcourt said in his opening statement in Westchester County Court in White Plains, about 35 miles north of New York City. Her mother, Ethel Kennedy, widow of Senator Kennedy, was also in the courtroom as Lefcourt described Kennedy as a devout Roman Catholic and a devoted humanitarian and mother who would never willfully drive while impaired. Full Story | Top |
| Bahamas police search for fugitive pilot Monday, Feb 24, 2014 01:32 PM PST NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Police in the Bahamas are searching for a pilot who crashed a small plane into a police car after landing at a tiny airstrip with seven migrants believed to have entered the country without permission. Full Story | Top |
| Fugitive Ukraine leader wanted for murder, Russia sounds alarm Monday, Feb 24, 2014 12:49 PM PST By Natalia Zinets and Pavel Polityuk KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's fugitive president was indicted for "mass murder" on Monday over the shooting of demonstrators as new leaders in Kiev sought urgent Western aid to make up for a loss of funding from Russia, which is angry at the overthrow of its ally. Moscow said it would not deal with those who led an "armed mutiny" against Viktor Yanukovich, who was elected in 2010, and said it now feared for the lives of its citizens, notably in the Russian-speaking east and Crimea on the Black Sea. Russia's top general agreed with NATO to maintain contact on a crisis that has raised fears of civil war and which U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said called for an "inclusive political process" that "preserves Ukraine's ... territorial integrity". While Russia, its strategy for maintaining influence in its former Soviet neighbor in shreds, made clear its $15-billion package of loans and cheap gas deals was in jeopardy, the European Union and United States offered urgent financial assistance for a new government that may be formed on Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| California legislator helps crime victim Monday, Feb 24, 2014 12:13 PM PST CONCORD, Calif. (AP) — A California state senator who was called on to help a home invasion robbery victim says he is still stunned such a crime occurred in his neighborhood. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine seeks fugitive leader over 'mass murder' Monday, Feb 24, 2014 11:55 AM PST Ukraine issued an arrest warrant Monday for its ousted pro-Russian president over "mass murder" and appealed for $35 billion in Western aid as Moscow denounced Kiev's new reformist team as illegitimate. The dramatic announcements by the ex-Soviet nation's untested but enthusiastic Western-leaning ministers -- approved by parliament over a chaotic weekend that saw president Viktor Yanukovych go into hiding -- came as the EU's top diplomat arrived in Kiev to buttress Ukraine's sudden tilt away from Russia. Three months of relentless protests over Yanukovych's shock decision to spurn an historic pact with the European Union in favour of closer ties with Ukraine's old masters in the Kremlin culminated in days of carnage last week in Kiev that claimed almost 100 lives. Full Story | Top |
| Shop owner pleads not guilty in puppy arson case Monday, Feb 24, 2014 11:01 AM PST  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A pet shop owner pleaded not guilty Monday to torching her Las Vegas business, where firefighters rescued 27 puppies. Full Story | Top |
| Relatives arrested over suspected 'honour' killing in Gaza Monday, Feb 24, 2014 06:00 AM PST  Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Gaza police have arrested family members over the deaths of two Palestinian teenage girls, one of them the victim of a suspected "honour" killing, Hamas authorities said Monday. Authorities caught relatives of one of the girls as they were trying to bury her in a cemetery near Jabaliya, north of Gaza City, on Thursday, police spokesman Ayyub Abu Shaar told AFP. The girl's father had "beat her days before her death", Abu Shaar said. The Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) said a post-mortem showed signs of "torture" all over the girl's body as well as signs of untreated gangrene from years of physical abuse. Full Story | Top |
| UK wants retrial of UK DJ acquitted of assault Monday, Feb 24, 2014 03:47 AM PST LONDON (AP) — Veteran British radio and television personality Dave Lee Travis will appear in court again in March despite being cleared of a dozen counts of indecent assault earlier this month. Full Story | Top |
| Philippine Muslim rebel commander arrested Monday, Feb 24, 2014 03:38 AM PST MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police arrested a key commander of the main Muslim rebel group that recently concluded a peace deal with the government, the national police chief said Monday in a move criticized by the insurgents. Full Story | Top |
| Va. man to be sentenced for NY educator's death Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 11:54 PM PST MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A Virginia man faces sentencing for killing an upstate New York school superintendent over an online relationship he was having with the man's wife. Full Story | Top |
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