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| California officers arrested in car impound scheme Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 08:17 PM PST KING CITY, Calif. (AP) — Police officers in a Central California town took part in a scheme in which cars belonging to poor Hispanic people were impounded, towed and later sold or given away for free to some officers when the car owners couldn't pay the fees, authorities said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Bieber bodyguard and driver arrested in Atlanta Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 08:17 PM PST  SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. (AP) — A security guard and driver for pop singer Justin Bieber have been arrested near Atlanta and charged with stealing a photographer's camera. Full Story | Top |
| Police officers arrested in car impound scheme Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 07:12 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police officers in a Central California town took part in a scheme in which cars belonging to poor Hispanic people were impounded, towed and later sold or given away for free to some officers when the car owners couldn't pay the fees, authorities said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Lee Rigby killers to be sentenced Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 06:29 PM PST  The sentencing of two Muslim converts guilty of brutally murdering a soldier in broad daylight in a London street will take place at the Old Bailey later Wednesday. Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, were found guilty on December 19 of killing 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby, who had served a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Judge Nigel Sweeney delayed sentencing in order to take account of a Court of Appeal ruling on the principle of jail terms for life. Full Story | Top |
| SAC to shrink legal entities, hire surveillance officer: letter Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 04:02 PM PST  By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - SAC Capital Advisors, the once powerful hedge fund that plead guilty to insider trading charges last year, is streamlining its business units and will hire a chief surveillance officer as it transforms itself into a family office. The firm, now managing only founder Steven A. Cohen's $9 billion personal fortune, will combine its three U.S. stock divisions and macro business into two new entities slated to start operating in April, Cohen and SAC President Tom Conheeney wrote in a letter to employees, which was seen by Reuters. SAC's quant business, where traders rely on mathematical algorithms to trade, will operate in a separate, newly formed entity and the firm is creating a new position of chief surveillance officer, the letter said. Full Story | Top |
| California couple plead not guilty in child death Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 12:30 PM PST NAPA, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California woman and her boyfriend have pleaded not guilty to charges that they beat the woman's 3-year-old daughter to death. Full Story | Top |
| Motion: Guam jurors posted trial details online Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 12:30 PM PST HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Two men and a woman convicted of running a meth ring in Guam are asking for a new trial because of allegations jurors ignored instructions not to discuss the case. Full Story | Top |
| NY Knicks' Raymond Felton arrested on gun charges Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 12:11 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — New York Knicks point guard Raymond Felton was arrested Tuesday on weapons charges after a lawyer for Felton's wife turned in a loaded gun allegedly belonging to the basketball star, saying she didn't want it in her home, police said. Full Story | Top |
| Author of Swedish crime trilogy 'Millennium' probed Palme murder Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 11:27 AM PST  Stieg Larsson, author of the bestselling crime trilogy "Millennium", also researched the unsolved murder of Olof Palme, a report said Tuesday, three days before the 28th anniversary of the former Swedish prime minister's death. Svenska Dagbladet said the writer and journalist, who himself died in 2004 of a heart attack, had followed up a lead on former Swedish intelligence agent Bertil Wedin, who was suspected of working with South Africa's secret service. "Palme's death had become a priority on Stieg's agenda," the paper quoted the writer's longtime partner Eva Gabrielsson as saying. But Sweden's deputy prosecutor general Kerstin Skarp, who is in charge of the Palme murder mystery, told Svenska Dagbladet that Wedin "is not someone being actively probed right now". Full Story | Top |
| Semi-Annual FBI Report Confirms Crime Down As Gun Sales Up, Notes CCRKBA Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 10:33 AM PST BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The FBI's semi-annual uniform crime data for the first half of 2013 confirms once again what the firearms community already knew, that violent crime has continued to decline while gun sales have continued to climb, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. Forcible rapes declined 10.6 percent from the same period in 2012 and overall, violent crime fell by 10.6 percent in non-metropolitan counties and 3.6 percent in metropolitan counties. "This new information reinforces the notion that not only do guns save lives, their presence in the hands and homes of law-abiding citizens just might be a deterrent to crime," observed CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "The National Shooting Sports Foundation has been reporting a steady increase in firearm sales for the past few years. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine wants fugitive president to face Hague court Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 10:14 AM PST By Timothy Heritage and Natalia Zinets KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament voted on Tuesday to send fugitive President Viktor Yanukovich to the International Criminal Court, while his acting successor expressed concern about "signs of separatism" in Russian-speaking Crimea. A resolution, overwhelmingly supported by parliament, linked Yanukovich, who was ousted by the legislature on Saturday and is now on the run, to police violence against protesters which it said had led to the deaths of more than 100 citizens of Ukraine and other states. With an early presidential election set for May 25, one of Ukraine's most prominent opposition figures, retired world boxing champion Vitaly Klitschko, confirmed he would run. Yanukovich was indicted by the new authorities for "mass murder" on Monday over the shooting of demonstrators in Kiev and is now on the wanted list, having last been seen at Balaclava in Crimea, near Russia's Sevastopol naval base. Full Story | Top |
| Raymond Felton of Knicks arrested on gun charges Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 09:26 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — New York Knicks point guard Raymond Felton has been arrested on three counts of criminal possession of a weapon. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-Pittsburgh chief sentenced to 18 months Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 09:10 AM PST PITTSBURGH (AP) — Former Pittsburgh police chief Nathan Harper has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for conspiring to create an unauthorized slush fund. Full Story | Top |
| More retired NY firefighters, cops arrested in pension fraud probe Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 07:06 AM PST By Victoria Cavaliere NEW YORK (Reuters) - A second wave of retired New York firefighters and police was arrested on Tuesday on disability fraud charges tied to a September 11 pension fraud, said a source involved in the investigation. A massive ongoing investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance's office had, in January, led to disability fraud charges against 106 suspects - 80 of them retired New York cops and firefighters - with some accused of falsely claiming to have been traumatized by the September 11, 2001 attacks on the city. On Tuesday, authorities rounded up 28 suspects, including 16 more retired police officers, four former firefighters, and a retired New York City Department of Corrections employee, the source told Reuters. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-Gitmo Prisoner Arrested on Suspicion of Terrorism Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 05:11 AM PST  LONDON – A former Guantanamo Bay detainee who has written a book about his time in Gitmo and campaigned for the rights of terrorism suspects was arrested today on suspicion of attending a terrorist training camp and involvement in terrorism in Syria, British police told... Full Story | Top |
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