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| Ex-convict served time on assault before shootout Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 07:11 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — An ex-convict who police say killed two people before engaging in a gunbattle with authorities on a Phoenix-area freeway was paroled from a Colorado prison in October after serving 4 ½ years of a roughly six-year sentence on charges that included punching a sheriff's deputy in the face. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-soldier's death penalty trial begins in Hawaii Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 07:02 PM PDT HONOLULU (AP) — A death penalty trial started Tuesday with a prosecutor telling jurors that the fatal blow a former Hawaii-based soldier dealt his 5-year-old daughter was so hard it left knuckle imprints on the child's chest. Full Story | Top |
| Al-Qaeda convict flew into Britain wearing shoe-bomb Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 04:36 PM PDT  New York (AFP) - A British terror convict flew from Pakistan to London wearing a shoe-bomb that he was supposed to detonate on a US passenger jet, a New York trial heard Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Jurors deliberate fate of ex-Arkansas treasurer Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 02:32 PM PDT  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Prosecutors and defense lawyers agreed Tuesday that a former Arkansas treasurer shouldn't have accepted $36,000 from a bond dealer who did business with the state but differed on whether she committed a federal crime. Full Story | Top |
| SAC Capital takes new name after insider scandal Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 12:44 PM PDT  SAC Capital founder Steven A. Cohen Tuesday sought to turn a page following an insider-trading scandal, announcing plans to rename the firm that bears his initials. The once-mighty investment firm, which agreed in November to plead guilty to criminal charges of insider trading, will rename itself Point72 Asset Management, SAC president Tom Conheeney said in a memo to employees. Full Story | Top |
| Holly Bobo suspect pleads not guilty in court Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 12:23 PM PDT  DECATURVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of kidnapping and killing 20-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo, whose highly publicized disappearance happened almost three years ago. Full Story | Top |
| A Senior Advisor to Hillary's 2008 Campaign Allegedly Violated Campaign Finance Laws Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 12:14 PM PDT  Documents released by the D.C. Federal District Court suggest that Minyon Moore, a former staffer for the Clinton White House and senior adviser to Hillary Clinton in 2008, illegally coordinated with an external campaign effort in the late days of that campaign. Last September, a New York marketing executive named Troy White plead guilty to tax violations related to his involvement in a scheme orchestrated by D.C. businessman Jeffrey Thompson. Thompson on Monday copped to conspiracy charges related to his making millions in illegal campaign contributions. Thompson apparently broke both of those rules. Full Story | Top |
| 'Octomom' pleads not guilty to welfare fraud Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 12:02 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Octomom" Nadya Suleman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to one count of welfare fraud and agreed to return to court next month for a another hearing if her case isn't resolved with a plea deal before then. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. general's sex crimes trial delayed indefinitely Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 10:46 AM PDT  By Kelly Twedell FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (Reuters) - The trial of a U.S. Army general charged with sexual assault was delayed indefinitely after the prosecution's case hit a stumbling block when a judge ruled that politics fueled the decision to court-martial the military commander. The judge, Colonel James Pohl, found on Monday that politics had been unlawfully injected into the rare court-martial of Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair, but refused to dismiss the sexual assault charges. The judge said he would allow Sinclair to renew a previous offer, rejected by military leaders at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to plead guilty to lesser charges in exchange for the most serious allegations of coercive sex acts being dropped. Sinclair's lead lawyer, Richard Scheff, said the defense and prosecutors had begun discussing how the case would proceed but it could be several weeks before they return to court. Full Story | Top |
| Trial set in black man's Pittsburgh police beating Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 06:55 AM PDT  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Opening statements were scheduled Tuesday in the retrial of three Pittsburgh police officers — one who has since quit the force — on civil rights claims that they wrongly arrested and beat a young black performing arts student in January 2010. Full Story | Top |
| Albanian arrested on US drug trafficking charges Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 06:46 AM PDT TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian authorities say they have arrested and will extradite an Albanian former United States resident sought by the U.S. to face drug trafficking charges. Full Story | Top |
| Josh Duhamel to fight crime in 'Battle Creek' for CBS Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 05:21 AM PDT  Six years after the final episode of "Las Vegas," the former "All My Children" star will return to a regular TV role in a new series from the creators of "Breaking Bad" and "House M.D." Full Story | Top |
| Algerian cartoonist acquitted of mocking president: lawyer Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 04:49 AM PDT  An Algerian cartoonist, prosecuted over an unpublished drawing poking fun at ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's decision to seek reelection, was acquitted on Tuesday, his lawyer told AFP. I'm very happy," lawyer Youcef Dilem said. Ghanem was accused at the criminal court in Oran last month of insulting the president, with the prosecution demanding an 18-month prison sentence and a 30,000 dirham (280 euro) fine. Dilem said the cartoon referred to 77-year-old Bouteflika's decision to seek a fourth term in office in April's leadership contest, a move which has sparked anger and derision in Algeria due to his fragile health. Full Story | Top |
| Croatia's ex-PM, biggest party sentenced over slush funds Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 03:56 AM PDT  By Zoran Radosavljevic ZAGREB (Reuters) - Former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader and his political party were found guilty on Tuesday of rigging public tenders and abusing state funds in the biggest corruption trial to date in the new European Union member. The conservative HDZ, which ruled Croatia for 16 of its 22 years of independence, became the first political party sentenced for corruption. The trial, which started in April 2012, was part of an anti-graft drive to boost Croatia's attempt to join the EU, which it did in July 2013. It sanctions for the first time a political party's illegal funding and this will have a long-term effect on political financing in Croatia," said Davor Gjenero, a Zagreb-based political analyst. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine's fugitive leader warns of civil war Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 03:00 AM PDT MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine's fugitive president has accused his country's new government of fomenting a civil war and criticized the West for supporting it. Full Story | Top |
| Afghans: 2 suspects arrested in killing of Swede Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 02:20 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Swedish Embassy has confirmed that a Swedish journalist has been killed in Kabul, and Afghan police say two suspects have been arrested. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-DC teacher to be sentenced in child porn case Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 01:16 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Washington private school teacher who was captured in Nicaragua after a year on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" fugitives list is scheduled to be sentenced in a child pornography case. Full Story | Top |
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