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| Sinn Fein leader arrested over 1972 IRA killing Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 06:47 PM PDT  DUBLIN (AP) — Sinn Fein chief Gerry Adams, the warlord-turned-peacemaker of the Northern Ireland conflict, was being interrogated Thursday over the grisly slaying of a Belfast widow that has haunted his political career for decades. Full Story | Top |
| Texas lawmen sentenced for drug trafficking along Mexican border Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 05:50 PM PDT By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Nine former south Texas law officers were sentenced from between nine and 17 years in federal prison for using their badges and police vehicles to move and sell large shipments of drugs, a federal court official said on Wednesday. The nine, most of whom were from the so-called Panama Unit, made up of law officers from jurisdictions organized to investigate the flow of illegal drugs coming from Mexico, were sentenced this week on drug trafficking and other charges in U.S. District Court in the border city of McAllen. From 2010 through 2012, the nine lawmen used their positions to steal narcotics and cash from drug traffickers and provided them to other drug dealers who were paying them for protection, prosecutors said. According to court documents, four of the men loaded two marked police vehicles with 40 kilograms of cocaine and drove the drugs past a Border Patrol checkpoint on the main road between the Rio Grande Valley and San Antonio. Full Story | Top |
| Jurors end day without verdict in patent case Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 05:34 PM PDT  SAN JOSE, California (AP) — California jurors failed Wednesday to decide a patent-infringement case involving the world's two biggest smartphone makers after their first full day of deliberations. Full Story | Top |
| Art world scion gets one-year prison term for illegal gambling Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 04:45 PM PDT By Lindsay Dunsmuir NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hillel "Helly" Nahmad, a prominent New York art dealer, was sentenced on Wednesday to one year and a day in federal prison for running an illegal high-stakes gambling ring that catered to movie stars, professional athletes and bank executives. Nahmad, 35, the son of a billionaire art dealer from Europe, had pleaded guilty to operating an illegal gambling business as part of a deal in which he acknowledged he led the ring, financed it and was entitled to a substantial share of its profits. In sending him to prison, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman rejected Nahmad's proposal to allow him to remain free and instead pay $100,000 a year to fund a program in which the convicted felon would teach underprivileged children about art. "There is only one way for Mr. Nahmad to understand his actions have consequences ... and that is to send him to prison," the judge said at the sentencing, in Manhattan federal court. Full Story | Top |
| Botched Oklahoma execution shakes even death penalty supporters Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 03:18 PM PDT Before panicked medical personnel in Oklahoma's death chamber flipped down the blinds, witnesses saw a scene that one described as "incredibly difficult to watch": the condemned man groaned, struggled, lifted his head, and said, "man" and "something's wrong." Oklahoma's first test of a new lethal drug combination failed disastrously Tuesday evening. Instead of a painless death, as intended, Clayton Lockett appeared to suffer. Gov. Mary Fallin said prison officials deny that Mr. Lockett ever regained consciousness before they administered a second dose of drugs intended to painlessly stop his breathing and his heart. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-teacher to be re-sentenced in Montana rape case Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 02:14 PM PDT BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A former high school teacher who served one month in prison after being convicted of raping a 14-year-old student faces more time behind bars after the Montana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that his original sentence was too short. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-Montana teacher to be re-sentenced in rape case Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 12:45 PM PDT BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A former high school teacher who served one month in prison after being convicted of raping a 14-year-old student faces more time behind bars after the Montana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that his original sentence was too short. Full Story | Top |
| Man who killed wife in 2011 sentenced to 50 years Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 11:48 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A German man who masqueraded as an Iraqi general and other eccentric characters was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in prison for the murder of his 91-year-old wife. Full Story | Top |
| California Labor Commissioner Announces Statewide "Wage Theft is a Crime" Campaign Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 11:34 AM PDT SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 30, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su announces the start of a statewide, multilingual campaign about wage theft to educate workers and employers about labor standards such as minimum wage, overtime, and meal and rest break requirements. "The mission of the Department of Industrial Relations is to protect all workers with comprehensive labor laws and proactive enforcement throughout the state," said Christine Baker, Department of Industrial Relations' (DIR's) Director. "This campaign increases familiarity with workers' rights and employers' responsibilities, and supports our efforts to level the playing field for law-abiding businesses." Featuring the slogan "Wage Theft is a Crime," the campaign messages illustrate how workers in low-wage industries including agriculture, garment, construction and hospitality are impacted by wage theft. A campaign-specific website in English (www.WageTheftIsACrime.com) and Spanish (www.RoboDeSueldoEsUnCrimen.com) provides details on how to identify and report wage theft, retaliation and other labor law violations to the 18 Labor Commissioner's offices located across the state. Full Story | Top |
| Youths arrested in immigration protest Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 11:23 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 20 people — including seven youths — were arrested outside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday as they blocked an intersection to call for an end to deportations. Full Story | Top |
| Second New Mexico football player arrested in student's rape Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 11:11 AM PDT By Joseph J. Kolb ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - A second University of New Mexico football player has been arrested on suspicion of raping and kidnapping a fellow student earlier this month, officials said on Wednesday. SaQwan Edwards, 21, surrendered on Tuesday night shortly after a warrant was issued for his arrest on two counts of sexual assault and kidnapping, according to Lieutenant Tim Stump of the University of New Mexico Police Department. The arrest comes just over a week after another football player with the university, 20-year-old Crusoe Gongbay, was arrested on the same charges in the case. According to a criminal complaint, the two football players and the former student spotted the woman outside a house party on April 13, where the former student "put his arms around (her) and stated, "No, she is coming with us." The group drove off together, and the complaint says the two football players took turns raping her. Full Story | Top |
| German man who killed wife sentenced to 50 years Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 09:50 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A German man who masqueraded as an Iraqi general and other eccentric characters was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in prison for the murder of his 91-year-old wife in Washington. Full Story | Top |
| Oklahoma botches execution, raising questions on death penalty in U.S. Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 08:24 AM PDT By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett died during a botched execution on Tuesday, minutes after a doctor had called a halt to the procedure, raising more questions about new death penalty cocktails used by the state and others. Thirteen minutes after a doctor administered a lethal injection at the state's death chamber in McAlester, Lockett lifted his head and started mumbling. The troubled execution was expected to have national implications, with lawyers for death row inmates having argued that new lethal injection cocktails used in Oklahoma and other states could cause undue suffering and violate constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment. "This could be a real turning point in the whole debate as people get disgusted by this sort of thing," said Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, which monitors capital punishment. Full Story | Top |
| Illinois man pleads not guilty in Wisconsin death Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 08:21 AM PDT RACINE, Wis. (AP) — An Illinois man charged with killing a teenage runaway in 1997 and leaving her body in a Wisconsin marsh has pleaded not guilty to two felony charges. Full Story | Top |
| July trial set in Michigan porch shooting case Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 07:45 AM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — A July trial is scheduled for a Detroit-area man who fatally shot an unarmed woman last fall on his porch. Full Story | Top |
| Tuesday Was the Worst Day for Death Penalty Advocates Since 1972 Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 06:36 AM PDT  The combination could mean that the two-decade long trend in public opinion away from the death penalty will accelerate. Almost no one — not even Oklahoma's governor, Mary Fallin — is defending what happened in the execution of Clayton Lockett, convicted of the 1999 murder of a Tulsa high school student. It followed a constitutional crisis between the governor and the state Supreme Court, which blocked the planned execution of Lockett and another man because of questions about the untested drug cocktail that would be used. Full Story | Top |
| UN concerned over death penalty in Maldives Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 02:34 AM PDT COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The United Nations human rights body has expressed concern over Maldives' decision to end a moratorium on the death penalty. Full Story | Top |
| British terror convict emailed as 'sacrifice72' Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 12:39 AM PDT  A British convict who plotted to blow a US passenger plane out of the sky was so determined to die for Al-Qaeda that he used the email address sacrifice72@yahoo.com. Saajid Badat, 35, told the New York trial of British hate preacher Abu Hamza on Tuesday that he used the Yahoo account while researching Jewish targets in South Africa. The word sacrifice was a nod to his determination to die in the cause of violent jihad and 72 a reference to the number of virgins that Al-Qaeda preached a "martyr" is entitled to deflower in heaven. Under cross-examination from Abu Hamza's lawyer Jeremy Schneider, he said he spent two days preparing a "detailed" report for Al-Qaeda bosses on the targets. Full Story | Top |
| Man who killed wife in 2011 to be sentenced in DC Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 12:25 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A German expatriate convicted of killing his socialite wife will learn how long he has to spend in prison for her 2011 murder in Washington. Full Story | Top |
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