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Man arrested in Wisconsin on 36-year-old child support warrant
Mon,12 Dec 2011 02:05 PM PST
Reuters - MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A Georgia man pulled over for a traffic violation on his first trip back to Wisconsin in three decades was arrested on a 36-year-old warrant for child support, officials said on Monday. Stephen Schmidt, 70, of Jonesboro, Georgia, was later released on a $2,000 bond. Schmidt had been driving on Highway 41 in Fond du Lac on Friday when he was pulled over by a Wisconsin state trooper for driving without tail lights and having a loud car exhaust, Wisconsin State Patrol Sergeant Jeff Nelson said. ... Full Story | Top |
Mali says arrested Frenchmen's suspected abductors
Mon,12 Dec 2011 05:35 AM PST
Reuters - BAMAKO (Reuters) - Malian security forces have arrested a number of suspects in connection with the kidnapping of two Frenchmen in northern Mali last month, a spokesman for the president said on Monday. "Yes we can confirm that the group has been arrested," the spokesman said, requesting not to be named. He said more details would be released in a statement later in the day. The two men, described as an engineer and a technician who work for a local cement firm, were kidnapped on night of November 23 in the town of Hombori, about 200 km (125 miles) west of the northern city of Gao. ... Full Story | Top |
Pennsylvania priest arrested, accused of possessing child porn
Sun,11 Dec 2011 01:19 PM PST
Reuters - PITTSBURGH, Pa (Reuters) - A Roman Catholic priest was arrested on charges he viewed child pornography in the rectory of his Pittsburgh-area church, the diocese said on Sunday. The Rev. Bartley Sorensen, 62, pastor of St. John Fisher Church in Churchill, Pennsylvania, was arraigned on charges of possession of child pornography, a third-degree felony, according to the Diocese of Pittsburgh. He was being held on Sunday in the Allegheny County Jail in lieu of a $100,000 bond, jail officials said. ... Full Story | Top |
DA offers deal to NYPD officer in corruption case
Sat,10 Dec 2011 09:41 AM PST
AP - Prosecutors have offered to trim decades off the possible prison sentence for a New York City police officer if he pleads guilty to charges that he dealt in stolen goods and counterfeit DVDs, fixed tickets and conspired to transport heroin in his squad car. Full Story | Top |
47 arrested after police clear Boston protest camp
Sat,10 Dec 2011 09:10 AM PST
Reuters -  BOSTON (Reuters) - Police cleared an anti-Wall Street tent camp in Boston's financial district early on Saturday morning, arresting 47 people in one of the few remaining major U.S. cities where authorities had not yet evicted demonstrators. In a mostly peaceful action, more than 100 police officers swept into the area before sunrise, when many of the campers were asleep, and sealed off the streets. Boston police said 33 men and 14 women were arrested, mostly for trespassing. ...
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Convicted Connecticut murderer sentenced to death
Fri,9 Dec 2011 03:57 PM PST
Reuters - NEW HAVEN (Reuters) - A Connecticut jury handed down a death sentence on Friday to a man convicted of killing a mother and her two daughters in a grisly home invasion that left the girls' father as the sole survivor. Joshua Komisarjevsky, 31, will join his accomplice, Steven Hayes, on death row for the July 2007 murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and her two daughters Hayley Petit, 17, and Michaela Petit, 11. Hawke-Petit was raped and strangled, and the girls died of smoke inhalation after the home was set on fire. Dr. William Petit, the girls' father, was badly beaten but survived. ... Full Story | Top |
Man condemned to death in Conn. home invasion
Fri,9 Dec 2011 01:16 PM PST
AP -  A jury condemned a Connecticut man to death Friday for killing a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror inside their suburban home, rejecting defense attorneys' request to spare his life in light of the abuse he suffered as a boy.
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Honduras passes wiretap, bike laws to stem crime
Fri,9 Dec 2011 10:56 AM PST
AP - The Honduran Congress has passed bills allowing authorities to wiretap the telephone conversations, emails and bank accounts of suspected criminals and temporarily banning motorcycles from carrying passengers. Full Story | Top |
Officer found guilty of lying about post-Katrina shooting
Fri,9 Dec 2011 10:12 AM PST
Reuters - NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A jury on Friday convicted one police officer and acquitted another of lying about their role in a civilian's killing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The jury found Ronald Mitchell, 34, guilty on one count of obstruction of justice and one count of perjury for telling authorities he got out of his patrol car and checked the condition of 45-year-old Danny Brumfield after shooting Brumfield with a pistol-grip shotgun on September 3, 2005. Two witnesses had testified to the contrary, saying the patrol unit never stopped after the shots were fired. ... Full Story | Top |
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