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Aryan Nations leader sentenced for fraud in SC
Wed,14 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST
AP -  Avowed white supremacist August Kreis III has said plenty of racist, hateful and violent things, but suggesting that his Aryan Nations group should join with al-Qaida against their common enemies — Jews and the American government — is what finally led him into legal trouble for fraud.
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Four jockeys found guilty after corruption probe
Wed,14 Dec 2011 11:09 AM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Four jockeys have been found guilty of breaching of the rules of racing following a corruption investigation and handed bans ranging from six months to 12 years, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) said on Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
Motor racing-Former F1 driver JJ Lehto sentenced for fatal boat crash
Wed,14 Dec 2011 06:25 AM PST
Reuters - HELSINKI, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Former Finnish FormulaOne driver and Le Mans winner Jyrki Jarvilehto, who raced as JJLehto, was sentenced on Wednesday to two years and four monthsin jail for a drunken boat accident which killed his friend. Finland's Lansi-Uudenmaan district court said thatJarvilehto was drunk and speeding on his boat in June 2010, whenit hit a bridge support pillar in a canal in Raasepori, southernFinland. Jarvilehto denied he was driving the boat when the crashhappened, although the court said the victim's injuriesindicated he was a passenger and Jarvilehto was the driver. ... Full Story | Top |
Man arrested for beating student with a shoe
Tue,13 Dec 2011 06:30 PM PST
Reuters -  CONWAY, Mass (Reuters) - A man was arrested for brutally beating a fellow college student mistakenly suspected of stealing his pair of $200 Nike Foamposite sneakers, police said on Tuesday. The suspect, identified by police on Tuesday as Kirk Dudley, 18, of Staten Island, New York, surrendered in Wrentham District Court, in Massachusetts, accompanied by his attorney, after an arrest warrant was issued, Franklin Police Chief Stephan Semerjian said in a statement. ...
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Chinese man arrested for hiring wedding strippers
Tue,13 Dec 2011 06:13 PM PST
Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have arrested a man who hired two strippers to perform at his son's wedding after the performance was mobbed by villagers, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Zhang Cheng, from Xuzhou in eastern Jiangsu province, had originally wanted a band to play at the nuptials, but was then advised he could get performers whose show would have "special features," the Global Times said. "After watching the show, Zhang decided it would be appropriate for his son's wedding and requested two strippers for the event," it added. "... ... Full Story | Top |
Alleged Gene Simmons website hacker arrested
Tue,13 Dec 2011 04:56 PM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - A man accused of being part of the hacking group Anonymous was arrested on Tuesday on charges of attacking the website of Kiss frontman Gene Simmons. Kevin George Poe, 24, was arrested in Connecticut and ordered to appear in court in Los Angeles, the U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles said. A date has yet to be scheduled. Poe is accused of using a computer program to bombard the GeneSimmons.com website for five days in October 2010 with tens of thousands of electronic requests in a denial of service attack. ...
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Hitachi-LG venture executives face jail time
Tue,13 Dec 2011 03:53 PM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three executives in a joint venture of Hitachi Ltd and LG Electronics have agreed to plead guilty and serve several months in prison for conspiring to fix the prices of optical disk drives, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. The joint venture itself pleaded guilty in early November to 15 criminal counts in connection with a long running probe of price fixing in the sale of optical disk drives like CD-ROMs. Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc is the first company charged by U.S. prosecutors in the investigation. ... Full Story | Top |
Alleged Gene Simmons website hacker arrested
Tue,13 Dec 2011 03:43 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - A man accused of being part of the hacking group Anonymous was arrested Tuesday on charges of attacking the website of Kiss frontman Gene Simmons. Kevin George Poe, 24, was arrested in Connecticut and ordered to appear in court in Los Angeles, the U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles said. Poe is accused of using a computer program to bombard the GeneSimmons.com website in October 2010 with tens of thousands of electronic requests in a denial of service attack. ...
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Blagojevich gets extra month before prison term
Tue,13 Dec 2011 02:33 PM PST
AP -  A federal judge is allowing Rod Blagojevich an extra month of freedom before he must start a 14-year sentence for corruption and, at the ousted Illinois governor's request, recommended that he be sent to prison in Colorado, 1,000 miles away from his Chicago home.
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NJ doctors arrested in alleged kickback scheme
Tue,13 Dec 2011 12:59 PM PST
AP -  Federal authorities charged more than a dozen doctors Tuesday in an alleged kickback scheme, accusing them of receiving cash payments for referring patients to a northern New Jersey diagnostic facility for tests.
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Feds Charge Former Siemens Executives With Bribery
Tue,13 Dec 2011 09:28 AM PST
Forbes -  Image via Wikipedia Since German engineering firm Siemens agreed to plead guilty to U.S. bribery charges in 2008 and pay $1.6 billion to U.S. and German authorities, a dark cloud has loomed over the biggest bribery case in corporate history. How could such a massive corruption scheme be uncovered without any [...]
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Pa. man asks officer: 'Can I have my weed back?'
Tue,13 Dec 2011 07:23 AM PST
AP - A defense attorney's argument that a bag of marijuana uncovered during a Pennsylvania traffic stop could have belonged to a man other than his client has unraveled after an arresting officer recalled the suspect asking him: "Can I have my weed back?" Full Story | Top |
French ex-minister arrested in graft probe
Mon,12 Dec 2011 04:09 PM PST
AFP -  A former French minister was detained on Tuesday for questioning over alleged kickbacks on arms deals said to have funded the presidential campaign of a key ally of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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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 |
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