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Rapper Beanie Sigel arrested for drug, gun possession: report
Wed,29 Aug 2012 05:32 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Philadelphia rapper Beanie Sigel was arrested on Wednesday on drug and gun possession charges, celebrity website TMZ.com reported, days before he was headed to prison for tax evasion. The rapper, whose real name is Dwight Grant, was arrested during a traffic stop during which police found prescription pills, marijuana, a gun and cash in his car, TMZ.com said. Sigel, 38, best known for his collaborations with rapper Jay-Z and R&B artist R. ... Full Story | Top |
Veteran FBI crime-fighter says "The Wire" rings true
Wed,29 Aug 2012 09:08 AM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The new head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's criminal division in New York, one of the nation's highest-profile law enforcement posts, is used to answering questions about her colorful 22-year career as an FBI special agent. April Brooks, 45, the first woman to run New York's FBI criminal division, worked gang cases in Los Angeles near the height of that city's crack epidemic. She was tracking sex offenders and supervising child kidnapping probes in the bureau's Crimes Against Children squad in 2002 when Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart disappeared. ...
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Religious beliefs at center of Amish attacks trial
Tue,28 Aug 2012 01:44 PM PDT
Associated Press -  A group of Amish men and women accused of hate crimes in hair-cutting attacks took action out of concern that members of their religion were straying from their beliefs, defense attorneys said Tuesday.
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"The Walking Dead" star arrested for DUI
Tue,28 Aug 2012 11:26 AM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Forget "The Walking Dead" - the Driving Bombed might be the bigger danger. "Walking Dead" actor Scott Wilson, who plays alcoholic farmer Hershel Greene on AMC's hit zombie drama, is facing DUI charges after being arrested last week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Wilson, 70, was pulled over at 2 a.m. on August 18 by Peachtree City, Ga., police after they observed his black PT Cruiser traveling at about 70 miles per hour - "well above the posted speed limit" for the area, according to officials. ... Full Story | Top |
Chicago Crime Commission Applauds Quinn's Gambling Bill Veto
Tue,28 Aug 2012 10:02 AM PDT
PR Newswire - CHICAGO, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Chicago Crime Commission applauds Illinois Governor Pat Quinn's veto of a major gambling expansion bill that would have been detrimental to the citizens of Illinois. "We applaud Governor Quinn's strong stand and conclusion that the gambling expansion bill was critically flawed due to a lack of regulatory safeguards," according to J.R. Davis, President of the Chicago Crime Commission. ... Full Story | Top |
Romanian businessman acquitted of corruption
Tue,28 Aug 2012 07:58 AM PDT
Associated Press - A Romanian court has acquitted a businessman and 11 other people of defrauding the state of $85 million (€68 million) by money laundering and illegally manipulating markets to financially benefit a major oil company. Full Story | Top |
U.N. seeks details on employees sentenced in Myanmar
Mon,27 Aug 2012 05:29 PM PDT
Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is seeking information on three people working for the world body who were sentenced by a Myanmar court in connection with sectarian violence there earlier this year, a U.N. spokesman said on Monday. "The country team in Yangon has received information that a court in Maungdaw has sentenced three people - one from the U.N. refugee agency, one from the World Food Program and a third person who works for a partner organization of the refugee agency," spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters. ... Full Story | Top |
New York "stop and frisk" trial set for March 2013
Mon,27 Aug 2012 03:32 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The broadest legal challenge to the New York Police Department's controversial crime-fighting tactic known as "stop and frisk" will head to trial in March, a U.S. judge ruled on Monday. The case stems from a class action lawsuit filed in 2008 by four black men claiming they were improperly targeted by police because of their race. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan granted class action status to the lawsuit in March, saying the plaintiffs had established their cases were emblematic of a city-wide problem. ... Full Story | Top |
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