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News: Indiana man sentenced for strapping kids to car SJ woman arrested for role in alleged Ponzi scheme A nose for crime: Masked thieves nab $1.2 million in French Givenchy perfume Nose for crime: $1.2M in French perfume nabbed Vermont man arrested after crushing police cruisers with tractor Myanmar death row bombing convict pardoned: police Mladic cousin 'hid war crimes fugitive for five years' Doctors Arrested For Filming Unsuspecting Women In California, New York Parents found guilty of murdering daughter in UK Spain judge questions 3 arrested al-Qaida suspects Andrea Sneiderman Arrested for Husband's Murder Missouri priest to plead guilty in child porn case Judge rejects second request for mistrial in Drew Peterson case British woman sentenced for Simon Cowell break-in Nearly 1.2 Million Forensic Requests To Publicly Funded Crime Labs Were Backlogged At Yearend 2009, Unchanged From 2008 Assange's mother fears death penalty for him in US Two sentenced in plot to smuggle guns to Mexico's Zetas cartel NY pol: Guilty plea likely in boy's dismemberment Drew Peterson lawyers to decide on pursuing mistrial request Levi Aron Does Everyone a Favor by Pleading Guilty to Murdering Leiby Kletzky Green Party nominee arrested in Philly bank sit-in Boston priest arrested on child pornography charges New York man set to plead guilty in butchering of eight-year-old boy: source KC priest to plead guilty in child porn case Judge gets second mistrial request in Peterson murder trial Indiana man sentenced for strapping kids to car Fri,3 Aug 2012 01:53 PM PDT Associated Press - An Indiana man has been sentenced to 18 months on home detention for driving drunk with his three young children and another girl strapped to the hood of his car. Full Story Top SJ woman arrested for role in alleged Ponzi scheme Fri,3 Aug 2012 01:45 PM PDT Associated Press - A former San Jose real estate agent accused of bilking clients out of $1.2 million in a lavish Ponzi scheme is expected to appear soon in Santa Clara County courtroom. Full Story Top A nose for crime: Masked thieves nab $1.2 million in French Givenchy perfume Fri,3 Aug 2012 01:23 PM PDT Associated Press - PARIS - French police say 1 million euro (US$1.2 million) worth of Givenchy perfume has been recovered after it was stolen by masked thieves from a warehouse in the middle of the night. Full Story Top Nose for crime: $1.2M in French perfume nabbed Fri,3 Aug 2012 12:21 PM PDT Associated Press - French police say 1 million euro ($1.2 million) worth of Givenchy perfume has been recovered after it was stolen by masked thieves from a warehouse in the middle of the night. Full Story Top Vermont man arrested after crushing police cruisers with tractor Fri,3 Aug 2012 11:37 AM PDT Reuters - LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - A Vermont man was arrested after allegedly running over seven police cruisers with a tractor, police said on Friday. Roger Pion, 34, of Newport, Vermont now faces seven counts of unlawful mischief and three other charges after being arrested by state police for crushing cruisers belonging to the Orleans County Sheriff's Department in the town of Derby on Thursday. "I felt like I was in a monster jam rally or something," said Rene Morris, an eyewitness told local television station WCAX. ... Full Story Top Myanmar death row bombing convict pardoned: police Fri,3 Aug 2012 11:30 AM PDT AFP - A man sentenced to death over a series of deadly bomb blasts in Myanmar's main city in 2010 was freed Friday after receiving a presidential pardon, a police official and his lawyer told AFP. Full Story Top Mladic cousin 'hid war crimes fugitive for five years' Fri,3 Aug 2012 08:50 AM PDT AFP - A cousin of Bosnian Serb ex-army chief Ratko Mladic said he hid the war crimes fugitive for five years in his house in northeastern Serbia, a local daily reported Friday. Full Story Top Doctors Arrested For Filming Unsuspecting Women In California, New York Fri,3 Aug 2012 08:00 AM PDT Good Morning America - Doctor Filmed Patients, Another Caught Filming Up Skirts On Subway Full Story Top Parents found guilty of murdering daughter in UK Fri,3 Aug 2012 05:34 AM PDT Associated Press - A British court has found a mother and father guilty of murdering their teen-age daughter in a so-called honor killing. Full Story Top Spain judge questions 3 arrested al-Qaida suspects Fri,3 Aug 2012 01:53 AM PDT Associated Press - Three alleged al-Qaida suspects with possible plans for an attack in Spain or elsewhere in Europe have arrived at Spain's National Court for questioning by a judge. Full Story Top Andrea Sneiderman Arrested for Husband's Murder Thu,2 Aug 2012 12:02 PM PDT Good Morning America - Sneiderman Plotted Murder with Co-Worker Now Doing Life in Prison for Hit Job Full Story Top Missouri priest to plead guilty in child porn case Thu,2 Aug 2012 11:17 AM PDT Associated Press - A Roman Catholic priest in Kansas City is expected to plead guilty Thursday in a federal child pornography case that also led to charges against the diocese bishop for failing to report suspected child abuse. Full Story Top Judge rejects second request for mistrial in Drew Peterson case Thu,2 Aug 2012 09:50 AM PDT Reuters - JOLIET, Illinois (Reuters) - A judge rejected a second request to declare a mistrial in the case of former suburban Chicago policeman Drew Peterson accused of killing his third wife, who was found dead in a dry bathtub in 2004. There is little physical evidence linking Peterson to the death of Kathleen Savio, so prosecutors have been trying to introduce testimony this week that Peterson made threats and tried to hire a hit man. Defense attorneys have objected to the testimony as hearsay, and have asked twice for a mistrial. ... Full Story Top British woman sentenced for Simon Cowell break-in Thu,2 Aug 2012 09:41 AM PDT AFP - A British woman who used a brick to smash a window at the London home of "X Factor" creator Simon Cowell and was found inside his walk-in wardrobe was handed a 12-month community order on Thursday. Full Story Top Nearly 1.2 Million Forensic Requests To Publicly Funded Crime Labs Were Backlogged At Yearend 2009, Unchanged From 2008 Thu,2 Aug 2012 07:00 AM PDT PR Newswire - WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At the end of 2009, the nation's publicly funded crime labs had an estimated backlog of 1.2 million requests for forensic services, relatively unchanged from the backlog at yearend 2008, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. A request was defined as backlogged if it had not been completed within 30 days.In 2009, the 411 federal, state, county and municipal labs began the year with more than 1.0 million backlogged requests and received an additional estimated 4. ... Full Story Top Assange's mother fears death penalty for him in US Thu,2 Aug 2012 03:02 AM PDT AFP - The mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is lobbying Ecuador to grant him asylum, says she is worried her son could face execution if extradited to the United States. Full Story Top Two sentenced in plot to smuggle guns to Mexico's Zetas cartel Wed,1 Aug 2012 07:05 PM PDT Reuters - MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) - Two men were sentenced to 70 and 80 months in prison on Wednesday in a foiled plot to smuggle 147 assault rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition to Mexico's Zetas drug cartel, federal officials in Texas said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents seized the AK-47 rifles, 10,000 rounds of ammunition and 269 ammunition clips during an undercover investigation in May 2010, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson said in a statement. ... Full Story Top NY pol: Guilty plea likely in boy's dismemberment Wed,1 Aug 2012 03:56 PM PDT Associated Press - A New York state lawmaker says a man accused of abducting and dismembering a boy from his district has agreed to plead guilty to murder. Full Story Top Drew Peterson lawyers to decide on pursuing mistrial request Wed,1 Aug 2012 03:39 PM PDT Reuters - JOLIET, Illinois (Reuters) - Defense attorneys will decide by Thursday morning whether to pursue a request for a mistrial for former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson, who is charged with killing his third wife. The defense asked for a mistrial on Wednesday, saying the prosecution had improperly introduced evidence. It was the second mistrial request in as many days in the murder trial before Will County Judge Edward Burmila. Defense lawyers want the charges against Peterson dropped and the judge to declare he cannot be retried on them. ... Full Story Top Levi Aron Does Everyone a Favor by Pleading Guilty to Murdering Leiby Kletzky Wed,1 Aug 2012 03:33 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - The good thing about Wednesday's news that Levi Aron would plead guilty to last summer's horrific murder of an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy is that the boy's family and the public don't have to relive the whole horrific ordeal again in a trial. That was why the family of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky agreed to the plea deal, reports local CBS affiliate 1010 WINS. ... Full Story Top Green Party nominee arrested in Philly bank sit-in Wed,1 Aug 2012 03:13 PM PDT Associated Press - Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein and her running mate have been arrested at a sit-in at a Philadelphia bank over housing foreclosures. Full Story Top Boston priest arrested on child pornography charges Wed,1 Aug 2012 02:38 PM PDT Reuters - BOSTON (Reuters) - A South Boston priest was charged on Wednesday with possessing and distributing child pornography using a computer in his parish's rectory, authorities said. Andrew J. Urbaniak was arraigned in South Boston District Court on one count of possession of child pornography and one charge of distributing images of a child in the nude, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. Police arrested Urbaniak, 39, at Our Lady of Czestochowa, a Polish church in the Archdiocese of Boston, on Tuesday. ... Full Story Top New York man set to plead guilty in butchering of eight-year-old boy: source Wed,1 Aug 2012 01:46 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn man was expected to plead guilty next week to butchering an 8-year-old boy who got lost while walking home alone from an Orthodox Jewish day camp, a source close to the case said on Wednesday. The tentative plea deal calls for Levi Aron, 36, to be sentenced to 40 years to life in prison when he appears in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn on August 9, the source said. Terms of the deal could change before then, the source said. ... Full Story Top KC priest to plead guilty in child porn case Wed,1 Aug 2012 01:45 PM PDT Associated Press - A Kansas City priest accused of producing and possessing child pornography is scheduled to plead guilty in federal court to at least some of the charges against him. Full Story Top Judge gets second mistrial request in Peterson murder trial Wed,1 Aug 2012 12:28 PM PDT Reuters - JOLIET, Illinois (Reuters) - Defense attorneys sought a mistrial on Wednesday for former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson, who is charged with killing his third wife, claiming the prosecution had improperly introduced evidence. It was the second mistrial request in as many days in the murder trial of Peterson before Judge Edward Burmila. Defense attorneys want the charges against Peterson dropped and the judge to declare that he cannot be retried on them. On Tuesday, Peterson's next-door neighbor, Thomas Pontarelli, testified that he found a . ... Full Story Top

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