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Jury gives death penalty in Pa. torture killing
Thu,30 Aug 2012 07:41 PM PDT
Associated Press - A man who pleaded guilty to murder in the torture killing of a mentally disabled woman held captive in a dingy western Pennsylvania apartment has been given the death penalty. Full Story
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Colorado shooting suspect may have called university before rampage
Thu,30 Aug 2012 07:18 PM PDT
Reuters -

A booking photo of Colorado shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes is shown in this handout supplied by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office in Centennial, ColoradoCENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - Accused Colorado gunman James Holmes may have phoned h is former university just nine minutes before last month's shooting at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" that killed 12 people, his lawyer said on Thursday. In a pretrial hearing, defense attorney Tamara Brady raised the possibility of such a call while questioning Dr. Lynne Fenton, a University of Colorado psychiatrist w h o treated Holmes in the month before the July 20 movie house shooting. ...


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Defense: Shooting suspect made call before attack
Thu,30 Aug 2012 06:32 PM PDT
Associated Press -

Defense attorney Daniel King leads other public defenders into court for a motions hearing for suspected movie theater shooter James Holmes in district court in Centennial, Colo., on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. Holmes has been charged in the shooting at the Aurora theater on July 20 that killed twelve people and injured more than 50. (AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)The suspect in the Colorado shooting rampage tried unsuccessfully to call his university psychiatrist 9 minutes before he opened fire during a Batman movie premiere, defense attorneys revealed in court Thursday.


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Ex-News International legal chief arrested
Thu,30 Aug 2012 06:25 PM PDT
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Tom Crone, 60, was held on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communicationsThe former legal advisor to Rupert Murdoch's News International newspaper group was arrested by police investigating alleged phone hacking.


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Matthew Scheidt, 18, Found Guilty of Impersonating Physician's Assistant
Thu,30 Aug 2012 06:23 PM PDT
Good Morning America -

Matthew Scheidt, 18, Found Guilty of Impersonating Physician's AssistantTeenager Faces Up to 25 Years When He Is Sentenced in November


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Texas man sentenced to 99 years over gang rape of 11-year-old
Thu,30 Aug 2012 06:16 PM PDT
Reuters - SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A Texas man accused of taking part in the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in an abandoned trailer along with 19 other men and boys was convicted on Thursday of aggravated sexual assault in a case that shocked a small Texas town, court officials said. The man, 20-year-old Eric McGowen, was sentenced to 99 years in prison, Liberty County Court officials said. He had been free on bond pending the outcome of the trial but disappeared after the victim testified against him on Wednesday. A warrant was issued for his arrest. ... Full Story
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Pa. parents sentenced in death of baby left alone
Thu,30 Aug 2012 05:09 PM PDT
Associated Press - Two eastern Pennsylvania parents whose baby daughter was left alone in a car seat in a hot room for several hours and died have been sentenced to time behind bars. Full Story
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Scores arrested in new Maldives protest against Nasheed ruling
Thu,30 Aug 2012 04:55 PM PDT
Reuters -

A soldier tries to stop a supporter of former Maldives President Nasheed from removing barricades during a protest in MaleMALE (Reuters) - Maldives police arrested at least 12 people in the early hours of Friday to break up a protest by supporters of former president Mohamed Nasheed against a report that said he had been replaced legitimately. Hundreds of angry supporters of Nasheed had blocked a main road in the capital Male for three hours before the arrests forced them to disperse. On Thursday, around 50 protesters had been detained. After his removal on February 7, Nasheed, in power since 2008, said he had been forced to resign at gunpoint by mutinying police and soldiers. ...


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Ga. prosecutor seeks death penalty for 3 soldiers
Thu,30 Aug 2012 12:26 PM PDT
Associated Press -

Wesley Thomas, the step father of Tiffany York, is tackled by courtroom security during the hearing of defendant Sgt. Anthony Peden at Long County Superior Court, Thursday Aug. 30, 2012, in Ludowici, Ga. District Attorney Tom Durden announced in court that he will seek the death penalty for Peden, Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, and Pvt. Christopher Salmon. The three Fort Stewart soldiers are accused of malice murder, felony murder and criminal gang activity in the Dec. 4 slayings of former soldier Michael Roark and his girlfriend, 17-year-old Tiffany York. The two were found shot to death off a dirt road near the Army post. Prosecutors say the accused men were part of a militia operating within the U.S. Army that was stockpiling weapons and wanted to overthrow the federal government. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)Georgia prosecutors will seek the death penalty against three Army soldiers accused of killing a former serviceman and his girlfriend to protect an anti-government militia group, officials said Thursday during tense court hearings in which one victim's stepfather was tackled and handcuffed as he tried to rush the defense table.


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Jury deliberates Texas sex assault case
Thu,30 Aug 2012 12:04 PM PDT
Associated Press -

This undated booking photo provided by the Liberty County Sheriff's Department in Liberty, Texas, shows Eric McGowen. Opening statements were scheduled to begin Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, in Liberty in a trial for McGowen, who is charged with aggravated sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl in 2010 in Cleveland, Texas. McGowen is among 14 adults charged in the case. He faces up to life in prison if convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child. (AP Photo/Courtesy the Liberty County Sheriff's Department)Attorneys have made their closing arguments and the jury has begun deliberating in the first trial to stem from the alleged repeated sexual assault of a young Texas girl by 20 men and boys two years ago.


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Soldiers Turned Terrorists Will Face the Death Penalty
Thu,30 Aug 2012 10:45 AM PDT
The Atlantic Wire -

Soldiers Turned Terrorists Will Face the Death PenaltyThe three Georgia-based Army soldiers accused of killing a young couple and plotting to assassinate President Obama are getting the book thrown at them. In Long Country Superior Court Thursday, District Attorney Tom Durden vowed to seek the death penalty for F.E.A.R. militia members Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, Sgt. Anthony Peden and Pvt. Christopher Salmon, reports the Associated Press. Meanwhile, grieving relatives of the victims tell the Atlanta Journal-Constitution the F.E.A.R. members should be put to death. ...


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Former college lacrosse player to be sentenced for 2010 murder
Thu,30 Aug 2012 09:53 AM PDT
Reuters -

Abemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail handout photo of George Huguely V(Reuters) - A former University of Virginia lacrosse player faces up to 26 years in prison at his sentencing on Thursday for the 2010 murder of his ex-girlfriend, who was beaten to death shortly before she was due to graduate. A jury in February found George Huguely V, 24, guilty of second-degree murder and grand larceny in the death of 22-year-old Yeardley Love, who prosecutors said died of blunt force trauma after her head was slammed against a wall. ...


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73 people arrested for recent Ivory Coast attacks
Thu,30 Aug 2012 09:32 AM PDT
Associated Press - Ivory Coast's military prosecutor says that 73 people, including 19 soldiers, have been detained in connection with a recent spate of attacks on military positions in the West African nation. Full Story
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DA eyes death penalty in soldier militia plot case
Thu,30 Aug 2012 07:12 AM PDT
Associated Press - A prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty against one of three Georgia-based soldiers accused of killing two people to protect an anti-government militia. Full Story
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Missing Defendant in Texas Gang Rape Case Found Guilty
Thu,30 Aug 2012 06:47 AM PDT
ABC News -

Missing Defendant in Texas Gang Rape Case Found GuiltyEric McGowen Was Not in Court When He Was Convicted of Sexual Assault


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Top News of the World Lawyer Accused by Murdoch Arrested
Thu,30 Aug 2012 06:17 AM PDT
The Atlantic Wire -

Top News of the World Lawyer Accused by Murdoch ArrestedFour months after News Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch threw his News of the World legal chief under the bus during his testimony to the Leveson Inquiry, police in London arrested that lawyer this morning, the 25th arrest in the phone-hacking scandal. The interesting thing about Tom Crone, the former legal manager for News of the World, is that his role at the paper was to keep it out of legal trouble, but in the end it was his own former employer, News parent company News Corporation, that provided the evidence that got Crone taken in. ...


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Taiwan typhoon hero arrested over corruption claims
Thu,30 Aug 2012 02:55 AM PDT
AFP -

Rescuers help evacuees after Morakot in 2009. Huang Chi-min collapsed from fatigue after 14 days of rescue effortsTaiwan's former fire chief Huang Chi-min, hailed as a hero for leading rescue efforts during Typhoon Morakot in 2009, has been arrested on corruption allegations, officials said Thursday.


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Ex-U.VA. athlete to be sentenced in beating death
Thu,30 Aug 2012 02:16 AM PDT
Associated Press - A former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend is facing a jury's recommended sentence of 26 years in prison at sentencing Thursday. Full Story
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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
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Lawyers: Former SEAL Author Is Almost Certainly Facing Legal Trouble
Wed,29 Aug 2012 03:09 PM PDT
The Atlantic Wire -

Lawyers: Former SEAL Author Is Almost Certainly Facing Legal TroubleThe publisher and author of No Easy Day, an upcoming tell-all on the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, promised the book doesn't reveal classified information. But government privacy lawyers speaking with The Atlantic Wire say the book almost certainly does. 


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UVa. Lacrosse Killer George Huguely Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison
Wed,29 Aug 2012 01:32 PM PDT
ABC News -

UVa. Lacrosse Killer George Huguely Sentenced to 23 Years in PrisonGeorge Huguely V Was Convicted for the Murder of Ex-Girlfriend Yeardley Love


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Veteran FBI crime-fighter says "The Wire" rings true
Wed,29 Aug 2012 09:08 AM PDT
Reuters -

April Brooks, special agent in charge of the Criminal Division for the FBI's New York Field Office poses in her office in New YorkNEW 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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Motorola Secrets Thief Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison
Wed,29 Aug 2012 09:01 AM PDT
Mashable -

Motorola Secrets Thief Sentenced to 4 Years in PrisonChina-born American Hanjuan Jin has been convicted of stealing trade secrets from Motorola -- and on Wednesday, she was sentenced to four years in prison.


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Journalist arrested in UK computer hacking probe
Wed,29 Aug 2012 08:43 AM PDT
Associated Press - British police investigating computer hacking and privacy offenses arrested a journalist Wednesday at his home. Full Story
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Journalist arrested in computer hacking probe
Wed,29 Aug 2012 03:11 AM PDT
AFP -

Rupert Murdoch still owns the Times newspaper in LondonPolice arrested a journalist on Wednesday on suspicion of computer hacking as part of their wider investigation into alleged breaches of privacy.


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