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| Calif. death penalty opponents say it's too costly Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 03:56 PM PDT Death penalty opponents in California are trying a new argument this year: Abolish capital punishment because the perpetually cash-strapped state just can't afford it. Full Story | Top |
| Bahrain activist sentenced for anti-king web posts Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 03:27 PM PDT A civil court has sentenced an online activist to six months in prison on charges of insulting the Gulf nation's king in Twitter posts, the official news agency said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
| Comedian Starr arrested in Savile abuse case - TV Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 03:08 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested comedian Freddie Starr on Thursday as part of an investigation triggered by allegations that the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile sexually abused hundreds of children, media reported. Police said in a statement they had arrested a man in his 60s on suspicion of sex offences. The man was identified by Sky News and ITV News as Starr, who earlier had offered to talk to police. ... Full Story | Top |
| British comic Starr arrested in Savile abuse case: TV Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 02:31 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested comedian Freddie Starr on Thursday as part of an investigation triggered by allegations that the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile sexually abused hundreds of children, media reported. Police said in a statement they had arrested a man in his 60s on suspicion of sex offences. The man was identified by Sky News and ITV News as Starr, who earlier had offered to talk to police. ... Full Story | Top |
| UK comedian arrested by sex scandal detectives Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 01:50 PM PDT  The child abuse scandal consuming the legacy of the late entertainer Jimmy Savile netted its second celebrity arrest Thursday as police swooped in on British comedian Freddie Starr, media reported. Executors of Savile's estate also said they were freezing his assets, clearing the way for a host of potential lawsuits. Full Story | Top |
| Greek journalist acquitted in Swiss accounts scandal Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 01:48 PM PDT  ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek journalist who published the names of more than 2,000 of his compatriots who held Swiss bank accounts was acquitted on Thursday in a case that touched a nerve over the role of tax evasion in the country's debt crisis. The trial of Costas Vaxevanis, editor of the weekly Hot Doc magazine, had aroused international concern and intense interest among Greeks hit by the impact of the country's economic collapse and angry at the privileges of the elite. ... Full Story | Top |
| Greek publisher acquitted in privacy case Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 01:06 PM PDT A magazine publisher was acquitted on Thursday of breaching privacy laws by printing a list allegedly naming Greeks with bank accounts in Switzerland. The list has touched off a fierce debate in the nearly bankrupt country after governments failed to use it to check for possible tax evasion by rich depositors. Full Story | Top |
| Supreme Court weighs expanded warnings on deportation risk Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 01:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the future of thousands of immigrants at stake, the Supreme Court on Thursday considered whether to extend a rule that requires lawyers to tell clients who are not citizens that they can be deported if they plead guilty to crimes. A decision could prove significant to non-citizens who had ineffective counsel before March 2010, when the court, in Padilla v. Kentucky, said immigrants deserve to be told at least some consequences of guilty pleas. Federal appeals courts have since divided on whether the decision should apply retroactively. ... Full Story | Top |
| Mass. man sentenced to 17 years in terror plot Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 11:56 AM PDT  A Massachusetts man was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison in a plot to fly remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives into the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol. Full Story | Top |
| Massachusetts man sentenced to 17 years after FBI terrorism sting Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 10:18 AM PDT  BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts man was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for a plot to attack the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol building in Washington with explosives loaded into remote-control model airplanes. Rezwan Ferdaus, who was arrested in September 2011 and pleaded guilty in July to terrorism-related charges in a deal with prosecutors, told the court he has devoted a lot of time to self-reflection while in jail awaiting sentencing and that he accepted his fate. ... Full Story | Top |
| Court cuts prison term of Khodorkovsky's partner Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 09:43 AM PDT A Russian court has reduced the 13-year prison sentence of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's business partner by three years. Full Story | Top |
| Bahrain activist sentenced for anti-king tweets Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 09:43 AM PDT Bahrain says a civil court has sentenced an online activist to six months in prison on charges of insulting the Gulf nation's king in Twitter posts. Full Story | Top |
| Fugitive Sunni Iraq VP sentenced to death on second charge Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 06:28 AM PDT  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi court sentenced fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi to death for a second time on Thursday on a charge of involvement in a plot to assassinate an interior ministry official, a judicial spokesman said. Hashemi, a Sunni Muslim who fled to Turkey earlier this year when Shi'ite-led Iraqi authorities sought his arrest, was subsequently sentenced to death in absentia on charges of running death squads, which he denies. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ghostbuster Backflips Over Cop, Gets Arrested [VIDEO] Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 03:00 AM PDT NOTE: The language in this video is NSFW. Full Story | Top |
| Child sex convict Sandusky sent to Pennsylvania maximum security prison Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 09:36 PM PDT  HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Former Penn State assistant football coach and convicted child sexual predator Jerry Sandusky will spend the rest of his days in a maximum security prison in the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, the state corrections system decided on Wednesday. Sandusky, 68, who was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison this month for sexually abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period, was transferred to the State Correctional Institution at Greene County, near Pittsburgh, where he was put in protective custody. ... Full Story | Top |
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