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Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Ind. murder convict mistakenly released in Chicago Indiana man to plead guilty to 'sextortion' Surprise! Oil Companies Vastly Underreport Size of Oil Spills APNewsBreak: Afghan massacre trial set for Sept. Trial set for September in Afghanistan massacre Founder of Iowa brokerage is sentenced to 50-year prison term for embezzling customer funds Fla. man arrested after pocket-dialing 911 Randy Travis to enter drunken driving plea Behind serial killer cases, Canada's "forsaken" women SKorea chaebol chief sentenced to 4 years prison Crime and Punishment Owners of Bangladesh factory where 7 died arrested Cameroon leader sees minds changing on "crime" of homosexuality

Ind. murder convict mistakenly released in Chicago  Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 06:56 PM PST CHICAGO (AP) â€" Police were hunting for a convicted murderer on Thursday after he was mistakenly released from custody in Chicago, where he was sent to face a drug charge while serving a 60-year prison sentence in Indiana. Full Story	Top
Indiana man to plead guilty to 'sextortion'  Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 06:38 PM PST INDIANAPOLIS (AP) â€" An Indiana man has agreed to plead guilty to charges alleging that he tricked more than a dozen teenagers into stripping or performing sexual acts for him via webcam and then used recordings of those sessions to coerce them into making even more explicit videos. Full Story	Top
Surprise! Oil Companies Vastly Underreport Size of Oil Spills  Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 02:51 PM PST In November 2012, BP agreed to pay $4.5 billion in fines and plead guilty to criminal charges related to the Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster. As part of their plea agreement, company executives admitted they had misled Congress and the American public by providing false information about the extent of the oil spill. Full Story	Top
APNewsBreak: Afghan massacre trial set for Sept.  Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 12:57 PM PST SEATTLE (AP) â€" A military judge has scheduled a Sept. 3 court martial for Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the U.S. soldier accused of massacring 16 Afghan villagers during nighttime raids last year, his lawyer said Thursday. Full Story	Top
Trial set for September in Afghanistan massacre  Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 12:25 PM PST SEATTLE (AP) â€" A military judge has scheduled a Sept. 3 court martial for Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the U.S. soldier accused of massacring 16 Afghan villagers during nighttime raids last year. Full Story	Top
Founder of Iowa brokerage is sentenced to 50-year prison term for embezzling customer funds  Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 10:06 AM PST Founder of Iowa brokerage is sentenced to 50-year prison term for embezzling customer funds. Full Story	Top
Fla. man arrested after pocket-dialing 911  Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 05:27 AM PST ORANGE CITY, Fla. (AP) â€" Authorities say a Florida tow truck driver landed in jail after his cell phone pocket-dialed 911 and dispatchers listened in on a conversation about the sale of drugs. Full Story	Top
Randy Travis to enter drunken driving plea  Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 04:40 AM PST SHERMAN, Texas (AP) â€" Country music star Randy Travis is scheduled to appear in a North Texas court, where prosecutors say he is expected to plead guilty to driving while intoxicated. Full Story	Top
Behind serial killer cases, Canada's "forsaken" women  Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 04:24 AM PST (Reuters) - Sarah de Vries started running away when she was 13, in 1983. She lived in cheap apartments and grim hotels in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia - places that would let a teenager turn tricks. Later, she got hooked on heroin. Sarah's big sister, Maggie, remembers a bubbly, adorable baby. But life was not always easy. Of mixed race, with some black and aboriginal ancestry, Sarah was targeted by racist bullies, and sometimes felt disconnected from her white adoptive family. ... Full Story	Top
SKorea chaebol chief sentenced to 4 years prison  Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 02:32 AM PST SEOUL, South Korea (AP) â€" A South Korean court sentenced the chairman of the country's third-biggest conglomerate to four years in prison on Thursday for embezzling millions of dollars of company money for personal investments. Full Story	Top
Crime and Punishment  Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 02:18 AM PST I spent two days with the U.S. Border Patrol in 1994 for a series of stories on California’s immigration problems. Much time has passed, but I’m sure the fundamentals of what I saw remain true. Full Story	Top
Owners of Bangladesh factory where 7 died arrested  Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 12:55 AM PST Two owners of a Bangladesh garment factory where seven workers were killed in a weekend fire were arrested Thursday as police investigated allegations of murder and negligence.Police were questioning Smart ... Full Story	Top
Cameroon leader sees minds changing on "crime" of homosexuality  Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 09:33 PM PST PARIS (Reuters) - Cameroon's President Paul Biya said on Wednesday that attitudes were changing in his country towards its criminalisation of homosexuality, which has been criticised by the European Union. Speaking to journalists after meeting with French President Francois Hollande in Paris, Biya stressed that homosexuality had been illegal in Cameroon since before he came to power more than 30 years ago. "Now I can say that discussions are under way. People are talking, minds can change one way or another but currently it's a crime," he said. ... Full Story	Top

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