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| 2 arrested as death toll in Bangladesh reaches 324 Friday, Apr 26, 2013 08:08 PM PDT  SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Two owners of garment factories in a Bangladesh building that collapsed into a pile of mangled metal and concrete have been arrested as public fury mounts over the accident that left at least 324 dead. Full Story | Top |
| Bangladesh Factory Owners Arrested Friday, Apr 26, 2013 07:30 PM PDT  Two owners of the Bangladesh garment factories that collapsed on Wednesday have been arrested, according to Bangladesh News 24 hours and the AFP. Full Story | Top |
| Reclusive death penalty lawyer opens up about work Friday, Apr 26, 2013 05:37 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Judy Clarke is in the business of cheating death, but she rarely talks about it. Full Story | Top |
| Feds: Cartel-linked man arrested on NM dance floor Friday, Apr 26, 2013 04:10 PM PDT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials say a suspected drug trafficker affiliated with the deadly Sinaloa Cartel couldn't dance his troubles away. Full Story | Top |
| Fugitive arrested on confidence game charges Friday, Apr 26, 2013 03:45 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — San Antonio police have arrested a fugitive accused of running a long-term confidence scheme with victims in Ohio, Florida and Texas. Full Story | Top |
| Oklahoma man, fugitive from law for 14 years, turns himself in Friday, Apr 26, 2013 03:08 PM PDT By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - An Oklahoma fugitive who escaped from a county jail 14 years ago while being held on charges of murdering his ex-wife and her boyfriend turned himself in on Friday, saying he was tired of running from the law. Comanche County Sheriff Department deputies took David Lee Kemp, 43, into custody without incident at a truck stop early Friday morning, Rick Rains, spokesman for the FBI's Oklahoma City office, said. Authorities learned of Kemp's whereabouts after he asked a truck driver at the truck stop to call the sheriff so he could turn himself in, Rains said. ... Full Story | Top |
| NY man wanted in 2 Philippines killings arrested Friday, Apr 26, 2013 02:16 PM PDT ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Almost two years after a retired British police officer and his live-in girlfriend were shot to death as they slept in the Philippines, New York State Police said Friday they arrested one of the men accused of doing it. Full Story | Top |
| Man sentenced to five years for role in NYC synagogue bomb plot Friday, Apr 26, 2013 12:49 PM PDT  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for plotting to blow up synagogues in New York City, only the third conviction under a state terror statute passed in the wake of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks. Mohamed Mamdouh, 22, a Moroccan-born U.S. citizen, appeared in a state court in Manhattan after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy as a crime of terrorism and two related weapons charges. ... Full Story | Top |
| Dutch cyberattack suspect arrested in Spain Friday, Apr 26, 2013 12:34 PM PDT THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch citizen has been arrested in Spain in connection with what experts described as the biggest cyberattack in the history of the Internet, one launched against an anti-spam watchdog group last month, prosecutors announced Friday. Full Story | Top |
| Russian court denies punk band convict Tolokonnikova parole Friday, Apr 26, 2013 11:41 AM PDT  MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court refused to release from prison one of two jailed members of the Pussy Riot punk band so that she can look after her young daughter. The court on Friday rejected Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's appeal for parole eight months after she was handed a two-year prison sentence for the band's performance of a "punk prayer" in Moscow's main Russian Orthodox cathedral. Tolokonnikova, 23, has been serving her sentence for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" in a prison colony in central Russia, about 550 km (350 miles) southeast of Moscow. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bosnian regional president arrested in graft probe Friday, Apr 26, 2013 11:15 AM PDT  By Daria Sito-Sucic and Maja Zuvela SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The president of Bosnia's autonomous Muslim-Croat federation and 19 others were arrested on Friday in an anti-corruption probe that also targeted the offices of the regional government, a spokesman for the state prosecutor said. The raid on Zivko Budimir's Sarajevo office and the regional government in the southern town of Mostar is the most high-profile anti-graft operation in Bosnia since independence more than two decades ago. ... Full Story | Top |
| Group: Sudan army supporting fugitive warlord Kony Friday, Apr 26, 2013 10:55 AM PDT  KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony recently found safe haven in territory controlled by Sudan, a watchdog group said Friday, accusing the Sudanese military of offering aid to commanders of the Lord's Resistance Army. Full Story | Top |
| President arrested in Bosnia corruption crackdown Friday, Apr 26, 2013 10:34 AM PDT  Bosnian police on Friday arrested one of the country's presidents along with 18 other people as part of a corruption investigation in one of the country's two main sections, a spokesman for the prosecution ... Full Story | Top |
| Will the Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Get Charged with the Death Penalty? Friday, Apr 26, 2013 06:56 AM PDT Federal officials will likely seek the death penalty for the surviving suspect of the Boston Marathon bombings, potentially making him the first terrorist to be executed since Timothy McVeigh nearly 12 years ago. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-Kentucky basketball star pleads not guilty Friday, Apr 26, 2013 06:00 AM PDT Former agriculture commissioner and University of Kentucky basketball star Richie Farmer has pleaded not guilty to charges related to his management of the state agency. Farmer was charged in an indictment ... Full Story | Top |
| Will the Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Get the Death Penalty? Friday, Apr 26, 2013 04:19 AM PDT Federal officials will likely seek the death penalty for the surviving suspect of the Boston Marathon bombings, potentially making him the first terrorist to be executed since Timothy McVeigh nearly 12 years ago. Full Story | Top |
| Italian marines under anti-terrorism probe, death penalty possible Friday, Apr 26, 2013 12:36 AM PDT  By Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian anti-terrorism agency will investigate the case of two Italian marines accused of murdering two Indian fishermen, India's top court said on Friday, raising the possibility once more of the men facing the death penalty. The accused, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, are charged with murder in connection with the shooting of fishermen off the coast of the southern state of Kerala last year while serving as security guards on a cargo ship. ... Full Story | Top |
| Lawyer: Trauma drove woman who cut off man's penis Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 10:33 PM PDT SANTA ANA, California (AP) — The defense attorney for a woman charged with severing the penis of her estranged husband said she "had a break from reality" the night of the attack. Full Story | Top |
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