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| Victims may speak as Cleveland abductor is sentenced to life in prison Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 09:14 PM PDT  By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Three women imprisoned for a decade in a Cleveland home may speak of their abuse in person, via video or through representatives on Thursday at a court hearing where their abductor is expected to be formally sentenced to life in prison. Ariel Castro, 53, pleaded guilty last week to 937 criminal charges including kidnapping and rape of the women, kidnapping of a 6-year-old girl he fathered in captivity with one of the women, and murder for forcing another one of the women to abort during a pregnancy. ... Full Story | Top |
| Private at U.S. Army base in Colorado base arrested on sex charge Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 04:15 PM PDT  By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A 19-year-old soldier stationed at a U.S. Army base in Colorado accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl he met on the Internet has been arrested amid an ongoing probe of sexual misconduct at the post, police said on Wednesday Mark Vincent Petrosky, a private assigned to the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, was arrested by Colorado Springs police on Tuesday on suspicion of sexual assault of a child, police said in a written statement. ... Full Story | Top |
| The Case of Sture Bergwall, a.k.a. Thomas Quick: Sweden’s Former Serial Killer Acquitted Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 03:19 PM PDT Sture Bergwall was once one of the most feared men in Sweden, a confessed serial killer convicted in eight murders who boasted of claiming dozens of other lives. Full Story | Top |
| Halliburton to plead guilty in Gulf oil spill Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 02:44 PM PDT NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has scheduled a hearing on Sept. 19 for Halliburton Energy Services to plead guilty to destroying evidence after BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Full Story | Top |
| 'Whitey' Bulger Mum on Whether He'll Testify Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 02:40 PM PDT Bulger's Defense Attorney Initially Expected Him to Take the Stand. Full Story | Top |
| Libya: Gadhafi-era minister sentenced to execution Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 12:08 PM PDT TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A criminal court in Libya sentenced a Gadhafi-era education minister to death on Wednesday for murder and for inciting violence during the 2011 civil war, the second such guilty verdict by the same court in recent days. Full Story | Top |
| Kazakh oligarch Ablyazov arrested in France: sources Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 11:30 AM PDT By Kirstin Ridley and Matthias Galante LONDON/CANNES, France (Reuters) - Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh businessman accused of embezzling $6 billion from his former bank BTA, has been arrested near Cannes in southern France and is being held by police, sources familiar with the situation said. A police source said Ablyazov was arrested in the village of Mouans-Sartoux, located about 8 km (5 miles) north of Cannes. A court hearing has been scheduled for 10.30 a.m. (4:30 a.m. ET) on Thursday, the source added. No further details were immediately available. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ohio man accused of killing three women pleads not guilty Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 11:02 AM PDT  By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A man authorities have compared to an Ohio serial killer pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges he killed three women and left their bodies wrapped in plastic bags near his suburban Cleveland apartment. Michael Madison, 35, appeared in a Cleveland courtroom on 14 charges including aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping. Two of the victims were strangled, authorities said. The cause of death of the third has not yet been determined. ... Full Story | Top |
| Activist: Prominent Bahrain blogger arrested Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 09:39 AM PDT A rights activist in Bahrain says authorities have arrested a prominent blogger just days after warning of harsher measures against anti-government protesters in the violence-wracked Gulf kingdom. Bahrain's ... Full Story | Top |
| Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro to be sentenced Thursday Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 08:33 AM PDT Ariel Castro, the man who kidnapped, raped, and beat three Cleveland women will find out his fate during a sentencing hearing Thursday morning, though it's not much of a mystery where he'll spend the rest of his life. Full Story | Top |
| Man pleads not guilty to killing 3 Ohio women Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 08:05 AM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — A man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to kidnapping and killing three women whose bodies were found wrapped in trash bags earlier this month. Full Story | Top |
| The 30th Annual National Night Out is Tuesday; Neighbors, Police Step Out Against Crime Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 08:00 AM PDT WYNNEWOOD, Pa., July 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, August 6th, citizens, law enforcement agencies, community groups, businesses and local officials in close to 16,000 communities from all 50 states, U.S. territories, Canadian cities and military bases worldwide will join forces to mark the 30th Annual National Night Out (NNO) – an annual crime and safety event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW). Nationally, over 37 million people are expected to participate in 'America's Night Out Against Crime' this year. ... Full Story | Top |
| Man arrested over exploding German ticket machines Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 07:13 AM PDT BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say a man has been arrested on suspicion of blowing open railway ticket machines by filling them with gas and igniting it. They're seeking a second suspect. Full Story | Top |
| Sweden drops final charge against 'serial killer' Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 06:55 AM PDT STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped the eighth and final murder charge against a man who for two decades was thought to be one of Sweden's worst serial killers until it emerged that all his confessions were false. In the early 1990s, Sture Bergwall, a patient at a mental institution, confessed to murdering more than 30 people found dead in Sweden in preceding years. In a series of trials between 1994 and 2001, Bergwall was convicted of eight murders, despite there being no forensic evidence or witness statements. ... Full Story | Top |
| Last case dropped in Swedish serial-killer scandal Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 05:22 AM PDT  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped the last remaining charges against a man who was once considered Sweden's worst serial killer, but whose eight murder convictions were overturned after he withdrew his confessions. Full Story | Top |
| China's Bo to plead guilty, but maybe not to all charges: sources Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 05:14 AM PDT  By Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Disgraced Chinese leader Bo Xilai has agreed to plead guilty at a trial likely to be held within weeks, three sources said, in an apparent bid to earn a more lenient sentence and allow authorities to close the door on the country's biggest political scandal in decades. But it was not clear if he would plead guilty to all or only some of the charges of accepting bribes, corruption and abuse of power. ... Full Story | Top |
| Gun crime, custodial deaths pile pressure on Malaysian government Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 02:47 AM PDT  By Siva Sithraputhran KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - High-profile shootings and a surge of deaths of suspects in custody are stoking public anger in Malaysia, piling pressure on the government to tackle crime and clamp down on police corruption and brutality. An execution-style hit on a former bank chief executive in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, on Monday and the weekend shooting of an anti-crime campaigner have forced Prime Minister Najib Razak's government to respond, less than three months after it scraped through a general election with a depleted majority. ... Full Story | Top |
| FCA says four arrested in market abuse probe Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 02:14 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said three men and a woman have been arrested on Wednesday and held in custody as part of an investigation into insider dealing and market abuse. "The arrests are not linked to any other ongoing insider dealing investigation," the UK markets watchdog said in a statement. The FCA, with the assistance of the Metropolitan Police, used search warrants in west London and arrested three men aged 29, 51 and 56, and a woman aged 25. ... Full Story | Top |
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