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| Ariz. convict awaits fate as jury deliberates Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 04:40 PM PDT  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jurors went home Thursday after deliberating for seven hours without a reaching a verdict in the case of an Arizona convict who authorities say escaped from prison and killed an Oklahoma couple. Full Story | Top |
| Miami Resident Extradited From Argentina Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 03:52 PM PDT WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) announced that on October 3, 2013, Jose L. Quijano formerly of Miami, was extradited from Argentina to the United States. Quijano fled to Argentina on June 7, 2011, prior to sentencing. OIG agents shared intelligence with INTERPOL and Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service agents and they coordinated with Argentine Police, who arrested Quijano in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Dec. 20, 2011. ... Full Story | Top |
| No verdict reached yet in trial of Ariz. convict Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 03:38 PM PDT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jurors have yet to reach a verdict in the capital murder trial of an Arizona convict who authorities say escaped from prison and killed an Oklahoma couple while on the run. Full Story | Top |
| Tunisian man extradited to U.S. in NATO base attack case Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 03:29 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Tunisian man who served 10 years in a Belgian prison for planning to attack a NATO air base on behalf of al Qaeda was extradited to the United States on Thursday to face similar U.S. charges, the Justice Department said. Nizar Trabelsi, 43, was arrested in Belgium two days after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and was convicted by a Belgian court in 2003 of plotting to blow himself up at the Kleine Brogel base, which housed U.S. soldiers. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tunisian man extradited to US in suicide bomb plot Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 02:40 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A member of al-Qaida who allegedly met with Osama bin Laden in 2001 has been extradited to the United States to face charges that he conspired to carry out a suicide bomb attack against Americans in Europe. Full Story | Top |
| Al-Qaeda fighter extradited to US from Belgium Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 02:27 PM PDT  Washington (AFP) - A former Tunisian professional footballer turned convicted Al-Qaeda fighter was extradited from Belgium to the United States on Thursday to face suicide bombing charges, officials said. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-MLB player Chad Curtis sentenced to 7-15 years Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 02:23 PM PDT  HASTINGS, Mich. (AP) — Former major league outfielder Chad Curtis was sentenced Thursday to seven to 15 years in prison for inappropriately touching teenage girls. Full Story | Top |
| Deliberations begin in trial of Arizona convict Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 12:59 PM PDT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Deliberations began Thursday in the capital murder trial of an Arizona convict who authorities say escaped from prison and killed an Oklahoma couple, leaving their charred remains along with their burned-out travel trailer on a remote New Mexico ranch. Full Story | Top |
| Soccer-Dinamo Zagreb fans arrested in Sofia after violence Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 12:14 PM PDT SOFIA, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Bulgarian police detained 45 fans of Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb for acts of violence before their team's Europa League match against Bulgarian champions Ludogorets on Thursday. Police said in a statement that another 40 fans, who were not allowed to buy match tickets amid fears of hooliganism, have been sent home. The Bulgarian authorities were warned this week by European soccer's governing body UEFA that hundreds of violent Dinamo fans, known as "Blue Bad Boys", were planning to travel to Sofia. ... Full Story | Top |
| Biker injured in NY recently arrested in Mass. Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 11:35 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A motorcycle rider seriously injured when an SUV ran him over after a New York City highway altercation was recently arrested in Massachusetts for driving with a revoked license. Full Story | Top |
| Florida high-schooler takes plea deal in sex crime case Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 09:41 AM PDT By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A Florida high-school student charged in February with a felony sex crime over her affair with a younger girl accepted a plea deal on Thursday to avoid becoming a registered sex offender. The case against Kaitlyn Hunt drew national attention after supporters accused authorities of picking on her because of her sexual orientation. Indian River County prosecutor Bruce Colton said Hunt was charged like any other adult for having sex with a child. Hunt was 18 at the time of her affair with a 14-year-old schoolmate, whose parents called the police. ... Full Story | Top |
| Top Indonesia judge arrested on suspicion of graft Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 07:51 AM PDT  The top judge on Indonesia's Constitutional Court has been arrested on suspicion of taking bribes in the country's latest high-profile graft scandal, an official said Thursday. Chief Justice Akil Mochtar ... Full Story | Top |
| Indonesia president under pressure as top judge arrested for graft Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 04:01 AM PDT  JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's anti-corruption agency has arrested the chief justice and head of the Constitutional Court, the latest in a string of scandals coming to light in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's attempts to crack down on graft. But critics accuse him of doing little to back the underfunded agency and crack down on government white-collar crime in one of the world's most corrupt countries. ... Full Story | Top |
| Pakistan, with thousands on death row, rules against death penalty Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 03:01 AM PDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has scrapped plans to reinstate the death penalty, the government said on Thursday, following threats by Taliban militants to step up attacks in retaliation. A 2008 moratorium on capital punishment imposed by Pakistan's previous government expired on June 30 and the country had been due to execute two jailed militants in August - a plan described by the Pakistani Taliban as an act of war. ... Full Story | Top |
| Mizuho replaces compliance officer after crime loans reprimand Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 12:45 AM PDT  TOKYO (Reuters) - Mizuho Financial Group said on Thursday it had replaced its chief compliance officer almost a week after Japan's banking regulator reprimanded it over loans extended through consumer credit agencies to members of organized crime networks. Japan's second-largest lender has also come under fierce public criticism over the loans scandal. A Mizuho spokeswoman said that Masakane Koike, managing director in charge of risk management and compliance at Mizuho Bank, was relieved of the compliance role on Monday. ... Full Story | Top |
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