| | |
| Colorado hockey goalie Varlamov arrested for suspected domestic violence Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 09:16 PM PDT  By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado Avalanche goaltender Semyon Varlamov has been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, Denver police said on Wednesday. The Russian-born Varlamov, who has led the team to first place in the National Hockey League's Central Division this season, turned himself into police after an arrest warrant was issued for second-degree kidnapping and third-degree assault, Denver police spokesman Sergeant Steve Warneke said. Warneke said the incident happened on Tuesday, and he did not know if the alleged victim was a wife, girlfriend or someone else. Varlamov, 25, is being held in the Denver County jail. Full Story | Top |
| Avalanche's Varlamov arrested in domestic case Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 09:20 PM PDT  DENVER (AP) — Colorado Avalanche goalie Semyon Varlamov surrendered to Denver police on an arrest warrant on charges of kidnapping and third-degree assault in what authorities are calling a domestic violence incident. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. food group faces legal trouble in fight over GMO labeling Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 07:44 PM PDT A lobbying group for major U.S. food manufacturers continues to run afoul of campaign finance laws in the way that it has contributed funds to block a measure that would require labeling of genetically modified foods in Washington state, according to a statement issued Wednesday by the state's attorney general. State Attorney General Bob Ferguson said he will amend a lawsuit filed October 16 to raise the total amount he alleges the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) illegally concealed to $11 million, from the $7.2 million in the original complaint. GMA represents some of the world's largest food and beverage companies and is lobbying heavily against the measure known as I-522 that is set for a public vote in Washington state on November 5. GMA is the largest contributor to the "No on 522" campaign. Full Story | Top |
| Egyptian students protest after Brotherhood leader arrested Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 02:14 PM PDT By Hadeel Al Shalchi CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police fired teargas at protesting students at Cairo's al-Azhar university on Wednesday hours after authorities announced the detention of Muslim Brotherhood leader Essam El-Erian, part of a crackdown against the Islamist movement. Erian, deputy leader of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party, was taken into custody from a residence in New Cairo, a suburb on the outskirts of the capital, where he had been in hiding, an interior ministry source told Reuters. Down, down with the lord of the army," one protester scribbled, referring to army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July. If you see anyone just arrest them right away." Over 20 students were arrested, according to two security sources. Full Story | Top |
| UK prosecutor: 3 staffers at defunct Murdoch tabloid plead guilty to hacking phones Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 08:18 AM PDT UK prosecutor: 3 staffers at defunct Murdoch tabloid plead guilty to hacking phones. Full Story | Top |
| Senior Muslim Brotherhood leader arrested in Egypt Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 07:49 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces arrested a key Muslim Brotherhood figure in a raid early Wednesday morning, a man on the run since the July coup that toppled the country's Islamist president, the Interior Ministry said. Full Story | Top |
| Google Glass Fans Freak Out Because Driving with Google Glass Is a Crime Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 07:41 AM PDT  Cecilia Abadie is a Glass Explorer, one of the fancy select humans picked by Google to try out Google Glass before regular, un-fancy humans and tell us all about this marvelous technology. Abadie explored her way into a ticket in California, finding out before regular humans that it is against California law to drive with Google Glass on your face. Abadie posted about her run-in with a cop on Google Glass early Wednesday morning, and you can see from the image on the right that Google Glass, not "ugly glasses," is specifically cited by this tech-savvy cop. According to the ticket, Abadie was cited for "Driving with Monitor visible to Driver (Google Glass)." Full Story | Top |
| The Death Penalty: Still Popular, But Getting Less Popular Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 06:16 AM PDT  Support for the death penalty is at a 40 year low, according to new Gallup poll, which might suggest a momentous opinion shift on the issue, except the majority of Americans still want the state to kill certain criminals. Here's Gallup's graph mapping the history of death penalty support: If those trends continue, then the majority of Americans will oppose the death penalty sometime within the next ten or 15 years. But before you assume that public opinion is about to shift on the death penalty like it has on gay marriage and marijuana legalization, Gallup also has this chart which shows that a plurality of Americans are in favor of executing more criminals, with 44 percent saying that it needs to be imposed more often compared to the 22 percent who say it's imposed too often. Full Story | Top |
| Police say 5 arrested in Tiananmen Gate attack Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 06:15 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — Police announced Wednesday the arrests of five people in connection with this week's suicide car crash in the heart of China's capital, calling it a planned terror attack — Beijing's first in recent history — and identifying the attackers as members of a Muslim minority. Full Story | Top |
| Man found guilty of rape, mutilation that shocked South Africa Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 12:09 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court found a 21-year-old man guilty on Tuesday of the rape, mutilation and murder of a teenager in a case that shocked a nation with one of the world's highest levels of sexual violence. The 17-year-old victim, Anene Booysen, was found at a building site in the town of Bredasdorp, 130 km (80 miles) east of Cape Town, in February with wounds that included a slit from her stomach down to her genitals. Johannes Kana confessed to raping Booysen but denied disembowelling her. Sentencing is expected on Wednesday. ... Full Story | Top |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment