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| Four Knuckleheads Arrested for Using a Drone to Drop Contraband In a Prison Yard Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 12:51 PM PST WALB News reports that a lieutenant at the Calhoun State prison (obviously) saw the device zipping around the prison's gates and started searching for it. Sheriff Josh Hilton said this was the first time he's seen this type of thing: Full Story | Top |
| New Hope for American Arrested as CIA 'Spy' in Iran? Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 12:35 PM PST  Sister: Nuclear Deal a Good Sign for Former Marine Amir Hekmati, Who 'Confessed' to Espionage in Iran in 2011 Full Story | Top |
| Ohioans accused of abandoning boy plead not guilty Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 11:13 AM PST  HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A southwest Ohio couple accused of abandoning the adopted 9-year-old son they raised from infancy by giving him to child welfare officials pleaded not guilty Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
| Mali's coup leader arrested Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 09:57 AM PST  BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The military strongman who led last year's military coup in Mali was arrested Wednesday and charged with kidnapping, hours after he was forcibly escorted from his home in the capital by soldiers. Full Story | Top |
| Niger cuts off third of mobile phones to stop crime Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 06:44 AM PST  Niger has deactivated a third of its mobile phone connections to curb anonymous phone calls used for criminal activity, the country's telecoms regulator has announced. "From today, non-registered SIM cards can no longer be used," said Almoustapha Boubacar, director-general of the regulator on Tuesday. Unattributed phone numbers represented 1.7 million of the west African country's 5.4 million mobile subscribers, Boubacar said at a press conference, appearing alongside bosses from four of Niger's telecoms providers. Niger's authorities demanded in 2012 that subscribers register with their provider in order to safeguard the security of citizens and the state "against increasing levels of criminal behaviour." Full Story | Top |
| AP NewsBreak: Not guilty verdict in piracy case Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 06:24 AM PST A federal jury Tuesday found a Somali man who acted as a negotiator for pirates aboard a hijacked ship not guilty of piracy, but had not yet reached a verdict on two lesser charges. Ali Mohamed Ali, 51, ... Full Story | Top |
| Arrested Mafia don has 'heart attack', UK court hears Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 05:48 AM PST  An Italian mafia boss who was arrested in Britain after two decades on the run is understood to have suffered a heart attack, the High Court in London heard Wednesday. Domenico Rancadore, 64, is wanted in Italy to serve a seven-year jail term for his role in the Sicilian mafia. He was arrested in London on August 8 and on Wednesday a High Court challenge against a decision to grant him bail was delayed to allow his legal team to find out about his condition. Known in the mafia as "The Professor", Rancadore had been on Rome's list of most dangerous criminals. Full Story | Top |
| Ohio official: Returning adopted child a crime Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 03:48 AM PST HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio couple committed a crime when they recently gave child welfare officials a 9-year-old boy they raised from infancy, a prosecutor says. Full Story | Top |
| Australian found guilty of killing ex-ballerina Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 03:44 AM PST  An Australian man was found guilty Wednesday of throwing his Canadian girlfriend off the balcony of their high-rise Sydney apartment, ending a murder trial which captivated the nation. Simon Gittany was accused of hurling his fiancee, former ballerina Lisa Harnum, from their 15th floor home in a fit of rage in July 2011 after discovering she planned to leave him. But Justice Lucy McCallum, who heard the trial without a jury, said the lack of Harnum's fingerprints on the glass barrier made this scenario implausible. "At many times in his evidence, the accused struck me as being a person playing a role, telling a story which fitted with the objective evidence but which did no more than that," McCallum said, according to Australian Associated Press. Full Story | Top |
| O.J. Simpson denied request for new trial, attorney says Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 09:44 PM PST  Simpson, at a hearing in May before Clark County District Judge Linda Bell, sought a new trial on the grounds that his then-defense attorney Yale Galanter mishandled the 2008 trial. A Pro Football Hall of Fame running back who played for the Buffalo Bills team, Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of two counts of murder in the stabbing and slashing deaths in Los Angeles of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Full Story | Top |
| Suspect in deaths of Kansas mother and children arrested Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 08:55 PM PST By Kevin Murphy Kansas City, Kansas (Reuters) - A suspect in the deaths of a woman and her three children in southeastern Kansas was arrested on Tuesday evening, about nine hours after being spotted at a store in a nearby town, officials said. David Cornell Bennett Jr was arrested at about 9:15 p.m. in connection with the deaths of Cami Umbarger, 29, and her three young children in Parsons, Kansas, which is about 150 miles south of Kansas City, an Independence Police Department official said. Bennett was arrested in Independence, Kansas, about 30 miles west of Parsons and about 10 miles from Cherryvale, where Bennett lives, according to the Kansas attorney general's office. Full Story | Top |
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