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| Justin Bieber pleads not guilty in DUI arrest Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 04:12 PM PST  MIAMI (AP) — Justin Bieber pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of DUI, resisting arrest and driving with an expired license in Florida as new police reports surfaces showing his alcohol breath tests were under the legal limit, even for an underage driver. Full Story | Top |
| Wisconsin man sentenced for starving, imprisoning daughter Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 03:56 PM PST By Brendan O'Brien MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A Wisconsin man was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison for imprisoning his teenage daughter in a basement for six years and forcing her to eat her own excrement, a local prosecutor said. Chad Chritton, 42, was also sentenced in Dane County Circuit Court to an additional five years of extended supervision after a jury found him guilty in November of four felonies, including child abuse and neglecting a child, according to district attorney Ismael Ozanne. His wife Melinda Drabek-Chritton, 44, was sentenced to five years in prison in July on similar charges. Prosecutors had accused the Madison couple of holding the girl in the basement of their home for about six years. Full Story | Top |
| Oregon crime suspect shoots himself in the groin Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 03:34 PM PST PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police in Portland, Ore., say a man suspected of shooting a neighbor shot himself in the groin while trying to leave the scene of the crime. Full Story | Top |
| Convicted NJ airline groper sentenced to 8 years Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 02:46 PM PST NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who sexually abused a sleeping woman on a cross-country flight was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison. Full Story | Top |
| Death penalty decision imminent in Boston bombing Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 02:16 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — As attorney general, Eric Holder has approved pursuing the death penalty in at least 34 criminal cases, upholding a long-ago pledge to Congress that he would vigorously enforce federal law even though he's not a proponent of capital punishment. Full Story | Top |
| Death penalty decision looms for Boston bomb suspect Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 02:15 PM PST  By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department will decide this week whether to seek the death penalty for suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of setting off two pressure-cooker bombs at the finish line of the world-renowned race. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that he would announce his decision before a Friday deadline set by a U.S. District Court Judge in Boston. The case has been seen as an important test for the Justice Department, which has vowed to prosecute acts of terrorism to the fullest extent of the law, but would be doing so in a state that has abolished the death penalty. "I would say it is a complicated decision," said Austin Sarat, Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Full Story | Top |
| Convicted US airline groper sentenced to 8 years Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 01:40 PM PST NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — A Turkish-born man convicted of sexually abusing a sleeping woman on a flight has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison. Full Story | Top |
| UConn chief expects fine for crime reporting Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 12:49 PM PST STORRS, Conn. (AP) — The University of Connecticut likely faces a fine from the federal Department of Education over its past crime reporting practices, its police chief told its board of trustees Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
| Detroit man sentenced to prison in dismemberment Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 12:14 PM PST DETROIT (AP) — A 73-year-old Detroit man has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison in the dismemberment of a still-unidentified woman whose remains were found in his bathtub. Full Story | Top |
| Swedish crime novelist Mankell says he has cancer Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 11:44 AM PST  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Henning Mankell, one of the world's top-selling crime writers in recent years, says he has cancer. Full Story | Top |
| Jurors gets rerun of freeway shooter's testimony Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 10:01 AM PST  HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — Jurors deciding the case of a man who shot at nearly two-dozen vehicles along a Michigan highway corridor have listened to his testimony again. Full Story | Top |
| 6th suspect arrested in Czech murder case Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 07:42 AM PST JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa police say they've arrested a 6th suspect in connection with a case involving Czech national Radovan Krejcir who is facing charges of attempted murder, assault and kidnapping. Full Story | Top |
| Wisconsin dad who starved daughter to be sentenced Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 05:36 AM PST MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A father convicted of locking his teenage daughter in the basement of their Wisconsin home and starving her faces sentencing. Full Story | Top |
| Fugitive Iraq VP warns Anbar conflict may spread over crackdown on Sunnis Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 04:15 AM PST By Amena Bakr DOHA (Reuters) - Iraq's fugitive vice president warned that an armed stand-off in Anbar province could spread to other parts of the country as Sunni Muslim opposition to Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki grows. Stirred by a bloody raid to arrest a Sunni politician in the Anbar city of Ramadi, fighters of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and tribal allies took over Falluja and parts of nearby Ramadi three weeks ago at a time of rising Sunni anger with the Shi'ite-led government. Tarek al-Hashemi, a Sunni sentenced to death in 2012 after an Iraqi court convicted him of running death squads while vice president, something he denies, has accused Maliki of pursuing a political witch-hunt against his Sunni opponents. "I'm not optimistic about the future... I think this spark in Anbar will spread to other provinces," Hashemi told Reuters in an interview this week in his Doha office guarded by Qatari security men. Full Story | Top |
| China decor magnate arrested for suspected bribery Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 09:17 PM PST A billionaire who Chinese media say is linked to the downfall of the former mayor of Nanjing has been arrested on suspicion of corruption, the company he founded, Suzhou Gold Mantis Construction Decoration Co Ltd, said. The family of Zhu Xingliang, who ranked no.55 on the 2013 Forbes China Rich List with a fortune worth $2.04 billion, informed Gold Mantis of his arrest, the firm said in a statement to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange posted on Tuesday. "The company received notification from family on January 27 that Director and the person in actual control (of the firm) Mr. Zhu Xingliang was arrested on suspicion of bribery with the approval of the prosecutor," the company filing said. The arrest comes as China's President Xi Jinping makes the fight against endemic corruption a central theme of his administration. Full Story | Top |
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