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| British convict says he met Osama bin Laden '20 to 50 times' Monday, Mar 10, 2014 08:21 PM PDT  A British terror convict has told a New York trial he met Osama bin Laden up to 50 times and was recruited by Al-Qaeda to blow up a passenger jet. Saajid Badat was sentenced in 2005 to 13 years in jail as a co-conspirator in the notorious shoe bombing plot in December 2001, a time of worldwide concern over air travel after the September 11 attacks in the United States. Badat is the second US government witness to appear at the trial of Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of bin Laden and former Al-Qaeda spokesman, who is on trial in Manhattan for conspiracy to kill Americans, conspiracy to provide support and providing material support to terrorists. "The storm shall not lessen especially the storm of the airplanes," Abu Ghaith shouted in one of the propaganda clips. Full Story | Top |
| Family friend arrested in Colorado triple homicide Monday, Mar 10, 2014 06:44 PM PDT  CANON CITY, Colo. (AP) — A mother and her two young children were killed and a 31-year-old family friend was arrested on suspicion of murder after the woman's teenage daughter fled a Colorado home Sunday night and alerted a neighbor, who called police. Full Story | Top |
| Roommate arrested in case of severed head found under Hollywood sign Monday, Mar 10, 2014 06:06 PM PDT Police have arrested a man in Texas suspected of killing his roommate, a former Mexicana airlines employee, whose severed head was found underneath the famed Hollywood sign overlooking Los Angeles in 2012, officials said on Monday. The suspect, 38-year-old Gabriel Campos-Martinez, was arrested on Sunday and is accused of murdering 66-year-old Hervey Coronado Medellin of Los Angeles and dumping parts of his dismembered body in Griffith Park near the Hollywood sign. Prosecutors said the suspect was the roommate of the slain man, who a coroner's report said died of asphyxiation. In January 2012, a mother and daughter walking dogs in the popular hiking area spotted Medellin's head in a plastic bag and reported it to park rangers. Full Story | Top |
| Lil Boosie: Prison term of the 1,000 songs Monday, Mar 10, 2014 04:39 PM PDT  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rapper Lil Boosie says serving time in a Louisiana prison on drug charges was life changing, has made him a better person and ultimately, he hopes, a better artist. Full Story | Top |
| Politics at play in U.S. Army general's sex crimes trial -judge Monday, Mar 10, 2014 03:37 PM PDT  By Colleen Jenkins FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (Reuters) - A military judge found on Monday that politics had been unlawfully injected into the rare court-martial of a U.S. Army general but refused to dismiss the sexual assault charges against him. The judge said he would allow Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair to renew an offer to plead guilty to some lesser charges in exchange for the most serious allegations of coercive sex acts being dropped. Military leaders at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, rejected a previous such proposal by the one-star general after giving improper consideration to a letter from the main accuser's lawyer that invoked politics while urging them to deny the offer, Colonel James Pohl ruled. Debate about the role that influences outside the military chain of command played in Sinclair's prosecution halted the day's scheduled testimony and could result in an indefinite delay in the trial. Full Story | Top |
| Man arrested in case of severed head found under Hollywood sign Monday, Mar 10, 2014 02:54 PM PDT Police have arrested a man suspected of killing a former Mexicana airlines employee whose severed head was found underneath the famed Hollywood sign overlooking Los Angeles in 2012, officials said on Monday. The suspect, 38-year-old Gabriel Campos Martinez, was arrested in Texas on Sunday and is accused of murdering 66-year-old Hervey Coronado Medellin of Los Angeles and dumping parts of his dismembered body in Griffith Park near the Hollywood sign. In January 2012, a mother and daughter walking dogs in the popular hiking area spotted Medellin's head in a plastic bag and reported it to park rangers. Los Angeles police, in announcing the arrest on a warrant in the homicide case, gave scant details other than to say Martinez was being held without bail pending extradition proceedings in San Antonio, Texas. Full Story | Top |
| Man arrested, charged with murder in triple killing at Ohio bar Monday, Mar 10, 2014 11:28 AM PDT By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A man suspected of shooting three men to death at an Ohio bar, including an off-duty police officer, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder, authorities said on Monday. Igmidio Mista, 33, is accused of opening fire early Sunday at the Last Call Bar in Fremont, Ohio, 40 miles south of Toledo, police said. Mista was taken into custody without incident Monday morning, Fremont Police Chief Tim Wiersma said in a statement. He was charged with killing bartender, Ramiro Sanchez, 28, bar patron, Daniel Ramirez, 25, and Jose Andy Chavez, 26, an off-duty police officer from nearby Elmore, Ohio, Fremont police spokesman Roger Oddo said. Full Story | Top |
| Owner arrested over Lincoln dog attack Monday, Mar 10, 2014 04:58 AM PDT  London (AFP) - The owner of a dog that mauled a woman in Lincoln and left her with serious head injuries has been arrested, police said on Monday. Full Story | Top |
| Israeli Arab sentenced to 25 years for Tel Aviv bus bomb Monday, Mar 10, 2014 03:24 AM PDT An Israeli court on Monday sentenced an Israeli Arab to 25 years in prison for planting a bomb that wounded 15 people on a bus in Tel Aviv in 2012, the Justice Ministry said. Mohammed Mafarja, 19, pleaded guilty in December to charges that included attempted murder. He was accused of working on behalf of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip. The bomb was detonated as the bus was passing near the Defence Ministry building in Tel Aviv on November 21, 2012, the last day of an eight-day war between Hamas and Israel. Full Story | Top |
| With legal reforms, China wants less interfering in cases, fewer death penalty crimes Monday, Mar 10, 2014 01:45 AM PDT By Sui-Lee Wee and Li Hui BEIJING (Reuters) - China has curtailed the power of the ruling Communist Party's Political and Legal Committee, a secretive body overseeing the security services, to interfere in most legal cases, scholars with knowledge of the situation said - a significant reform at a time of public discontent over miscarriages of justice. Part of a package of legal reforms, the move signals a willingness by Xi's government to reform its court system as long as it doesn't threaten the party's overall control. In his first work report to parliament on Monday, China's top judge, Zhou Qiang, said his courts must improve their ability to exercise judicial power independently, admitting to miscarriages of justice and abuse of power by some officers. He said his courts will severely punish crimes that endanger national security, including terrorism, step up their efforts to punish corruption, and "actively and steadily push forward the reform of the judiciary." NO CONFERRING Chen Guangzhong, who took part in discussions with officials on reforming the criminal law system after the 18th Party Congress in November 2012, said he has seen an internal document saying "there can be no coordination allowed on cases". Full Story | Top |
| Rights group accuses Syria government of war crime Monday, Mar 10, 2014 01:42 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — The international rights group Amnesty International is accusing the Syrian government of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by blockading and starving civilians in the southern Damascus neighborhood of Yarmouk. Full Story | Top |
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