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| Jurors shown stiletto heel in shoe stabbing case Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 04:30 PM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — A blue suede stiletto heel that prosecutors say a Houston woman used to fatally stab her boyfriend at least 25 times in the face and head was shown at her trial Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Two U.S. hackers admit to international cyber crime in New Jersey court Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 04:02 PM PDT  By David Jones NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Two American men said to belong to an international cyber crime ring admitted hacking into accounts at banks, brokerage firms and government agencies in an attempt to steal some $15 million, New Jersey authorities said on Tuesday. The two were part of a scheme to "cash out" bank accounts and pre-paid debit cards opened in the names of others, said U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman in a statement. Robert Dubuc, 40, of Malden, Massachusetts, and Oleg Pidtergerya, 49, of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to commit access device fraud and identity theft before U.S. District Judge Peter Sheridan in Trenton federal court, Fishman said. The cyber crime organization was allegedly led by Oleksiy Sharapka and Leonid Yanovitsky of Kiev, Ukraine, he said. Full Story | Top |
| Man arrested in double slaying, dismemberment case Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 02:39 PM PDT  NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Police say a 30-year-old man accused of killing his mother and sister in their North Las Vegas home started dismembering one of the bodies and tried to clean up the bloody scene. Full Story | Top |
| Iraqi man goes on trial for California death first probed as hate crime Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 02:31 PM PDT By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The trial of an Iraqi-American man got under way in San Diego on Tuesday on charges he beat his wife to death, a 2012 killing first investigated as a possible anti-Muslim hate crime but later said by prosecutors to be the result of domestic violence. Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old stay-at-home mother of five, was found in March 2012 bludgeoned in her home in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon, home to a large Arab-American population, and died of her injuries several days later. Iraqi government officials attended her funeral in Iraq. Police said at the time of Alawadi's slaying that they were considering hate as a motive, but in November arrested Alawadi's husband, Kassim Alhimidi. Full Story | Top |
| Yacht couple accused in welfare fraud is arrested in Florida Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 02:22 PM PDT A Minnesota couple, who went on the run after being accused of claiming welfare benefits while living on a million-dollar yacht, has been arrested in Florida, authorities said on Tuesday. Colin Chisholm III and his wife, Andrea, allegedly received more than $165,000 in food stamps and other public assistance over a seven-year period, a Minnesota prosecutor said. The couple was arrested on arrival in Port Everglades, Florida, according to a statement from the office of Mike Freeman, a prosecutor in Hennepin County, Minnesota. In April 2005, the couple purchased a $1.2 million yacht, The Andrea Aras, shortly after applying for welfare benefits in Minnesota, according to criminal complaints. Full Story | Top |
| FBI searches legislative office of arrested state senator Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 11:40 AM PDT  By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - FBI agents searched a legislative office in California's capital on Tuesday that was used by staff of state Senator Leland Yee, who faces charges of corruption and gun trafficking, a senate official said. Yee, a San Francisco Democrat who was the senate's first Chinese-American member, is the third state senator to face criminal charges this year, the latest in a spate of legal problems that has cost Democrats a precious two-thirds majority in the legislature. The office that was searched is located across the street from the state capitol building and was used by Yee's San Francisco district staff when they were working in Sacramento, a spokesman for senate Democratic leader Darrell Steinberg said. Full Story | Top |
| Apple-Samsung jurors selected Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 08:58 AM PDT  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — With jurors in the patent fight between Apple and Samsung selected, attorneys for the world's leading smartphone makers were expected to make their opening statements in federal court on Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Cameroon education minister arrested for suspected embezzlement Monday, Mar 31, 2014 11:50 PM PDT Cameroon's secondary education minister Louis Bapes Bapes was arrested and remanded in custody on suspected embezzlement of public funds, a court official and state radio in the central African nation said on Monday. Bapes Bapes is the first sitting minister to be arrested under President Paul Biya, 81, one of Africa's longest serving heads of state. Bapes Bapes, who as education minister managed one of the largest ministerial budgets in the country, was taken to the Special Criminal Tribunal in the capital on Monday. Full Story | Top |
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