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| Singer James DeBarge, ex-husband to Janet Jackson, arrested for drug possession Friday, Apr 25, 2014 06:05 PM PDT R&B singer James DeBarge, who was briefly married to Janet Jackson in the 1980s, was arrested for drug possession in Los Angeles, police said on Friday. Police took DeBarge, 50, into custody on Thursday on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine, said Los Angeles police spokeswoman Officer Norma Eisenman. Eisenman could release no further details on his arrest, but DeBarge was listed as being held with no bail at a Los Angeles Police Department jail. In 2011, DeBarge was convicted in Los Angeles County of possession of a controlled substance, according to the local District Attorney's Office. Full Story | Top |
| Teen arrested in beating of 87-year-old woman Friday, Apr 25, 2014 04:57 PM PDT HEMET, Calif. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy charged with brutally beating an 87-year-old woman at a senior housing facility was arrested following a dayslong search in California, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| Second dead Dutch bishop found guilty of sex abuse of minors Friday, Apr 25, 2014 11:08 AM PDT * Archdiocese says abuse commission confirmed complaints * Amsterdam newspaper uncovered story * Few bishops have been named as abusers themselves By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS (Reuters) - The Dutch Catholic Church, in the second such embarrassing admission this month, announced on Friday that a bishop who died in 2000 had been found guilty of sexually abusing boys decades ago. Utrecht archdiocese, where Johannes Nienhaus was auxiliary bishop from 1982 to 1999, said a commission investigating the scandals that have shaken the Catholic Church in many countries in the past decade had confirmed four complaints against him. Earlier this month, Roermond diocese said its late bishop Johannes Gijsen had sexually abused two boys, also decades ago. The Utrecht announcement came two days before the late Pope John Paul II, whom critics accuse of failing to investigate the clerical sex abuse scandal as evidence of it piled up in the later years of his pontificate, is to be declared a saint. Full Story | Top |
| Cops capture fugitive Lesotho 'cannibal' Friday, Apr 25, 2014 10:52 AM PDT  South African police have captured a 27-year-old prison escapee from Lesotho who has confessed to multiple murders and cannibalism, after a two year cross-border manhunt involving Interpol. Makhele Scott admitted to killing and eating two people in Lesotho in 2012, but escaped from Maseru Central Prison while awaiting trial. Earlier this month agents from Lesotho, South Africa and Interpol tracked Scott to a church outside Durban, South Africa, where he was living and playing in the church band. Full Story | Top |
| New Jersey lawmakers subpoenaed on bridge probe Friday, Apr 25, 2014 10:50 AM PDT TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey lawmakers investigating the traffic jams at the heart of the scandal engulfing Gov. Chris Christie said Friday that federal prosecutors have ordered them to share documents they have gathered. Full Story | Top |
| Driver arrested after school bus crash in China Friday, Apr 25, 2014 07:07 AM PDT BEIJING (AP) — The driver of a school bus that overturned, killing eight children and injuring 32 others, has been arrested for allegedly causing the casualties, state media reported Friday. Full Story | Top |
| NATO protesters to be sentenced in Chicago Friday, Apr 25, 2014 04:54 AM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — A judge will decide whether to heed the prosecutors' request that three protesters accused of plotting Molotov cocktail attacks at a 2012 NATO summit in Chicago serve more than a decade in prison. Full Story | Top |
| Russia says Kiev will face justice for 'bloody crime' in Ukraine Friday, Apr 25, 2014 04:07 AM PDT  By Gabriela Baczynska and Richard Balmforth MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Russia warned Kiev on Friday that it would face justice for a "bloody crime" in eastern Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces killed up to five pro-Russian rebels a day earlier, while Washington said Moscow was running out of time to defuse the crisis before facing further sanctions. "They (Kiev) are waging a war on their own people. This is a bloody crime, and those who pushed the army to do that will pay, I am sure, and will face justice," Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, told a meeting of diplomats. Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's also provided a reminder of the costs of the dispute to Moscow, as it cut the country's ratings, forcing Russia's central bank to raise its key interest rate to reverse a drop in the ruble. Full Story | Top |
| Passenger Arrested After Causing Hijacking Scare on Flight Friday, Apr 25, 2014 03:50 AM PDT  An apparently drunk passenger aboard a Virgin Australia flight was arrested upon landing in Bali after attempting to enter the plane's cockpit and causing a hijacking scare. First pictures of Virgin Blue plane which was forced to land in Bali http://t.co/BZb8fkqnIC (pic via @husnulwathoni) pic.twitter.com/UscT6cw9IZ — HuffPostUK Pic Desk (@HuffPostUKPics) April 25, 2014 According to the BBC, the pilot sent out a distress signal about an hour before landing, alerting authorities on the ground that a possible hijacking was in progress. The airport went into lockdown and sent out military trucks to meet the plane before concluding that the hijacking threat wasn't real. "This is no hijacking, this is a miscommunication," said Virgin Australia official Heru Sudjatmiko. Full Story | Top |
| Russia's Lavrov: Kiev will face justice for 'bloody crime' in eastern Ukraine Friday, Apr 25, 2014 12:40 AM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday denounced Kiev's security operation in eastern Ukraine as a "bloody crime" and said the interim government would face justice for staging a war against its own citizens. "They (Kiev) are waging a war on their own people. This is a bloody crime and those who pushed the army to do that will pay, I am sure, and will face justice," he told a meeting with young diplomats in Moscow. (Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska and Alexei Anishchuk; Editing by Christian Lowe) Full Story | Top |
| The New Politics of Crime Friday, Apr 25, 2014 12:00 AM PDT This week's announcement that the Justice Department will expand the criteria for offering clemency marks a new, and long overdue, chapter in the politics of crime. I heard one today about a single mother, in prison for 14 years because she was a minor player in a drug conspiracy. Full Story | Top |
| Builder in 'kids for cash' scandal to be sentenced Thursday, Apr 24, 2014 11:10 PM PDT SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A developer at the center of one of the biggest judicial scandals in U.S. history is scheduled to be sentenced in northeastern Pennsylvania. Full Story | Top |
| Dutch man charged with drug dealing via Silk Road Thursday, Apr 24, 2014 10:18 PM PDT CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Dutch man has agreed to plead guilty in Chicago to charges alleging that he sold illegal drugs for millions of dollars in bitcoins through the shuttered website Silk Road. Full Story | Top |
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