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| Good pay, no crime: life is good in Chilean Antarctica Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 09:09 PM PDT  Villa Las Estrellas (Antarctica) (AFP) - There is no crime or traffic and in this Antarctic hamlet paychecks can be much higher than on the Chilean mainland. But residents of Villa Las Estrellas also have to endure winters with howling blizzards and temperatures that plunge to -40 Celsius (-40 Farenheit) in winter, making it painful to even breathe outdoors. "Living here is entertaining compared with the continent," said Jose Carrillan Rosales, principal of the tiny Las Estrellas school. Villa Las Estrellas is located at Fildes Bay on King George Island, located on the northernmost tip of the Antarctic peninsula. Full Story | Top |
| Texas executes serial killer Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 06:51 PM PDT  Texas put to death a serial killer, after the US Supreme Court rejected his last-ditch appeal over the source of lethal injection drugs. The execution of Tommy Sells, who was convicted of murdering a 13-year-old girl in 1999 but who has claimed responsibility for dozens of killings, came after a lower court ordered authorities in Texas to provide more information about the origin of drugs to be used in their lethal injections. Attorneys for Sells had demanded to know the name of the pharmacy supplying Texas with pentobarbital, in order to check the quality of the execution drug and spare their client from unconstitutional pain and suffering. He was the 15th death row inmate to be put to death in the United States this year, and the fifth in Texas alone. Full Story | Top |
| Serial killer executed with Texas' new drug supply Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 06:13 PM PDT  HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A serial killer was put to death Thursday in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers' demand that the state release information about where it gets its lethal injection drug. Full Story | Top |
| Fugitive wanted in New York captured in Jamaica Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 05:02 PM PDT KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaican police say a man indicted for the slaying of his estranged girlfriend in New York has been apprehended on the Caribbean island. Full Story | Top |
| Majority of Americans—Including Republicans—Want Treatment Instead of Prison for Drug Crime Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 03:51 PM PDT The longtime addict, who hails from a poor neighborhood and whose crime was a third-strike nonviolent offense, never received substance abuse treatment until he was sentenced to live out the rest of his days in prison. The so-called war on drugs has included offenders such as Carter for decades, with about 79 percent of the 3,278 inmates currently serving life without parole in federal prisons sentenced to die there for nonviolent drug crimes, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. "What this means is that Americans are really ready to substantially reduce the role of the criminal justice system in dealing with drug policy," said Jag Davies, publications manager of the Drug Policy Alliance, a national reform organization. Nearly two out of three people surveyed—63 percent—say it is a positive development that some states have moved away from mandatory sentences for nonviolent drug offenders. Full Story | Top |
| Timberwolves F Dante Cunningham arrested Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 12:52 PM PDT MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Timberwolves forward Dante Cunningham was arrested early Thursday on allegations of domestic assault and was being held without bail pending charges while his team left for a two-game road trip in Florida. Full Story | Top |
| Texas tycoons hid $550 million in profits offshore, U.S. tells jury Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 12:20 PM PDT  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Texas tycoons Sam and Charles Wyly employed a labyrinthine system of offshore trusts to conceal stock trades in four companies on whose boards they sat, netting themselves more than $550 million in undisclosed profits, a U.S. government lawyer told a federal jury on Thursday. "This is a case about lies, deception and fraud," said Bridget Fitzpatrick, a lawyer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, at the start of a civil trial in New York against Sam Wyly and the estate of his late brother, Charles. The SEC has accused the Wylys of concealing stock trading from 1992 to 2004 in Sterling Software Inc, Michaels Stores Inc, Sterling Commerce Inc, and Scottish Annuity & Life Holdings Ltd through the use of more than a dozen trusts and 40 different entities in the Isle of Man. But Stephen Susman, a defense attorney for the Wylys, told the jury that the brothers relied on an "army of lawyers" to tell them what they were legally required to do and never intended to violate any securities law. Full Story | Top |
| Friend of Judge Judy's son acquitted of rape in NY Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 11:47 AM PDT WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A child rape case that sparked allegations of interference by a district attorney — the son of TV's Judge Judy — has ended with the acquittal of his close friend. Full Story | Top |
| Jamaican music star Vybz Kartel sentenced to life for murder Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 11:20 AM PDT By Horace Helps KINGSTON (Reuters) - A Jamaican judge sentenced an international reggae-dancehall star, Vybz Kartel, to life imprisonment on Thursday after he was found guilty of murder last month. Kartel, 38, who is also known as 'World Boss' had been on trial for the murder of one of his former associates, Clive Williams, popularly known as 'Lizard.' Williams was murdered in August 2011 after a business deal went sour, prosecutors said. Jamaica is known internationally as the birthplace of reggae, with its most famous artist, the legendary Bob Marley considered a national hero. Kartel, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, will not be eligible for parole for 35 years, according to the sentence handed down by Supreme Court Justice Lennox Campbell. Full Story | Top |
| More Brazilian police sentenced to jail for 1992 prison massacre Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 11:15 AM PDT By Caroline Stauffer SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A Brazilian court has sentenced 15 police officers to 48 years in prison each for their roles in the deaths of four inmates in the bloody crackdown of a 1992 prison riot that left 111 people dead. Known as the Carandiru massacre after the now-closed prison where it unfolded, the incident is one of the darkest chapters in Brazil's struggle to improve conditions in overcrowded penitentiaries and to ensure police obey the law. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ex-Berlusconi government official arrested for mafia collusion Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 09:01 AM PDT  By Amalia De Simone and Steve Scherer NAPLES (Reuters) - Italian police arrested a former member of Silvio Berlusconi's government, accusing him of colluding with the mafia to quash competition against his family's petrol distributorship near Naples, officials said on Thursday. Nicola Cosentino, an undersecretary in the Economy Ministry from 2008-2010 and the ex-boss of Berlusconi's party in the region around Naples, was arrested along with 12 others on suspicion of extortion and unfair competitive practices. Seven-time Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti was acquitted of mafia charges but found to have ties to the Sicilian Mafia's top bosses before 1980. Berlusconi himself has been investigated, though never tried, for ties to organized crime. Full Story | Top |
| Galaxy 'Serial Killer' Caught in the Act of a Galactic Gobble (Video, Photos) Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 04:10 AM PDT  One of the brightest sources of radio emission in the sky, the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 shows evidence of its violent past in a composite of images released today (April 2) by the European Southern Observatory. The galaxy is located about 60 million light-years from Earth, according to ESO. You can watch a video flythrough of the galaxy produced by ESO, which described NGC 1316 as a cosmic "serial killer" in an image description. Astronomers created the composite — taken by ESO's La Silla Observatory — to search for insights into the faint features of NGC 1316. Full Story | Top |
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