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| Greek publisher acquitted in privacy case Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 12:43 PM PDT A magazine publisher has been acquitted of charges that he breached privacy laws by printing a list allegedly naming Greeks with bank accounts in Switzerland. The list has touched off a fierce debate in the nearly bankrupt country after governments failed to use it to check for possible tax evasion by rich depositors. Full Story | Top |
| Calif. death penalty opponents say it's too costly Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 12:39 PM PDT Death penalty opponents in California are trying a new argument this year: Abolish capital punishment because the perpetually cash-strapped state just can't afford it. Full Story | Top |
| Greek editor acquitted in Swiss bank list trial Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 12:24 PM PDT  ATHENS (Reuters) - A journalist who published the names of more than 2,000 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts was acquitted on Thursday of breaking data privacy laws. "The court has ruled that you are innocent," Judge Malia Volika said. The arrest and speedy trial of magazine editor Costas Vaxevanis had aroused international concern and riveted recession-weary Greeks angry at the privileges of the elite. In his defense, Vaxevanis accused politicians of hiding the truth and protecting an "untouchable" wealthy elite. He said the trial was politically motivated, calling it "targeted and vengeful". ... Full Story | Top |
| Mass. man sentenced to 17 years in terror plot Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 11:56 AM PDT  A Massachusetts man was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison in a plot to fly remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives into the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol. Full Story | Top |
| Massachusetts man sentenced to 17 years after FBI terrorism sting Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 10:18 AM PDT  BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts man was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for a plot to attack the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol building in Washington with explosives loaded into remote-control model airplanes. Rezwan Ferdaus, who was arrested in September 2011 and pleaded guilty in July to terrorism-related charges in a deal with prosecutors, told the court he has devoted a lot of time to self-reflection while in jail awaiting sentencing and that he accepted his fate. ... Full Story | Top |
| Court cuts prison term of Khodorkovsky's partner Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 09:43 AM PDT A Russian court has reduced the 13-year prison sentence of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's business partner by three years. Full Story | Top |
| Bahrain activist sentenced for anti-king tweets Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 09:43 AM PDT Bahrain says a civil court has sentenced an online activist to six months in prison on charges of insulting the Gulf nation's king in Twitter posts. Full Story | Top |
| Bahrain activist sentenced for anti-king web posts Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 08:59 AM PDT Bahrain says a civil court has sentenced an online activist to six months in prison on charges of insulting the Gulf nation's king in Twitter posts. Full Story | Top |
| Fugitive Sunni Iraq VP sentenced to death on second charge Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 06:28 AM PDT  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi court sentenced fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi to death for a second time on Thursday on a charge of involvement in a plot to assassinate an interior ministry official, a judicial spokesman said. Hashemi, a Sunni Muslim who fled to Turkey earlier this year when Shi'ite-led Iraqi authorities sought his arrest, was subsequently sentenced to death in absentia on charges of running death squads, which he denies. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ghostbuster Backflips Over Cop, Gets Arrested [VIDEO] Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 03:00 AM PDT NOTE: The language in this video is NSFW. Full Story | Top |
| Child sex convict Sandusky sent to Pennsylvania maximum security prison Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 09:36 PM PDT  HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Former Penn State assistant football coach and convicted child sexual predator Jerry Sandusky will spend the rest of his days in a maximum security prison in the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, the state corrections system decided on Wednesday. Sandusky, 68, who was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison this month for sexually abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period, was transferred to the State Correctional Institution at Greene County, near Pittsburgh, where he was put in protective custody. ... Full Story | Top |
| Top former Dominican anti-drug official arrested on drug charges Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 05:46 PM PDT SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) - - Authorities in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday arrested a former police colonel accused of being a "powerful drug trafficker" responsible for sending tons of cocaine to the United States. Francisco Hiraldo Guerrero, chief operating officer of the country's main counter-drug agency, the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD), between 2006-2008, would be extradited to the United States where he faces four counts of drug trafficking in the Southern District of New York, the government said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Green Party presidential hopeful arrested in pipeline protest Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 05:36 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was arrested in Texas on Wednesday for criminal trespass when she tried to bring food and other supplies to protesters opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline, a local official said. Ty Oaks, a corrections officer at the Wood County jail, said Stein, 62, was released after she promised to return to appear in court on the trespass charge. Oaks did not know when Stein's court date would be. Calls to the Green Party, an environment-oriented left-leaning party, requesting comment on Stein's arrest were not immediately returned. ... Full Story | Top |
| Silicon Valley exporter sentenced to prison Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 01:06 PM PDT A Silicon Valley electronics exporter was sentenced to a little more than a year in prison for selling sensitive technology to China without a license. Full Story | Top |
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