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| Peregrine Financial's ex-CEO sentenced to 50 years in jail Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 11:09 AM PST  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday sentenced the founder of Peregrine Financial Group to 50 years in prison for looting hundreds of millions of dollars from the brokerage, saying his customers would probably never recover the money they lost. Russell Wasendorf Sr., who had tried to kill himself just before the fraud was uncovered, received the maximum sentence allowed by law and was ordered to pay $215.5 million in restitution for his nearly 20-year scheme. ... Full Story | Top |
| Indiana man to plead guilty to 'sextortion' Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 11:08 AM PST  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) â€" An Indiana man has agreed to plead guilty to charges alleging that he tricked more than a dozen teenagers from several states into stripping or performing sexual acts for him via webcam and then used recordings of those sessions to coerce them into making even more explicit videos. Full Story | Top |
| Founder of Iowa brokerage is sentenced to 50-year prison term for embezzling customer funds Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 10:06 AM PST Founder of Iowa brokerage is sentenced to 50-year prison term for embezzling customer funds. Full Story | Top |
| Fla. man arrested after pocket-dialing 911 Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 05:27 AM PST ORANGE CITY, Fla. (AP) â€" Authorities say a Florida tow truck driver landed in jail after his cell phone pocket-dialed 911 and dispatchers listened in on a conversation about the sale of drugs. Full Story | Top |
| Randy Travis to enter drunken driving plea Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 04:40 AM PST  SHERMAN, Texas (AP) â€" Country music star Randy Travis is scheduled to appear in a North Texas court, where prosecutors say he is expected to plead guilty to driving while intoxicated. Full Story | Top |
| Behind serial killer cases, Canada's "forsaken" women Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 04:24 AM PST  (Reuters) - Sarah de Vries started running away when she was 13, in 1983. She lived in cheap apartments and grim hotels in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia - places that would let a teenager turn tricks. Later, she got hooked on heroin. Sarah's big sister, Maggie, remembers a bubbly, adorable baby. But life was not always easy. Of mixed race, with some black and aboriginal ancestry, Sarah was targeted by racist bullies, and sometimes felt disconnected from her white adoptive family. ... Full Story | Top |
| SKorea chaebol chief sentenced to 4 years prison Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 02:32 AM PST  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) â€" A South Korean court sentenced the chairman of the country's third-biggest conglomerate to four years in prison on Thursday for embezzling millions of dollars of company money for personal investments. Full Story | Top |
| Crime and Punishment Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 02:18 AM PST I spent two days with the U.S. Border Patrol in 1994 for a series of stories on California’s immigration problems. Much time has passed, but I’m sure the fundamentals of what I saw remain true. Full Story | Top |
| Owners of Bangladesh factory where 7 died arrested Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 12:55 AM PST Two owners of a Bangladesh garment factory where seven workers were killed in a weekend fire were arrested Thursday as police investigated allegations of murder and negligence.Police were questioning Smart ... Full Story | Top |
| Cameroon leader sees minds changing on "crime" of homosexuality Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 09:33 PM PST  PARIS (Reuters) - Cameroon's President Paul Biya said on Wednesday that attitudes were changing in his country towards its criminalisation of homosexuality, which has been criticised by the European Union. Speaking to journalists after meeting with French President Francois Hollande in Paris, Biya stressed that homosexuality had been illegal in Cameroon since before he came to power more than 30 years ago. "Now I can say that discussions are under way. People are talking, minds can change one way or another but currently it's a crime," he said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Seahawks' Hill arrested on felony domestic violence charges Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 05:53 PM PST SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seattle Seahawks linebacker Leroy Hill has been arrested on charges he assaulted his girlfriend repeatedly while holding her captive for about six hours at his home outside Seattle, police said on Wednesday. Hill, 30, an eight-year veteran of Seattle's National Football League team, faces charges of third-degree assault and unlawful imprisonment a day after the alleged assault, said Scott Behrbaum, a spokesman for the Issaquah police department. The charges are both felonies, according to Washington state statutes. ... Full Story | Top |
| Prosecutor to jurors: Teen predisposed to terror Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 04:11 PM PST PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) â€" The terrorism trial of an Oregon man has gone to the jury. Full Story | Top |
| Florida teenager's killer seeks to delay trial Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 03:47 PM PST  ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - George Zimmerman will seek to delay the start of his trial in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin to allow him more time to raise money for his defense, his attorney said on Wednesday. Mark O'Mara, Zimmerman's lead defense attorney, said he planned to file a motion to request the trial, which is scheduled to start in June, be delayed by six months, arguing he needs more time and money to investigate the claims against his client. "I think that we still need another $200,000 to $300,000," he told Reuters. ... Full Story | Top |
| Seattle LB Leroy Hill arrested on assault charges Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 02:17 PM PST ISSAQUAH, Wash. (AP) â€" Seattle Seahawks linebacker Leroy Hill was arrested after police say he assaulted his girlfriend and kept her in his home against her will. Full Story | Top |
| Massachusetts chemist pleads not guilty in crime lab scandal Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 01:50 PM PST  BOSTON (Reuters) - A former Massachusetts crime lab chemist accused of falsifying evidence tied to as many as 34,000 cases pleaded not guilty to obstruction of justice charges on Wednesday. Prosecutors allege Annie Dookhan, 35, tampered with drug evidence and faked test results at the Hinton State Laboratory Institute in Boston, where she had worked for nine years analyzing drug samples submitted by law enforcement across the state. ... Full Story | Top |
| Russia scraps anti-crime deal with the US Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 01:48 PM PST  MOSCOW (AP) â€" Russia pulled out of an anti-crime accord with the United States on Wednesday in a move the U.S. called "self-defeating," the latest sign of rising tensions between Moscow and Washington. Full Story | Top |
| Death penalty prosecutor joins Holmes case Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 01:21 PM PST CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) â€" A former Colorado Springs prosecutor who has tried four death penalty cases and several murder cases will lead the prosecution against the suspect in the Colorado theater shooting case. Full Story | Top |
| Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey to join The Muppets in crime comedy caper Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 01:09 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Muppets are planning to dominate the big screen again with a 1960s-style comedy caper starring Ricky Gervais and Tina Fey, director James Bobin said on Wednesday. "The Muppets ... Again!" will follow the Muppets cast - including Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy - as they take their show on a world tour only to be unwittingly ensnared in an international theft scheme perpetrated by villain Constantine, who looks identical to Kermit. Gervais plays the sidekick to villain Constantine, while Fey takes on the role of prison guard Nadya. ... Full Story | Top |
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