Thursday, June 27, 2013

Daily News: Crime and Trials News Headlines - Friend: Trayvon Martin encounter racially charged

Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 12:35 PM PDT

Friend: Trayvon Martin encounter racially charged 
Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 12:35 PM PDT
Rachel Jeantel, the witness that was on the phone with Trayvon Martin just before he died, gives her testimony to the prosecution during George Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Jacob Langston, Pool)SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman's defense attorney insisted during several testy exchanges with a key prosecution witness Thursday that Trayvon Martin injected race into their confrontation and insinuated the young woman was not believable because of inconsistencies in her story.
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Ex-Ark. treasurer pleads not guilty to charges 
Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 09:42 AM PDT
Former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner walks from the Little Rock, Ark., Federal Courthouse Thursday, June 27, 2013, after she pleaded not guilty to charges she steered state investments to a bond broker who paid her $36,000 in cash. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)3LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges she steered state investments to a bond broker for $36,000.
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Former Ark. treasurer pleads not guilty to charges 
Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 09:24 AM PDT
Former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges she steered state investments to a bond broker for $36,000. U.S. Magistrate Judge Joe Volpe set Shoffner's jury trial to ...
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Turkish terrorist suspect arrested in Vienna 
Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 08:45 AM PDT
VIENNA (AP) — Austrian and German authorities say a suspected member of a Turkish terrorist group has been detained in Vienna.
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'Whitey' Bulger jury to hear from former Boston FBI supervisor 
Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 07:33 AM PDT
Booking mug handout of former mob boss and fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger, who was arrested in Santa MonicaBy Daniel Lovering BOSTON (Reuters) - A former FBI official whose first meeting with James "Whitey" Bulger came when he invited the reputed mob boss to his home for dinner could shed light on Thursday on the corrupt relationship the bureau developed with the gangster. Defense attorney Henry Brennan began Thursday's proceedings, continuing his cross-examination of John Marra, a Justice Department agent who had probed the Boston FBI's relationship with Bulger. ...
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Martin friend resumes testimony at Zimmerman trial 
Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 06:33 AM PDT
Rachel Jeantel, the witness that was on the phone with Trayvon Martin just before he died, gives her testimony to the prosecution during George Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Jacob Langston, Pool)SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman's defense attorney on Thursday questioned a friend of Trayvon Martin about why she had given differing accounts about her last phone conversation with the 17-year-old in the moments before he was fatally shot by the neighborhood watch volunteer.
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Prominent militant arrested in blow to Somali Islamists 
Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 01:06 AM PDT
(Blank Headline Received)By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - One of Somalia's most prominent Islamist rebel commanders has been arrested and is in the hands of a regional administration, local and government officials said on Wednesday, dealing a blow to the country's al Shabaab insurgents. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys was detained in a coastal area of central Somalia and had been taken to a safe-house in the town of Adado, said a spokesman for the Somali Federal Government. Aweys was "linked to terrorism" by the United States shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington and is on a U.N. ...
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2 Ga. men sentenced in anti-gay hate crime 
Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 04:58 PM PDT
ATLANTA (AP) — Two men have been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for their involvement in a hate crime against a gay man in Atlanta.
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