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| Boston bombing suspect pleads not guilty Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 12:49 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — His arm in a cast, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges Wednesday in his first courtroom appearance since his capture at the end of a chaotic week in April. Full Story | Top |
| Chinese researcher accused of stealing Wisconsin research drug pleads guilty to reduced charge Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 12:48 PM PDT MILWAUKEE (AP) — Chinese researcher accused of stealing Wisconsin research drug pleads guilty to reduced charge. Full Story | Top |
| Boston Marathon bombing suspect pleads not guilty Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 12:47 PM PDT BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) has pleaded not guilty to 30 counts including use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill. Full Story | Top |
| Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Pleads Not Guilty Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 12:47 PM PDT  Alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev officially plead not guilty to using a weapon of mass destruction and the 29 other counts during a short, pre-trial hearing on Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
| ADL Deeply Concerned About Alleged Hate Crime Against African American Family In Lilesville, North Carolina Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 12:46 PM PDT WASHINGTON, July 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed deep concern over recent reports of a cross burning incident which took place in Lilesville, North Carolina on July 6, 2013.According to news reports, police were called to a residence in Lilesville at 4:30 a.m., where officers found a cross burning in an African American family's yard. Four Caucasian individuals have been arrested and charged in connection with what police have deemed as a hate crime due to the crime's racially motivated nature. ... Full Story | Top |
| Accused Boston Marathon bomber pleads not guilty to all charges Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 12:42 PM PDT  BOSTON (Reuters) - Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to setting off a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs along with his brother at the race's crowded finish on April 15. The bombing attack killed three people and injured about 264. Tsarnaev and his older brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, are also accused of killing a fourth person, a campus police officer, three days later when they prepared to flee Boston. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in an overnight gunbattle with police after killing the officer. (Reporting by Scott Malone) Full Story | Top |
| Defense rests in WikiLeaks trial, Manning doesn't testify Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 12:29 PM PDT  By Ian Simpson FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The defense rested its case on Wednesday in the court martial of U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning, accused of passing secrets to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Manning, 25, who is charged with leaking more than 700,000 classified files, combat videos and State Department cables to WikiLeaks, told Judge Colonel Denise Lind that he did not want to testify on his own behalf. "The defense rests, your honor," defense attorney David Coombs told the court. ... Full Story | Top |
| Defense rests in U.S. WikiLeaks court-martial Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 12:01 PM PDT  FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The defense rested on Wednesday in the court-martial of U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning on charges of leaking more than 700,000 classified files, videos and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks. "The defense rests, your honor," defense attorney David Coombs told the court. (Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Paul Thomasch) Full Story | Top |
| Suspected Colombian drug kingpin pleads not guilty in U.S. court Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 12:00 PM PDT  By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alleged Colombian drug kingpin Daniel Barrera made his first appearance in a U.S. court on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. Prosecutors accuse Barrera, 44, of manufacturing upwards of 400 tons of cocaine annually in Colombia and trafficking it worldwide. He conspired with others to distribute cocaine "knowing and intending" that some would be imported into the United States, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jenna Dabbs said at the hearing in Manhattan federal court. ... Full Story | Top |
| Colombian drug suspect pleads not guilty in NY Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 11:53 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A Colombian who authorities say is known as "El Loco" and has a penchant for plastic surgery pleaded not guilty Wednesday to U.S. charges that he led a drug organization that produced hundreds of tons of cocaine annually and funneled revenue to rebel forces. Full Story | Top |
| Va. lawyer sentenced in $100M SBA loan scheme Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 07:50 AM PDT A Virginia lawyer has been sentenced to more than 4 years in prison for plotting to get more than $100 million in fraudulent loans from the Small Business Administration. Forty-four-year-old old Seung ... Full Story | Top |
| Apple found guilty of price-fixing e-books: What now? Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 05:01 AM PDT  Chalk up another win for AmazonOn Wednesday, a U.S. judge in New York found Apple guilty of illegally conspiring with five major publishers to drive up e-book prices in concert with the launch of the iPad and Apple Book Store in 2010.Judge Denise Cote wrote in her decision, "Apple played a central role in facilitating and executing that conspiracy."But while "illegal" and "conspiracy" aren't words we normally like to associate with our favorite companies, the odd circumstances surrounding Apple's plan may make this one one of the most sympathetic price-rigging schemes in history. ... Full Story | Top |
| Mass. woman acquitted in son's hibachi grill death Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 04:53 AM PDT DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman charged with killing her 8-year-old son by lighting a hibachi-style charcoal grill inside a bedroom in their apartment and then barricading the door has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. Full Story | Top |
| Man arrested after crashing car into U.S. embassy in Australia Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 04:43 AM PDT CANBERRA (Reuters) - A man was arrested on Wednesday after crashing his vehicle into the gates of the U.S. embassy in Australia's capital of Canberra, police said. Emergency services, including a bomb disposal squad, were at the scene as a precaution after the incident occurred at about 6 p.m. (3:00 a.m. EDT) Detectives were talking to the 30-year-old arrested man, a police spokesman said. No injuries were reported. Australia is a close ally of the United States, fighting alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. (Writing by Lincoln Feast; Editing by Ron Popeski) Full Story | Top |
| Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood says leaders not arrested Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 04:03 AM PDT  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said its leaders had not been detained by midday on Wednesday after prosecutors ordered them arrested on charges of inciting violence. Spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said the announcement of charges against Mohamed Badie and several other Brotherhood leaders was an attempt by the authorities to break up a vigil by thousands of Brotherhood supporters demanding the reinstatement of Mohamed Mursi, ousted as president by the army last week. ... Full Story | Top |
| Police sift through 'crime scene' days after Quebec train crash Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 03:57 AM PDT  By Julie Gordon and Richard Valdmanis LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) - Investigators sifted through the charred remains of Lac-Megantic's historic downtown early Wednesday morning, as they searched for clues into what could turn out to be North America's worst railway disaster since 1989. Police said they are investigating whether Saturday's derailment and subsequent explosion - which leveled the center of the lakeside Quebec town killing at least 15 and probably dozens more - involved foul play or criminal negligence. "We are conducting a criminal investigation. ... Full Story | Top |
| Czech prosecutors mount "breakthrough" organized crime probe Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013 02:53 AM PDT  By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) - The police raids that brought down the Czech Republic's prime minister last month were an off-shoot of another investigation into organized crime which could expose a web of corruption that has spread through this European Union member state. Prosecutors are not giving details of their probe, but local media, citing what they say are leaked prosecution documents, say it focuses on individuals known here as "godfathers" - fixers who act as the interface between the worlds of politics and business. ... Full Story | Top |
| Four Nigerians sentenced to life for Islamist bombings Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 11:07 PM PDT  ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian court sentenced four members of Islamist sect Boko Haram to life imprisonment on Tuesday for their role in three deadly attacks carried out with industrial explosives near the capital Abuja in 2011. Another Boko Haram militant was given 10 years while a sixth was freed for lack of evidence. All were tried under criminal laws predating a 2011 Terrorism Prevention Act that prescribes the death penalty. Boko Haram has been fighting since 2009 for an Islamic state in religiously mixed Nigeria. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fugitive Snowden likely Venezuela bound, says U.S. journalist Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 07:02 PM PDT  By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Fugitive former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden will likely accept asylum in Venezuela to escape prosecution in the United States, said Glenn Greenwald, the U.S. journalist who first published the secret documents that Snowden leaked. ... Full Story | Top |
| Accused California serial killer cross-examines 1961 rape accuser Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 06:00 PM PDT  By Ronnie Cohen SAN RAFAEL, California (Reuters) - A 76-year-old artist told a California court on Tuesday that accused serial killer Joseph Naso raped her half a century ago in a car, in testimony that could help prosecutors show he had a long history of sexual violence. The prosecution called the Nebraska woman to testify in the murder trial against Naso, charged with first-degree murder in the slayings of four prostitutes dating back to the 1970s. In testifying, she had to face off directly with her accused rapist, who is representing himself in his murder trial. ... Full Story | Top |
| Jury selection in Fort Hood, Texas, shooting trial begins Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 04:48 PM PDT  By Don Bolding FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Tuesday questioned 20 Army officers as potential jurors in the murder trial of Major Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 soldiers in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. Hasan, 42, an American-born Muslim who faces the death penalty if convicted by a military panel for the largest non-combat massacre on a U.S. military base, is mounting his own defense at his court martial at Fort Hood, an Army base near Killeen, Texas. ... Full Story | Top |
| Jury selection begins in Fort Hood murder trial Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 03:00 PM PDT  FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Six Army officers have been dismissed as potential jurors on the first day of jury selection in the murder trial of the Fort Hood shooting suspect. Full Story | Top |
| Suspects in alleged Canada bomb plot likely to plead not guilty Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 02:30 PM PDT  By Nicole Mordant SURREY, British Columbia (Reuters) - The suspects in an alleged plot to set off bombs at a public party on Canada's national holiday appeared in court on Tuesday, one of them clutching a Koran, and their lawyer said it was likely they would plead not guilty to the charges against them. The two Canadians are charged with trying to explode nail-laced pressure cooker bombs while a crowded July 1 Canada Day party was taking place in front of the provincial legislature in Victoria, British Columbia. ... Full Story | Top |
| 7 plead not guilty in NYC mob crackdown Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 01:45 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Nine reputed members of the Bonanno crime family were charged in an indictment unsealed Tuesday with what prosecutors called old-school mob activity: gambling, loan sharking, extortion and drugs. Full Story | Top |
| Lawyer's record 12-year prison term for insider trading is upheld Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 01:29 PM PDT By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A record 12-year prison sentence for insider trading given to a former lawyer in connection with a tipping scheme that stretched over 17 years was upheld on Tuesday by a federal appeals court. Matthew Kluger, 52, had been sentenced in June 2012 for passing tips about corporate mergers that he learned about while working at four major U.S. law firms from 1994 to 2011, starting when he was a student at New York University's law school. ... Full Story | Top |
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