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| Ohio kidnapping, rape suspect pleads not guilty Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 11:41 AM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland man accused of holding three women captive in his home for more than a decade pleaded not guilty Wednesday on an expanded indictment charging him with 512 counts of kidnapping and 446 counts of rape, among other crimes. Full Story | Top |
| Ohio man pleads not guilty to 977 charges in kidnap of 3 women Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 11:38 AM PDT  By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A former Cleveland school bus driver accused of kidnapping and holding three women captive for years pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to hundreds of criminal charges, but his lawyers said they may seek an agreement to avert a trial. A grand jury on Friday added 648 charges to a previous indictment against Ariel Castro, who is accused of abducting the first of the women in 2002 and holding them captive until they escaped from his house on May 6 along with a 6-year-old girl he fathered with one of the women. ... Full Story | Top |
| Other jurors distance themselves from Juror B37 Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 11:11 AM PDT  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Four of the six jurors from the murder trial of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman have distanced themselves from statements another juror made in a televised interview. Full Story | Top |
| Pirelli head found guilty of receiving stolen data Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 10:22 AM PDT  MILAN (Reuters) - The chairman of tyre maker Pirelli, Marco Tronchetti Provera, was handed a 20-month suspended jail sentence on Wednesday for receiving stolen information when he was head of Telecom Italia. Provera, one of Italy's most prominent businessmen, was also ordered by a Milan court to pay 900,000 euros ($1.2 million) to Telecom Italia, which he led from 2001 to 2006. Provera was found guilty of receiving phone data in 2004 stolen from a security agency in Brazil. ... Full Story | Top |
| NY data show murders down in crime uptick Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 08:28 AM PDT New York's violent crimes increased 2.3 percent statewide to more than 79,000 last year despite a steep drop in New York City murders. State data on serious property and violent crimes still show an overall ... Full Story | Top |
| Ariz. sheriff: Man arrested was deported 11 times Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 08:21 AM PDT FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities along the Arizona border say a man accused of driving a car carrying 220 pounds of marijuana had been deported to Mexico 11 times. Full Story | Top |
| Man arrested in 6-year-old La. girl's death Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 07:45 AM PDT  GRETNA, La. (AP) — Authorities say they have arrested a man accused of killing a 6-year-old Louisiana girl whose body was found stabbed and beaten inside a trash bin. Full Story | Top |
| Bangladesh opposition leader gets death penalty Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 06:24 AM PDT  DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special tribunal sentenced a senior leader of an Islamic political party to death on Wednesday for his role in the kidnapping and killing of people involving Bangladesh's independence war against Pakistan in 1971. Full Story | Top |
| NY man pleads not guilty in Deen extortion plot Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 05:32 AM PDT A New York man pleaded not guilty in federal court Tuesday to charges of trying to extort embattled celebrity cook Paula Deen. Court documents show Thomas George Paculis of Newfield, N.Y., appeared in ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. fugitive Snowden has no plans to leave Russia soon: lawyer Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 04:18 AM PDT  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has no plans to leave Russia soon and does not rule out eventually applying for citizenship, a lawyer helping the American with his bid for temporary asylum in Russia said on Wednesday. Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said Snowden believed it would be unsafe to try to travel to Latin America soon because of U.S. efforts to return him to the United States to face espionage charges. (Reporting by Alexei Anishchuk; Writing by Steve Gutterman, editing by Elizabeth Piper) Full Story | Top |
| Bangladesh Islamist leader sentenced to death for 1971 war crimes Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 04:07 AM PDT  By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal sentenced a top Islamist politician to death on Wednesday for crimes during a 1971 war of independence, as his supporters clashed with security forces in different parts of the country. Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, 65, secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was convicted on charges of genocide, conspiracy in killing intellectuals, torture and abduction during the war to break away from Pakistan, lawyers said. Mojaheed looked defiant and shouted "wrong judgment" when the judge handed down the sentence. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ex-police officer acquitted of murder of wife Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 12:17 AM PDT  BERNALILLO, N.M. (AP) — The monthlong criminal trial and all its salacious stories of law officer affairs and a blundering investigation are over, but a civil trial looms for a former Albuquerque policeman acquitted of killing his depressed wife with his department-issued gun. Full Story | Top |
| 4 jurors distance themselves from Juror B37 Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 09:34 PM PDT  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Four of the jurors at the George Zimmerman trial distanced themselves late Tuesday from statements that another juror made in a televised interview. Full Story | Top |
| Most of the Other Zimmerman Jurors Distance Themselves from B37 Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 07:57 PM PDT  Juror B37, of the (former) book deal and the lengthy Monday evening CNN interview with Anderson Cooper, has been more or less the only narrator of the juror deliberations that led to the acquittal of George Zimmerman last weekend. And it doesn't look like we're going to hear very much from four of the five remaining jurors on the case: they released a joint statement on Tuesday asking for privacy, while distancing themselves from the perspective of their single outspoken member. Full Story | Top |
| Former police officer acquitted of murder of wife Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 06:51 PM PDT  BERNALILLO, N.M. (AP) — A former Albuquerque police officer clutched rosary beads, made the sign of a cross and hugged his lawyer Tuesday as he was cleared of charges he murdered his estranged wife and made it look like a suicide in order to free himself from a volatile, adulterous marriage. Full Story | Top |
| Spain says it arrests British fugitive, breaks up global drug ring Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 06:32 PM PDT By Clare Kane and Iciar Reinlein MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police said on Tuesday they had arrested a Briton they described as one of Europe's top 10 most wanted criminals and had helped dismantle a transatlantic cocaine-smuggling ring. In a statement, police said Brian Charrington was taken into custody along with his son in the Mediterranean resort town of Alicante and that his girlfriend, who was not named, was arrested in Venezuela while organizing a cocaine shipment. Thirteen people in all were arrested in the two countries, accused of smuggling drugs into Spain for sale across Europe. ... Full Story | Top |
| Jury selection starts in U.S. general's sexual assault trial Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 03:58 PM PDT By Marti Maguire RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Tuesday for the trial of a U.S. Army general charged with sexually assaulting a subordinate, the latest in a string of sexual misconduct allegations in the U.S. military. The charges against Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair led to his removal from command last year in Afghanistan. Sinclair, a 27-year Army veteran based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of forcible sodomy, wrongful sexual conduct, possessing pornography while deployed and conduct unbecoming of an officer. ... Full Story | Top |
| Former Albuquerque police officer acquitted of murder in death of wife. Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 03:34 PM PDT BERNALILLO, N.M. (AP) — Former Albuquerque police officer acquitted of murder in death of wife. Full Story | Top |
| Jury selection begins for Army general in sex case Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 03:22 PM PDT FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — As jury selection got underway Tuesday for a U.S. Army general facing court martial on sexual assault charges, the challenges of seating an impartial panel to decide the case quickly became apparent. Full Story | Top |
| Jurors reach verdict in murder trial of ex-officer Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 03:17 PM PDT BERNALILLO, N.M. (AP) — Jurors have reached a verdict in the trial of a former Albuquerque police officer charged with killing his estranged wife. Full Story | Top |
| Doctor Arrested as Suspect in 4 Unsolved Nebraska Murders Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 02:38 PM PDT  Dr. Anthony Garcia Was Fired From the University the Victims Were Connected to Full Story | Top |
| Indiana doctor arrested in 4 Nebraska killings Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 02:31 PM PDT  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Indiana doctor accused of killing four people with ties to a Nebraska medical school that fired him was denied medical licenses in at least two states after being dismissed from Creighton University more than a decade ago. Full Story | Top |
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