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| Bulger Mum on Whether He'll Testify Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 12:34 PM PDT Bulger's Defense Attorney Initially Expected Him to Take the Stand. Full Story | Top |
| Libya: Gadhafi-era minister sentenced to execution Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 12:08 PM PDT TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A criminal court in Libya sentenced a Gadhafi-era education minister to death on Wednesday for murder and for inciting violence during the 2011 civil war, the second such guilty verdict by the same court in recent days. Full Story | Top |
| Kazakh oligarch Ablyazov arrested in France: sources Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 11:30 AM PDT By Kirstin Ridley and Matthias Galante LONDON/CANNES, France (Reuters) - Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh businessman accused of embezzling $6 billion from his former bank BTA, has been arrested near Cannes in southern France and is being held by police, sources familiar with the situation said. A police source said Ablyazov was arrested in the village of Mouans-Sartoux, located about 8 km (5 miles) north of Cannes. A court hearing has been scheduled for 10.30 a.m. (4:30 a.m. ET) on Thursday, the source added. No further details were immediately available. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ohio man accused of killing three women pleads not guilty Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 11:02 AM PDT  By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A man authorities have compared to an Ohio serial killer pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges he killed three women and left their bodies wrapped in plastic bags near his suburban Cleveland apartment. Michael Madison, 35, appeared in a Cleveland courtroom on 14 charges including aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping. Two of the victims were strangled, authorities said. The cause of death of the third has not yet been determined. ... Full Story | Top |
| Activist: Prominent Bahrain blogger arrested Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 09:39 AM PDT A rights activist in Bahrain says authorities have arrested a prominent blogger just days after warning of harsher measures against anti-government protesters in the violence-wracked Gulf kingdom. Bahrain's ... Full Story | Top |
| Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro to be sentenced Thursday Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 08:33 AM PDT Ariel Castro, the man who kidnapped, raped, and beat three Cleveland women will find out his fate during a sentencing hearing Thursday morning, though it's not much of a mystery where he'll spend the rest of his life. Full Story | Top |
| Man pleads not guilty to killing 3 Ohio women Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 08:05 AM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — A man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to kidnapping and killing three women whose bodies were found wrapped in trash bags earlier this month. Full Story | Top |
| The 30th Annual National Night Out is Tuesday; Neighbors, Police Step Out Against Crime Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 08:00 AM PDT WYNNEWOOD, Pa., July 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, August 6th, citizens, law enforcement agencies, community groups, businesses and local officials in close to 16,000 communities from all 50 states, U.S. territories, Canadian cities and military bases worldwide will join forces to mark the 30th Annual National Night Out (NNO) – an annual crime and safety event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW). Nationally, over 37 million people are expected to participate in 'America's Night Out Against Crime' this year. ... Full Story | Top |
| Man arrested over exploding German ticket machines Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 07:13 AM PDT BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say a man has been arrested on suspicion of blowing open railway ticket machines by filling them with gas and igniting it. They're seeking a second suspect. Full Story | Top |
| Sweden drops final charge against 'serial killer' Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 06:55 AM PDT STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped the eighth and final murder charge against a man who for two decades was thought to be one of Sweden's worst serial killers until it emerged that all his confessions were false. In the early 1990s, Sture Bergwall, a patient at a mental institution, confessed to murdering more than 30 people found dead in Sweden in preceding years. In a series of trials between 1994 and 2001, Bergwall was convicted of eight murders, despite there being no forensic evidence or witness statements. ... Full Story | Top |
| Last case dropped in Swedish serial-killer scandal Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 05:22 AM PDT  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped the last remaining charges against a man who was once considered Sweden's worst serial killer, but whose eight murder convictions were overturned after he withdrew his confessions. Full Story | Top |
| China's Bo to plead guilty, but maybe not to all charges: sources Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 05:14 AM PDT  By Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Disgraced Chinese leader Bo Xilai has agreed to plead guilty at a trial likely to be held within weeks, three sources said, in an apparent bid to earn a more lenient sentence and allow authorities to close the door on the country's biggest political scandal in decades. But it was not clear if he would plead guilty to all or only some of the charges of accepting bribes, corruption and abuse of power. ... Full Story | Top |
| Gun crime, custodial deaths pile pressure on Malaysian government Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 02:47 AM PDT  By Siva Sithraputhran KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - High-profile shootings and a surge of deaths of suspects in custody are stoking public anger in Malaysia, piling pressure on the government to tackle crime and clamp down on police corruption and brutality. An execution-style hit on a former bank chief executive in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, on Monday and the weekend shooting of an anti-crime campaigner have forced Prime Minister Najib Razak's government to respond, less than three months after it scraped through a general election with a depleted majority. ... Full Story | Top |
| FCA says four arrested in market abuse probe Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 02:14 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said three men and a woman have been arrested on Wednesday and held in custody as part of an investigation into insider dealing and market abuse. "The arrests are not linked to any other ongoing insider dealing investigation," the UK markets watchdog said in a statement. The FCA, with the assistance of the Metropolitan Police, used search warrants in west London and arrested three men aged 29, 51 and 56, and a woman aged 25. ... Full Story | Top |
| Former Citibank employee sentenced for Salomon Brothers theft Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 03:33 PM PDT By Daniel Wiessner NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Citigroup Inc employee was sentenced to more than four years in prison for stealing $1.3 million from a 98-year-old former managing partner at investment bank Salomon Brothers. U.S. District Judge William Martini on Tuesday handed the sentence to Karen Febles, 48, an executive assistant at Citibank assigned to work for William Salomon from 2000 to 2011. Salomon Brothers was absorbed by Citigroup as part of a 1997 merger. The judge also ordered Febles to pay more than $1.1 million in restitution. Febles' attorney did not return a call for ... Full Story | Top |
| Manning acquitted of aiding enemy, still may face long jail term Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 02:59 PM PDT  By Medina Roshan and Scott Malone FORT MEADE, Md./BOSTON (Reuters) - A military judge on Tuesday found U.S. soldier Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, the most serious charge he faced for handing over documents to WikiLeaks, but he still likely faces a long jail term after being found guilty of 19 other counts. Colonel Denise Lind ruled the 25-year-old Army private first class was guilty of five espionage charges, among many others, for the largest unauthorized release of classified U.S. data in the nation's history. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bradley Manning acquitted of 'aiding the enemy' but not of espionage Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 01:01 PM PDT Pfc. Bradley Manning was found not guilty on Tuesday of "aiding the enemy" for his role in providing documents to the online site WikiLeaks, a charge that could have sent him to prison for life without possibility of parole. Full Story | Top |
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