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| Jury selection in Fort Hood shooting trial set to begin Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 12:17 PM PDT  By Don Bolding FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Tuesday in the murder trial of Major Nidal Hasan who is accused of killing 13 soldiers in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage, the largest non-combat massacre on a U.S. military base. Hasan, 42, an American-born Muslim who faces the death penalty if convicted by a military panel, is mounting his own defense at his court martial at Fort Hood, an Army base near Killeen, Texas. ... Full Story | Top |
| Seeking death penalty in Boston case? A long road Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 11:42 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — If the Obama administration tries for the death penalty against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, it could face a long, difficult legal battle in a state that hasn't seen an execution in nearly 70 years. Full Story | Top |
| Jury selection to start in Fort Hood murder trial Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 11:23 AM PDT  FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — An Army psychiatrist going on trial in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting wants to tell potential jurors that he's being forced to wear a military uniform he believes represents "an enemy of Islam," he told a judge Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Bonnano crime crew indicted in NYC mob crackdown Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 11:08 AM 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 |
| Jury selection set in Fort Hood suspect's case Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 10:53 AM PDT  FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — An Army psychiatrist going on trial in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting says he wants to tell potential jurors that he's being forced to wear a military uniform he believes represents "an enemy of Islam." Full Story | Top |
| Four Nigerians sentenced to life for Islamist bombings Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 10:33 AM 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 |
| 30 arrested during miners union protest in W.Va. Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 09:52 AM PDT Thirty people have been arrested during a United Mine Workers of America protest against Patriot Coal in West Virginia. UMWA President Cecil Roberts and AFL-CIO Vice President Arlene Holt-Baker are among ... Full Story | Top |
| Authorities: Fugitive caught after taunting tweet Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 06:56 AM PDT  San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said Wanda Podgurski sent that taunting tweet after skipping trial in January while facing charges of insurance of fraud. But then authorities did catch ... Full Story | Top |
| Ex-minister found guilty over Cyprus munitions blast Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 06:23 AM PDT  By Michele Kambas NICOSIA (Reuters) - A former Cypriot defense minister was found guilty of manslaughter on Tuesday over a deadly munitions blast two years ago that killed 13 people and crippled the economy in the island's worst peacetime disaster. A court ruled that Costas Papacostas, who served in the former communist government, bore direct responsibility for a sequence of failures to safeguard a cargo of confiscated Iranian munitions that exploded in the early hours of July 11, 2011. Papacostas and three senior fire service officials found guilty of negligence will be sentenced on July 24. ... Full Story | Top |
| STORY REMOVED: BC-US--Tweeting Fugitive Monday, Jul 08, 2013 08:41 PM PDT SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about a fugitive who was captured in Mexico. Wanda Podgurski did not plead guilty to a charge of failure to appear while free on bail. Full Story | Top |
| Hasan representing himself during jury selection Monday, Jul 08, 2013 04:34 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark says he won't represent the Fort Hood shooting suspect during jury selection starting Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Colorado theater shootings judge orders hearing on graphic crime scene images Monday, Jul 08, 2013 02:11 PM PDT  By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The Colorado judge presiding over the murder case of accused theater gunman James Holmes said on Monday he will hold a pretrial hearing to decide which graphic images of the shooting rampage can be shown to jurors. Attorneys for the one-time University of Colorado neuroscience graduate student, who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, filed a motion seeking to limit pictures displayed at trial, saying they could prejudice the jury. Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos Samour Jr. ... Full Story | Top |
| Judge: Defense may show jurors Trayvon Martin died with small amounts of marijuana in body. Monday, Jul 08, 2013 02:05 PM PDT SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Judge: Defense may show jurors Trayvon Martin died with small amounts of marijuana in body. Full Story | Top |
| Chicago Police turn to Twitter to battle crime Monday, Jul 08, 2013 01:58 PM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police on Monday rolled out changes to a community policing program they hope will turn residents' cell phones into crime fighting tools that can be used to provide anonymous tips to help officers catch criminals — and stem the kind of bloodshed that marred the recent holiday weekend. Full Story | Top |
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