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| Iran minister says no need to re-hang convict Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013 12:28 PM PDT TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian news agency says the justice minister has concluded there is "no need" to finish off a convict who survived his hanging. Full Story | Top |
| Police: Paraguayan leader's son arrested in Fla. Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013 11:46 AM PDT BAL HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — Police say the son of Paraguay's president was arrested on a charge of misdemeanor battery and later released, accused of punching someone during a party in suburban Miami. Full Story | Top |
| Sex offender who fled Canada arrested in Seattle Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013 10:36 AM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — A violent sex offender who recently fled Canada was arrested in Seattle on Tuesday after authorities say he threatened to assault a person and became combative with police. Full Story | Top |
| 2 Colo. farmers tied to deadly listeria outbreak plead guilty to introducing tainted food Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013 10:18 AM PDT 2 Colo. farmers tied to deadly listeria outbreak plead guilty to introducing tainted food. Full Story | Top |
| NJ businessman sentenced for role in conspiracy Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013 09:30 AM PDT A northern New Jersey businessman who took part in an international conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison. Aref Abuhadba will also have to ... Full Story | Top |
| Thai club owner acquitted in fatal New Year's fire Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013 07:49 AM PDT  A Thai appeals court on Tuesday acquitted a nightclub owner of responsibility for a fire that killed 67 people in Bangkok on New Year's Day in 2009, reversing a lower court's ruling. More than 1,000 revelers ... Full Story | Top |
| Calif singer gets 7-year prison term for bank scam Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013 07:18 AM PDT The frontman for a fledgling Los Angeles rock band was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday after bilking more than $11 million from banks and using it to fuel his fantasy of being a rock star, prosecutors ... Full Story | Top |
| Farmers tied to listeria outbreak to plead guilty Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013 05:57 AM PDT  Two Colorado cantaloupe farmers are expected to plead guilty under a deal with federal prosecutors in the 2011 listeria outbreak that killed 33 people. Eric and Ryan Jensen have a change-of-plea hearing ... Full Story | Top |
| Cee Lo Green pleads not guilty in felony drug case Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013 04:09 AM PDT  Cee Lo Green pleaded not guilty on Monday to giving a woman ecstasy at a Los Angeles restaurant during a 2012 dinner, and prosecutors declined to file a rape count against the singer because of insufficient ... Full Story | Top |
| Sierra Leone editor arrested for comparing president to rat Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013 02:42 AM PDT  FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone police have arrested a newspaper editor and another journalist for publishing an article comparing President Ernest Bai Koroma to a rat, officials said on Monday, stirring concern over press freedom in the West African country. Jonathan Leigh, who edits the Independent Observer newspaper, was detained with another member of staff on Thursday after he wrote the editorial alleging friction between Koroma and his vice-president Sam Sumana. The article said Koroma, a former insurance executive elected in 2007, was behaving like a rat. ... Full Story | Top |
| US rapper Cee Lo Green pleads not guilty on ecstasy charge Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013 02:38 AM PDT  Los Angeles (AFP) - Grammy-winning US rapper Cee Lo Green has pleaded not guilty to giving a woman ecstasy before going back to her hotel, but he was not charged with rape. Full Story | Top |
| Bulgarian fugitive convicted in suffocation deaths of 18 stowaways arrested in U.S. Monday, Oct 21, 2013 05:24 PM PDT By Jonathan Kaminsky OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - A Bulgarian fugitive convicted in the suffocation deaths of 18 Sri Lankan stowaways who died in the back of a truck he was driving nearly two decades ago has been arrested near Seattle and faces possible extradition to his home country, U.S. authorities said on Monday. Plamen Vladimirov Trifonov, 58, was found guilty in Bulgaria of negligent homicide and human trafficking in 2002 in connection with the 1995 incident. He was sentenced to eight years in prison but did not serve his sentence. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bulgarian fugitive arrested in Seattle area Monday, Oct 21, 2013 04:41 PM PDT SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. authorities have arrested a Bulgarian fugitive described as the driver of a cargo truck in which 18 people died during a stiflingly hot journey. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. high court to examine IQ threshold for death penalty Monday, Oct 21, 2013 04:14 PM PDT By David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would hear a death row appeal from a Florida man ruled mentally disabled in 1992 but later found competent to be executed after he scored 71 on an IQ test, the minimum under state law. In a brief order, the court said it would consider whether Florida used a lawful process to determine that convicted murderer Freddie Lee Hall, awaiting execution pending appeals, was not mentally disabled after all. ... Full Story | Top |
| R&B singer CeeLo Green pleads not guilty to ecstasy charge Monday, Oct 21, 2013 03:58 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Grammy-winning R&B singer and "The Voice" TV judge CeeLo Green pleaded not guilty on Monday to a felony charge of giving the drug ecstasy to a woman without her knowledge while the two were dining, prosecutors said. Green, whose real name is Thomas DeCarlo Callaway, was charged by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office with one count of furnishing a controlled substance. Green entered the plea in a Los Angeles court and faces up to four years in state prison if convicted. ... Full Story | Top |
| Iranian convict who survived hanging in coma Monday, Oct 21, 2013 01:59 PM PDT  Tehran (AFP) - A convicted Iranian drug trafficker who survived a botched hanging has fallen into a coma, the IRNA news agency reported on Monday. Full Story | Top |
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