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Senegal opposition mayor arrested over fatal shooting
Wed,28 Dec 2011 09:27 PM PST
Reuters - DAKAR (Reuters) - A high-profile opponent of Senegal's president and ruling party, who is also a mayor of a suburb in the capital Dakar, was detained on Wednesday on suspicion of involvement in a fatal town hall shooting, his lawyer said. The arrest of Barthelemy Dias may stoke political tensions in the West African nation two months ahead of a presidential election in which incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade plans to seek reelection despite an outcry from the opposition. ... Full Story | Top |
A Second Look at the Death Penalty
Wed,28 Dec 2011 12:00 AM PST
Susan Estrich - I still remember back in 1988 sitting in a Chinese restaurant when then-Governor Bill Clinton took a napkin and listed on one side the Democratic governors who were against the death penalty and, on the other, those who were for it. In its time, the issue was the third rail in American politics — the line that divided those who could win because they were considered tough on crime and those who would face electoral problems. A few years later, my friend Kathleen Brown was trounced in the governor's race in California in large part because she opposed the death penalty. Full Story | Top |
Acquitted pastor's ex-wife dies years after attack
Tue,27 Dec 2011 04:42 PM PST
Associated Press -  The discovery of the wife of one of Dallas' most prominent ministers choked with a cord and left convulsing and near death on their garage floor led to a sensational trial. Prosecutors charged Walker Railey with attempted murder, saying he wanted to marry his lover, who also had church connections.
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Swedish reporters sentenced to 11 yrs in Ethiopia
Tue,27 Dec 2011 04:17 PM PST
Associated Press - A court in Ethiopia has sentenced two Swedish journalists to 11 years in prison on charges of supporting terrorism after the two illegally entered the country with an ethnic Somali rebel group in a case that has been criticized by media rights groups. Full Story | Top |
Crime scene cleanup ad lifts Handel's Messiah
Tue,27 Dec 2011 09:26 AM PST
Reuters - BOSTON (Reuters) - Who says beautiful music and blood spatter cleanup can't go together. When Chorus North Shore performs Handel's Messiah or Verdi's Requiem, the Boston-area group usually can count on Timothy Riley and his crime scene cleanup business for moral and economic support. Riley, for example, recently advertised his company's "crime and death scene cleaning" in the playbill of Chorus North Shore's Handel's Messiah performance at two Catholic churches north of Boston. ... Full Story | Top |
Missing Ind. girl found dead, babysitter arrested
Tue,27 Dec 2011 06:08 AM PST
Associated Press -  The neighbor who was babysitting a 9-year-old Indiana girl when she went missing last week will be formally charged with murder Tuesday, a heartbreaking turn for the girl's relatives who considered him a family friend.
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Mexico police arrested over torture video
Mon,26 Dec 2011 10:57 PM PST
Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities arrested five policemen on Monday on suspicion of torture after a video was made public showing police officers submerging a detainee's head in a bucket of water. An official at the attorney general's office said five Mexico City police officers were taken into custody over the alleged torture, which took place in the capital's tough inner city neighborhood of Tepito last month. ... Full Story | Top |
How to Get Arrested for Being Terrible at Karaoke
Mon,26 Dec 2011 08:16 AM PST
The Atlantic Wire - A man set off a brawl in a Sandusky, Ohio, bar last week after the other patrons booed him off the stage for being a terrible singer. Twenty-year-old Isiah Johnson stormed off the stage after other bar-goers heckled his singing peformance. Bouncer removed him from the bar, but he came back later and refused to leave. When patrons and bartenders tried to throw him out again, he punched three people in the face and cops were called. Johnson was booked on "three counts of assault, underage consumption, obstructing official busines, resisting arrest and persistent intoxication. ... Full Story | Top |
Lawyer Morvillo, Martha Stewart defender, dies
Sun,25 Dec 2011 10:40 AM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Lawyer Robert Morvillo, who led the courtroom battle of media celebrity Martha Stewart and other high-profile white-collar criminal defendants, has died at the age of 73, according to a notice on his firm's website on Sunday. Morvillo was regarded as one of New York's savviest criminal-defense attorneys, a master of establishing a kind of just us-folks rapport with jurors. The website statement did not specify the cause of death. Stewart may have been his best-known client. ...
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Liberia opposition official 'arrested'
Sat,24 Dec 2011 07:46 AM PST
AFP -  Police arrested a top official of Liberia's main opposition Congress for Democratic Change overnight as the capital was under curfew after rioting by unpaid government workers, party sources said Saturday.
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Tyler, The Creator arrested for vandalism
Fri,23 Dec 2011 10:58 AM PST
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper Tyler, The Creator was arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism on Thursday, following a show at a nightclub on the famed Sunset Strip, police said. The rapper, 20, whose real name is Tyler Gregory Okonma, was performing with his rap group Odd Future at the Roxy Theater Thursday night when an electric soundboard was destroyed, causing the venue's security team to call police. ...
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