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Puerto Rico's police chief quits amid crime spike
Wed,28 Mar 2012 07:54 PM PDT
Associated Press - Puerto Rico's police chief quit late Wednesday, less than a year after being appointed to lead a department that federal agents have accused of corruption, illegal killings and civil rights violations. Full Story | Top |
Cyber-centre to shield EU against online crime
Wed,28 Mar 2012 08:13 AM PDT
Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission laid out plans on Wednesday for a centre to combat illegal online activity and shield the EU against cyber-crime, a rapidly expanding enterprise that costs global business an estimated $380 billion a year. The EU cyber-crime centre, to be based in the Netherlands, is expected to be running by January 2013, pending approval by the budgetary authority of Europol, the pan-European police force. The centre would be co-located with Europol in The Hague. ... Full Story | Top |
Philippine ex-governor ordered arrested for murder
Wed,28 Mar 2012 07:46 AM PDT
Associated Press - Police in the Philippines say they have arrested an aide to a former governor in the killing of a radio anchor and prominent environmentalist. They are also searching for the ex-governor himself and a local mayor whom the journalist had accused of corruption. Full Story | Top |
'Madoff of Campaign Finance' Used the Money to Buy Groceries
Wed,28 Mar 2012 06:20 AM PDT
The Atlantic Wire - Kinde Durkee, the California campaign treasurer expected to plead guilty this week to embezzling as much as $8 million from at least 50 Democratic political clients including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, allegedly squandered the money on a variety of pretty pedestrian expenses. ... Full Story | Top |
Judge bars import of drug used in death penalty
Wed,28 Mar 2012 02:41 AM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A judge on Tuesday barred authorities from importing an anesthesia drug used in carrying out death sentences because the Food and Drug Administration never approved the drug for use in the United States, and he ordered supplies be confiscated. A group of death row inmates had sued the FDA last year over improperly allowing shipments into the country of sodium thiopental, a sedative used as the first of three drugs administered in carrying out executions. ... Full Story | Top |
Leinil Yu on SUPERCROOKS and Partner-in-Crime Mark Millar
Wed,28 Mar 2012 01:36 AM PDT
Newsarama - Leinil Francis Yu started his career in the world of work-for-hire comics, illustrating several Wolverine stories in the late '90s. In that environment, he became a superstar, drawing high-profile stories including Superman: Birthright for DC Comics, plus major Marvel miniseries Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk and Secret Invasion. In recent years, he's primarily paired with Wanted and Kick-Ass writer Mark Millar, on two Ultimate Comics: Avengers miniseries and the creator-owned "Millarworld" series Superior. ... Full Story | Top |
U.S. judge dismisses most charges against militia members
Tue,27 Mar 2012 05:19 PM PDT
Reuters - DETROIT (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed conspiracy charges against seven members of a U.S. militia group known as the Hutaree, saying prosecutors failed to prove that they were doing more than talking about their hatred of the government. The seven were accused of plotting to kill law enforcement officers as a way to incite a wider rebellion against the U.S. government. Defense attorneys had argued that what the seven had done was protected by their free speech rights. ... Full Story | Top |
NY trial averted with plea deal in poker case
Tue,27 Mar 2012 04:34 PM PDT
Associated Press - A New York defense lawyer says the last defendant scheduled for trial in a criminal prosecution that shut down the three largest Internet poker companies in the United States has agreed to plead guilty. Full Story | Top |
Death penalty overturned for man who killed 3
Tue,27 Mar 2012 03:58 PM PDT
Associated Press -  The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the death sentences of a Tucson man who bludgeoned his girlfriend and her two children to death in 1984 after lying in wait for each of them, ruling that the murders weren't especially heinous even though they were "atrocious" and "senseless."
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Hutaree militia acquitted of plot to foment revolution
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:40 PM PDT
Christian Science Monitor - Seven members of a Michigan militia were acquitted Tuesday of all major charges – including sedition and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction – after a federal judge said the prosecution failed to show the group posed a credible threat to the US government. Full Story | Top |
U.S. judge bars import of drug used in death penalty
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:26 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday barred U.S. authorities from importing an anesthesia drug used in carrying out death sentences because the Food and Drug Administration never approved the drug for use in the United States, and he ordered supplies be confiscated. A group of death row inmates had sued the FDA last year over improperly allowing shipments into the country of sodium thiopental, a sedative used as the first of three drugs administered in carrying out executions. ... Full Story | Top |
"Arrested Development" fans rally for Steve Holt's return
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:03 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES, March 27 (TheWrap.com) - "Arrested Development" will be making its return. Whether the relatively minor character Steve Holt will also return is still up in the air. But the famously outspoken and passionate fans of the series are trying to ensure that the illegitimate son of George Oscar Bluth Jr. and student-body president is brought back into the fold for the revival. ... Full Story | Top |
Judge acquits militia members of sedition, conspiracy
Tue,27 Mar 2012 01:21 PM PDT
Reuters - DETROIT (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday acquitted seven members of a U.S. Midwestern militia group of all major sedition and conspiracy charges against them, two years after the FBI began arresting them following a long undercover surveillance operation. The seven, members of a group known as the Hutaree, were accused of plotting to kill law enforcement officers as a way to incite a wider rebellion against the U.S. government. Defense attorneys had argued their actions were protected by their First Amendment free speech rights. In her ruling on Tuesday, U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Strauss-Kahn's French lawyers: Lust isn't a crime
Tue,27 Mar 2012 12:32 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Dominique Strauss-Kahn had sex with women who weren't his wife, participated in orgies and may have even paid for prostitutes, his own lawyers say. But they deny he did anything to deserve the pimping charges he's facing in France.
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