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Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Sun Hung Kai dives as Kwok brothers arrested for graft Trial begins in Kan. teen cheerleader's death 911 caller arrested in deadly police shooting New York Does Convict Rapists, But They Don't Make the Front Page 911 caller arrested, Pasadena police say false report led to college student's shooting death Man arrested with fireworks at Philadelphia airport Islamist serial killer buried in France despite protest Egypt's ex-housing minister sentenced to prison Funzio Brings Android Gamers into the Mob Life with Crime City Sixteen football fans arrested after 'kill Arabs' rampage Former political adviser acquitted of killing wife with hatchet 'Breivik Is Not Crazy': Surprise Defense of Norway Killer Billionaire Kwok brothers arrested for graft in Hong Kong Man arrested at US airport had fireworks, no weapons US teen sentenced to life in murder of Britons Miami Business Owner Sentenced For His Role In Defrauding The Export-import Bank of the United States NJ labor investigator sentenced for bribes Supreme Court grants leave to appeal for Quebec mom found guilty of killing kids Hong Kong Kwok brother tycoons "arrested" Puerto Rico's police chief quits amid crime spike Florida teen found guilty of 1st-degree murder in shooting of 2 British tourists last April Suspect of ATF Las Vegas Investigation Arrested in Murrieta Trayvon Martin case: Why hasn't George Zimmerman been arrested? (+video) Two arrested as Greek police find 'priceless' statue Ancient Greek statue recovered from goat-pen near Athens, 2 suspected looters arrested Sun Hung Kai dives as Kwok brothers arrested for graft Thu,29 Mar 2012 08:13 PM PDT Reuters - HONG KONG (Reuters) - More than $5 billion was wiped off the market value of Sun Hung Kai Properties , Asia's largest real estate developer, on Friday, hours after the company's billionaire owners were arrested on suspicion of corruption. Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) arrested Raymond and Thomas Kwok in the biggest investigation since the agency was launched in 1974 to root out what was seen as widespread corruption in the government and police. The Kwoks own $18. ... Full Story Top Trial begins in Kan. teen cheerleader's death Thu,29 Mar 2012 05:37 PM PDT Associated Press - Defense attorneys tried to sow doubt among jurors about the strength of the case against a Kansas man accused of killing a 14-year-old cheerleader and burning her body at the asphalt plant where he worked. Full Story Top 911 caller arrested in deadly police shooting Thu,29 Mar 2012 03:56 PM PDT Associated Press - A California 911 caller told emergency dispatchers he'd just been robbed at gunpoint by two men who fled with his computer and backpack. Full Story Top New York Does Convict Rapists, But They Don't Make the Front Page Thu,29 Mar 2012 03:37 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - The uniquely stark cover of Thursday's New York Daily News asks a question that seems to keep coming up in highly publicized rape cases—publicized, generally, because they involve powerful men, including cops, accused, but not convicted, of rape. This is a sentiment we've heard after sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn were dropped and former NYPD cops Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata were acquitted of rape. ... Full Story Top 911 caller arrested, Pasadena police say false report led to college student's shooting death Thu,29 Mar 2012 03:36 PM PDT Associated Press - PASADENA, Calif. - Oscar Carrillo's 911 call was clear: Two young men just robbed him of his computer and backpack. At least one of them had a gun and it was pointed in Carrillo's face. Full Story Top Man arrested with fireworks at Philadelphia airport Thu,29 Mar 2012 02:41 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania man was arrested at Philadelphia International Airport on Thursday after checkpoint agents found flash powder and fireworks in his carry-on bag, authorities said. The passenger, Joseph Picklo, 28, of Dallas, Pennsylvania, was being screened for a United Airlines flight to San Francisco when a plastic bottle filled with flash powder was found in his carry-on bag, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) said in a statement. The Transportation Safety Administration said in a statement M-80 fireworks also were found in the bag. ... Full Story Top Islamist serial killer buried in France despite protest Thu,29 Mar 2012 12:33 PM PDT AFP - Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah was buried in his hometown Toulouse on Thursday, despite a protest by the French city's mayor after the serial killer's homeland Algeria refused his corpse. Full Story Top Egypt's ex-housing minister sentenced to prison Thu,29 Mar 2012 12:03 PM PDT Associated Press - A Cairo court has convicted and sentenced former President Hosni Mubarak's ex-housing minister to eight years in prison for corruption. Full Story Top Funzio Brings Android Gamers into the Mob Life with Crime City Thu,29 Mar 2012 12:00 PM PDT Business Wire - Funzio, the leading developer of midcore games for social and mobile platforms, today released Crime City for Android devices. For the first time in a mobile social action game, Funzio has created a true cross-platform mobile experience, allowing iOS and Android Crime City gamers to both team up in cooperative play and battle in competitive play for gangland dominance. Crime City can now be found on Google Play, formerly known as Android Market, and is free to download, joining the existing versions on the iTunes App Store, Facebook, and Google+. Full Story Top Sixteen football fans arrested after 'kill Arabs' rampage Thu,29 Mar 2012 10:13 AM PDT AFP - Israeli police detained 16 football fans who rampaged through Jerusalem's city centre streets screaming "death to Arabs" before spitting at an Arab woman and pushing two men into a shop window. Full Story Top Former political adviser acquitted of killing wife with hatchet Thu,29 Mar 2012 10:13 AM PDT Associated Press - WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg jury has acquitted a former political adviser of second-degree murder in the hatchet death of his wife. Full Story Top 'Breivik Is Not Crazy': Surprise Defense of Norway Killer Thu,29 Mar 2012 08:39 AM PDT Time.com - This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Le Monde.OSLO -- Geir Lippestad will definitely cause some controversy with the approach he plans to take in the upcoming trial of Anders Breivik, Norway's infamous extreme-right terrorist. For starters, Lippestad, Breivik's defense attorney, intends to place Mullah Krekar -- an Islamist extremist from Kurdish Iraq who has been living in Norway since 1991 -- on the witness stand. Full Story Top Billionaire Kwok brothers arrested for graft in Hong Kong Thu,29 Mar 2012 08:21 AM PDT Reuters - HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption on Thursday arrested the chairmen of Sun Hung Kai Properties, brothers Raymond and Thomas Kwok, on suspicion of corruption, the company said. The Kwoks own $18.3 billion, the second-biggest family fortune in Hong Kong after Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, founder of rival developer Cheung Kong (Holdings), according to Forbes magazine. ... Full Story Top Man arrested at US airport had fireworks, no weapons Thu,29 Mar 2012 08:14 AM PDT AFP - Security officers at Philadelphia International Airport detained a man early Thursday on suspicion of carrying explosives, but they turned out to be harmless fireworks. Full Story Top US teen sentenced to life in murder of Britons Thu,29 Mar 2012 07:40 AM PDT AFP - A Florida teen has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of two British tourists who had wandered near a government-subsidized housing development, court officials told AFP on Thursday. Full Story Top Miami Business Owner Sentenced For His Role In Defrauding The Export-import Bank of the United States Thu,29 Mar 2012 07:12 AM PDT PR Newswire - WASHINGTON, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) announced today that Miami resident and businessman Rafael E. Cuarezma, 44, was sentenced to 10 months incarceration (5 months prison, 5 months home incarceration) on March 22, 2012. In addition, Cuarezma was ordered to pay $355,046.08 in restitution and serve 36 months of supervised release. The Honorable U.S. District Judge William P. ... Full Story Top NJ labor investigator sentenced for bribes Thu,29 Mar 2012 07:10 AM PDT Associated Press - A senior New Jersey Labor Department investigator who sought and accepted nearly $1.9 million in bribes from several temporary labor firms has been sentenced to five years in prison. Full Story Top Supreme Court grants leave to appeal for Quebec mom found guilty of killing kids Thu,29 Mar 2012 07:08 AM PDT Associated Press - OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will hear the appeal of a woman found guilty of killing her three children. Full Story Top Hong Kong Kwok brother tycoons "arrested" Thu,29 Mar 2012 04:42 AM PDT Reuters - HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption on Thursday arrested two senior company executives, identified in the media as Sun Hung Kai Properties tycoon brothers Raymond and Thomas Kwok, for suspected corruption. The Kwoks have, at $18.3 billion, the second-biggest family fortune in Hong Kong, according to Forbes magazine, behind only Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, founder of rival developer Cheung Kong (Holdings). ... Full Story Top 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 Florida teen found guilty of 1st-degree murder in shooting of 2 British tourists last April Wed,28 Mar 2012 03:00 PM PDT Associated Press - SARASOTA, Fla. - A Florida teenager is facing a life sentence after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder Wednesday in the shooting of two young British tourists last April in a case that generated brash tabloid headlines in the U.K. press. Full Story Top Suspect of ATF Las Vegas Investigation Arrested in Murrieta Wed,28 Mar 2012 12:21 PM PDT PR Newswire - MURRIETA, Calif., March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), announced the arrest of Fernando Gallo Tuesday afternoon in Murrieta for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Full Story Top Trayvon Martin case: Why hasn't George Zimmerman been arrested? (+video) Wed,28 Mar 2012 11:03 AM PDT Christian Science Monitor - Why didn't the Sanford, Fla., police arrest George Zimmerman after he shot Trayvon Martin Feb. 26? That's a question that today is more relevant than ever amid reports the lead investigator in the case thought Mr. Zimmerman should be charged with manslaughter for his actions. Full Story Top Two arrested as Greek police find 'priceless' statue Wed,28 Mar 2012 08:48 AM PDT AFP - Greek police arrested two men after they allegedly tried to sell a 1,500-year-old statue for 500,000 euros, officials said Wednesday, describing the nearly intact find as "priceless". Full Story Top Ancient Greek statue recovered from goat-pen near Athens, 2 suspected looters arrested Wed,28 Mar 2012 08:40 AM PDT Associated Press - ATHENS, Greece - Greek police recovered an ancient statue that was illegally excavated and hidden in a goat pen near Athens, and arrested the goat herder and another man who were allegedly trying to sell the work for €500,000 ($667,000). Full Story Top

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