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Potential Clemens jurors question cost of hearing
Mon,16 Apr 2012 03:26 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Roger Clemens stood and uttered "Morning" to the 90 potential jurors who had gathered in the ornate, sixth-floor ceremonial courtroom, the one deemed big enough to hold them all. After he sat down, he swiveled his chair, as if trying to make eye contact with as many as possible.
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Cyber crime official optimistic on new legislation
Mon,16 Apr 2012 02:11 PM PDT
Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Obama administration's top cyber security official says companies would not be unduly burdened by a Senate bill that would phase in security standards for key parts of the country's privately held infrastructure. The administration has been pushing to enact such legislation, and in an interview with Reuters, White House cyber security policy coordinator Howard Schmidt said the law (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/14/cybersecurity-congress-idUSL2E8DEA5M20120214) would apply only to the most vital companies, and that many of them would already be in compliance. ... Full Story | Top |
Jury selection continues in John Edwards case
Mon,16 Apr 2012 10:31 AM PDT
Associated Press - A federal judge on Monday dismissed 47 potential jurors from the coming John Edwards trial, many because they said they couldn't fairly weigh evidence involving the former Democratic presidential candidate. Full Story | Top |
Roger Clemens Steroid Trial Set to Begin
Mon,16 Apr 2012 04:13 AM PDT
National Journal - Pitching great Roger Clemens is back in court on Monday on perjury charges, 10 months after the federal prosecutors failed to get a conviction, reports the Associated Press. Clemens supposedly lied to Congress about taking performance-enhancing drugs. Full Story | Top |
Arrested Gaddafi spy chief is sick: Mauritania
Sun,15 Apr 2012 12:28 PM PDT
Reuters - NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, who was arrested in Mauritania last month and is sought by Libya, France and the International Criminal Court (ICC), is ill, Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz said on Sunday. Libyan authorities are seeking the extradition of Gaddafi's former right-hand man, vying with Paris and the Hague-based ICC which also have legal cases against him. ... Full Story | Top |
Some jurors questioned Clemens case, judge says
Sat,14 Apr 2012 12:40 PM PDT
Associated Press -  The judge presiding in the new Roger Clemens perjury case said some jurors in the first trial told him that retrying the famed pitcher was a waste of taxpayer money, a newly discovered transcript shows.
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Opening Day in Roger Clemens Retrial Slated for Monday
Fri,13 Apr 2012 04:11 PM PDT
ABC OTUS News - The retrial for seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens begins Monday with jury selection as new questions emerge about key evidence prosecutors intend to introduce at trial. Clemens defense attorney Rusty Hardin said today at the final pretrial-motions hearing that he had serious questions... Full Story | Top |
Murder, hate crime charges in Tulsa shootings
Fri,13 Apr 2012 04:03 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Two men accused of going on a shooting spree that terrorized Tulsa's predominantly black north side face murder and hate crime charges, prosecutors said Friday in an announcement praised by community leaders who had called for swift action by authorities.
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Attorney: Tulsa suspect not motivated by race
Fri,13 Apr 2012 03:18 PM PDT
Associated Press - A defense attorney says a man facing murder and hate crime charges in a Tulsa shooting spree that killed three people and terrorized the city's black community wasn't motivated by race.
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Seven arrested in Texas crash that killed nine illegal immigrants
Fri,13 Apr 2012 02:51 PM PDT
Reuters - PALMVIEW, Texas (Reuters) - Authorities have arrested seven people, including a 15-year-old boy, in connection with a late-night wreck that killed nine illegal immigrants in southern Texas earlier this week, police said on Friday. The boy, believed to be the driver who tried to outrun U.S. Border Patrol agents in a minivan overcrowded with 19 illegal immigrants, was tracked down at his rural Hidalgo County home Thursday night, said Chris Barrera, the police chief in Palmview. ... Full Story | Top |
2 Ky. women enter guilty plea in hate crime case
Fri,13 Apr 2012 01:50 PM PDT
Associated Press - Two Kentucky women have pleaded guilty to helping kidnap and assault a gay man in the first convictions using a section of the federal hate crime law that protects against attacks motivated by sexual orientation. Full Story | Top |
Brazil cult members arrested for cannibalism
Fri,13 Apr 2012 01:15 PM PDT
AFP -  Brazilian police announced Friday that they had arrested a man and two women on suspicion of having murdered and cannibalized at least two women in what was described as a purification ritual.
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Military: Guinea-Bissau prime minister arrested
Fri,13 Apr 2012 12:32 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Soldiers have arrested the prime minister of this tiny nation known for transiting cocaine to Europe, a military spokesman said Friday, the latest instability to roil a coup-prone West African country where no leader in nearly 40 years has finished his time in office.
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Pakistani sentenced in U.S. for aiding militant group
Fri,13 Apr 2012 11:48 AM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pakistani man living in Virginia was sentenced to 12 years in prison by a U.S. judge on Friday for providing support to a militant anti-India group, including making a propaganda video and posting it on YouTube in 2010. A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, handed down the sentence for Jubair Ahmad, 24, who pleaded guilty in December. Ahmad, who had faced a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, also was given five years of probation. ... Full Story | Top |
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