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Apple DOJ eBook trial set for next summer
Tue,26 Jun 2012 08:25 PM PDT
BGR News -  Judge Denise Cote of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has set the date for Apple's eBook antitrust trial, Reuters reported. The Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against the Cupertino-based company and five other major book publishers — Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Penguin — in April that alleged the companies were conspiring to fix eBook prices. Apple, along with the publishers Macmillan and Penguin Group, are fighting the antitrust case, while News Corp's HarperCollins, CBS's Simon & Schuster and Hachette Book Group have agreed to settle the case out of court. Judge Cote gave the three publishers until the end of the summer to propose a settlement offer to
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RI repeals law that made it a crime to fib online
Tue,26 Jun 2012 04:07 PM PDT
Associated Press - If you've ever lied to a potential Internet date about your weight, texted your spouse that you were someplace you weren't or emailed mom to say how much you love that ugly new sweater, you were breaking the law if you did it in Rhode Island. Full Story | Top |
Businessman linked to Nagin to plead guilty
Tue,26 Jun 2012 03:14 PM PDT
Associated Press - A Louisiana businessman linked to a corruption probe of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to conspiring to bribe a former city official. Full Story | Top |
Fabrication Is This Week's Crime Against Journalism
Tue,26 Jun 2012 01:29 PM PDT
The Atlantic Wire -  Following Jonah Lehrer's self-plagiarism scandal, The Wall Street Journal and Hearst have dropped their respective axes on a reporting intern and a reporter, for making up sources and quotes.On the one hand, it's good to see that there are still standards at publications in this era of journalistic flux, but, as far as the big picture goes, we're a bit worried about this recent rash of journalism crimes.
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Research firm executive arrested on insider trading charges: FBI
Tue,26 Jun 2012 09:36 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Law enforcement authorities said on Tuesday they arrested and charged an executive at an investment research firm as part of the government's wide-ranging probe of insider trading at the now-defunct Galleon Group hedge fund. Tai Nguyen of research firm Insight Research LLC surrendered to the FBI Tuesday morning, an FBI spokesman said, and was expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan later in the day. Nguyen was facing charges related to insider trading, the FBI said, but the exact charges have not yet been made public. ... Full Story | Top |
Serbia sentences 14 for 1991 war crime in Croatia
Tue,26 Jun 2012 06:00 AM PDT
Reuters - BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's special war crimes court on Tuesday sentenced 14 former Yugoslav Army soldiers and paramilitaries to a total of 128 years in jail for the 1991 killings of 70 Croat civilians, some of whom were ordered to walk through a minefield. In a ruling Belgrade hopes will boost its chances of joining the European Union, the court said it had been proven beyond doubt that the defendants were guilty of the killings, and of mistreating and torturing the civilian population. ... Full Story | Top |
Witnesses defend Texas stand-your-ground convict
Tue,26 Jun 2012 04:52 AM PDT
Associated Press -  Attorneys for a Texas man convicted of murder despite claiming Texas' version of a stand-your-ground law allowed him to fatally shoot a neighbor will present more witnesses Tuesday as jurors consider his sentence.
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Kansas man to be sentenced in cheerleader's murder
Tue,26 Jun 2012 04:41 AM PDT
Associated Press -  The mother and sister of a 14-year-old cheerleader whose charred remains were found at an asphalt plant in central Kansas are expected to make victim impact statements Tuesday at the sentencing for the man convicted of killing her, prosecutors said.
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Briton, Syrian sentenced to death in UAE
Tue,26 Jun 2012 04:19 AM PDT
Reuters - ABU DHABI (Reuters) - A British citizen has been sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates, the British embassy in Abu Dhabi said on Tuesday, after he and a Syrian national were convicted of selling drugs to an undercover policeman. The English-language The National newspaper said that a court in Abu Dhabi on Monday found the 21-year-old Briton and the 19-year-old Syrian man guilty of selling marijuana worth 1,500 dirhams ($410) to the policeman. They both received the death penalty and have the right to appeal the sentence under UAE laws. ... Full Story | Top |
Bankrupt Irish tycoon Quinn found guilty, faces jail
Tue,26 Jun 2012 03:44 AM PDT
Reuters - DUBLIN (Reuters) - Once Ireland's richest man, Sean Quinn was found guilty of contempt on Tuesday and may go to jail after a court ruled that the bankrupt businessman had blocked a state bank from seizing property worth hundreds of millions of euros (dollars). Quinn, whose four-billion-euro ($5-billion) business empire collapsed after a disastrous investment in now-nationalized Anglo Irish Bank, is being pursued by the bank for debts of almost 3 billion euros. ... Full Story | Top |
Six arrested at Oregon capitol in clear-cut logging protest
Mon,25 Jun 2012 07:21 PM PDT
Reuters - PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Six environmental activists were arrested on Monday at Oregon's state capitol, two of them for climbing up flagpoles, while protesting a plan they said would sharply increase clear-cut logging of old-growth timber in a state forest. Four protesters were cited for "unlawfully occupying the entrance to two state office suites" after locking themselves together at the offices of Oregon's secretary of state, Kate Brown, and state Treasurer Ted Wheeler, state police Lieutenant Gregg Hastings said. ... Full Story | Top |
Sons testify for Texas stand-your-ground convict
Mon,25 Jun 2012 03:34 PM PDT
Associated Press - Relatives of a man who claimed Texas' version of a stand-your-ground law allowed him to fatally shoot a neighbor after an argument about a noisy party told jurors Monday he was not an abusive person and always stressed the importance of gun safety. Full Story | Top |
Md. man found guilty in renewable energy scheme
Mon,25 Jun 2012 03:25 PM PDT
Associated Press - A Maryland man accused of selling millions of dollars in fraudulent renewable energy credits was convicted Monday on all 42 counts against him, including money laundering, wire fraud and violations of the Clean Air act. Full Story | Top |
Mumbai attacks 'handler' arrested in India
Mon,25 Jun 2012 01:09 PM PDT
AFP -  Indian police have arrested a key suspect accused of coordinating the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in which 166 people were killed and more than 300 wounded, the government said Monday.
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Mombasa blast deaths rise to 3, suspect arrested
Mon,25 Jun 2012 06:17 AM PDT
Reuters -  MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - The death toll from Sunday's explosion in a Mombasa night club rose to three and Kenyan police said on Monday they had arrested a suspect, a man in his twenties who was injured in the blast and taken to hospital. The cause of the explosion was not yet known, police said, but there have been several attacks in the east African port city, popular with Kenyan and foreign holidaymakers, since Kenya sent troops into Somalia in October to crush Islamist militants. A day before the blast the U.S. ...
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