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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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Sandusky found guilty on 45 of 48 sex abuse charges
Sun,24 Jun 2012 02:25 AM PDT
Reuters -  BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A jury found former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky guilty on 45 of 48 child sex abuse charges on Friday, ending a trial that rocked U.S. college football and renewed attention on pedophilia in America. Sandusky, 68, faces potentially hundreds of years in prison for molesting 10 boys over 15 years. He was escorted immediately out of the courthouse in handcuffs and taken into an awaiting sheriff's cruiser. A large crowd that gathered outside the Centre County Courthouse in central Pennsylvania broke into cheers upon learning of the news. ...
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Man arrested in triple killing near NYC's Columbia
Sat,23 Jun 2012 06:18 PM PDT
Associated Press - The suspected killer of three men found shot to death in a parked car near Columbia University was arrested on Saturday after investigators identified him as the man seen on video strolling away from the bloody scene, police said. Full Story | Top |
No English fans arrested at tournament, say police
Sat,23 Jun 2012 04:28 AM PDT
Reuters -  KIEV (Reuters) - In stark contrast to the days when English soccer hooligans terrorized Europe, not one English fan has been arrested at Euro 2012, Andy Holt, head of the uniformed British police squad at the tournament, said on Saturday. The assistant chief constable told Reuters in an interview that police were taking nothing for granted ahead of Sunday's quarter-final with Italy, and they would make special provision if England reached a semi-final against Germany in Warsaw. ...
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U.S. Catholic priest found guilty in child abuse case
Fri,22 Jun 2012 04:37 PM PDT
Reuters -  PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A monsignor who oversaw hundreds of priests in the Philadelphia Archdiocese was found guilty on Friday of one count of endangering the welfare of a child, making him the first senior U.S. Roman Catholic Church official to be convicted for covering up child sex abuse. The jury acquitted Monsignor William Lynn on two other counts - conspiracy and another charge of child endangerment -after 10 weeks of testimony in a trial that raised questions about personal responsibility and institutional constraints within the church hierarchy. ...
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Oklahoma forest ranger sentenced to prison for arson
Fri,22 Jun 2012 04:14 PM PDT
Reuters - OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A former state forest ranger who set dozens of wildfires has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and must help make a training video to help others spot the triggers that lead firefighters to commit arson, a prosecutor said Friday. Mike Malenski, 39, pleaded guilty to arson and endangering human life for a series of fires that destroyed thousands of acres in a wildlife management area of northeast Oklahoma in 2010 and 2011. ... Full Story | Top |
LA serial killer sentenced to death for 3 murders
Fri,22 Jun 2012 03:46 PM PDT
Associated Press -  A convicted serial killer was given a death sentence Friday for strangling a 15-year-old girl and two women in the Los Angeles "Southside Slayer" attacks of the 1980s and 1990s, according to prosecutors.
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