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Rapper Beanie Sigel arrested for drug, gun possession: report
Wed,29 Aug 2012 05:32 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Philadelphia rapper Beanie Sigel was arrested on Wednesday on drug and gun possession charges, celebrity website TMZ.com reported, days before he was headed to prison for tax evasion. The rapper, whose real name is Dwight Grant, was arrested during a traffic stop during which police found prescription pills, marijuana, a gun and cash in his car, TMZ.com said. Sigel, 38, best known for his collaborations with rapper Jay-Z and R&B artist R. ... Full Story
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Lawyers: Former SEAL Author Is Almost Certainly Facing Legal Trouble
Wed,29 Aug 2012 03:09 PM PDT
The Atlantic Wire -

Lawyers: Former SEAL Author Is Almost Certainly Facing Legal TroubleThe publisher and author of No Easy Day, an upcoming tell-all on the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, promised the book doesn't reveal classified information. But government privacy lawyers speaking with The Atlantic Wire say the book almost certainly does. 


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Veteran FBI crime-fighter says "The Wire" rings true
Wed,29 Aug 2012 09:08 AM PDT
Reuters -

April Brooks, special agent in charge of the Criminal Division for the FBI's New York Field Office poses in her office in New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - The new head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's criminal division in New York, one of the nation's highest-profile law enforcement posts, is used to answering questions about her colorful 22-year career as an FBI special agent. April Brooks, 45, the first woman to run New York's FBI criminal division, worked gang cases in Los Angeles near the height of that city's crack epidemic. She was tracking sex offenders and supervising child kidnapping probes in the bureau's Crimes Against Children squad in 2002 when Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart disappeared. ...


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Motorola Secrets Thief Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison
Wed,29 Aug 2012 09:01 AM PDT
Mashable -

Motorola Secrets Thief Sentenced to 4 Years in PrisonChina-born American Hanjuan Jin has been convicted of stealing trade secrets from Motorola -- and on Wednesday, she was sentenced to four years in prison.


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Journalist arrested in UK computer hacking probe
Wed,29 Aug 2012 08:43 AM PDT
Associated Press - British police investigating computer hacking and privacy offenses arrested a journalist Wednesday at his home. Full Story
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Journalist arrested in computer hacking probe
Wed,29 Aug 2012 03:11 AM PDT
AFP -

Rupert Murdoch still owns the Times newspaper in LondonPolice arrested a journalist on Wednesday on suspicion of computer hacking as part of their wider investigation into alleged breaches of privacy.


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Missing British woman likely killed in crime of passion
Wed,29 Aug 2012 02:05 AM PDT
AFP -

Dozens of gendarmes are hunting for Patricia Wilson's bodyA British expat who has gone missing in the south of France was likely killed by her gardener in a crime of passion, prosecutors believe.


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Palestinian cars torched in suspected hate crime
Wed,29 Aug 2012 01:51 AM PDT
AFP -

Graffiti slogans referred to the Jewish settlement of Migron, which faces imminent evacuationVandals believed to be Jewish extremists on Wednesday torched a car and sprayed anti-Arab graffiti near a refugee camp near Ramallah, an AFP correspondent and police said.


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Man at RNC protest camp arrested for battery
Tue,28 Aug 2012 06:39 PM PDT
Associated Press -

A demonstrator prepares to leave his tent, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, in Tampa, Fla. Protestors gathered in a camp called "Romneyville," in Tampa to march in demonstration against the Republican National Convention. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)A man staying at a makeshift protest camp near the Republican National Convention has been arrested and charged with armed battery on a fellow camper.


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Police: Mich. student attack not likely hate crime
Tue,28 Aug 2012 05:33 PM PDT
Associated Press -

In this undated photo provided by Bruce Tennen, Zachary Tennen, a 19-year-old Michigan State University sophomore, is shown. Police say an attack on the Michigan State University student at an off-campus party is not being investigated as a hate crime. Tennen told East Lansing, Mich., police his attackers asked if he was Jewish, and when he responded "yes," he was punched in the face. Tennen, from the Detroit suburb of Franklin, was recovering Tuesday from jaw surgery. He says the assault took place early Sunday at an off-campus party. (AP Photo/Provided by Bruce Tennen)A Michigan State University student said he was attacked at an off-campus party by two men who asked if he was Jewish, and when he said he was, punched him and then stapled his mouth.


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Death penalty confirmed for Mumbai attacks gunman
Tue,28 Aug 2012 05:13 PM PDT
AFP -

Ten gunmen laid siege to India's financial capital in attacks that lasted nearly three daysIndia's Supreme Court on Wednesday confirmed the death sentence handed down to Mohammed Kasab, the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed.


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Belgium frees serial killer Dutroux accomplice into convent
Tue,28 Aug 2012 04:28 PM PDT
AFP -

Martin, 52, was given a 30-year sentence in 2004 for helping Dutroux imprison victims and for complicity in two deathsThe notorious accomplice and ex-wife of paedophile serial killer Marc Dutroux won parole on Tuesday midway through her 30-year jail sentence -- on condition she moved into a convent.


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Facebook and Twitter: A No-No for Federal Jurors
Tue,28 Aug 2012 03:00 PM PDT
Mashable -

Facebook and Twitter: A No-No for Federal JurorsWere you hoping to waste away your hours of jury duty on Facebook or Twitter?


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Religious beliefs at center of Amish attacks trial
Tue,28 Aug 2012 01:44 PM PDT
Associated Press -

Members of the Amish leave the U.S. Federal Courthouse Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, in Cleveland. A breakaway religious group spent months planning hair-cutting attacks against followers of their Amish faith, U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday as they laid out their case against 16 people charged with hate crimes. Such hair-cuttings are considered deeply offensive in the traditional Amish culture. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)A group of Amish men and women accused of hate crimes in hair-cutting attacks took action out of concern that members of their religion were straying from their beliefs, defense attorneys said Tuesday.


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Police say attack on Mich. student not hate crime
Tue,28 Aug 2012 12:51 PM PDT
Associated Press - Police say an attack on a Michigan State University student at an off-campus party is not being investigated as a hate crime. Full Story
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"The Walking Dead" star arrested for DUI
Tue,28 Aug 2012 11:26 AM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Forget "The Walking Dead" - the Driving Bombed might be the bigger danger. "Walking Dead" actor Scott Wilson, who plays alcoholic farmer Hershel Greene on AMC's hit zombie drama, is facing DUI charges after being arrested last week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Wilson, 70, was pulled over at 2 a.m. on August 18 by Peachtree City, Ga., police after they observed his black PT Cruiser traveling at about 70 miles per hour - "well above the posted speed limit" for the area, according to officials. ... Full Story
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Wells Fargo fires Iowa worker for minor 1963 crime
Tue,28 Aug 2012 10:33 AM PDT
Associated Press - Wells Fargo Home Mortgage has fired a Des Moines worker over a 1963 incident at a Laundromat involving a fake dime in the wake of new employment guidelines. Full Story
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US expects another guilty plea in car-parts probe
Tue,28 Aug 2012 10:20 AM PDT
Associated Press - The federal government says a Japanese company has agreed to plead guilty in Detroit and pay a $1 million fine in a price-fixing investigation involving auto parts. Full Story
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Chicago Crime Commission Applauds Quinn's Gambling Bill Veto
Tue,28 Aug 2012 10:02 AM PDT
PR Newswire - CHICAGO, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Chicago Crime Commission applauds Illinois Governor Pat Quinn's veto of a major gambling expansion bill that would have been detrimental to the citizens of Illinois. "We applaud Governor Quinn's strong stand and conclusion that the gambling expansion bill was critically flawed due to a lack of regulatory safeguards," according to J.R. Davis, President of the Chicago Crime Commission. ... Full Story
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Former Nevada energy drink CEO sentenced
Tue,28 Aug 2012 08:02 AM PDT
Associated Press - A federal judge has sentenced the former chief executive officer of a Nevada energy drink company to more than four years in prison for tax evasion. Full Story
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Romanian businessman acquitted of corruption
Tue,28 Aug 2012 07:58 AM PDT
Associated Press - A Romanian court has acquitted a businessman and 11 other people of defrauding the state of $85 million (€68 million) by money laundering and illegally manipulating markets to financially benefit a major oil company. Full Story
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West Bank cars torched in suspected hate crime
Tue,28 Aug 2012 07:52 AM PDT
AFP -

Revenge hate crimes by Israeli extremists, termed "price tag" attacks, normally target Palestinians and ArabsVandals believed to be Jewish extremists set light to three cars in a village in the southern West Bank on Tuesday, Palestinian witnesses said.


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U.N. seeks details on employees sentenced in Myanmar
Mon,27 Aug 2012 05:29 PM PDT
Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is seeking information on three people working for the world body who were sentenced by a Myanmar court in connection with sectarian violence there earlier this year, a U.N. spokesman said on Monday. "The country team in Yangon has received information that a court in Maungdaw has sentenced three people - one from the U.N. refugee agency, one from the World Food Program and a third person who works for a partner organization of the refugee agency," spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters. ... Full Story
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New York "stop and frisk" trial set for March 2013
Mon,27 Aug 2012 03:32 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The broadest legal challenge to the New York Police Department's controversial crime-fighting tactic known as "stop and frisk" will head to trial in March, a U.S. judge ruled on Monday. The case stems from a class action lawsuit filed in 2008 by four black men claiming they were improperly targeted by police because of their race. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan granted class action status to the lawsuit in March, saying the plaintiffs had established their cases were emblematic of a city-wide problem. ... Full Story
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Jurors seated in Ohio Amish beard-cutting attacks
Mon,27 Aug 2012 03:09 PM PDT
Associated Press -

FILE - In an Oct. 10. 2011 file photo, Sam Mullet Sr., the leader of a breakaway Amish group, stands in the front yard of his Bergholz, Ohio home. Mullet and 15 other Amish men and women are to go on trial Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Cleveland on charges of carrying out hate crimes in the hair-cutting attacks. Other charges include conspiracy, evidence tampering and obstruction of justice in what prosecutors say are crimes motivated by religious differences. They could face lengthy prison terms if convicted.( AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)Prosecutors will begin laying out their case Tuesday against 16 people charged with federal hate crimes in hair-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio.


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