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| Bangladesh fire protests rage, supervisors arrested Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 10:24 PM PST  DHAKA/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Three supervisors of a Bangladeshi garment factory were arrested on Wednesday as protests over a suspected arson fire that killed more than 100 people raged on into a third day, with textile workers and police clashing in the streets of a Dhaka suburb. The government has blamed last weekend's disaster, the country's worst-ever industrial blaze, on saboteurs and police said they had arrested two people, who were seen on CCTV footage trying to set fire to stockpiles of material in another factory. ... Full Story | Top |
| NH couple arrested at Fla. parade after boy burned Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 08:17 PM PST  A New Hampshire couple suspected of abusing the woman's 3-year-old son have been arrested while leaving a parade at a theme park in Orlando, Fla., after two weeks on the run, authorities say. Full Story | Top |
| 'That 70s Show' star arrested in North Carolina Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 08:06 PM PST "That '70s Show" star Lisa Robin Kelly is free on bond after being arrested for assault. Full Story | Top |
| Suspect in Lottery Winner's Murder Cries During Her Trial Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 04:58 PM PST  Doris "Dee Dee" Moore swindled money from Florida lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, then fatally shot him and buried his body, prosecutor Jay Pruner said Wednesday during opening statements at Moore's trial.Moore, 40, is charged with first-degree murder.Her defense attorney, Byron Hileman, told jurors in the Tampa courtroom that Moore was innocent, and that the evidence against her was circumstantial. He said that Moore's gun may have been used to shoot Shakespeare, but noted that ballistics tests were incomplete.Moore broke down during Hileman's opening statements. ... Full Story | Top |
| Former CEO of SNC Lavalin arrested Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 04:35 PM PST The former chief executive of Canadian engineering and construction giant SNC-Lavalin has been arrested and charged with fraud, authorities said Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
| Attorney: Prayer group killing confession made up Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 03:51 PM PST  A Kansas City man who told police he killed the wife of his prayer group leader at her husband's request made up the story and had nothing to do with the woman's suicide, his defense attorney said Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. bans BP from new government contracts after oil spill deal Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 03:21 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government banned BP Plc on Wednesday from new federal contracts over its "lack of business integrity" in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, possibly imperiling the company's role as a top U.S. offshore oil and gas producer and the No. 1 military fuel supplier. The suspension, announced by the Environmental Protection Agency, comes on the heels of BP's November 15 agreement with the U.S. government to plead guilty to criminal misconduct in the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The British energy giant agreed to pay $4. ... Full Story | Top |
| Terror plotter Jose Padilla wins resentence delay Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 03:13 PM PST Convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla's resentencing was postponed by a federal judge Wednesday, after his defense attorney argued Padilla is deteriorating psychologically after years of isolation and needs more time for family visits. Full Story | Top |
| SNC-Lavalin ex-CEO arrested in widening scandal Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 02:28 PM PST  (Reuters) - In the latest twist in an ethics scandal at Canada's biggest engineering firm, the former chief executive of SNC-Lavalin Group was arrested on Wednesday on three fraud-related charges, sending the company's stock down 2 percent. Pierre Duhaime, who resigned from SNC in March, was arrested at his home by the province of Quebec's anti-corruption squad on charges of fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and use of false documents, said Anne-Frédérick Laurence, a spokeswoman for Unite Permanente Anticorruption Quebec, a provincial police unit. ... Full Story | Top |
| Koran-Burning Pastor Sentenced to Death in Egypt, Blames It on 'True Face of Islam' Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 02:11 PM PST  It would be a generally bad idea for Terry Jones, the Florida pastor most famous for burning Korans and being a generally terrible human being, to vacation in Egypt right about now. Because he would die. Full Story | Top |
| Title, new release date announced for memoir by former US exchange student acquitted of murder Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 01:16 PM PST NEW YORK, N.Y. - Amanda Knox's upcoming memoir has a title, a cover design and a new publication date. Full Story | Top |
| Canadian sentenced to death in Egypt over anti-Islam film fears kidnapping Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 12:29 PM PST TORONTO - A Canadian man who was sentenced to death in absentia today in Cairo over an anti-Islam movie says he's terrified of being kidnapped and taken to Egypt. Full Story | Top |
| Violent crime takes a holiday in New York City Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 12:02 PM PST  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City passed a day without a single report of a person being shot, stabbed or subject to other sorts of violent crime for the first time in recent memory, police said on Wednesday. The rare day occurred on Monday, near the end of a year when the city's murder rate is on target to hit its lowest point since 1960, according to New York Police Department chief spokesman Paul Browne. Browne said it was "first time in memory" the city's police force had experienced such a peaceful day. ... Full Story | Top |
| Russian court jails Red Square bomb plot convict for 15 years Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 09:23 AM PST MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Moscow court on Wednesday convicted a man of participating in a failed plot to carry out a suicide bomb attack in Red Square on New Year's Eve in 2010 and sentenced him to 15 years in prison, the Russian prosecutor general's office said. The court found that Ilyas Saidov brought two bombs to Moscow from the volatile North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on a bus and delivered them to two women who were to set them off on the square outside the Kremlin, it said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Egyptian Christians sentenced to death for Islam film Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 05:18 AM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - A Cairo court on Wednesday sentenced to death seven Egyptian Christians tried in absentia for participating in an anti-Islam video that was released on the Internet in September and prompted violent protests in Muslim countries. "The seven accused persons were convicted of insulting the Islamic religion through participating in producing and offering a movie that insults Islam and its prophet," Judge Saif al-Nasr Soliman said. The low-budget video, produced privately in California, denigrated the Prophet Mohammad and triggered anti-U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Protests rage over Bangladesh factory fire, supervisors arrested Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 04:04 AM PST  DHAKA (Reuters) - Three supervisors of a Bangladeshi garments factory were arrested on Wednesday as protests over a fire that killed more than 100 people raged on into a third day, with textile workers and police clashing in the streets of a Dhaka suburb. The government has blamed last weekend's disaster, the country's worst-ever industrial blaze, on saboteurs and police said they had arrested two people who were seen on CCTV footage trying to set fire to stockpiles of cotton in another factory. ... Full Story | Top |
| Egyptian Christians sentenced to death for anti-Islam film Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 03:46 AM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - A Cairo court on Wednesday sentenced to death seven Egyptian Christians tried in absentia for participating in an anti-Islam video that was released on the Internet in September and had prompted violent protests in many Muslim countries. "The seven accused persons were convicted of insulting the Islamic religion through participating in producing and offering a movie that insults Islam and its prophet," Judge Saif al-Nasr Soliman said. The crude, low-budget video, produced privately in California, denigrated the Prophet Mohammad and triggered anti-U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Citing hunt for pedophiles, Dutch government to make refusing to help decrypt computer a crime Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 12:28 AM PST AMSTERDAM - The Dutch government says it is planning to make it a crime for a suspect in a child sex abuse or terrorism case to refuse to help decrypt a computer when ordered to do so by prosecutors. Full Story | Top |
| Ark. man arrested in girl's death due in court Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 12:08 AM PST  After her father and stepmother were arrested last year for chaining her to a dresser, young Jersey Bridgeman received something of a fresh start when she began kindergarten this fall in northwestern Arkansas. Full Story | Top |
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