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| Mississippi man pleads guilty to hate crimes following attacks Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 03:39 PM PST JACKSON, Miss (Reuters) - A Mississippi man pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal hate crime charges in connection with attacks on African-Americans that ended with a black man dead after being run over by a truck, federal officials said. Joseph Dominick, 21, was the sixth person to plead guilty to hate crimes charges for being part of a group of white males who routinely assaulted blacks in the Jackson area starting in the spring of 2011, attacking victims with motor vehicles, beer bottles and sling shots. ... Full Story | Top |
| In case involving Gallup, man to plead guilty Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 03:20 PM PST A former Federal Emergency Management Agency employee intends to plead guilty in a criminal case alleging that he helped secure federal funds for The Gallup Organization while he was negotiating to go to work for the polling firm, his lawyer said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
| Transocean agrees to pay $1.4 billion fine for Gulf oil spill Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 03:04 PM PST An offshore drilling company agreed to plead guilty on Thursday to a single Clean Water Act charge and pay $1.4 billion in fines for its role in the April 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Full Story | Top |
| Trial set to begin in Boston over pregnancy drug Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 02:06 PM PST BOSTON (AP) â€" At first, the Melnick sisters thought it was just a cruel coincidence that two of them were diagnosed with breast cancer. Full Story | Top |
| Swiss bank to pay $57.8M in US tax evasion plea Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 01:05 PM PST Switzerland's oldest bank became the first foreign bank to plead guilty in the United States to tax charges when it admitted Thursday that it helped American clients hide more than $1.2 billion from the ... Full Story | Top |
| More than 240 arrested in U.S.-led crackdown on global child porn Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 12:24 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. special agents identified 123 victims of child sexual exploitation during a five-week-long global crackdown on child pornography that resulted in the arrests of 245 people in the United States and overseas, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents launched "Operation Sunflower" to rescue child victims and find people who trade and produce child pornography. The operation took place across the United States and in six countries and involved children as young as 2 years old. ... Full Story | Top |
| Death sentenced overturend in prison guard killing Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 12:23 PM PST  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) â€" The South Dakota Supreme Court has overturned a state prison inmate's death sentence for the killing of a prison guard nearly two years ago. Full Story | Top |
| Hundreds arrested in child exploitation probe Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 10:56 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" More than 200 adults have been arrested in an international investigation of child pornography, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
| Ethiopian police says Qaida terror cell arrested Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 07:55 AM PST ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) â€" Ethiopia's spy agency says that security forces have arrested 15 people alleged to be members of a terror cell linked with al-Qaida. Full Story | Top |
| Conn. man arrested, accused of stripping in church Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 04:24 AM PST KILLINGLY, Conn. (AP) â€" A Brooklyn man who police say stripped naked in a church in the presence of congregants and school children is being evaluated at an eastern Connecticut hospital. Full Story | Top |
| Police to Seek Death Penalty Against Indian Rape Suspects Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 03:59 AM PST Police in India will reportedly submit 50 pages of criminal charges against five men on Thursday, including murder, rape, robbery, assault, and kidnapping for the brutal gang rape of a young woman that has generated worldwide outrage. The official accusations still remain confidential, but police say they will ask for the rarely used death penalty for the five suspects. A sixth suspect will also be charged as a juvenile. Full Story | Top |
| Nepali man arrested in UK over torture allegations Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 03:41 AM PST LONDON (AP) â€" British police say that they have arrested a Nepali man on suspicion of torture allegedly committed during the Himalayan nation's bloody civil war. Full Story | Top |
| NM Republican Arrested for Stalking Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 12:46 AM PST Gary Smith Has Been Arrested Twice in the Last 2 Weeks Full Story | Top |
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