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Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Suspect in Las Vegas Strip shooting arrested in Los Angeles Vegas shooting suspect arrested in Los Angeles "Cannibal Cop" kidnap plots were fantasy: defense lawyers GI admits leaks, accuses military of 'bloodlust' Las Vegas Strip shooting suspect arrested in L.A. area Fort Hood shooting suspect trial set for May 29 Ga. couple who confined teenage son sentenced Police: Suspect arrested in Los Angeles in Las Vegas shooting and fiery crash that killed 3 Ex-Yugoslav army leader acquitted of war crimes Death of the Backroom Deal 4th Philly-area teen sentenced in woman's beating

Suspect in Las Vegas Strip shooting arrested in Los Angeles  Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 07:52 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A man accused of gunning down an aspiring rapper as he drove on the Las Vegas Strip last week, touching off a fiery car crash that also killed two other people, was arrested in Los Angeles on Thursday after an exhaustive multi-state manhunt. Ammar Harris, 26, surrendered at an apartment in the North Hollywood section of Los Angeles after it was surrounded by members of a joint Los Angeles police and FBI task force, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Lieutenant Ray Steiber said. ... Full Story	Top
Vegas shooting suspect arrested in Los Angeles  Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 07:25 PM PST LAS VEGAS (AP) â€" A self-described pimp was arrested Thursday in Los Angeles, ending a weeklong manhunt that began after a shooting and spectacular, fiery crash that killed three people on the Las Vegas Strip, police said. Full Story	Top
"Cannibal Cop" kidnap plots were fantasy: defense lawyers  Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 03:56 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City police officer accused of plotting to kidnap, cook and eat women would not have plotted last year for three kidnappings in a single week if he had been serious, defense attorneys argued on Thursday. Lawyers for Officer Gilberto Valle, dubbed "the cannibal cop" by local media, argued that the plots were pure fantasy and that he was a member of a fantasy role-playing website where people pretend to act out violent sexual fantasies. Prosecutors have said that out of two dozen plots involving women at least three were real. ... Full Story	Top
GI admits leaks, accuses military of 'bloodlust'  Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 02:44 PM PST FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) â€" A U.S. Army judge has accepted an offer by a private to plead guilty to violating military regulations in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history. Full Story	Top
Las Vegas Strip shooting suspect arrested in L.A. area  Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 02:31 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A man accused of gunning down an aspiring rapper killed as he drove his Maserati on the Las Vegas Strip last week has been arrested in Southern California, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman said on Thursday. Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr., 27, was fatally wounded in the shooting, and his silver Maserati veered into a taxicab, killing the driver and his passenger when it exploded into flames. Cherry performed under the name "Kenny Clutch. ... Full Story	Top
Fort Hood shooting suspect trial set for May 29  Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 02:30 PM PST FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) â€" The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage is to go on trial in three months, after several delays in the case, including an unexpected snag over his beard. Full Story	Top
Ga. couple who confined teenage son sentenced  Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 01:34 PM PST DALLAS, Ga. (AP) â€" A mother and stepfather who confined their teenage son to a bedroom for years with little food were each sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to cruelty to children and false imprisonment charges. Full Story	Top
Police: Suspect arrested in Los Angeles in Las Vegas shooting and fiery crash that killed 3  Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 01:29 PM PST LAS VEGAS (AP) â€" Police: Suspect arrested in Los Angeles in Las Vegas shooting and fiery crash that killed 3. Full Story	Top
Ex-Yugoslav army leader acquitted of war crimes  Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 09:59 AM PST THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The former head of the Yugoslav army was acquitted on Thursday of charges of aiding and abetting atrocities committed in Bosnia and Croatia during the 1990s, in a ruling that was condemned by victims but welcomed by Serb officials. United Nations war crimes judges said Momcilo Perisic had provided legitimate military support to the ethnic Serb Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) forces in Bosnia, but ruled he had not ordered them to commit war crimes. ... Full Story	Top
Death of the Backroom Deal  Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 08:01 AM PST IN THE NEWS: Why Woodward-White House War Matters … Sequester: Overhyped? … Sequester bills fail in Senate … House passes VAWA … Manning pleads guilty in WikiLeaks case … Schwartz steps down as DCCC fundraiserTHE TAKE Full Story	Top
4th Philly-area teen sentenced in woman's beating  Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 04:01 AM PST MEDIA, Pa. (AP) â€" A fourth teenage girl has been sentenced to prison in the videotaped beating of a mentally disabled woman as she sat on her stoop in a city outside Philadelphia. Full Story	Top

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