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| Vatican official arrested in corruption plot Friday, Jun 28, 2013 12:57 AM PDT A Vatican official has been arrested in a purported plot to bring 20 million euros ($26 million) into Italy from Switzerland aboard an Italian government plane. Silverio Sica, attorney for Monsignor Nunzio ... Full Story | Top |
| Lawyer: Vatican official arrested in alleged plot to bring 20M euro into Italy on gov't plane Friday, Jun 28, 2013 12:45 AM PDT Lawyer: Vatican official arrested in alleged plot to bring 20M euro into Italy on gov't plane. Full Story | Top |
| Vatican cleric, two others, arrested in bank investigation Friday, Jun 28, 2013 12:34 AM PDT ROME (Reuters) - A Vatican cleric, a member of Italy's secret services and a financial broker were arrested on Friday as part of an Italian investigation into the Vatican bank, a police source and a lawyer said. The cleric, Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, worked as an accountant in the Vatican's financial administration. He was arrested in a parish in Rome's outskirts, his lawyer Silverio Sica told Reuters. Scarano was suspended from his duties several weeks ago when he was placed under investigation by magistrates in the southern city of Salerno, his home town. ... Full Story | Top |
| Texas teen arrested in fatal beating of 5-year-old Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 05:15 PM PDT FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A 13-year-old North Texas boy faces a capital murder charge in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was hit in the head multiple times, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| 'Django' Stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx Rechained For WB Crime Movie Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 05:09 PM PDT  By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Django Unchained" stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx are set to play bad-ass detectives in "Mean Business on North Ganson Street," an adaptation of S. Craig Zahler's upcoming crime novel that has just been acquired by Warner Bros. Zahler ("The Brigands of Rattleborge") will write the script, and DiCaprio will produce with his Appian Way partner Jennifer Davisson Killoran. ... Full Story | Top |
| Jurors in Zimmerman trial hear 911 call, deadly gunshot Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 04:57 PM PDT  Jurors for the first time heard the shot that brought a nation's focus to a teenager name Trayvon Martin and a town that had been known before mostly for an airport and the end of a railway. Full Story | Top |
| Friend: Trayvon Martin encounter racially charged Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 04:52 PM PDT  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman's defense attorney insisted during several testy exchanges with an important prosecution witness Thursday that Trayvon Martin injected race into a confrontation with the neighborhood watch volunteer and insinuated the young woman was not believable because of inconsistencies in her story. Full Story | Top |
| Jurors may hear dying woman's words at Fort Hood trial Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 04:10 PM PDT  By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Jurors in the trial of accused Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Hasan will be allowed to hear the dying words of Private First Class Francheska Velez, who was six weeks pregnant when she was shot dead in the rampage, a military judge ruled on Thursday. Velez, who was 21 and expecting her first child, screamed, "My baby, My baby" when she was shot during the November 2009 attack that killed 13 and wounded 32. Her words may be read to jurors, Colonel Tara Osborn ruled. ... Full Story | Top |
| My Star Witness Is Black: Rachel Jeantel's Testimony Makes Trayvon a Show Trial Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 01:33 PM PDT  Rachel Jeantel was on the phone with Trayvon Martin minutes before George Zimmerman shot and killed him, and she could make or break a murder case that was supposed to be microcosm for race and violence in this country. Rachel Jeantel was also on every cable news network in America for upwards of six hours today in her second straight day on the witness stand, and she really didn't want to be. But that didn't stop Zimmerman's defense attorney, Don West, from repeatedly saying Jeantel was "lying" about Martin's description of his client as a "crazy-ass cracker. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ex-Ark. treasurer pleads not guilty to charges Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 09:42 AM PDT  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges she steered state investments to a bond broker for $36,000. Full Story | Top |
| Former Ark. treasurer pleads not guilty to charges Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 09:24 AM PDT Former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges she steered state investments to a bond broker for $36,000. U.S. Magistrate Judge Joe Volpe set Shoffner's jury trial to ... Full Story | Top |
| Turkish terrorist suspect arrested in Vienna Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 08:45 AM PDT VIENNA (AP) — Austrian and German authorities say a suspected member of a Turkish terrorist group has been detained in Vienna. Full Story | Top |
| 'Whitey' Bulger jury to hear from former Boston FBI supervisor Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 07:33 AM PDT  By Daniel Lovering BOSTON (Reuters) - A former FBI official whose first meeting with James "Whitey" Bulger came when he invited the reputed mob boss to his home for dinner could shed light on Thursday on the corrupt relationship the bureau developed with the gangster. Defense attorney Henry Brennan began Thursday's proceedings, continuing his cross-examination of John Marra, a Justice Department agent who had probed the Boston FBI's relationship with Bulger. ... Full Story | Top |
| Martin friend resumes testimony at Zimmerman trial Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 06:33 AM PDT  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman's defense attorney on Thursday questioned a friend of Trayvon Martin about why she had given differing accounts about her last phone conversation with the 17-year-old in the moments before he was fatally shot by the neighborhood watch volunteer. Full Story | Top |
| Prominent militant arrested in blow to Somali Islamists Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 01:06 AM PDT  By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - One of Somalia's most prominent Islamist rebel commanders has been arrested and is in the hands of a regional administration, local and government officials said on Wednesday, dealing a blow to the country's al Shabaab insurgents. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys was detained in a coastal area of central Somalia and had been taken to a safe-house in the town of Adado, said a spokesman for the Somali Federal Government. Aweys was "linked to terrorism" by the United States shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington and is on a U.N. ... Full Story | Top |
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