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| Rapper DMX arrested for drunken driving in South Carolina Friday, Jul 26, 2013 06:09 PM PDT By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Rapper DMX was arrested on Friday on suspicion of driving under the influence and failing to have a valid driver's license, Greenville County jail officials told Reuters. The rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, paid $1,235 in bail and left Greenville County Detention Center after being booked on the charges, jail officials said. But a representative for the 42-year-old New York-born rapper, who lives in South Carolina, said the DUI charge was never filed officially because Simmons passed a breath test in the jail. ... Full Story | Top |
| Actor Wes Studi arrested for drunken driving in NM Friday, Jul 26, 2013 04:40 PM PDT  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Wes Studi, who appeared in "Dances with Wolves" and "The Last of the Mohicans," was arrested early Friday for aggravated drunken driving in New Mexico, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| SAC Capital pleads not guilty; reinsurance unit eyed Friday, Jul 26, 2013 03:55 PM PDT  By Bernard Vaughan and Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Steven A. Cohen's hedge fund pleaded not guilty on Friday to insider trading charges in federal court, as questions also surfaced about the future of SAC Capital's Bermuda-based reinsurance unit, SAC Re. Ratings company, A.M. Best Co., and the Bermuda Monetary Authority, which regulates insurers on the island, said they were monitoring developments one day after prosecutors charged the hedge fund and various affiliates with four criminal counts of securities fraud and one count of wire fraud. A year ago A.M. ... Full Story | Top |
| No death penalty for Snowden if convicted, US says Friday, Jul 26, 2013 02:36 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Striving to get Edward Snowden back to America, U.S., Attorney General Eric Holder has assured the Russian government the U.S. has no plans to seek the death penalty for the former National Security Agency systems analyst. Full Story | Top |
| Texas to seek death penalty in killings of prosecutors Friday, Jul 26, 2013 02:23 PM PDT  By Jana J. Pruet KAUFMAN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas will seek the death penalty against a former justice of the peace accused of killing of three people, including two local prosecutors, in shootings that spawned conspiracy theories and terrified a small community near Dallas. Eric Williams and his wife, Kim, are accused in the deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, at their home in March. They are also accused of gunning down Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse near a county courthouse in January. ... Full Story | Top |
| Attorney: Manning did not have 'evil intent' Friday, Jul 26, 2013 01:38 PM PDT  FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was negligent in releasing classified secrets to WikiLeaks, but the former intelligence analyst did not know al-Qaida would see the material, a defense attorney said Friday. Full Story | Top |
| Jurors hear of Tourre's Goldman paid leave after SEC lawsuit Friday, Jul 26, 2013 12:56 PM PDT  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawsuit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may have destroyed his career, as former Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre put it, but for more than a year it didn't eliminate his pay. Goldman Sachs Group Inc paid Tourre a base salary of 480,000 pounds ($738,000) after he was put on leave following the filing of the SEC lawsuit in 2010, Tourre said on Friday. Tourre, 34, speaking at the end of his second week of his trial, said he didn't have a choice but to go on leave after the lawsuit was filed. ... Full Story | Top |
| Judge bans Manning supporter from trial for threat Friday, Jul 26, 2013 12:55 PM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was negligent in releasing classified secrets to WikiLeaks, but the former intelligence analyst did not know al-Qaida would see the material, a defense attorney said Friday. Full Story | Top |
| US govt says won't seek death penalty for Snowden Friday, Jul 26, 2013 11:42 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder has assured the Russian government that the U.S. has no plans to seek the death penalty for former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden. Full Story | Top |
| Cleveland kidnapper avoids death penalty with plea deal Friday, Jul 26, 2013 11:08 AM PDT  In what might be the first act of mercy shown to his victims, the man charged with kidnapping, raping and beating three Cleveland, Ohio, women agreed to a plea deal on Friday that would spare the women the agony of reliving the horrific details of their years in captivity during a jury trial. Full Story | Top |
| Rapper DMX again arrested in South Carolina Friday, Jul 26, 2013 10:41 AM PDT GREER, S.C. (AP) — Rapper DMX has been arrested in South Carolina and charged with driving under the influence. Full Story | Top |
| Holder to Russia: Snowden won't be tortured or face death penalty Friday, Jul 26, 2013 10:19 AM PDT Attorney General Eric Holder wants Russia to turn down NSA leaker Edward Snowden's asylum request. Full Story | Top |
| SAC Capital pleads not guilty to insider-trading charges Friday, Jul 26, 2013 09:41 AM PDT  By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Steven Cohen's hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors LLP, pleaded not guilty in federal court on Friday, one day after it was indicted on insider-trading charges. The firm's general counsel, Peter Nussbaum, flanked by five defense lawyers, entered the plea before U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in New York. U.S. prosecutors on Thursday charged the $14 billion hedge fund with presiding over a culture where employees flouted the law and were encouraged to tap their personal networks for inside information about publicly traded companies. ... Full Story | Top |
| Hedge fund pleads not guilty to US fraud charges Friday, Jul 26, 2013 09:15 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors said a large volume of evidence including electronic messages, court-ordered wiretaps and consensual recordings is stacked against a Connecticut-based hedge fund that pleaded not guilty Friday to criminal charges accusing it of letting insider trading flourish for more than a decade. Full Story | Top |
| Defense attorney: Bradley Manning a whistleblower Friday, Jul 26, 2013 08:23 AM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is a whistleblower who wanted to inform the American public about the troubling things he saw in the war zone, and the soldier is willing to pay the price for giving secrets to WikiLeaks, his defense attorney said Friday. Full Story | Top |
| Ariel Castro agrees to plea in Ohio kidnap case Friday, Jul 26, 2013 08:21 AM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland man accused of holding three women captive in his home for about a decade agreed to plead guilty Friday in a deal to avoid the death penalty. Full Story | Top |
| US says it won't seek death penalty for Snowden Friday, Jul 26, 2013 07:55 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder has told the Russian government that the U.S. will not seek the death penalty for former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden. Full Story | Top |
| Suspected Serial Killer in Japan Posted Haiku to His Door Friday, Jul 26, 2013 07:23 AM PDT Japanese police have arrested a 63-year-old man in connection with the grisly murder of five elderly residents in a remote, tiny village in western Japan. The victims were found dead inside their homes in Mitake village last week, with the buildings set on fire. Suspect... Full Story | Top |
| Russian punk band convict defiant after losing parole battle Friday, Jul 26, 2013 04:56 AM PDT  By Maria Stromova SARANSK, Russia (Reuters) - A jailed member of Russian female punk group Pussy Riot lost a court battle to be released but remained unrepentant over last year's protest against President Vladimir Putin in a Moscow cathedral. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova watched from behind the black metal bars of a courtroom cage as a regional court on Friday upheld an earlier decision not to release her after nearly a year in prison so that she could look after her five-year-old daughter. The ruling by the Supreme Court of the Mordovia region was the second blow in three days for Pussy Riot. ... Full Story | Top |
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