Saturday, September 28, 2013

Daily News: Crime and Trials News Headlines - Greek far-right leader arrested; warrants for more

Saturday, Sep 28, 2013 12:13 AM PDT

Greek far-right leader arrested; warrants for more 
Saturday, Sep 28, 2013 12:13 AM PDT
FILE - In this May 6, 2012 file photo, extreme right Golden Dawn party leader Nikos Mihaloliakos speaks during a news conference in front of a banner with the twisting Maeander, an ancient Greek decorative motif that the party has adopted as its symbol, in Athens. Greek police said Mihaloliakos was arrested on charges of forming a criminal organization. Warrants for the arrest of another five Golden Dawn parliament deputies have been issued. The police counterterrorism unit is looking for the deputies. More warrants are expected. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakourism, File)ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two top officials of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party were arrested Saturday on charges of forming a criminal organization, marking the first time since 1974 that sitting members of Parliament have been arrested.
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Prosecutors decline to charge man arrested in Dodgers fan stabbing 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 08:08 PM PDT
A police line tape is seen at the site of the fatal stabbing of a Los Angeles Dodgers fan after he attended a baseball game in San FranciscoBy Laila Kearney SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco prosecutors on Friday declined to file charges against a 21-year-old Northern California man arrested in the stabbing death of a Los Angeles Dodgers fan during a fight after a baseball game, saying he may have acted in self-defense. Michael Montgomery of Lodi, California, was arrested on Thursday along with a second suspect a day after the fatal stabbing of Jonathan Denver, the 24-year-old son of a Dodgers security guard, outside a bar just blocks from the San Francisco Giants stadium, AT&T Park. ...
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Farmers Arrested After Their Cantaloupe Results in Deadly Listeria Outbreak 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 02:29 PM PDT
Farmers can't wash a cantaloupe the same way they wash potatoes.
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Jury deliberates suit against Jackson promoter 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 10:50 AM PDT
Baliffs are sworn in to protect the jury as Brian Panish, foreground, attorney for the Michael Jackson family waits in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Katherine Jackson's negligence lawsuit against concert promoter AEG Live LLC has gone to the jury. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Al Seib, Pool)LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a bitterly fought five-month trial, a negligence lawsuit by Michael Jackson's mother against his concert promoter is in the hands of a jury after a final plea by a Jackson lawyer to punish the company he portrayed as a heartless, money-making machine.
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Nigerian pleads not guilty in U.S. court to aiding al Qaeda group 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 09:58 AM PDT
By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Nigerian citizen pleaded not guilty in a U.S. federal court in Brooklyn on Friday to helping an al Qaeda affiliate recruit English-speaking people in Nigeria. Between January 2010 and August 2011, Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi traveled twice from Nigeria to Yemen to train with leaders of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, known as AQAP, U.S. prosecutors said in a statement. Babafemi, 33, helped AQAP's media operations, including the publication of its magazine, called "Inspire," according to the statement. ...
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Two men plead not guilty to killing British soldier on London street 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 05:42 AM PDT
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Two men pleaded not guilty on Friday to murdering a British soldier whose killing in broad daylight on a busy London street in May horrified the nation. Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, a veteran of the Afghan war, was hacked to death on May 22 near an army barracks in Woolwich, southeast London. A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as "multiple incised wounds". ...
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Muslim converts plead not guilty to killing British soldier 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 03:12 AM PDT
LONDON (Reuters) - Two Muslim converts pleaded not guilty on Friday to murdering a British soldier whose killing in broad daylight on a busy London street in May horrified the nation. Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, a veteran of the Afghan war, was hacked to death near an army barracks in Woolwich, southeast London. A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as "multiple incised wounds". ...
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London police use super recognizers to fight crime 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 01:10 AM PDT
In this photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013, DCI Mick Neville who oversees the Metropolitan Police Circulation Unit poses for photographs in his office at the force's New Scotland Yard headquarters in London. The study of facial recognition is in its infancy. But since 2011, about 200 London police officers have been recruited to an elite squad of super recognizers. Officials say they have tripled the number of criminal suspects identified from surveillance photos or on the street each week, and even helped prevent some crimes like muggings, drug deals or assaults. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)LONDON (AP) — Paul Hyland almost never forgets a face. He's a "super recognizer," and that's giving an unusual kind of help to his employer: Scotland Yard.
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