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| Crime is down, but decline lags in NY neighborhood Monday, Dec 30, 2013 04:26 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Year-end boasts by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that New York is the safest big city in America can ring hollow in Brownsville, a Brooklyn neighborhood where there is a cycle of violence, silence and retribution and where crime reduction has lagged behind record lows across the city. Full Story | Top |
| Merrill taps rich investors for ex-convict social-impact bond Monday, Dec 30, 2013 03:42 PM PST  Merrill Lynch and U.S. Trust reached out to some high-powered clients this quarter to invest in a social-impact bond whose proceeds finance a program to lower recidivism rates among ex-convicts in New York. The project raised $13.5 million over 60 days from clients of the Bank of America Corp-owned brokerage and wealth management firms. Investors included former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Sommers, Utah philanthropist James Sorenson, hedge fund founder Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Foundation and billionaire investor and oil trader John Arnold, according to the bank. "They are looking for new and creative ways ... to have a more direct connection between the dollars they are investing and the impact it is having on a social problem that they care about," Andy Sieg, head of global wealth and retirement solutions at Merrill Lynch said during a telephone news conference on Monday. Full Story | Top |
| 6 arrested in Calif. police impersonation prank Monday, Dec 30, 2013 03:20 PM PST TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say they arrested six teens accused of posing as Southern California police officers and ordering people out of their cars by using megaphones and high-powered flashlights to obscure their real identity. Full Story | Top |
| Cleveland man confesses to murders, rapes, sentenced to 445 years Monday, Dec 30, 2013 02:25 PM PST  By Kim Palmer CHICAGO (Reuters) - A former neighbor of Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro pleaded guilty on Monday to murders and rapes committed nearly two decades ago and was sentenced to more than 400 years in prison with no chance of parole, prosecutors said. Elias Acevedo, Sr., 49, became a suspect in two murders committed in the 1990s after the FBI re-examined the disappearance of other missing women from the Seymour Avenue neighborhood in the aftermath of Castro's arrest in May. Castro was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, raping and torturing three women for about a decade, after they and the child he fathered with one of them were rescued from his home nearby. Acevedo pleaded guilty on Monday to all 297 counts against him, including the murder, kidnapping and rape of Pamela Pemberton, his 30-year-old neighbor, found strangled in 1994 and to the murder of Christina Adkins, a pregnant 18-year-old who disappeared in 1995. Full Story | Top |
| Crime is down, but NY neighborhood doesn't feel it Monday, Dec 30, 2013 01:46 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Year-end boasts by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that New York is the safest big city in America can ring hollow in Brownsville, a Brooklyn neighborhood where the cycle of violence, silence and retribution feels entrenched and where crime reduction has lagged behind record lows across the city. Full Story | Top |
| Dozens of Fans Have Already Been Arrested at Phish's New Year's Eve Shows Monday, Dec 30, 2013 12:38 PM PST  Speaking of regrettable ways to spend New Year's Eve, perennial jamband hooligans Phish is returning to its usual Madison Square Garden stint for a four-night marathon. CBS New York, though, points out that recent arrests at an Atlantic City show included prostitution charges: The publication said the nature of the charges against those arrested was not clear, but recent Phish concerts in Atlantic City resulted in 42 arrests ranging from drug distribution and possession, imitation drug deals and prostitution. Is Mayor Bloomberg celebrating his last week in office by cracking down on the city's real crime underbelly—jamband culture? Full Story | Top |
| Report: Iranian tycoon arrested Monday, Dec 30, 2013 11:22 AM PST Iran's official news agency says tycoon Babak Zanjani has been arrested over corruption charges. IRNA quoted state prosecutor Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi. Ejehi didn't elaborate but the Central Bank of ... Full Story | Top |
| Al Jazeera Journalists Arrested in Egypt for Talking to the Muslim Brotherhood Monday, Dec 30, 2013 06:29 AM PST  A team of journalists working for Al Jazeera English were detained by security forces in Egypt on Sunday evening for allegedly meeting with Muslim Brotherhood members and broadcasting false news. The Muslim Brotherhood, the political party that ran the country before being overthrown by the military earlier this year, was declared a terrorist organization last week. On Sunday night, Al Jazeera announced that correspondent Peter Greste, producers Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed and cameraman Mohamed Fawzy had been arrested by the Egyptian government. Full Story | Top |
| Secret Service: Robbery suspect arrested in 2010 Monday, Dec 30, 2013 05:08 AM PST  The Secret Service says the man authorities have linked to a three-state bank robbery spree, the killing of one Mississippi police officer and the wounding of another was arrested in 2010 after being accused ... Full Story | Top |
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