Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News:
|
|
Tourist arrested with loaded gun at September 11 memorial
Thu,29 Dec 2011 01:03 PM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tourist from Tennessee was arrested after she brought a loaded handgun to the National September 11 Memorial in her handbag, and she could face a possible prison term, authorities said on Thursday. Meredith Graves, 39, was trying to visit the New York City memorial on December 22 but was arrested when she told security officers that she had a gun, apparently thinking she could check it for safekeeping, authorities said. Security is tight at the memorial, located at the site of the World Trade Center towers destroyed in the attacks of September 11, 2001. ...
Full Story | Top |
5 Occupy protesters arrested at Paul campaign HQ
Thu,29 Dec 2011 12:08 PM PST
Associated Press - Five Occupy protesters were arrested Thursday outside the Iowa campaign headquarters of presidential contender Ron Paul as the group continued its protest against Republican candidates and President Barack Obama. Full Story | Top |
Ajax fan sentenced for attack on goalkeeper
Thu,29 Dec 2011 10:16 AM PST
AFP -  A Dutch court has sentenced an Ajax fan to six months in jail after he ran onto the pitch during a Dutch Cup match and tried to assault an opposition goalkeeper, a report said on Thursday.
Full Story | Top |
NYC Mayor: Stats show uptick, but crime down
Thu,29 Dec 2011 06:27 AM PST
Associated Press - Despite statistics expected to show a slight increase in major crimes by the end of the year, city officials declared Wednesday that New York City's historic, two-decade decline in crime isn't over. Full Story | Top |
Spain king's son-in-law subpoenaed in graft probe
Thu,29 Dec 2011 03:46 AM PST
Associated Press - A judge subpoenaed the son-in-law of Spain's King Juan Carlos on Thursday to testify as a suspect in a corruption case, deepening a public relations nightmare for the royal family at a time of acute economic crisis for everyday people. Full Story | Top |
Senegal opposition mayor arrested over fatal shooting
Wed,28 Dec 2011 09:27 PM PST
Reuters - DAKAR (Reuters) - A high-profile opponent of Senegal's president and ruling party, who is also a mayor of a suburb in the capital Dakar, was detained on Wednesday on suspicion of involvement in a fatal town hall shooting, his lawyer said. The arrest of Barthelemy Dias may stoke political tensions in the West African nation two months ahead of a presidential election in which incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade plans to seek reelection despite an outcry from the opposition. ... Full Story | Top |
A Second Look at the Death Penalty
Wed,28 Dec 2011 12:00 AM PST
Susan Estrich - I still remember back in 1988 sitting in a Chinese restaurant when then-Governor Bill Clinton took a napkin and listed on one side the Democratic governors who were against the death penalty and, on the other, those who were for it. In its time, the issue was the third rail in American politics — the line that divided those who could win because they were considered tough on crime and those who would face electoral problems. A few years later, my friend Kathleen Brown was trounced in the governor's race in California in large part because she opposed the death penalty. Full Story | Top |
Acquitted pastor's ex-wife dies years after attack
Tue,27 Dec 2011 04:42 PM PST
Associated Press -  The discovery of the wife of one of Dallas' most prominent ministers choked with a cord and left convulsing and near death on their garage floor led to a sensational trial. Prosecutors charged Walker Railey with attempted murder, saying he wanted to marry his lover, who also had church connections.
Full Story | Top |
Swedish reporters sentenced to 11 yrs in Ethiopia
Tue,27 Dec 2011 04:17 PM PST
Associated Press - A court in Ethiopia has sentenced two Swedish journalists to 11 years in prison on charges of supporting terrorism after the two illegally entered the country with an ethnic Somali rebel group in a case that has been criticized by media rights groups. Full Story | Top |
Crime scene cleanup ad lifts Handel's Messiah
Tue,27 Dec 2011 09:26 AM PST
Reuters - BOSTON (Reuters) - Who says beautiful music and blood spatter cleanup can't go together. When Chorus North Shore performs Handel's Messiah or Verdi's Requiem, the Boston-area group usually can count on Timothy Riley and his crime scene cleanup business for moral and economic support. Riley, for example, recently advertised his company's "crime and death scene cleaning" in the playbill of Chorus North Shore's Handel's Messiah performance at two Catholic churches north of Boston. ... Full Story | Top |
Missing Ind. girl found dead, babysitter arrested
Tue,27 Dec 2011 06:08 AM PST
Associated Press -  The neighbor who was babysitting a 9-year-old Indiana girl when she went missing last week will be formally charged with murder Tuesday, a heartbreaking turn for the girl's relatives who considered him a family friend.
Full Story | Top |
Mexico police arrested over torture video
Mon,26 Dec 2011 10:57 PM PST
Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities arrested five policemen on Monday on suspicion of torture after a video was made public showing police officers submerging a detainee's head in a bucket of water. An official at the attorney general's office said five Mexico City police officers were taken into custody over the alleged torture, which took place in the capital's tough inner city neighborhood of Tepito last month. ... Full Story | Top |
How to Get Arrested for Being Terrible at Karaoke
Mon,26 Dec 2011 08:16 AM PST
The Atlantic Wire - A man set off a brawl in a Sandusky, Ohio, bar last week after the other patrons booed him off the stage for being a terrible singer. Twenty-year-old Isiah Johnson stormed off the stage after other bar-goers heckled his singing peformance. Bouncer removed him from the bar, but he came back later and refused to leave. When patrons and bartenders tried to throw him out again, he punched three people in the face and cops were called. Johnson was booked on "three counts of assault, underage consumption, obstructing official busines, resisting arrest and persistent intoxication. ... Full Story | Top |
| |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment