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| US to seek death penalty for accused Boston bomber Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 10:24 PM PST  The United States is to seek a rare federal death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving young student accused of the Boston marathon bombings, Attorney General Eric Holder said. Three people were killed and about 260 wounded on April 15 last year when two bombs made of explosives-packed pressure cookers went off near the finish line of the Boston marathon. Tsarnaev, then 19, and his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev were cornered by police after a four-day manhunt. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. Senator Udall's son arrested in Colorado on drug charges Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 04:54 PM PST  The 26-year-old son of U.S. Senator Mark Udall was arrested on suspicion of drug possession and trespassing over accusations he tried to break into cars and admitted he was doing heroin, police in Colorado said on Thursday. Jedediah Lee Fox-Udall was taken into custody on Wednesday after residents in Eldorado Springs, Colorado, just south of Boulder, called police to report that a man was breaking into cars in their neighborhood, said Commander Heidi Prentup of the Boulder County Sheriff's Office. Before deputies arrived, park rangers who were already in the area had detained Fox-Udall, who fit the description of the man breaking into the vehicles, Prentup said. "While searching the suspect, deputies found drug paraphernalia (and) the suspect told deputies he had used heroin 48 hours prior to their contact with him," she said. Full Story | Top |
| Boston Marathon bombing: US seeks death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 03:38 PM PST US Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday authorized federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is accused of killing three and wounding hundreds in a bombing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon last April. "After consideration of the relevant facts, the applicable regulations and the submissions made by the defendant's counsel, I have determined that the United States will seek the death penalty in this matter," Mr. Holder said in a statement. Instead, the government filed with the US District Court of Massachusetts in Boston the required notice of intent to seek the death penalty. In a statement, US Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz said that her federal prosecutors in Boston "support this decision and the trial team is prepared to move forward with the prosecution." Full Story | Top |
| U.S. to seek death penalty for accused Boston Marathon bomber Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 03:00 PM PST By David Ingram and Richard Valdmanis WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - The United States will seek the death penalty for accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is charged with planting homemade explosives devices that killed three people and wounded 264 at the Boston Marathon last year, the government's chief prosecutor said on Thursday. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement that he was authorizing trial prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Tsarnaev, who is charged with committing one of the largest attacks on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001. Holder had faced a Friday deadline for deciding whether to seek the death penalty as part of Tsarnaev's upcoming trial in Boston. Government prosecutors said in a filing with the U.S. District Court in Boston that reasons for Holder's decision included that the killings were premeditated, cruel and that Tsarnaev had shown a lack of remorse. Full Story | Top |
| In double legal trouble, Bieber tests positive for pot, meds Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 02:42 PM PST  By Cameron French and Zachary Fagenson TORONTO/MIAMI BEACH (Reuters) - Teen pop star Justin Bieber, facing charges in the United States and Canada, had pot and anti-anxiety medication in his system when arrested in Florida last week but told police his mother "takes care" of his prescriptions, according to official reports released Thursday. Bieber was charged late on Wednesday with assaulting a limousine driver in Toronto and the Toronto Star newspaper reported Thursday that the driver in the alleged assault in December quit his job "in shock" following the incident. The charges over the last week now put Bieber at risk of serving jail time. On Thursday, a report by the Miami-Dade Office of the State Attorney said Bieber had marijuana and prescription medication for anxiety in his system when he was arrested in Miami Beach. Full Story | Top |
| Amanda Knox Found Guilty of Murder, Again Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 01:14 PM PST  Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty of murder in the third trial in Italy over the death of Knox's roommate, Meredith Kercher. Knox, who is currently in Seattle, and Sollecito have already appealed their 2009 convictions twice. According to ABC News, Italian law doesn't require either Knox nor Sollecito to be present while the verdict was read. Sollecito is in Italy, so his passport will be revoked now that the guilty verdict came down, but he is not yet under arrest. Full Story | Top |
| Mass. teen pleads not guilty to raping teacher Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 12:59 PM PST  SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A 15-year-old Massachusetts boy charged with killing his math teacher pleaded not guilty Thursday to a second charge of raping her. Full Story | Top |
| Sixth grade teacher arrested for hoarding hundreds of dead, dying pythons Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 12:49 PM PST Police arrested a Newport Beach, Calif. elementary school teacher on Wednesday after they executed a search warrant and found over 420 pythons throughout his suburban Southern California home. William Buchman, a sixth-grade teacher at Mariners Elementary School, now faces felony animal cruelty charges, reports the Los Angeles Times. It smelled like "death," Santa Ana police officer Anthony Bertagna observed. Neighbors had nicknamed Buchman "the rat man" because he regularly had rodents delivered to his home. Full Story | Top |
| Feds Will Seek Death Penalty for Boston Marathon Bomber Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 11:44 AM PST  Attorney General Eric Holder has authorized federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. "After consideration of the relevant facts, the applicable regulations and the submissions made by the defendant's counsel, I have determined that the United States will seek the death penalty in this matter," read Holder's statement on the decision, which was released today. "The nature of the conduct at issue and resultant harm compel this decision." You can read the Justice Department's letter of intent here. Tsarnaev faces 30 charges in a Massachusetts court for his role in the April 2013 bombing and the following two-day manhunt, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death. The decision as to whether federal authorities should seek the death penalty for Tsarnaev was a matter of national debate in months following the attack. Full Story | Top |
| Bangladesh top Islamist sentenced to death for arms smuggling Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 09:12 AM PST  Chittagong (Bangladesh) (AFP) - A Bangladesh court sentenced Thursday the leader of the country's largest Islamist party and 13 others to death over a huge 2004 arms smuggling racket, sparking fears of new political unrest. Motiur Rahman Nizami, 70, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was convicted and sentenced over the racket involving 10 truckloads of arms seized by police a decade ago at a Bangladesh port. This is an unprecedented case and all those accused have got due justice," prosecutor Kamal Uddin Ahmed told AFP from the southern port city of Chittagong. Prosecutors said Nizami, who was industries minister at the time, helped unload the weapons at the port that included 4,930 firearms and 27,020 grenades destined for a rebel group across the border in northeast India. Full Story | Top |
| Texan pleads not guilty in attack on elderly man Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 08:48 AM PST HOUSTON (AP) — A white Houston-area man accused of sucker punching an elderly black man has pleaded not guilty to a federal hate crime charge. Full Story | Top |
| Not guilty: Ribery and Benzema acquitted in trial Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 06:25 AM PST PARIS (AP) — Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribery and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema were acquitted on charges of soliciting an underage prostitute on Wednesday, ending a case that has lasted more than three years and tarnished both players' reputation. Full Story | Top |
| Russia: 2 suspects arrested in suicide bombing Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 06:08 AM PST MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's counterterrorism agency on Thursday identified the two suicide bombers who struck the southern city of Volgograd and announced the arrest of two suspected accomplices. Full Story | Top |
| Ribery, Benzema acquitted in solicitation trial Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 05:33 AM PST PARIS (AP) — Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribery and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema have been acquitted on charges of soliciting an underage prostitute. Full Story | Top |
| Interpol to help sniff out crime at Olympics Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 04:34 AM PST PARIS (AP) — Interpol says it will help Olympic organizers with security and in cracking down on doping and match-fixing. Full Story | Top |
| 14 sentenced to death in Bangladesh arms smuggling Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 02:09 AM PST  DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The head of the main Bangladeshi Islamist opposition party was among 14 people sentenced to death on Thursday on charges of smuggling weapons to a rebel group in neighboring India. Full Story | Top |
| Woman arrested in London terror raid to face court Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 12:19 AM PST  A woman charged with attempted murder following terror raids on three properties that also led to the arrest of the teenage son of a senior British diplomat, will appear in court on Thursday. Police said they would take no further action against the 19-year-old, but that 36-year-old Kuntal Patel, also arrested in the Counter-Terrorism Command raids, had been charged. She will appear at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court, police said in a statement. The Daily Telegraph reported that the released teenager was the son of Nicholas Sutcliffe, a first secretary -- typically the third rung below an ambassador and the deputy head of mission in an embassy. Full Story | Top |
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