Crime
Mo. man sentenced for murder of attorney
A St. Louis man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to murdering a lawyer who was beaten, stabbed and strangled in a 14-minute struggle. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/12XlNZd ) 46-year-old Cleophus King entered the plea Wednesday in the March 2008 killing of Luke Meiners, ...
NH woman convicted of child porn to be sentenced
A New Hampshire woman convicted earlier this year of sexually exploiting her teenage daughter to produce child pornography faces up to 100 years in prison at her sentencing in federal court. The woman — a 43-year-old Manchester lawyer — was convicted in January of transporting her daughter across state lines ...
Ex-Kan. doctor indictment on firearm, drug charges
A federal grand jury has formally charged a former Kansas doctor with illegally having a handgun as a convicted felon. A three-count indictment handed down Wednesday charges Lawrence Simons with unlawful possession of a firearm, ammunition and controlled substances. Simons was arrested last week on a criminal complaint. Prosecutors say ...
Wis. budget committee to take up DNA upon arrest
The Legislature's powerful finance committee is expected to review Gov. Scott Walker's plan to take DNA from anyone arrested for a felony and anyone convicted of any crime. Right now Wisconsin collects DNA only from convicted felons and sex offenders. Walker's executive budget lays out nearly $6 million for the ...
June sentencing in Kan. for dad who bound kids
A June sentencing date has been scheduled for a suburban Chicago man who was arrested after two of his children were found bound and blindfolded in a Wal-Mart parking lot in eastern Kansas. Fifty-three-year-old Adolfo Gomez and his wife, Deborah Gomez, of Northlake, Ill., were arrested last June 13 in ...
IMF head Lagarde in court in fraud probe
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde is facing questions at a special Paris court Thursday over a controversial financial deal that she oversaw as French finance minister. The 2008 arbitrage deal handed about 400 million euros ($520 million) to magnate Bernard Tapie to settle a dispute with state-owned bank Credit ...
Man shot by FBI had spoken with bombing suspect
A Chechen immigrant shot to death in central Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent had several ties to that of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who authorities were questioning him about at the time. Ibragim Todashev's Chechen roots and mixed martial arts background mirror that of ...
Malaysian charged with sedition, 3 more arrested
Malaysian authorities detained three anti-government figures, charged a student activist with sedition and seized hundreds of opposition newspapers Thursday, raising political tensions after recent national elections triggered claims of fraud. Opposition activists have staged numerous peaceful demonstrations since the May 5 general elections, which the National Front coalition won with ...
Moss Point reopens 2006 double slaying case
Moss Point Police Chief Keith Davis says his department is reopening the investigation into a 2006 double slaying. Davis says at news conference Wednesday that the city approved his using drug forfeiture funds to set up a special team to investigate the case. Police say the bodies of two men ...
UK emergency committee meets after attack
The British government's emergency committee is set to meet Thursday after two attackers butchered a man in a brutal daylight attack in London that raised fears terrorism had returned to the capital. Prime Minister David Cameron says there are strong indications it was an act of terrorism, and his top ...
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