http://www.mail.com/subjects/500-crime.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.23/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/500-crime.html http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862138-apnewsbreak-family-sues-minn-office-attack.html MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a man who was among six people gunned down at his Minneapolis office last year is suing the company, claiming it botched the firing of the employee who carried out the attack and should have known from his work history that he was potentially dangerous. The lawsuit being filed on behalf of Jacob Beneke's family is the firs... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862138-apnewsbreak-family-sues-minn-office-attack.html 2013-02-01T20:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1862844-indian-film-star-faces-homicide-charge.html MUMBAI, India (AP) — An attorney says Indian movie star Salman Khan will be tried for homicide for his alleged involvement in a fatal road accident more than 10 years ago. If convicted he faces up to 10 years in jail. Deepesh Mehta, Khan's lawyer, says a magistrate on Thursday accepted an appeal by state government prosecutors that he should be charged wi... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1862844-indian-film-star-faces-homicide-charge.html 2013-02-01T19:30:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861488-suicide-bomber-kills-guard-us-embassy-turkey.html ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — In the second deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in five months, a suicide bomber struck the American Embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a Turkish security guard in what the White House described as a terrorist attack. Washington immediately warned Americans to stay away from all U.S. diplomatic facilities in Turkey and to be... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861488-suicide-bomber-kills-guard-us-embassy-turkey.html 2013-02-01T19:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862142-authorities-release-photo-accused-ala-abductor.html MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — After four anxious days, only the slimmest of details has come to light in a police standoff with an Alabama man who is accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in a bunker, a sign of just how delicate the negotiations are. Police have used a ventilation pipe to the underground bunker to talk to the man and deliver the boy med... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 02:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862142-authorities-release-photo-accused-ala-abductor.html 2013-02-02T02:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1862736-chicago-takes-leading-role-national-gun-debate.html CHICAGO (AP) — They are counting the dead from gunfire again in Chicago, a city awash in weapons despite having one of the strictest gun-control ordinances in the nation. After a year in which Chicago's death toll surpassed 500, the bloodshed has continued in 2013 at a rate of more than one killing a day. It was the city's deadliest January in more than a... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1862736-chicago-takes-leading-role-national-gun-debate.html 2013-02-01T20:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861142-police-chief-sign-fear-slain-attorney.html KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — Authorities don't know whether a Texas prosecutor who had extensive experience with organized crime feared for his life before he was fatally shot, but they're poring through the cases he handled for leads to his killer, officials said Friday. No arrests have been made since Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was gunned down Thur... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861142-police-chief-sign-fear-slain-attorney.html 2013-02-02T00:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861874-hunt-murderer-mistakenly-freed-chicago.html CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities searched Friday for a convicted murderer from Indiana who was mistakenly released after a Chicago court appearance, as officials in Illinois admitted they lost paperwork directing them to return him to Indiana. It turned out Steven L. Robbins didn't even need to be brought to Chicago in the first place, and Cook County officials... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861874-hunt-murderer-mistakenly-freed-chicago.html 2013-02-02T00:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861836-sweden-orders-retrial-convicted-serial-killer.html STOCKHOLM (AP) — Once considered Sweden's worst serial killer, Sture Bergwall confessed to more than 30 murders over three decades, and was convicted of eight of them. Years later, he changed his mind and said his ghastly tales of slaughter, rape and even cannibalism were all lies, spawned by loneliness, a desire for attention and heavy medication. In wha... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861836-sweden-orders-retrial-convicted-serial-killer.html 2013-02-01T17:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862554-minister-iceland-refused-to-help-fbi-wikileaks.html LONDON (AP) — Iceland's interior minister said Friday that he ordered the country's police not to cooperate with FBI agents sent to investigate WikiLeaks two years ago, offering a rare glimpse into the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation of the secret-busting site. Ogmundur Jonasson told The Associated Press that he was upset when he found out that... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862554-minister-iceland-refused-to-help-fbi-wikileaks.html 2013-02-01T17:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1862394-woman-who-received-stolen-hilton-jacket-sentenced.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who pleaded no contest to receiving a jacket stolen from Paris Hilton received three years of supervised probation on Friday in a sentence described by a judge as lenient due to missteps by a police officer. Courtney Leigh Ames is one of a group of young adults accused of burglarizing celebrities' homes and stealing more than $3... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1862394-woman-who-received-stolen-hilton-jacket-sentenced.html 2013-02-01T17:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861756-milan-court-convicts-3-americans-cia-kidnapping.html MILAN (AP) — A Milan appeals court on Friday vacated acquittals for a former CIA station chief and two other Americans, and instead convicted them in the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a Milan street as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program. The decision means that all 26 Americans tried in absentia for the abduction now hav... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861756-milan-court-convicts-3-americans-cia-kidnapping.html 2013-02-01T17:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1862022-18-killed-northeast-nigeria-military-raid.html MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian soldiers attacked training camps for suspected members of the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram deep in a game reserve in the nation's restive northeast, a raid that left at least 18 people dead, a military spokesman said Friday. The raid lasted two days in the Sambisa Game Reserve in Borno state, a rural region of the Sah... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1862022-18-killed-northeast-nigeria-military-raid.html 2013-02-01T16:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861896-law-firm-phoenix-lawyer-dies-shooting-wounds.html PHOENIX (AP) — A lawyer wounded by a gunman in a Phoenix office shooting this week has become the second victim to die in the attack, authorities said Friday. Mark Hummels, 43, had been on life support at a Phoenix hospital after Wednesday morning's shooting that killed a company's chief executive and left a woman with non-life threatening injuries. Humme... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861896-law-firm-phoenix-lawyer-dies-shooting-wounds.html 2013-02-01T21:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1861984-nigeria-lawmaker-charged-alleged-bribery.html ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian lawmaker who led a probe into the nation's fuel subsidy program that saw billions of dollars lost through fraud has been charged with allegedly soliciting a $3 million bribe from someone targeted by the inquiry. Rep. Farouk Lawan and his aide Emenalo Boniface pleaded not guilty Friday to the charges they face in a Federal ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1861984-nigeria-lawmaker-charged-alleged-bribery.html 2013-02-01T14:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1860398-shot-armenia-presidential-hopeful-seeks-vote-delay.html YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The shooting of a presidential candidate threw Armenia's election into disarray Friday, with the wounded victim saying he will call for a delay of the vote. Paruir Airikian, 63, was shot and wounded by an unidentified assailant outside his home in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, on Thursday just before midnight. Airikian said from t... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1860398-shot-armenia-presidential-hopeful-seeks-vote-delay.html 2013-02-01T19:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1861918-teenage-hacker-sentenced-uk-cyber-attacks.html LONDON (AP) — A British court has sentenced a teenage hacker to youth rehabilitation after he and other members of the Anonymous movement carried out cyber-attacks targeting financial sites like PayPal and Visa. Jake Birchall had admitted conspiring to impair the operation of computers in 2010 and 2011. The 18-year-old Birchall was sentenced Friday to 18 ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:20:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1861918-teenage-hacker-sentenced-uk-cyber-attacks.html 2013-02-01T14:20:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861872-spanish-economy-minister-to-testify-bank-probe.html MADRID (AP) — Spain's Economy Minister Luis de Guindos has been called by the National Court to testify in a probe into alleged fraud at one of the country's major banks. The court said Friday that De Guindos will give testimony on Feb. 18 as a witness relating to Bankia SA, which had to be nationalized and bailed out by the state for €18 billion ($24 bil... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861872-spanish-economy-minister-to-testify-bank-probe.html 2013-02-01T14:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1860558-jury-oregon-car-bomb-suspect-guilty-terrorism.html PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Three hours before they handed down a sentence that could put an Oregon man in prison for life, deliberating jurors sent a note to a trial judge with a question. Did the man whose fate they were deciding need to have envisioned the specific crime for which he was accused? Or did he merely need to be inclined toward some kind of terro... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1860558-jury-oregon-car-bomb-suspect-guilty-terrorism.html 2013-02-01T13:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861714-eating-champ-el-wingador-indicted-drug-charge.html WOODBURY, N.J. (AP) — A five-time wing-eating champion known as "El Wingador" has been indicted in New Jersey on cocaine distribution charges. William Simmons is charged with four counts of possession of a controlled dangerous substance and one count of manufacturing or distribution of more than a half ounce of cocaine in June. The South Jersey Times (htt... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:41:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861714-eating-champ-el-wingador-indicted-drug-charge.html 2013-02-01T12:41:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1861364-british-detective-jailed-phone-hacking-scandal.html LONDON (AP) — A senior British counterterrorism detective was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison for trying to sell information to Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid. Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn, 53, was the first person convicted on charges related to Britain's phone-hacking scandal since a police investigation was reopened in ea... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1861364-british-detective-jailed-phone-hacking-scandal.html 2013-02-01T12:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1858394-negotiators-talking-to-ala-captor-through-pipe.html MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — More than three days after he allegedly shot a school bus driver dead, grabbed a kindergartner and slipped into an underground bunker, Jimmy Lee Dykes was showing no signs Friday of turning himself over to police. Speaking into a 4-inch-wide ventilation pipe leading to the bunker, hostage negotiators have tried to talk the 65-yea... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1858394-negotiators-talking-to-ala-captor-through-pipe.html 2013-02-01T11:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861394-teliasonera-boss-quits-uzbekistan-allegations.html STOCKHOLM (AP) — The chief executive of TeliaSonera resigned Friday after an independent review on alleged bribery by the telecoms company found it had failed to conduct a proper background check on a partner Uzbek firm believed to be connected with the family of the country's autocratic ruler. The review, conducted by a law firm, exonerated TeliaSonera o... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861394-teliasonera-boss-quits-uzbekistan-allegations.html 2013-02-01T10:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1858708-la-archbishop-relieves-retired-cardinal-duties.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Retired Cardinal Roger Mahony, the former head of the nation's largest Roman Catholic diocese, was stripped of his duties Thursday by his successor as the Los Angeles archdiocese released thousands of pages of personnel files of priests accused of child molestation. "I find these files to be brutal and painful reading," Archbishop Jose ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1858708-la-archbishop-relieves-retired-cardinal-duties.html 2013-02-01T07:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861154-metal-detectors-ga-school-where-student-shot.html ATLANTA (AP) — A middle school where a 14-year-old boy was shot and wounded in the neck by a fellow student had metal detectors, and school officials were investigating how the shooter made it past them. Police swarmed Price Middle School just south of downtown Thursday afternoon minutes after reports of the shooting. A crowd of anxious parents gathered i... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861154-metal-detectors-ga-school-where-student-shot.html 2013-02-01T07:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1859612-9-judges-charged-with-philly-traffic-ticket-fixing.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Get caught speeding? Running a red light? Leaving the scene of an accident? For years, it was no problem, authorities say — so long as you were in Philadelphia and knew the right people. The city's traffic court was the place where moving violations went to die, according to a federal indictment that charged nine judges with fixing tic... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1859612-9-judges-charged-with-philly-traffic-ticket-fixing.html 2013-02-01T02:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1859950-police-teen-shot-fellow-student-us-school.html ATLANTA (AP) — A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police said. Multiple shots were fired in the courtyard of Price Middle School just south of downtown about 1:50 p.m. and the one boy was hit, Atlanta Police Chief Geor... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1859950-police-teen-shot-fellow-student-us-school.html 2013-02-01T02:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1858682-randy-travis-admits-driving-drunk-probation.html SHERMAN, Texas (AP) — Randy Travis pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated Thursday in a case that began last summer when the country music star was found naked after crashing his Pontiac Trans Am. Travis received two years of probation, a $2,000 fine and a 180-day suspended jail sentence. If he doesn't successfully complete the probation, he will fac... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:52:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1858682-randy-travis-admits-driving-drunk-probation.html 2013-02-01T01:52:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1859204-indiana-man-to-plead-guilty-to-sextortion.html INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana man has agreed to plead guilty to charges alleging that he tricked more than a dozen teenagers into stripping or performing sexual acts for him via webcam and then used recordings of those sessions to coerce them into making even more explicit videos. Richard Finkbiner, who lives in the western Indiana community of Brazil, s... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:41:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1859204-indiana-man-to-plead-guilty-to-sextortion.html 2013-02-01T01:41:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1860888-china-punishes-tibetans-self-immolation-cases.html BEIJING (AP) — Chinese courts convicted eight Tibetans over accusations they incited others to self-immolate in the first such prosecutions to become publicly known, showing Beijing's resolve to stamp out the protests by criminalizing both the protesters and their supporters. The convictions Thursday, reported by the official Xinhua News agency, also appe... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1860888-china-punishes-tibetans-self-immolation-cases.html 2013-02-01T01:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1860300-police-teen-shot-fellow-student-ga-school.html ATLANTA (AP) — A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police said. Multiple shots were fired in the courtyard of Price Middle School just south of downtown about 1:50 p.m. and the one boy was hit, Atlanta Police Chief Geor... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1860300-police-teen-shot-fellow-student-ga-school.html 2013-02-01T01:38:00Z