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Kenyan terror suspect admits possession of bombs
A Kenyan man pleaded guilty Monday to possession of six bombs including four suicide vests and being a member of al-Shabab, the Somali Islamist ...
Hamas court convicts 4 in Italian activist death
A Hamas court convicted four men on Monday of last year's kidnapping and killing of a pro-Palestinian Italian activist in Gaza, sentencing two of the ...
Theft trial for papal butler starts next week
Pope Benedict XVI's ex-butler and another Vatican lay employee will go on trial next week in the embarrassing theft of papal documents that exposed ...
Producer of gay play in Uganda granted bail
A Ugandan court releases on bail a British producer who was jailed for staging a play about a gay businessman. Lawyer Francis Onyango said Monday that ...
Calif. DNA collection from arrestees challenged
An Alabama man was charged this month with the 1980 murder of an Oxnard teen. A Placerville man was arrested last month for a 1986 rape and murder of ...
Police: Fla. boy, 13, killed 2-year-old brother
A decade before he was charged with murder, a 2-year-old Cristian Fernandez was found naked and dirty, wandering a South Florida street.
Wisconsin fetal abduction, murder trial to begin
It's been almost a year since Maritza Ramirez-Cruz bled to death when her full-term fetus was cut from her womb, and her three surviving children ...
Woman to lead Air Force training after sex scandal
The Air Force chose a woman Saturday to lead its basic training unit at a Texas base where dozens of female recruits have alleged they were sexually ...
Amish shunning is central to Ohio hate crime trial
In the stern, self-regulating world of the Amish, those who act out time and again by wearing the wrong clothing, going to movies or otherwise ...
MacDonald goes to court in 'Fatal Vision' case
Jeffrey MacDonald, a clean-cut Green Beret and doctor convicted of killing of his pregnant wife and their two daughters, is getting another chance to ...
Wis. AG aims to enforce union law during appeals
Wisconsin's attorney general said Saturday he would seek court permission to keep enforcing a state law that effectively ended collective bargaining ...
Neighbor: NY rape suspect terrorized W.Va. women
The man accused of raping an elderly woman in New York's Central Park frightened people for years in his tiny West Virginia hometown, where a neighbor ...
Man convicted in 1957 murder of 7-year-old girl
For most of five decades, it seemed no one would ever be held accountable for the murder of a 7-year-old Illinois girl snatched off a small-town ...
NY rape suspect eyed in 2002 murder of W.Va. woman
A drifter accused of brazenly raping an elderly woman in broad daylight in New York's Central Park was a person of interest in a 2002 slaying in his ...
Teens sentenced in sex assault-Twitter case in Ky.
A judge sentenced two Kentucky teenagers on Friday to community service and sex offender treatment for sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl who ...
Jury ends Day 2 of deliberating in Ohio Amish case
Jurors have ended a second day of deliberations without a verdict in the trial of 16 people accused of hate crimes in hair- and beard-cutting attacks ...
Spokesman: US citizen Puracal leaves Nicaragua
A U.S. man imprisoned for two years by Nicaraguan authorities on drug and money-laundering charges left the country Friday in an apparent end to a ...
Twitter hands over records in NY Occupy case
Twitter on Friday agreed to hand over about three months' worth of tweets to a judge overseeing the criminal trial of an Occupy Wall Street protester, ...
Okla. man pleads guilty in deaths of woman, 4 kids
An Oklahoma man accused of strangling his ex-girlfriend and her four young children pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree murder Friday during ...
Ky. teen who ID'd attackers on Twitter testifies
A judge heard Friday from a 17-year-old sexual assault victim who identified her attackers on Twitter despite a gag order because she thought their ...
Federal judge hands Samsung setback against Apple
In a preliminary move, a federal judge has denied Samsung's request for a ban on imports of the iPhone, iPad and iPod. It's another setback for ...
Judge weds couple then sentences groom to prison
Talk about the old ball and chain. A judge sentenced an Oklahoma man to four years in federal prison on a firearm charge — then minutes later ...
Wash. man pleads guilty in Facebook bigamy case
A Washington man whose wife discovered through Facebook that he had married a second woman has pleaded guilty to attempted bigamy. Alan O'Neill, 42, ...
Trader accused of imperiling UBS with $2.3B fraud
A senior trader at the Swiss bank UBS was a "master fraudster" who lost his bank $2.3 billion — and risked a $12 billion loss that threatened its very ...