Recent Updates
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'Barefoot Bandit' to make Seattle court appearance
Criminal Law 07/22/2010The young man accused of being the "Barefoot Bandit" is scheduled to make his first court appearance Thursday in Seattle, one day after returning to the state where authorities say his crime-spree started. After a two-year run from the law that stret...
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Law firm office manager stole $176000, Pinellas deputies say
Criminal Law 07/21/2010A 34-year-old Clearwater woman is accused of stealing at least $175,000 from her employer over several years and spending it on vacations, trips to the hair salon, personal bills and student loan payments.Kerry Sue McCallister-Higgins was arrested Mo...
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Ex-Raider Russell pleads not guilty in Ala. case
Criminal Law 07/21/2010Former Oakland Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell pleaded not guilty to a charge of illegal drug possession Tuesday in Alabama.Russell, 24, is a former LSU star who was released by Oakland after being the No. 1 draft choice in 2007. He entered the ...
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Guilty plea entered in Obama student loan case
Criminal Law 07/20/2010Another person accused of viewing President Barack Obama's student loan records at a U.S. Department of Education contractor in Iowa has pleaded guilty.Patrick Roan pleaded guilty last week to a misdemeanor. The Iowa City man is scheduled to be sente...
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No bail for Maine man detained in car bomb probe
Criminal Law 07/16/2010A Pakistani man detained on an immigration violation in Maine while authorities investigated the attempted Times Square car bombing will continue to be held in jail because an immigration judge revoked his bail.Mohammad Shafiq Rahman's family rounded...
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Colo. school shooting suspect pleads not guilty
Criminal Law 07/13/2010A man accused of shooting and wounding two eighth-graders outside their middle school pleaded not guilty Monday by reason of insanity.Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood, 32, entered his plea in Jefferson County District Court, and was ordered to undergo a m...
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Phoenix man pleads guilty in fatal hit-and-run
Criminal Law 07/07/2010A Phoenix man accused of trying to use the government's Cash for Clunkers program to ditch his BMW after a fatal hit-and-run crash last year has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.Maricopa County prosecutors say 24-year-old Timothy M. Kissida was driving...
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Teen convicted of murder seeks help from hit man
Criminal Law 07/05/2010Davontae Sanford was just 14 when he told police he killed four people in a drug den, drawing their bodies like stick figures to show where the victims died — on the floor, a couch, a chair.Sanford was sentenced to at least 38 years in prison for the...
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Ex-UFC fighter War Machine gets year in jail
Criminal Law 07/02/2010Ultimate Fighting Championship competitor War Machine has been sentenced to a year in jail for violating probation after he assaulted people at two San Diego bars.War Machine pleaded guilty Thursday to two felony counts of assault and to violating pr...
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Guilty verdict in NYC beating death of immigrant
Criminal Law 06/29/2010A man was convicted Monday of murder as a hate crime during his retrial on charges that he beat an Ecuadorean immigrant with an aluminum baseball bat after mistaking him and his brother for a gay couple.Jurors deliberated for about seven hours before...
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Calif man accused of extortion through hacking
Criminal Law 06/24/2010Federal agents have arrested a man accused of hacking into computers to obtain personal data to extort sexually explicit videos from women and teenage girls in exchange for keeping their information private.The Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office says...
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5 militia men must stay locked up awaiting trial
Criminal Law 06/23/2010Five members of a Midwest militia charged with conspiring to rebel against the government and use weapons of mass destruction will remain in jail while awaiting trial, an appeals court said Tuesday, reversing a decision by a federal judge.Each man is...