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By Tim Gaynor PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona judge denied a defense attorney's request for a mistrial on Monday in the death penalty phase of Jodi Arias' sensational murder trial, after a long-time friend declined to testify as a character witness, citing threats. Arias, 32, was found guilty earlier this month of murdering …

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Two California men were in custody on Monday after accidentally dialing 911 on a cellphone before breaking into a car, authorities said.

In 2008, the soon-departing Bush administration placed the oil and gas rights to 116 parcels of pristine public land in Utah’s wilderness up for auction. Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher attended the auction and, wielding auction paddle number 70, bid nearly $2 million for drilling rights to 22,500 acres. DeChristopher …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson has been arrested on charges that he violated probation stemming from an altercation with his now ex-wife, TV reality star Evelyn Lozada.

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian feminist who scandalized her country by posting topless photos of herself online has been arrested after allegedly sneaking into Tunisia's holiest city disguised in a veil, then trying to get undressed during a protest.

WASHINGTON, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) announced that on May 15, 2013, the owner of a steel supply company in Denver, Colorado was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud Ex-Im Bank …

A major New Jersey engineering firm and seven of its former top executives have pleaded not guilty to charges they circumvented the state's pay-to-play laws. Birdsall Engineering and the other defendants, ...

A Swedish prosecutor says three former executives of automaker Saab Automobile AB have been arrested on accounting fraud charges. Prosecutor Olof Sahlgren says the three are "suspected of aggravated ...

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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Two suspects arrested for breaking into a car in Central California accidentally called 911 on a cellphone, which led police to them.

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — The man who acted as the spokesman for one of the three al-Qaida-linked groups occupying northern Mali turned himself in over the weekend to Mauritanian authorities on the border, an intelligence official briefed on the matter confirmed on Monday.

LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - The father of former England and Manchester United soccer players Gary and Phil Neville is to be charged over an allegation of sexual assault, prosecutors said on Monday. Neville Neville, 63, from Bury near Manchester in northern England, is accused over an alleged incident in March. "I have reviewed …

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — The judge ascended the bench. He looked down at cafeteria-style tables marked "Prosecuting Attorney" and "Defense Attorney." To his left, two men sat in a box marked "Jury." The witness stand was marked "Witness."

By Tim Cocks LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Saturday it had killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 more as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of its remote northeast from an Islamist group seen as the main security threat to Africa's top oil producer. President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles sheriff's spokesman says 'Terminator 2' star Edward Furlong has been arrested on suspicion of violating a restraining order filed by his ex-girlfriend.

NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York's police commissioner called an "anti-gay" hate crime.

By Zoran Milosavljevic BELGRADE, May 18 (Reuters) - Fan violence outside Partizan's stadium overshadowed a tepid Belgrade derby that the league leaders won 1-0 against Red Star on Saturday thanks to a stunning late free kick from Milos Jojic. More than 90 fans were arrested before the match after Partizan's team bus was …

DOVER, Del. (AP) — A woman who lived with a Delaware pediatrician accused of waterboarding her 11-year-old daughter has agreed to plead guilty to child endangerment charges and testify against him.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has subpoenaed the co-chairman of the independent review board that investigated last year's attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, to answer questions about the panel's findings behind closed doors.

PETARE, Venezuela (AP) — Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas.

A former U.S. Postal Service official has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for accepting at least $40,000 in bribes to help a Maryland company receive $6 million in contracts. Forty-eight-year-old ...

Police have arrested Caleb Lawrence McGillvary — also known as Kai, the homeless, hatchet-wielding hitchhiker — on murder charges, CNN reports.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — At the age of 3, Brianica Kirsch was diagnosed with brain cancer.