Crimes and Trials News

In this Monday, March 15, 2004 picture, Kline Cash looks over the buds on peach trees at Cash Farms in Cherokee County. Cash was killed on June 27, 2009 at his home in Cherokee County, S.C. Investigators are looking for a serial killer believed to have shot four people, including Cash, to death. (AP Photo/The Spartanburg Herald-Journal, Tim Kimzeya)

Coroner: Teen 5th killed by apparent serial killer

AP - Sun Jul 5, 1:30 AM ET

GAFFNEY, S.C. - A teenage girl shot while helping her father in their family's small furniture and appliance store died Saturday, becoming the fifth victim of a suspected serial killer terrorizing a small South Carolina community, authorities said.

  • FILE - In this July 17, 2008 file photo, Aafia Siddiqui, possible al-Qaida associate is seen in the custody of Counter Terrorism Department of Ghazni province in Ghazni City, Afghanistan. In newly filed court documents, a psychologist disputes Siddiqui's claim that she was held captive overseas from 2008 to 2008. The American trained scientist is charged with shooting at U.S. soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan after her arrest as a suspected al-Quida operative. She was shot and wounded by U.S. Army officer after point a rifle at an Army Captain. ( (AP Photo/ File)
    Details emerge on woman accused of al-Qaida ties AP - Sat Jul 4, 6:49 PM ET

    NEW YORK - A U.S.-trained scientist accused of being an al-Qaida operative was living freely in Pakistan and Afghanistan for portions of the five years before her arrest last year, a psychologist says, disputing claims that the scientist had spent those years in the custody of foreign authorities.

  • Specter, Wecht's lawyers criticize US attorney AP - Sat Jul 4, 2:31 PM ET

    PITTSBURGH - Defense lawyers and a U.S. senator are criticizing comments made by Pittsburgh's U.S. attorney last month as her office dismissed fraud and theft charges against a noted pathologist.

  • Pa. man pleads guilty to smuggling gun on to plane AP - Fri Jul 3, 10:38 AM ET

    PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia man faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to boarding a US Airways flight while carrying a concealed weapon.

  • FILE - In this Monday, May 18, 2009 file photo Lori Drew leaves Federal Court after a hearing in Los Angeles. U.S. District Judge George Wu on Thursday, July 2, 2009, tentatively threw out the convictions of the Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who ended up committing suicide. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
    Mom in MySpace case says it was properly dismissed AP - Fri Jul 3, 10:06 AM ET

    LOS ANGELES - A Missouri mother said she never should have been prosecuted for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who ended up committing suicide.

  • Rep.: Investigate Murder of Sailor The Advocate - Fri Jul 3, 9:17 AM ET

    A Congressman for the Camp Pendleton area in Southern California is requesting that the Department of Defense investigate whether a gay sailor who was found dead on Tuesday was the target of a hate crime.

  • Attorney Theodore Olson, center, speaks as clients Kristin Perry, from left, Sandra Stier, Jeff Farrillo, and Paul Katami listen at a news conference at the Federal Building in San Francisco, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Attorneys behind the federal court challenge to California's voter-approved gay marriage ban plan to argue during a pretrial hearing Thursday that by stripping gays of the right to wed, Proposition 8 runs afoul of the constitutional requirement that the government should treat its citizens equally absent a compelling reason not to do so. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
    Judge eyes quick action on Calif. gay marriage ban AP - Fri Jul 3, 5:08 AM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco said a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban will likely one day reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • Hawaii judge halts furloughs for state employees AP - Fri Jul 3, 3:05 AM ET

    HONOLULU - A Hawaii judge has blocked Gov. Linda Lingle from forcing thousands of public employees to take three unpaid days off per month, dealing her a setback in efforts to tame a huge state budget gap.

  • FILE - In this April 29, 2004, file photo, fashion designer Anand Jon is shown in New York. Anand, a Los Angeles fashion designer convicted of sexually assaulting seven women and teenage girls should not be granted a new trial even though a juror flirted over the phone with the defendant's sister, prosecutors argued Thursday July 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, file)
    Prosecutors: Flirty juror no reason for new trial AP - Fri Jul 3, 12:58 AM ET

    LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles fashion designer convicted of sexually assaulting seven women and teenage girls should not be granted a new trial even though a juror flirted over the phone with the defendant's sister, prosecutors argued Thursday.

  • Sheriff: Same person has killed 3 in northern SC AP - Thu Jul 2, 10:33 PM ET

    GAFFNEY, S.C. - A sheriff says the shooting deaths of a peach farmer and two women in a rural South Carolina county the past week have been linked to the same killer.

  • Navy investigates gay sailor's death in Calif. AP - Thu Jul 2, 10:18 PM ET

    SAN DIEGO - The death of a gay sailor who was killed as he stood guard at Camp Pendleton doesn't appear to be a hate crime, officials said Thursday.

  • Pa. senator guilty of $3.5M fraud seeks new trial AP - Thu Jul 2, 8:31 PM ET

    PHILADELPHIA - A former Pennsylvania state senator convicted of a multimillion-dollar fraud is seeking a new trial on corruption charges, alleging the jury was tainted.

  • Attorney Theodore Olson, center, shakes hands with Prop. 8 opponents after a news conference at the Federal Building in San Francisco, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Attorneys behind the federal court challenge to California's voter-approved gay marriage ban plan to argue during a pretrial hearing Thursday that by stripping gays of the right to wed, Proposition 8 runs afoul of the constitutional requirement that the government should treat its citizens equally absent a compelling reason not to do so. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)
    Gay marriage case will go to Supreme Court: attorney Reuters - Thu Jul 2, 7:54 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The attorney representing two same-sex couples who were denied a right to wed in California said on Thursday he expected the case to end up before the U.S. Supreme Court, which has yet to hear a case on the gay marriage issue.

  • FILE - This June 9, 2009 file photo shows Michael Vick arriving at the Norfolk Federal Court n Norfolk, Va. Vick's lawyer, Paul Campsen, disclosed the basic outline of a new bankruptcy plan Tuesday June 30, 2009, in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Norfolk. (AP Photo/Jason Hirschfeld, File)
    Vick files revised bankruptcy plan in Va. court AP - Thu Jul 2, 7:15 PM ET

    RICHMOND, Va. - Suspended NFL star Michael Vick would keep one vehicle, one home and a large assortment of furniture and personal items if his creditors and the judge who rejected his previous bankruptcy plan approve a revised one filed Thursday.

  • The MySpace homepage in an undated image courtesy of the company. REUTERS/Handout
    MySpace suicide conviction tentatively dismissed Reuters - Thu Jul 2, 7:10 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday tentatively dismissed the conviction of a suburban mother accused of driving a love-lorn 13-year-old girl to suicide by tormenting her with a fake MySpace persona.

  • Judge: Document release may jeopardize Conn. case AP - Thu Jul 2, 6:56 PM ET

    STAMFORD, Conn. - The trial of a man charged in the killing of a Connecticut real estate mogul could be in jeopardy because a copy of a defense motion pointing blame at the developer's ex-wife that was released to the public may have contained sealed documents, a judge said Thursday.

  • Judge eyes quick action on Calif gay marriage ban AP - Thu Jul 2, 4:56 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco says he wants to conduct a full trial on a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban because he expects the case to one day reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • Charges dropped in alleged Smoky Mountain rape AP - Thu Jul 2, 4:35 PM ET

    KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee prosecutors dropped charges Thursday against a Georgia man accused of kidnapping and raping a woman in a remote mountain cabin, saying they doubted her credibility after her apparent rescue by a quick-thinking pizza deliveryman.

  • A customer leaves an Apple Store with his new iPhone 3G in New York July 11, 2008. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
    NY thieves want iPhones, victims fight back Reuters - Thu Jul 2, 2:53 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thieves are increasingly going after iPhones and other smartphones but victims now can fight back with technology.

  • Fla. justices: Gov. can't reject judge nominees AP - Thu Jul 2, 2:15 PM ET

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Florida Supreme Court says Gov. Charlie Crist can't reject an all-white list of appeals court nominees, even though he wants to appoint someone who will make the judiciary more diverse.

  • Leg irons and hand cuffs hang on a board at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004. Lawyers for the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be transferred to US soil for a civilian trial, set for September 2010, asked Thursday to see the secret CIA prisons where he was allegedly tortured.(AFP/File/Mark Wilson)
    Lawyers for US terror trial ask to visit CIA jails AFP - Thu Jul 2, 1:31 PM ET

    NEW YORK (AFP) - Lawyers for the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be transferred to US soil for a civilian trial, set for September 2010, asked Thursday to see the secret CIA prisons where he was allegedly tortured.

  • Robert Butler, mayor of Marion, Ill., since John Kennedy occupied the White House, works in his office Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Butler is hoping to persuade the Bureau of Prisons to restores the town's medium-security prison to its former high-security status to house Guantanamo detainees. (AP Photo/Whitney Curtis)
    Gitmo detainee interview sites won't be dismantled AP - Thu Jul 2, 1:40 PM ET

    NEW YORK - A prosecutor agreed Thursday that the government will not dismantle overseas locations where a former Guantanamo detainee claims he was interrogated by the CIA before he was brought to the United States for trial on terrorism charges.

  • Guantanamo suspect to be tried in U.S. court in 2010 Reuters - Thu Jul 2, 12:09 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The first detainee transferred from Guantanamo Bay to a U.S. civilian court will go on trial on September 13, 2010, a Manhattan federal court judge said on Thursday.

  • Bench trial for woman accused in daughters' deaths AP - Thu Jul 2, 11:15 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - A judge will decide the case of a woman accused of killing her four daughters, whose bodies were found decomposing in the family's southeast Washington home in January 2008.

  • Frozen chicken on sale at a supermarket. After years as a fugitive, a Montreal man pleaded guilty in a US court Wednesday to a 1981 conspiracy to defraud Egypt's government and a British bank of seven million dollars in a scheme involving a shipload of frozen chickens.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)
    Frozen chicken fugitive pleads guilty to fowl play AFP - Thu Jul 2, 9:29 AM ET

    NEW ORLEANS (AFP) - After years as a fugitive, a Montreal man pleaded guilty in a US court Wednesday to a 1981 conspiracy to defraud Egypt's government and a British bank of seven million dollars in a scheme involving a shipload of frozen chickens.

  • Hollywood murder case in hands of California jury AP - Thu Jul 2, 6:35 AM ET

    SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - A jury on Thursday was set to consider the case of Jesse James Hollywood, who is accused of kidnapping a 15-year-old boy over a drug debt then ordering his death and going on the run for years, a string of events that inspired the 2007 movie "Alpha Dog."

  • Arms dealer gets 25 years in NYC terror case AP - Wed Jul 1, 10:39 PM ET

    NEW YORK - A man extradited from Romania in a plot to sell weapons to Colombian militants has been sentenced in New York City to 25 years in prison.

  • Reputed mob boss pleads guilty in Mass. bribe case AP - Wed Jul 1, 7:20 PM ET

    BOSTON - The reputed underboss of the New England mob has pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges in a plea deal that will send him to prison for six years.

  • Guilty pleas in Ohio corruption probe AP - Wed Jul 1, 6:59 PM ET

    CLEVELAND - Two former county government employees in Ohio pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges in an plot to bribe public officials with casino trips, expensive meals and limousine rides in return for steering contracts.

  • 2 more face charges in Vegas boy abduction case AP - Wed Jul 1, 6:52 PM ET

    LAS VEGAS - Two more defendants have been named in a federal cocaine trafficking case stemming from the kidnapping of a 6-year-old boy from his Las Vegas home last October.

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