Former Astronaut Makes Plea Deal
New York Times - 18 seconds agoCapt. Lisa Marie Nowak pleaded guilty on Tuesday to felony burglary of a car and misdemeanor battery as part of a plea bargain.
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Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak pleaded guilty on Tuesday to felony burglary of a car and misdemeanor battery as part of a plea bargain.
John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks that terrorized the suburbs of the nation's capital, is scheduled to die tonight by lethal injection.
A suicide car bomb tore through a crowded shopping street in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 32 people in the third militant attack to strike the nuclear-armed country in as many days.
Veterans saluted and mourners laid flowers on hearses as hundreds paid tribute Tuesday to six soldiers killed in Afghanistan — including five shot to death by an Afghan police officer who turned against them.
A U.S. grand jury in Atlanta has indicted eight people related to hacking into a computer network operated by credit-card processing vendor RBS WorldPlay and stealing US$9 million.
Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) is circulating a bill that would strip the Federal Reserve and other federal agencies of their powers to regulate the banking industry, instead creating a new agency to do that job.
Nearly a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an "assessment" of him before deciding he did not pose a threat.
A suicide car bomber struck a congested traffic circle outside Peshawar Tuesday, killing at least 26 people -- including several women and children -- and wounding 60 others, police and hospital officials said.
The call came over the radio. "Shots fired." And then, even worse: "Officer down."
Japanese police on Tuesday said they had arrested the only suspect in the killing of 22-year-old British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, more than two years after her murder.
A three-year-old boy has been shot dead by South African police, a watchdog said on Tuesday, highlighting the struggle to fight crime after President Jacob Zuma backed calls for more police firepower.
A hostage drama ended peacefully on Tuesday after the gunman who briefly captured the principal at a high school in New York State surrendered following police negotiations, a local official said.
Public and private investors are expected to pump billions into Rio over the next three years, according to one study.
The attack killed at least 20 people, news agencies said, in another grim marker of the violence around Peshawar.
A state government official says a former student has surrendered to police after taking a school administrator hostage at an upstate New York high school.
Oklahoma City police say a fire that swept through a home where four people were found dead was intentional.