New arrest made in ricin letters case
OXFORD, Miss., April 28 (UPI) — A Mississippi martial arts instructor was arrested Saturday on charges related to the ricin letters sent to President Obama and others, police said. A previous suspect
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OXFORD, Miss., April 28 (UPI) — A Mississippi martial arts instructor was arrested Saturday on charges related to the ricin letters sent to President Obama and others, police said. A previous suspect
GLENDALE, Calif., April 30 (UPI) — A man has been charged with stealing a wheelchair from under an acquaintance with cerebral palsy, police in Southern California said. The victim, David Baysinger, told
PYONGYANG, North Korea, April 27 (UPI) — North Korea plans to put on trial an American citizen detained since last year for unspecified crimes, state-run media said Saturday. Pae Jun Ho was
SNYDER, Texas, April 27 (UPI) — Remains found in a remote location in western Texas are those of a 13-year-old middle school cheerleader who went missing in 2010, police said. The remains
PHILADELPHIA, April 26 (UPI) — A former counterfeiter told a Philadelphia radio station he “wouldn’t even attempt” to counterfeit the new $100 bills if he returned to his life of crime. Wayne
FORT DODGE – Larry Thomas Siemer, an inmate assigned to the Fort Dodge Correctional Facility died Wednesday April 24, 2013 at University Hospitals in Iowa City. Siemer died of natural causes due
MANCHESTER, Ill., April 25 (UPI) — A man suspected of killing a Manchester, Ill., family of five carried a 6-year-old survivor of the shooting to a neighbor’s house, officials said. Rick Smith,
OMAHA – United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Michael A. Smith, age 30, of Omaha, was convicted today by a federal jury for aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft.
CINCINNATI, April 25 (UPI) — The family of a woman killed in a drive-by shooting in Detroit lost a bid Thursday to reinstate a lawsuit against former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. A federal
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 25 (UPI) — Swedish police said they found suspected marijuana and an unlicensed stun gun when they raided singer-songwriter Justin Bieber’s tour bus, but plan no arrests. “We found
BLOOMFIELD, Conn., April 25 (UPI) — A worker at a Connecticut meat and poultry company was busted on allegations of stealing $10,000 worth of chicken wings and other meat. Police said recently
TORONTO, April 24 (UPI) — A man suspected of plotting a train attack told a Toronto judge Wednesday he does not recognize the country’s criminal code because it is not a “holy
PHILADELPHIA, April 24 (UPI) — A Philadelphia woman has pleaded guilty to stealing a $3 million bust of Benjamin Franklin from a Bryn Mawr, Pa., home she was cleaning. Andrea Lawton, 47,
SANFORD, Fla., April 24 (UPI) — Florida authorities said they arrested a pair of men accused of robbing a bank in the drive-through lane by claiming to have a bomb. The Sanford
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 24 (UPI) — A U.S. ex-schoolteacher and accused child pornographer who replaced Osama bin Laden on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list was arrested in Nicaragua, police said. Eric
MANCHESTER, Ill., April 24 (UPI) — Five people were found shot to death Wednesday in a Manchester, Ill., home, and the suspected gunman was killed in a shootout with police, officials said.
VANCOUVER, Wash., April 23 (UPI) — A Washington state man accused of stealing an English bulldog puppy at gunpoint was sentenced to 20 months in prison. Jajuane Etheridge, 23, of Vancouver pleaded
HUMBLE, Texas, April 23 (UPI) — Police in Texas said they broke up a meth lab and seized $2.5 million worth of the drug after neighbors reported suspicious activity and a foul
PHILADELPHIA, April 23 (UPI) — Three of seven murder charges in the Philadelphia trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, charged with killing viable fetuses during abortions, were thrown out Tuesday. Judge Jeffrey P.
TACOMA, Wash., April 23 (UPI) — A U.S. Army sergeant has pleaded guilty to killing five comrades at a clinic in Baghdad in what is considered the Iraq war’s worst case of
OXFORD, Miss., April 23 (UPI) — An FBI team searched the home of a Tupelo, Miss., man Tuesday in the investigation of ricin-tainted letters to public officials, the man said. J. Everett
MCDONALD, Pa., April 23 (UPI) — Police in Pennsylvania said they responded to a report of two men burning something in a shed and discovered an alleged moonshine making operation. McDonald police
TORONTO, April 23 (UPI) — The suspects charged with a plan to bomb a Canadian passenger train made brief court appearances Tuesday in Toronto and Montreal. Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, a graduate student
CHICAGO, April 23 (UPI) — A boy, 15, was shot to death while awaiting his parents to pick him up at a friend’s house, four blocks from President Barack Obama’s Chicago home,
Mapleton, IOWA — On Saturday, April 20, 2013, a single vehicle collision occurred at approximately 1:00 AM on Highway 141, east of Pecan Avenue NW in Mapelton, Iowa (Monona County). The collision
BOSTON, April 22 (UPI) — Boston area investigators said Monday they are looking into whether marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was involved in a triple homicide. The 2011 killing involved a former
MASON CITY – A Mason City woman – and convicted felon – was picked up for operating while intoxicated this weekend. Kiki Sue Jutting, 36, was stopped by a Cerro Gordo County
ORLANDO, Fla. – A British citizen and resident of Celebration pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of production of child pornography using the Internet. The guilty plea resulted from an investigation conducted
NASHVILLE, April 22 (UPI) — 3 Doors Down bassist Robert Todd Harrell has been charged with vehicular homicide for his alleged role in a Nashville car crash, officials said. Harrell, 41, also
OXFORD, Miss., April 22 (UPI) — No evidence presented in an Oxford, Miss., court Monday indicates Kevin Curtis sent ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others, his attorney said. Speaking after
HARVEY, Ill., April 22 (UPI) — Mustapha Farrakhan, son of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, is an Illinois police officer who hasn’t worked in four years, the Chicago Sun-Times said. Farrakhan,
SAN DIEGO, April 21 (UPI) — A California car thief was thwarted when the Mercedes he stole apparently wasn’t good enough — so he tried to steal a Lexus. U-T San Diego
ORMOND BEACH, Fla., April 21 (UPI) — Florida police said a 37-year-old woman stole nearly $170,000 from her employer, a camper sales business, spending $7,000 of it on breast implants. Police arrested
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y., April 21 (UPI) — A Long Island, N.Y., mom is accused of driving around two of her children and a friend and encouraging the trio to use a BB
OLYMPIA, Wash., April 21 (UPI) — A Washington man was arrested for trying to sell a painting he allegedly stole to an antique shop where the theft victim had originally bought it,
DENVER, April 21 (UPI) — Officials are on the hunt for two suspects who shot two people at a marijuana-inspired “420 Day” festival in Denver. Police spokesman Sonny Jackson said investigators don’t
WASHINGTON, April 21 (UPI) — The chairman of a U.S congressional committee said possible ties between the Boston Marathon bombing suspects and Chechen militants needed to be investigated. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas,
WASHINGTON – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned a 16th century tapestry, stolen in 1979 from a church, to the government of Spain Wednesday at a repatriation ceremony at the Spanish
DENVER, April 20 (UPI) — Prosecutors said they may use jailhouse recordings of Aurora, Colo., theater shooting suspect James Holmes against him during an upcoming death penalty hearing. A list of evidence
GUATEMALA CITY, April 20 (UPI) — A judge in Guatemala postponed the genocide trial of former military dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, angering protesters who allege he committed genocide. Judge Jazmin Barrios