By Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — Nick Fairley is in trouble again. This time, for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol and attempting to elude police. Fairley, the…
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Lawyer for 3 arrested before NATO summit under attack for releasing photo of purported undercover policeman
By Jason Meisner and Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — It was shortly before 2 a.m. on the eve of the NATO summit when the criminal-defense lawyer emerged from a West…
Witnesses contradict each other, change stories in Trayvon Martin case
By Frances Robles, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — The fight between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin began with two people huffing and puffing in the dark, and then a brief exchange of…
Woman Indicted for Allegedly Impersonating a Congressinal Aide
WASHINGTON – An Atwater, Calif., woman was charged today in a one-count indictment filed in the Eastern District of California for impersonation of an officer or an employee of the United States,…
Priest pleads guilty to child porn charges, faces at least 5-year sentence
Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – A suspended Catholic priest will spend at least five years in federal prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to possessing and receiving thousands of child porn images on his…
Ex-security guard at Walmart gets 9 years on child-porn charge
Kathy Lynn Gray, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio – U.S. District Judge Peter C. Economus was not swayed by the apologies and admission of guilt by a man who collected child pornography and secretly…
Child porn suspect is charged with rape
Robert Gavin, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. – ROTTERDAM — A Colonie man who taught at a Tae Kwon Do martial arts school in Duanesburg has been charged with raping a child on two…
3 dead, 5 wounded in Chicago shootings
Peter Nickeas, Chicago Tribune – Three people were killed and five others wounded in shootings across the city Friday night, according to authorities. Two people were found dead inside a Woodlawn home in the 6500…
Former drug prosecutor’s life goes wrong
Bo Emerson and Craig Schneider, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Atlanta attorney Rand Csehy made his mark prosecuting drug dealers; somewhere along the way, police say, he joined the enemy. Before he was arrested…
Local woman pleads guilty to sexual abuse
John Mangalonzo, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – A Burlington woman authorities said had a sexual relationship with a teenage boy, has accepted an agreement from Des Moines County prosecutors. Lynsey Rae-Ann Brobston…
Edwards jurors break for holiday with no verdict
By Anne Blythe, McClatchy Newspapers – GREENSBORO, N.C. — The jury deliberating the John Edwards case broke Friday for a long holiday weekend with no verdict and no indication of how close together…
Suspect Arrested in Connection with the Prostitution of Minors
Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Cleveland Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), for the Northern District of Ohio, in conjunction with Brian D. Lamkin, Special Agent…
A nightmare, then conviction is tossed
By Ashley Powers, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Brian Banks logged onto Facebook last year, and a new friend request startled him. It was the woman who, nearly a decade ago,…
Prosecutors urge Guantanamo judge not to split up 9/11 trial
By Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — Pentagon prosecutors argued in a motion Thursday against splitting up the joint death-penalty prosecution at Guantanamo of the five men accused of orchestrating the 9/11…
Legal fight likely looms over identifying witnesses in Zimmerman case
By Jeff Weiner and Rene Stutzman, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — If George Zimmerman goes to trial in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a jury will be asked to determine whether…
LAPD seeks interview tape in hunt for new Manson murder clues
By Andrew Blankstein and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Police Department detectives want to review some interviews between a Manson Family convicted murderer and his attorney to…
Lingering in airplane bathroom leads to questions from FBI for Orlando-bound Muslims
By Susan Jacobson, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — The director of Orlando Sanford International Airport said Thursday that a cultural misunderstanding over a bathroom ritual led to a group of Muslims…
Jury convicts private of plot to bomb restaurant filled with soldiers
By Jeremy Schwartz, Austin American-Statesman – WACO, Texas — A federal jury on Thursday needed slightly more than an hour to find Pfc. Naser Abdo guilty of all six charges against him relating…
Prosecutors ask to seal statements Zimmerman made to law enforcement
By Jeff Weiner, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — Prosecutors want a judge to seal key evidence in the case against George Zimmerman from the public until trial, including the statements he…
N.Y. police have individual in custody in Etan Patz case
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — New York Police on Thursday had someone in custody in connection with one of the city’s and country’s most gripping missing-child cases:…
Franciscan clergy sex abuse case records released
By Kim Christensen, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Thousands of pages of previously confidential records related to Franciscan clergymen accused of child sexual abuse have been posted online, three years after…
Man wrote on Facebook hours before gunning down girlfriend at restaurant, killing himself
By John Monk, McClatchy Newspapers – COLUMBIA, S.C. — Jamael “JGood” Goodman posted his intentions on Facebook just hours before he shot his girlfriend to death and then committed suicide. “Ima set an…
MN Man Indicted for Sexually Abusing Three Girls
MINNEAPOLIS—Earlier this week in federal court, a 59-year-old man from the northern Minnesota community of Grygla was charged in a superseding indictment for sexually abusing two additional girls while on the Red…
Seventeen Indicted for Distributing Methamphetamine, Marijuana, and Cocaine on MN Indian Reservation
United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced today that 17 individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury for drug distribution offenses alleged to have occurred in and around the Pine…
Judge recommends overturning murder conviction in baby’s death
By Chuck Lindell, Austin American-Statesman – AUSTIN, Texas—Texas’ highest criminal court should overturn the capital murder conviction of Cathy Lynn Henderson, once two days from execution for the 1994 death of an infant…
Zimmerman rode with cops, ripped department
By Frances Robles, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — A year before George Zimmerman killed a Miami Gardens teenager, he stood before a City Hall community forum with a grievance: Sanford cops are lazy,…
Former pastor denies abusing Haitian kids
By Joe DePriest, McClatchy Newspapers – CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A former Gaston County pastor has denied having illicit sex with two minors in Haiti while he was giving them food and clothing through…
Thousands of pages of evidence detail the killing of FAMU drum major
By Jeff Kunerth, Stephen Hudak, Denise-Marie Balona and David Breen, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — The beatings began well before the Nov. 19 hazing death of Florida A&M University drum major…
USC slaying suspects portrayed themselves as party boys
By Richard Winton, Garrett Therolf and Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — In the stream of photos on their Facebook pages, Javier Bolden and Bryan Barnes look like the life…
Skeletal Remains Thought To Be Mt. Pleasant Woman Missing Since Last May
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa- On May 22, 2011, Jackie Douthart was reported missing to the Mt. Pleasant Police Department by her fiancé and family members. At the time, Jackie Douthart was 24 years old. …
Washington man arrested for punching 10 year-old boy in movie theater
By Jennifer Sullivan, The Seattle Times – SEATTLE — With Celine Dion crooning, Leonardo DiCaprio proclaiming himself “king of the world” and the Titanic taking on water — all in 3-D — the…
Indians reliever Joe Smith involved in bar incident
By Sheldon Ocker, Akron Beacon Journal – CLEVELAND — Indians reliever Joe Smith was handcuffed, and he and his party were questioned by police early Sunday morning when officers received a complaint…
Bryan Stow beating suspects face federal weapons charges
By Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Two men charged in state court in connection with the brutal beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow will each face…
Police seize $40,000 worth of crystal meth in SE Iowa
John Mangalonzo, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – Local and state narcotics agents prevented what may have been the introduction of crystal meth in the area with the seizure of nearly a…
Attorneys complain of jail conditions for 3 accused of planning bombings at NATO summit
By Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Lawyers for three men accused of plotting to firebomb police stations and other political targets during the NATO summit in Chicago said Tuesday their clients…
5 charged in mob attack at Chicago area restaurant
By Ashley Rueff, Chicago Tribune – TINLEY PARK, Ill. — Panic shot through the small Tinley Park restaurant as quickly as the stream of determined, black-clad assailants marched in, clubs and hammers in…
Chicago releases many arrested during NATO protest
By Ryan Haggerty, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — At least 20 people arrested or detained by Chicago police during Sunday’s NATO protests were released from custody overnight, according to other protesters and representatives…
Chicago police investigating whether department’s website was compromised
By Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Chicago police are investigating whether its own supervisors whose names have appeared in news reports during the NATO summit coverage had been targeted online, a…
Federal prosecutors have a lot riding on Edwards case
By Anne Blythe, McClatchy Newspapers – GREENSBORO, N.C. — John Edwards might be the one with the most to win or lose with the jury deliberating his fate, but the U.S. Department of…
4 men arrested in fight at Dodger Stadium parking lot
By Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department said a pregnant woman looked on stunned as her boyfriend and a group of men got into fight…