Now tell us what you did to Natalee Holloway. BBC: Dutchman Joran Van der Sloot, 24, has confessed to a court in Peru that he killed 21-year-old business student Stephany Flores in Lima in 2010 He offered a “sincere confession”, which could carry a lesser prison sentence than an outright guilty plea. Mr Van der [...]
HeraldSun: The Associated Press reported that the recent acquittal of policemen tried in the killings of protesters could be a prelude to Mubarak’s acquittal: Another Cairo court on Thursday acquitted five policemen of charges of killing five protesters in the capital’s el-Sayedah Zeinab district during the January 25-February 11 uprising. The court said three of [...]
DailyMailUK: “Went through abortion but fired anyway in August” Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2081003/Catherine-Rizzo-Deli-worker-claims-boss-abortion-avoid-sack.html#ixzz1iHmXlxT2 A young deli worker who became pregnant with her third child was allegedly told she would lose her job unless she got an abortion. Catherine Rizzo, 25, of Long Island, New York, who was earning $400 to $500 per week, is suing Cooky’s [...]
KhaleejTimes: A trial in Iran of an American-Iranian man accused of being a CIA spy has finished and he is now awaiting the verdict, the country’s chief prosecutor said Monday, according to the Mehr news agency. The prosecutor, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie, also rejected a US government call for the accused man, Amir Mirzai Hekmati, [...]
DailyMailUK: A 20-year-old woman paralyzed in a car crash after a night of underage drinking is suing a bar for not checking her ID. Chelsea Hess, now 22, argues a barman should have asked her to show her ID when she ordered drinks at a South Carolina Bar in 2009. Despite being a year under [...]
Los Angeles Times: A 19-year-old man accused of shooting an Army veteran on leave for the holidays pleaded not guilty Thursday to attempted murder and four special allegations involving premeditation and the use of a firearm. Ruben Ray Jurado turned himself in Monday after he was named a suspect in the shooting of Christopher Sullivan, [...]
IndependentUK: Doctors are being sued for creating prescription drug addicts amid claims they have failed to follow safety guidelines published more than 20 years ago. Lawyers and medical experts have reported an increase in clinical negligence cases by patients left physically and psychologically broken by “indefensible” long-term prescribing of addictive tranquillisers such as Valium, collectively [...]
Arizona Republic: Local Latino community leaders and activists called for the resignation of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Monday and asked that his officers change their tactics and stop what they call racial profiling. Antonio Bustamante, a civil-rights attorney and director of Los Abogados, Arizona’s Hispanic Bar Association, said federal Judge Murray Snow’s ruling [...]
New York Post: Sen. Charles Schumer’s brother-in-law was quietly nominated this month to a federal judgeship in New Jersey — a move that has some in the Garden State crying political foul, The Post has learned. Kevin McNulty, who is married to Schumer’s sister, Fran, was named to the US District Court by the White [...]
ABC News: It’s a very Merry Christmas for one Wisconsin man, whose four year battle to regain custody of his daughter from his wife, who had taken her to Japan, ended when he finally was able to bring the 9-year-old girl home. Moises Garcia, whose story was part of an ABC News series on fathers [...]
Life News: Under an agreement UMDNJ agreed to the nurses can remain in their current positions and not be pressured to assist in any part of an abortion procedure. The nurses are only required to help if a life-threatening emergency materializes with the mother involved in the abortion and no other non-objecting staff are available [...]
Los Angeles Times: A Sacramento parolee convicted of sexually assaulting a chihuahua was sentenced this week to 10 years in prison and must now register as a sex offender. A jury last month convicted Robert Edward De Shields of strangulation and sexual abuse of the 8-month-old chihuahua. He was high on meth at the time [...]
Big Journalism: One of the Old Media’s favorite ways of attempting to hide the ideological track of a story is to somehow forget to mention which party someone in the news hails or to whom they owe their fealty. In this case, it is what they don’t report that misleads. This week we find a [...]
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday issued legal sanctions against high profile Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for destroying documents in a civil rights lawsuit accusing him and his department of racially profiling Latinos. Citing the admitted destruction of emails and patrol records by Arpaio’s office, U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow said he would [...]
ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) – The man who found 2-year-old Caylee Anthony’s body in 2008 is suing her mother for damages, saying Casey Anthony defamed him during her murder trial earlier this year. Former meter reader Roy Kronk said in a lawsuit filed in Florida on Wednesday that 25-year-old Anthony and her lawyers tried to shift [...]
Los Angeles Times: President Obama doesn’t have to go to court to answer a group of Southern Californians’ claims that he isn’t a natural-born U.S. citizen and should be ousted from office, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The so-called birthers immediately vowed to appeal and blamed their repeated failures to get judicial attention to [...]
(Fox News) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked three key provisions of South Carolina’s controversial law cracking down on illegal immigration. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel granted the federal government’s request for an injunction against the law that’s set to take effect Jan. 1. The ruling applies to portions that require law officers to [...]
