Crime
Ohio lawmakers advance Internet cafe crackdown
Ohio state lawmakers moved boldly Tuesday against storefront sweepstakes parlors they have come to view as illegal gambling operations, advancing separate bills effectively banning the operations statewide and blocking startups until the ban takes hold. The Senate State Government Oversight committee overwhelmingly approved the ban over the objections of a ...
Toronto mayor avoids questions about crack video
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford continued to duck questions Tuesday about a video that purportedly shows him smoking crack cocaine despite calls by allies and rivals for further comment. The video has not been released publicly and there is no way to verify whether it is authentic. Reports Thursday night on ...
Grand jury names 5 in Indy property kickback plot
Two Indianapolis city officials accepted bribes and kickbacks to facilitate the fraudulent sale of vacant and tax-delinquent properties to nonprofits for as little as $1,000 apiece before they ended up in the hands of for-profit developers, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. An eight-count indictment unsealed Tuesday afternoon alleges Reginald Walton, 29, ...
Attorneys argue over notes about man on death row
While Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. spent another day on death row at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., the parents of his victim sat in a federal courtroom in North Dakota Tuesday and listened to attorneys argue about the notes of mental health experts. Afterward, Linda Walker and Allan Sjodin ...
Ex-Ford execs charged in Argentine torture cases
Three former Ford Motor Co. executives were charged Tuesday with crimes against humanity for allegedly targeting Argentine union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup. All three men are now in their 80s. Their case is part of a new wave of prosecutions focusing on corporate ...
Man pleads guilty in Picasso vandalism case
A man accused of vandalizing a 1929 Pablo Picasso painting in a Houston museum — an act that was caught on cellphone video — agreed Tuesday to a two-year prison term as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. Uriel Landeros had faced felony graffiti and criminal mischief charges accusing ...
Ohio kidnapping suspect's 3 dogs go to foster care
Three dogs seized from a man charged with holding three women captive and raping them over a decade were placed in foster care Tuesday to await a decision by the women on whether to adopt them. John Baird, chief Cleveland animal control officer, said the dogs — a Chihuahua and ...
Photos of Tucson shooting scene show gun, knife
Photos taken in the aftermath of the attack that killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords show the handgun, high-capacity pistol magazines and knife that Jared Lee Loughner carried with him as he carried out the January 2011 attack. The 600 photos, released Tuesday, also show images ...
Egypt troops in Sinai sweep mistakenly hit funeral
Egyptian troops and police mistakenly fired on a Bedouin funeral in the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, security officials said, in the opening salvo of a sweep searching for security personnel kidnapped by suspected militants. The incident illustrated the hazards of the military operations prompted by the kidnapping last week. A ...
2 Eastern Livestock officials sentenced to prison
One of the founders of defunct cattle broker Eastern Livestock was sentenced Tuesday to almost six years in federal prison and the former chief financial officer was sentenced to nearly five for their roles in a $32 million check kiting scheme. U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell also ordered company ...
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