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U.S. / NEWS Tue May 13, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- A 31-year-old Fremont man accused running down and trying to kill pedestrians in San Francisco entered a plea today of not guilty by reason of insanity to 35 felony counts. Omeed Aziz Popal is accused of 16 counts of attempted murder, 16 assault charge.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 5, 2007 @ 9:46am neoform

MSNBC -- Are the terrorist suspects held at the Guantanamo Naval Base more akin to people accused in a criminal case or to German prisoners of war in 1944? An accused criminal can go to federal court to challenge his imprisonment; a German POW couldn’t. On.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 21, 2007 @ 12:39am neoform

FOX News -- A school crossing guard accused of molesting seven children was charged with more than 1,000 counts of sexual assault. Dale Hutchings was arrested Tuesday and charged with 305 counts of raping a child, 356 counts of aggravated indecent assault against.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 12:12am neoform

CNN -- Duke University has reached an undisclosed settlement with three former lacrosse players who were falsely accused of rape, the school announced Monday. "This past year has been hard for many people who care about Duke -- for students, faculty, staff, a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 12, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

FOX News -- A former New Orleans police officer accused of beating a retired schoolteacher on Bourbon Street shortly after Hurricane Katrina was found dead of a gunshot wound Sunday night in an apparent suicide. The body of Lance Schilling, 30, was found at a home.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 8, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

FOX News -- Police arrested a man accused of attempting to sell two children, ages 1 and 5, over the Internet for sex. Jason Todd Burns, 25, told investigators he had a conversation in an Internet chat room and promised to procure the children for a New York man f.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Apr 28, 2007 @ 2:02pm neoform

FOX News -- The woman who accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape gave contradictory statements to investigators, and there was no credible evidence a crime occurred, the state attorney general's office said Friday. In a 21-page report outlining the findings o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 8:27am neoform

Washington Post -- All charges against a U.S. Marine accused of killing five civilians in Haditha, Iraq, have been dismissed, part of a decision that grants him immunity to testify in potential courts-martial for seven other Marines charged in the attack and in an alleged c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 15, 2007 @ 3:20am neoform

USA Today -- Bank tellers testified Saturday that a preacher's wife accused of murdering her husband with a shotgun was in financial trouble and that their bank had caught her trying to deposit bad checks. Prosecutors have said the couple's account at Regions Bank.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 4, 2007 @ 9:57pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A seven-months-pregnant woman has been accused of soliciting money for sex in an advertisement on a popular Web site — with her husband acting as her pimp. Diana Cornwell, 34, and her husband, Jesse, 32, each face prostitution charges, Anne Arundel Count.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 12:53am neoform

FOX News -- Prosecutors dropped a misdemeanor count Tuesday against a police officer accused of beating a female bartender in an attack videotaped by a surveillance camera, leaving him still facing a felony charge. Anthony Abbate, a 12-year police veteran, appeare.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 5, 2007 @ 6:32pm neoform

SF Gate -- An Albany father used a 100,000-volt stun gun on his 18-month-old son, police said Monday. Rian Whittman, 23, has been accused of assault and criminal mistreatment. Police said he used it "multiple times" over three weeks. A police spokesman said there.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jan 6, 2007 @ 7:53pm neoform

ABC News -- In a murder trial that began in California this week, a young mother is accused of using arsenic to kill her Marine husband to, according to prosecutors, pay for plastic surgery and a shopping spree... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 10, 2006 @ 1:11pm mrmdc

www.kgw.com -- A former teacher’s assistant accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy was indicted earlier this week, according to a Longview, Wash. newspaper... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 17, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A San Francisco couple accused in the bludgeoning death of their roommate appeared in court this morning for the first time since they were arrested in Mexico and extradited back to California. Richard Carelli and his girlfriend Michele Pinkerton, both.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 11, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A U.S. Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in southern Japan was arrested Monday, police said, stirring memories of a rape of a Japanese girl by U.S. troops over a decade ago. Police took custody of Staff Sgt. Tyrone Luther Hadnott, 38, of Camp.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Sep 16, 2007 @ 11:54am neoform

New York Daily News -- Brooklyn school custodian Francis Evelyn once walked proud, worked hard and looked forward to a peaceful retirement. Now he's too scared to go out his front door. Five months after his face was broadcast worldwide as an accused child rapist, Evelyn,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Aug 25, 2007 @ 11:21am neoform

USA Today -- The FBI has arrested a couple accused of scamming more than $21 million from investors in their Florida-based company that supposedly designed a way to turn cooking oil into biodiesel fuel. Karl Rehberg, 64, and Helen Rehberg, 66, were taken into custo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 24, 2007 @ 1:46pm neoform

BBC News -- A former US astronaut accused of trying to kidnap a love rival has appeared in court as she awaits trial. Lisa Nowak, 44, who has been charged with attempted kidnapping, assault and burglary, asked a judge to release her from her GPS monitoring device... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Aug 17, 2007 @ 4:51pm neoform

Los Angeles Times -- The conviction of Jose Padilla by a jury of his peers demonstrates that accused terrorists can be tried in civilian courts offering a panoply of protections for the defendant. But if Tuesday's verdict is a vindication of the rule of law -- and a rebuke to.. Read More