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U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 5, 2007 @ 10:19am neoform

www.miamiherald.com -- A couple convicted of tax evasion who threatened violence if authorities approached them were arrested peacefully at their rural Plainfield home after holing up at the fortress-like compound for months, U.S. Marshals said. One big question remained: Ho.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 12:44pm neoform

FOX News -- A Purdue University graduate student was convicted of threatening to kill President Bush, vice president Dick Cheney and others in postings on the Internet. Vikram Buddhi, 35, an Indian national who was attending advanced engineering classes at Purdue'.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 12:28am neoform

FOX News -- A man who faked being a doctor, an astronaut and a spy to dates he met online was convicted Wednesday of two counts of sexual assault but acquitted of raping several women who accused him of drugging them. Seven women, six of whom Jeffrey J. Marsalis m.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 6, 2007 @ 1:06pm neoform

CNN -- An ex-judge who accepted expensive gifts in exchange for helping fix divorce cases and a former state lawmaker convicted in a scheme to shake down a judicial candidate were sentenced to prison Tuesday. Former Brooklyn state Supreme Court Justice Gerald.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 9, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

CNN -- Just hours before his execution by injection, a Tennessee death row prisoner who was convicted of killing a police officer ordered his final meal -- pizza for a homeless person. Philip Workman, 53, requested a vegetarian pizza be delivered to a homeles.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 25, 2007 @ 9:55am neoform

Houston Chronicle -- Two election workers were convicted Wednesday of rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election to avoid a more thorough review in Ohio's most populous county... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 19, 2006 @ 10:31pm neoform

New York Times -- Genarlow Wilson, 20, is serving a prison sentence that shocked his jury, elicited charges of racism from critics of the justice system and even acknowledgment by prosecutors and the State Legislature that it is unjust... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 18, 2006 @ 9:29pm neoform

Morning Call Online -- A former Allentown woman who struck seductive nude poses and ordered her 12-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter to photograph her showed up in court Friday wearing jeans with ''Booty'' emblazoned on the left rear pocket and ''Licious'' on the ri.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 14, 2006 @ 9:24am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Death penalty opponents criticized the execution of a convicted murderer who took more than half an hour to die and needed a rare second dose of lethal chemicals... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 7, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- Georgia executed a convicted murderer Tuesday, the first person to be put to death in the United States since the Supreme Court ended a de facto moratorium on capital punishment last month. Witnesses said William Earl Lynd died by lethal injection at a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 11, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- A parolee was convicted of first-degree murder Monday for shooting and killing a woman on a Fremont street as she walked to a school holding her young daughter's hand. Manuel Urango, 30, appeared surprised when Alameda County jurors returned with a gui.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 23, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- Convicted sex offender Kenneth Parnell, known for the 1972 kidnapping and seven-year-long confinement of Steven Stayner, died Monday in the state prison hospital at Vacaville. Parnell, 76, died of natural causes, the state Department of Corrections and.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 18, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- A Nicaraguan appeals court Monday ruled that an American convicted of killing his former girlfriend should be set free. Eric Volz, of Nashville, Tennessee, was convicted in 2006 of raping and killing Doris Ivanez Jimenez and sentenced to 30 years in priso.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 10, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- Five months after being convicted of fraud and obstructing justice, former media tycoon Conrad Black is due in court for sentencing later. The maximum sentence for Black's crimes - whose guilty verdict the British peer is appealing - is 35 years. Bu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 2, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Santa Clara County prosecutors filed murder charges Thursday against a convicted killer who allegedly abducted a 19-year-old Cupertino woman from a department store parking lot and murdered her 28 years ago. Prosecutors charged Terry Childs in the Nov... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 3, 2007 @ 1:01am neoform

FOX News -- A Marine Corps squad leader was convicted Thursday of unpremeditated murder in the killing of an Iraqi man during a frustrated search for an insurgent. Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III, 23, of Plymouth, Mass., had been charged with premeditated murder but.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 17, 2007 @ 11:54am neoform

FOX News -- The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday granted a stay of execution for up to 90 days for a man convicted of killing a Savannah police officer in 1989. Troy Davis had faced a lethal injection tomorrow before the decision by the board after l.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 23, 2007 @ 9:31am neoform

FOX News -- A Fort Worth doctor twice honored by the Texas House of Representatives as the "doctor of the day" is a registered sex offender convicted of an illicit relationship with a 17-year-old. Dr. Nilon Tallant, 75, was introduced by lawmakers at the Capitol i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 10:46pm neoform

CNN -- A jury on Thursday convicted reputed Klansman James Ford Seale of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers in southwest Mississippi, grisly drownings that went unpunished before federal prosecutors re-examined the forgotten case.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 9, 2007 @ 5:51am neoform

FOX News -- A man now accused of kidnapping and killing a Johnson County teenager was convicted 11 years ago of threatening his adoptive sister at knifepoint. According to court records obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, a judge convicted Edwin R. Hall af.. Read More