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U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 6, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

MSNBC -- The Bush administration argued in the Supreme Court on Wednesday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have sufficient opportunities to challenge their confinement, the third round of high court review of the detentions. The measures s.. 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 Mon Sep 17, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

CNN -- Hall of Fame running back and one-time murder defendant O.J. Simpson will be held without bail after his arrest in connection with an alleged sports-memorabilia heist, Las Vegas police said Sunday. Simpson, 60, will have his first scheduled court appearan.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 1, 2007 @ 4:14pm neoform

FOX News -- A 75-year-old man recently reported missing was rescued from an Orange County house early Wednesday where he claims he was held prisoner for 14 days without food after following a prostitute to the home for sex, WOFL Investigators said Lloyd Miles Brya.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 4:57pm neoform

USA Today -- By Richard Willing, USA TODAYTwo men held in Trinidad on an alleged terror plot to blow up fuel tanks and destroy New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport will fight extradition to the United States, a lawyer for the men told a Trinidadian co.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 9:57pm neoform

USA Today -- The Supreme Court is poised to announce — as early as Friday — if it will take up another confrontation over the rights of foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Two groups of detainees held for more than five years are asking the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 3:10pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Several dozen terrorism suspects believed to have been held at secret CIA prisons are still missing without trace, and the United States should reveal what has happened to them, a leading rights group said on Tuesday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Pre.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Jan 12, 2007 @ 10:34am mrmdc

Christian Science Monitor -- Thursday marks the fifth anniversary of the day the US military flew the first of some 700 battlefield detainees from Afghanistan to Guantánamo. Some of those same men are among the 395 still held at Guantánamo today. None of the detainees has ever had.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 14, 2006 @ 1:05pm mrmdc

Associated Press -- Immigrants arrested in the United States may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts, the Bush administration said Monday, opening a new legal front in the fight over the rights of detaine.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 9, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- An unknown number of men were being held at the ranch while authorities completed the search of the gleaming 80-foot-high temple, a cheese-making plant, a cement plant, a school, a doctor's office and housing units. Church lawyer Patrick Peranteau did.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 4, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- A San Francisco judge today ordered a 19-year-old Daly City man held without bail in the weekend shooting outside a Sunset District pizzeria that killed two patrons. Matthew Owyang is charged with Saturday's attack that killed Jason De La Cruz, 31, of.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 17, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

SF Gate -- Women hold only one out of every nine leadership positions at the largest publicly held companies in California, according to a study released Tuesday. The annual survey of 400 publicly held corporations headquartered in California was conducted by the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Oct 6, 2007 @ 10:29am neoform

Washington Post -- For six decades, they held their silence. The group of World War II veterans kept a military code and the decorum of their generation, telling virtually no one of their top-secret work interrogating Nazi prisoners of war at Fort Hunt. When about two.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 13, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

USA Today -- The gunman ordered children out of the sanctuary before opening fire, killing three people and wounding at least five others in the middle of a worship service. He held 25 to 50 people hostage before finally surrendering. Police said the shooting Sunda.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Aug 5, 2007 @ 9:13am neoform

CNN -- Two men were detained after police found a suspicious item in their car during a routine traffic stop for speeding near Charleston, South Carolina, authorities said Sunday. Berkeley County sheriff's Lt. Vince Lombard said the men were being held pendin.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 24, 2007 @ 3:52am neoform

USA Today -- Intruders broke into the home of a prominent doctor, held the family hostage for several hours and then set the house on fire, police and others said. Three people were killed, and the doctor was injured. A woman was kidnapped and taken to withdraw mon.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 10, 2007 @ 3:18pm neoform

FOX News -- Two of three baggies full of drugs swallowed by a man being held on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs ruptured, killing him, El Paso County sheriff's officials said Monday. Dustin Elbert, 34, died Sunday afternoon after a guard found hi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 3, 2007 @ 7:00am neoform

FOX News -- A 19-year-old Albuquerque man is being held on a $100 million bond in the death of a former high school wrestler. Jose Sullivan was arraigned Sunday on an open count of murder, along with tampering with evidence and conspiracy in connection with the de.. Read More