Victims may speak as Cleveland abductor is sentenced to life in prison

By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Three women imprisoned for a decade in a Cleveland home may speak of their abuse in person, via vid...

Private at U.S. Army base in Colorado base arrested on sex charge

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A 19-year-old soldier stationed at a U.S. Army base in Colorado accused of having sex with a 14-yea...

Halliburton to plead guilty in Gulf oil spill

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has scheduled a hearing on Sept. 19 for Halliburton Energy Services to plead guilty to destroying evide...

FCA says four arrested in market abuse probe

LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said three men and a woman have been arrested on Wednesday and held in custody as...

Former Citibank employee sentenced for Salomon Brothers theft

By Daniel Wiessner NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Citigroup Inc employee was sentenced to more than four years in prison for stealing $...

Bradley Manning acquitted of aiding the enemy

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy — the most serious charge he faced — but was ...

Accused SAC Capital tipster arrested in California

(Reuters) - A securities analyst who passed non-public information about Yahoo and Microsoft to a portfolio manager at Steven A. Cohen...

Rapper Kat Dahlia arrested on DUI charges

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Kat Dahlia has been arrested on charges of DUI and resisting arrest without violence. Dahilai, whose rea...

Russian Crime Novel Uses Fake Swedish Blurbs

Since Amazon eclipsed the bookstore, fake online book reviews have become ubiquitous. Eksmo, a publishing company in Moscow, however, has ...

Judge rejects request to sequester Bulger jurors

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a bid by reputed Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger (BUHL'-jur) to sequester j...

Saudi website editor sentenced to seven years in prison, lashes

DUBAI (Reuters) - The editor of a Saudi Arabian social website has been sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes for founding an ...

Kenyan sentenced to death for murder, kidnap of Britons

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - A Kenyan judge has sentenced a man to death for the murder of British tourist David Tebbutt and handed him a se...

Britain losing battle against internet crime, MPs say

By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is losing the battle against cyber crime and needs a new crack crime unit to fight the grow...

Britain losing battle against internet crime, lawmakers say

By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is losing the battle against cyber crime and needs a new crack crime unit to fight the grow...

Police: Woman arrested in DC cathedral vandalism

WASHINGTON (AP) — D.C. police say a woman has been arrested at the Washington National Cathedral in connection with vandalism there. Ass...

Wing-eating champ El Wingador faces NJ prison term

WOODBURY, N.J. (AP) — A five-time Buffalo wing-eating champion known as El Wingador has pleaded guilty to a cocaine distribution charge in...

Death penalty for Kenyan for killing UK man

LAMU, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan court has sentenced a man to death for the 2011 killing of a British man who was shot dead and his wife kidnap...

8 arrested in Calif. city after US Open of Surfing

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — An unruly crowd surged through a Southern California city's seaside downtown after the U.S. Open of Su...

Protesters arrested at Mass. coal-fired plant

SOMERSET, Mass. (AP) -- Dozens of climate activists were arrested Sunday at a rally protesting a coal-fired power plant in Somerset. ...

Egypt Islamists arrested as EU official visits

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian police have arrested two leaders of an Islamist party, the latest to be swept up in a crackdown on the Muslim Brothe...

La. city police arrested men under sodomy law

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office task force arrested at least 12 men since 2011 under a sodomy law ...

Rapper DMX arrested for drunken driving in South Carolina

By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Rapper DMX was arrested on Friday on suspicion of driving under the influence ...

SAC Capital pleads not guilty; reinsurance unit eyed

By Bernard Vaughan and Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Steven A. Cohen's hedge fund pleaded not guilty on Frid...

No death penalty for Snowden if convicted, US says

WASHINGTON (AP) — Striving to get Edward Snowden back to America, U.S., Attorney General Eric Holder has assured the Russian government th...

Actor Wes Studi arrested for drunken driving in NM

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Wes Studi from "Dances with Wolves" and "The Last of the Mohicans" has been arrested for a...

Hedge fund pleads not guilty to US fraud charges

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors said a large volume of evidence including electronic messages, court-ordered wiretaps and consensual recording...

Life imprisonment plea deal for man who kidnapped Cleveland women

By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A former Cleveland school bus driver, Ariel Castro, agreed on Friday to plead guilty and be impriso...

Cleveland man agrees to life in prison for abducting three women

By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A former Cleveland school bus driver, Ariel Castro, agreed on Friday to plead guilty and be impriso...

Defense attorney: Bradley Manning a whistleblower

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A defense attorney for Pfc. Bradley Manning says the soldier is a whistleblower who wanted the American public to k...

Russian punk band convict defiant after losing parole battle

By Maria Stromova SARANSK, Russia (Reuters) - A jailed member of Russian female punk group Pussy Riot lost a court battle to be release...

Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying Gulf spill evidence

By Jonathan Stempel and Braden Reddall (Reuters) - Halliburton Co has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010...

Feds: Halliburton agrees to plead guilty in spill

WASHINGTON (AP) — Halliburton Energy Services has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence in connection with the 2010 Gulf oil spill...

Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying Gulf oil spill evidence

(Reuters) - Halliburton Co has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and will pay th...

OWASP AppSec USA Adds Security Heavy-Hitters to Growing List of Speakers

Oracle CSO Mary Ann Davidson, Senior National Security Insiders from NIST and NERC, High-Profile Anti-CFAA Defense Attorney, Cyber Security ...

Son of Sugar Hill label founders sentenced

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- The son of the founders of the Sugar Hill Records hip-hop recording label has been sentenced to probation for fai...

Pa. judge fines woman who cursed at jury selection

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman has been fined $500 for cursing because she was frustrated with being picked to serve on a jury. T...

N.Y. Man to Appeal Prison Term in $5M Lottery Scam

Ten months ago, Andy Ashkar, was receiving congratulatory calls after news spread that he and his brother claimed a $5 million lottery p...

Snowden Reads ‘Crime and Punishment’ as Stay in Moscow Airport Lengthens

On Wednesday afternoon, a pack of reporters gathered to meet Edward Snowden outside the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport,...

Bulger crony says he confessed to murders to avoid death penalty

By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A former top henchman of James "Whitey" Bulger said he pleaded guilty to 10 murders so he ...