5 Minot State players arrested; cop knocked out

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — Police arrested four Minot State University football players on misdemeanor drug charges and charged a fifth with attem...

Teenager sentenced to three years in Delhi gang-rape case

An Indian court sentenced a teenager to three years in a detention centre Saturday over the fatal gang-rape of a student, prompting the vi...

Indian teen sentenced to three years in Delhi gang rape case

By Annie Banerji and Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian teenager was sentenced to three years in juvenile detention on Sa...

Colo. potty peeper sentenced to 3 years in prison

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado man who hid in the tank of a portable toilet at a yoga festival to spy on women has been sentenced to thr...

7 NY airport baggage handlers arrested

NEW YORK (AP) — Seven men who worked as contract baggage handlers for El Al Airlines in New York have been charged with stealing iPads, iP...

Venezuelan man who shot U.S. attaches sentenced to prison

By Daniel Wallis CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man has been sentenced to 5-1/2 years in prison for shooting and wounding two U.S. mi...

US Embassy says son of Suriname president arrested

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The son of the president of the South American country of Suriname has been arrested, a U.S. Embassy official...

Ghana court rejects request to extradite Ivorian fugitive

ACCRA (Reuters) - A court in Ghana on Friday rejected a request to extradite a senior ally of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo,...

Canadian polygamist found guilty of tax cheating

Polygamy, human trafficking and child abuse accusations never stuck, but the leader of a polygamous community in westernmost Canada has b...

Bare Feet Shoes co-owner sentenced in tax scheme

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A co-owner of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey retail chain Bare Feet Shoes has been sentenced to 30 months in fed...

Mexican Refrigeration Company Owner Sentenced to Probation for Scheme to Defraud the Export-Import Bank of the United States

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Export-Import Bank of the United States (...

Man arrested for threats to Hawaii Congresswoman

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man with a history of harassing and threatening Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has been arrested after he allegedly sent an e...

Female midshipman grilled in U.S. Naval Academy rape case

(Please note graphic language in the fifth paragraph) By Lacey Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A defense attorney for one of three U....

Argentina forward Matera not guilty of eye-gouging

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Argentine loose forward Pablo Matera was found not guilty on Thursday of allegations of eye- gouging during last Sat...

Rugby-Argentina forward Matera not guilty of eye-gouging

CAPE TOWN, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Argentine loose forward Pablo Matera was found not guilty on Thursday of allegations of eye- gouging during ...

3rd Fla. mayor arrested within the past month

MIAMI (AP) -- The mayor of Homestead was hauled away from his home Wednesday in handcuffs on corruption charges, including accepting i...

Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan Gets Death Penalty

Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage at Ft. Hood, was unanimously sentenced to dea...

Soldier sentenced to death for Fort Hood shooting

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A military jury on Wednesday sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, deliv...

Shooter in Fort Hood massacre sentenced to death

FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - A military jury on Wednesday sentenced U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan to death by lethal injection for killing 1...

Florida mayor arrested for failing to disclose consulting job

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida mayor was arrested on corruption charges on Wednesday for allegedly failing to disclose he worked as a paid co...

Dog-fighting defendants plead not guilty in Ala

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A dozen men indicted in a multi-state dog-fighting investigation entered not guilty pleas at their arraignment Wed...

Gazan arrested on way to US-backed tech fair

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has confirmed the arrest of a Gaza man who was detained as he prepared to travel to a U.S.-sponsored cultural even...

Nigeria court orders Al-Qaeda suspect extradited to US

A Nigerian court on Wednesday ordered the extradition to the United States of a man accused of being a member of the Al-Qaeda affiliate in...

Dozens indicted in Bosnia in one of biggest post-war crime busts

By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Thirty-two people were indicted in Bosnia on Wednesday for a string of murders and bank robber...

Military jury to consider death penalty for Fort Hood gunman

By Ellen Wulfhorst FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - The military jury deciding the fate of U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan was slated on Wednes...

Tsvangirai aide pleads not guilty to Zimbabwe vote fraud

An aide to Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to charges arising from his reporting of election ...

Ukrainian serial killer dies in prison

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's most prolific serial killer, Anatoly Onoprienko, who killed 52 people in a six-year reign of terror up to 1...

Lab owner sentenced to 40 months in waste case

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- An environmental laboratory owner in Mississippi has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison ...

Wanted JPMorgan trader arrested in Spain

Spanish police on Tuesday arrested a former JPMorgan bank trader wanted by the United States to face criminal charges in the massive ...

Ex-JPMorgan trader arrested in Spain

MADRID (AP) -- A former JPMorgan Chase & Co. trader wanted by the United States for allegedly falsifying bank records to cover up ...

Wanted JP Morgan trader arrested in Spain

Police in Spain arrested a former trader of banking giant JP Morgan who is wanted by the United States to face criminal charges in a massi...

Judge to set jury selection for convicted murderer Jodi Arias

By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona judge presiding over the high-profile murder trial of Jodi Arias could on Monday sched...

Russian opposition leader Navalny arrested after campaign rally

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, a candidate in next month's election for Moscow mayor, was arrested Sunday after a campaign ...

Last of 5 suspects in Mumbai gang rape arrested

NEW DELHI (AP) — Police on Sunday arrested the last of five men wanted in the gang rape of a photojournalist in Mumbai, and said charges w...

Israel ministers urge US response to Syria "crime"

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prominent Israeli Cabinet ministers are calling for a U.S.-led response to an alleged chemical attack in Syria last week ...

Suspect arrested over Lebanese mosque bombings

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces arrested a suspect on Saturday in connection with the devastating double bombing the day before tha...

Fort Hood shooter Hasan convicted, faces death penalty

A US Army officer who killed 13 people in a rampage on a Texas military base was found guilty of premeditated murder and now faces a possi...

Washington state teen arrested, second sought in killing of 88-year-old veteran

By Keith Coffman (Reuters) - A 16-year-boy has been arrested and a second teenager was being sought in the beating death of an 88-year-...

Chris Lane murder: Is a racist dimension of the crime being discounted?

Use of racial epithets, on the social media account of a black teenager accused in the Aug. 16 "thrill killing" of Chris Lane, a...