January 29, 2004
CHICAGO (AP) - R. Kelly won't be mingling with Michael Jackson during next month's Grammy festivities: A judge has ordered the R&B star, who is awaiting trial on child pornography charges, to stay away from the King of Pop, himself facing child molestation charges, when Kelly attends the awards.
The Chicago-based Kelly has produced two songs for Jackson: the 1995 hit "You Are Not Alone" and last fall's "One More Chance."
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08:56 AM
BALTIMORE -- A mother pleaded guilty Wednesday to beating her 2-month-old son to death.
Keisha Carr, 23, of Baltimore, entered her plea Wednesday morning to the second-degree murder of her son, David Allen Carr. The judge sentenced Carr to 30 years in prison, calling the case a dreadful matter, according to the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office.
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08:54 AM
A Marion County jury convicted a former school janitor on five felony child molesting charges early Wednesday morning.
James A. Altes, 43, was convicted of having sexual contact with four girls, ages 5 to 11, from 1996 to 2000.
Altes could receive up to 124 years in prison, said Roger Rayl, a spokesman for the Marion County prosecutor. Altes is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 20.
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08:53 AM
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (AP)--A teenager who was accused two years ago in a $1 million securities fraud scheme has now been charged with conspiring to steal from a local bank.
Federal prosecutors say 19-year-old Cole Bartiromo and two friends tried to persuade an employee at a Wells Fargo bank in Mission Viejo last August to let them ``borrow'' all the money in a bank customer's account.
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08:51 AM
A University of Florida student faces criminal charges for making fake drivers license, police said.
Blaine Shelton Patrick, 18, was being held at the Alachua County jail Wednesday on a $5,000 bond. Gainesville Police arrested him Tuesday.
Police collected a computer, laminating machine and magnetic strips from the student's home in Beaty Towers, an on-campus housing complex.
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08:49 AM
There's more legal trouble today for a northeast Ohio minister charged with illegally performing marriage ceremonies.
Now Rev. Kevin Eckmeyer, of Tallmadge, is charged with spouse abuse. He allegedly grabbed his wife's thumb and threatened her over a suspected affair.
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08:46 AM
James Brown (70) was arrested yesterday and charged with criminal domestic violence after allegedly shoving his wife Tomi Rae Brown (33) over during an argument at the couple's Beech Island home.
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08:43 AM
January 27, 2004
SONORA, Calif. A synchronized swimmer's three-month jail term for vehicular manslaughter was postponed so she can compete in the Athens Olympics. Tammy Crow pleaded guilty in the Feb. 16 wreck that killed her two passengers, boyfriend Cody Tatro and 12-year-old Brett Slinger. The three were on their way to a ski resort when Crow lost control of the car.
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03:23 AM
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors will launch their long awaited attack against Martha Stewart on Tuesday, saying she lied to investigators about a suspicious stock trade, fearing it could ruin her reputation and the lifestyle empire she had built.
Opening statements in the widely-watched trial are scheduled to begin Tuesday morning in Manhattan federal court with the prosecution's key witness expected to take the stand as early as this week.
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03:02 AM
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Lionel Tate, the teen who killed a 6-year-old playmate at age 12 and became the youngest defendant in the nation to be locked away for life, plans to enjoy his birthday this week like any other 17-year-old.
After an appeals court threw out his first-degree murder conviction last month, Tate struck a plea bargain that allowed him to walk out of prison Monday.
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03:00 AM
A DeKalb County woman was charged with murder Monday in the suspected beating death of her 4-year-old daughter.
The child, Rita Moody, was the subject of an investigation by child welfare officials at the time of her death, according to a spokesman for the state Department of Human Resources.
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02:56 AM
At first, Willie Golden said his pastor began taking the church's money home to count it.
Then the retired police lieutenant said he noticed the church could never manage to get itself out of debt, no matter how hard the congregation tried.
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02:53 AM
LOS ANGELES -- A man who beat two women and bit, cut and dislocated the jaw of a year-old girl was arrested, police said Monday.
The toddler was taken to Cedar Sinai Medical Center, where she was in stable condition, said Det. Kenneth White of the Los Angeles Police Department's Southwest Station.
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02:50 AM
AURORA, Colo. - Former Broncos tight end Clarence Kay was arrested on suspicion of burglary and accused of breaking into a former girlfriend's home and grabbing her as she called 911.
Kay, who played for Denver from 1984-92, could face an assault charge because officers saw scrapes on the woman, police spokeswoman Kathleen Walsh said Monday.
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02:45 AM
Police recovered Nelson's car and arrested 16-year-old Detroit native James Antonio Knott. Knott was charged as an adult with carjacking and armed robbery. Police said Knott remains in custody in lieu of $150,000 cash bond. Lt. McNeilance said it was unlikely that the teen knew Nelson's identity.
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02:44 AM
January 26, 2004
WESTBORO, Mass. A convenience store clerk has been charged with larceny for allegedly snatching a winning $20,000 lottery ticket from a customer's hand and giving her only $100 in return.
Quik Mart clerk Antoine Y. Reiche, 34, is scheduled for arraignment Monday.
University of Massachusetts freshman Erika Schmitt, 18, told authorities she bought a $2 Lucky Star lottery ticket Monday night and uncovered 10 stars, winning the $20,000 grand prize. Reiche allegedly grabbed the ticket, told her it showed only six stars a $100 prize winner and refused to let her see the ticket again.
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01:58 AM
PANAMA CITY, Fla. - A 19-year-old man was charged with tossing a firebomb into the home of witness who was going to testify against the teen in a drug case.
Ricky A. Young was being held Sunday without bond at Bay County Jail on charges of arson, retaliation against a witness and manufacturing a firebomb. He was charged Friday.
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01:54 AM
An Ohio National Guard member has been charged by the Army with disobeying a lawful order after he again refused to take the anthrax vaccine.
Specialist Kurt Hickman refused to take the series of shots on January 14 after his unit was deployed to Camp Atterbury in Indiana in preparation for going overseas.
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01:53 AM
A Henry County school official's weekend arrest at Skiles Test Nature Park in Indianapolis is the latest in a crackdown on lewd behavior at the city park, authorities said.
Park rangers launched the effort at the Northeastside park in response to complaints from nearby residents, said Major Ernie Hudson, who supervises the city's park rangers.
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01:47 AM
MOUNT VERNON -- A Woodlawn junior high school basketball coach, Jarrod L. Griffith, was arrested Friday afternoon in connection with the alleged Jefferson County child-pornography ring.
The arrest makes Griffith, of Woodlawn, the sixth man arrested in the past 10 days in the pornography investigation, and police say it doesn't look like the arrests will let up anytime soon.
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01:45 AM
NITRO, W.Va. --
A West Virginia man who won the largest single lottery jackpot in history has been accused of drunken driving on one of the most treacherous days this winter.
Jack Whittaker, who hit the $314.9 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas 2002, was arraigned Sunday by a Kanawha County magistrate on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.
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01:44 AM
January 24, 2004
EAGLE, Colo. (AP) - Last month, Kobe Bryant's lawyers suggested racism could be behind his prosecution because sheriff's deputies had accepted T-shirts depicting the NBA star being hanged. Now the defense team has brought up race for the first time in open court, a move some legal observers believe is part of an ongoing strategy.
Defense attorney Pamela Mackey said during a motions hearing Friday that there is a long history of white women falsely accusing black men of rape. The statement echoed an argument made in court filings last week.
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11:15 AM
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) - The Scott Peterson double-murder trial has been postponed for at least a week as the case moves to the San Francisco Bay area and court officials pick a judge.
On Friday, Judge Al Girolami set a Feb. 2 hearing in San Mateo County Superior Court, where he ordered the case moved after ruling that it would be difficult to find unbiased jurors in Laci Peterson's hometown.
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11:14 AM
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The judge presiding over Michael Jackson's child molestation case ordered 82 pages of documents and related tape recordings sealed Friday because they contain "sensitive information" about a boy's claims that Jackson sexually abused him.
Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville said he could not anticipate any time before the trial that the material, related to a search conducted at Jackson's Neverland Ranch, could be made public.
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11:13 AM
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The judge presiding over Michael Jackson's child molestation case ordered 82 pages of documents and related tape recordings sealed Friday because they contain "sensitive information" about a boy's claims that Jackson sexually abused him.
Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville said he could not anticipate any time before the trial that the material, related to a search conducted at Jackson's Neverland Ranch, could be made public.
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11:13 AM
NEW YORK (AP) - Opening statements in the Martha Stewart stock-trading trial could begin as early as next week, lawyers said after a federal judge completed a fourth day of interviews with potential jurors.
The judge interviewed jurors in her private robing room, hoping to eliminate those who bring a clear bias to the case.
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11:12 AM
January 22, 2004
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An 82-year-old judge appointed to the bench in 1963 will come out of retirement to preside over the high profile Scott Peterson double-murder trial, court officials announced on Wednesday.
The new judge, Richard Arnason, is taking over the high-profile case because it is being moved from Peterson's hometown of Modesto in California's Central Valley to San Mateo County south of San Francisco.
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05:18 AM
NEW YORK (AP) - The judge in the Martha Stewart trial appears to have given up on finding 12 people completely unfamiliar with the gracious-living guru, zeroing in on those who say they can be fair despite the heavy pretrial publicity.
A transcript of the first day of juror questioning in Stewart's stock-fraud trial shows U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum asking potential jurors whether they can decide the case solely on the evidence.
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05:17 AM
A Will County activist who founded a local chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving was convicted Tuesday of stealing more than $45,000 from the group by pocketing fees that would have funded programs for victims of drunk drivers.
Antoinette Wilda, 48, started a Will County MADD chapter after her son was killed by a drunken driver in 1993. She faces anywhere from probation to seven years in prison for the felony theft conviction.
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05:16 AM
LAHAINA, Hawaii - Police say a New Jersey cheerleader who fell to her death from a hotel balcony had a blood-alcohol level more than double the state's legal limit.
Police say Lauren Crossan's blood-alcohol content was .18 percent. Hawaii's limit for drivers is .08 percent.
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05:13 AM
A 17-year-old cadet at an all-male military academy outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been arrested and charged with sexual assault on a fellow student and other forms of abuse on two others.
The cadet who was charged is being held in a juvenile detention facility while police continue their investigation.
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05:11 AM
A registered sex offender was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly used a Salt Lake City Library computer to ask a woman if he could have sex with her children.
The man, 39, who is a registered sex offender in Wisconsin, was in a chat room where he talked to an undercover police officer posing as a mother with two daughters.
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05:08 AM
SANFORD, Fla. - A Seminole County man is being held on 99 counts of possession of child pornography, sheriff's deputies said.
Robert B. Corwin, 47, of the Lake Mary area, came under investigation last February when Clearwater police, working an Internet sting, arrested him after he went there for what he thought would be a sexual liaison with a 12-year old boy, said Steve Olson, spokesman for the Seminole County Sheriff's Office.
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05:06 AM
January 21, 2004
The process of selecting a jury in the Martha Stewart case started Tuesday, but apparently there's still work to do to seat the panel because the process is scheduled to continue tomorrow.
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12:52 AM
MODESTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A judge on Tuesday ordered the high-profile trial of Scott Peterson, who is accused of killing his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son, moved to a suburb of San Francisco after concluding that the salesman could not get a fair trial in his hometown.
Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Al Girolami ordered the case moved from Modesto to San Mateo County between San Francisco and San Jose because the intense publicity it generated made Scott Peterson a controversial figure.
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12:20 AM
ATLANTA A 6-year-old girl found dead in a motel room had been strangled, stabbed, beaten and covered in pages torn from a Bible, possibly in an attempt to "undemonize" her, police said Tuesday. Christopher Carey, 29, and his wife Valerie, 27, were taken to a psychiatric ward Monday and charged with murder. The husband was later transferred to jail.
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12:18 AM
Martha Mantanona of Waukesha is facing two misdemeanor counts of resisting or obstructing justice for falsely claiming she had been raped Sept. 19 on the Bug Line Trail in Sussex.
"Her original credibility was very high," Detective Lt. Charles Wood of the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department explained in a telephone interview Oct. 7, but "it gradually chipped away over time" as deputies interviewed Mantanona's acquaintances.
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12:16 AM
POTEAU, Okla. -- A Oklahoma teacher accused of raping a 13-year-old female student was officially charged with first-degree rape Tuesday. About 10 members of Jeffrey Dill's family showed up at the arraignment to support Dill, who was a teacher at Pocola Junior High School.
Dill is accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in the school's annex Friday morning.
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12:14 AM
A Louisville Metro Police officer has been charged with pulling a gun on a woman Jan. 3 and raping her in front of 9-month-old daughter.
Billy Ray White, 45, was arrested on an outstanding warrant this morning at the police offices on Barrett Avenue. He is charged with first-degree rape, terrorist threats and intimidating a witness.
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12:12 AM
A former Jefferson county public school employee is behind bars, accused of abusing teenagers.
Mark Brown was arrested Monday night on nine counts of sodomy and sexually abusing at least two teens. He was an instructional assistant for special education classes at Atherton high school.
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12:09 AM
Three volunteer Levittown firefighters were arrested after they pummeled a fellow member of their department outside a bar early Monday, police said.
Daniel Lennon, 29, of 44 Azalea Lane, Anthony Parsell, 21, of 77 Hickory Lane and Joseph Contino, 28, of 60 Sheep Lane were charged with second-degree gang assault.
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12:07 AM
January 20, 2004
NEW YORK (AP) - Martha Stewart waved to her supporters, strode into a Manhattan courthouse and repeated a plea of innocent at the formal start of her stock-trading trial Tuesday.
The 62-year-old millionaire gracious-living guru stood in court and nodded at the first batch of jurors, who were interviewed one by one in a judge's private robing room.
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10:33 PM
January 19, 2004
It took Anne LeClair a split second to realize there was opportunity in the murder trial of Scott Peterson, who is accused of killing his wife, Laci, and their unborn son. No sooner had her county been identified as one of a handful of possible trial sites than Ms. LeClair, a tourism official, was collecting business cards and pulling together promotional materials.
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12:37 AM
COMMERCE, Calif. (AP) - Tips from citizens led to the arrest of the chief suspect in last year's fatal shooting of the half-sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, investigators said Sunday. Robert Maxfield, 23, was being held without bail Sunday in connection with the Sept. 14 shooting of Yetunde Price, who was 31.
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12:36 AM
Sheriff's deputies from Baldwin and Mobile counties arrested a Theodore man Friday night in Daphne, when he allegedly attempted to get together with a juvenile girl he met on the Internet, according to a Baldwin County Sheriff's investigator.
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12:36 AM
Louisville assistant coach Kevin Willard was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. Police say 28 year old Willard was pulled over by Louisville police at an intersection southeast of downtown about 2:30 a.m.
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12:35 AM
A 28-year veteran Carmel police officer was charged today with 36 counts of child molesting and related charges involving an 11-year-old girl. Officer Paul Terry, 52, a crime lab technician, was being held in the Hamilton County Jail on a $1 million bond. Police say he is considered a flight risk and they have placed him on a "suicide watch" in the jail, where he is segregated away from other inmates.
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12:35 AM
A Montgomery County, Texas teen-ager is no longer in jail. But he still doesn't know what his future holds. Officers arrested the 16-year-old last week after using his inhaler in the Magnolia High School Cafeteria.
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12:34 AM
A 3-year-old boy was pronounced dead at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center early yesterday, and by midafternoon his mother had been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Authorities said the naked body of Hassani Berry was found in the hallway of a North Toledo apartment, his body cold to the touch of city firefighters who tried to resuscitate him.
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12:33 AM
EDINBORO, Pa. - A 17-year-old boy was charged with stabbing his father to death and slashing his younger brother with a butcher knife Sunday, authorities said. Jordan Michael Carter, of Edinboro, was arrested and charged with homicide, attempted homicide and aggravated assault. He was to be arraigned Sunday night, state police said.
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12:33 AM
January 18, 2004
JERUSALEM (AP) - Psychic Uri Geller defended his friend Michael Jackson on Sunday, saying the pop singer denied under hypnosis three years ago that he had sexually abused children.
Geller, best known for his claimed telekinetic ability to bend spoons, told Israel's Army Radio that he hypnotized Jackson when the two were alone in a recording studio at an undisclosed location.
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01:34 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sheriff's deputies arrested a man accused of shooting to death the half-sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams last year. Robert Maxfield, 23, was booked Saturday for investigation of first-degree murder in connection to the Sept. 14 shooting of 31-year-old Yetunde Price.
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02:27 AM
January 16, 2004
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) - With a sea of cameras and fans outside the courthouse, Michael Jackson pleaded innocent Friday to child-molestation charges that could send him to prison - and was scolded by the judge for being 21 minutes late for his first court appearance.
"Mr. Jackson, you have started out on the wrong foot here. ... I want to advise you that I will not put up with that. It's an insult to the court," Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville told him.
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01:08 PM
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) - Two months after Michael Jackson learned he would be charged with molesting a child, supporters of the multimillionaire pop star were coming by the busload to join the media phalanx anticipating his first court appearance.
Jackson, a longtime resident of this idyllic Central California Valley, abandoned his fabled Neverland Ranch after the case broke and was planning to come to court Friday from Beverly Hills where he has been holed up in a spectacular leased mansion.
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08:19 AM
FORT LAUDERDALE β An Olympic Heights High School employee has been charged with drug trafficking, rekindling disappointment at a school that two months ago lost a top administrator to similar charges.
Federal agents found more than 200 boxes of illegal prescription drugs in the Broken Sound home of Nelly Maria Munoz, a 44-year-old Spanish translator at the school. She got the drugs, including the "date rape" drug Rohypnol, in Mexico, she said.
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08:17 AM
A Merced elementary school playground supervisor was arrested Thursday after confessing to secretly photographing girls in a school restroom using a cell phone, police said.
Arturo Sanchez Abarca, 22, used a cell phone with camera capabilities to photograph at least two children in the girlsβ bathroom stalls at Luther Burbank Elementary School on East Alexander Avenue, according to police.
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08:14 AM
NEWARK, Jan. 15 - The operators of a global Internet child pornography service that stretched from Eastern Europe to Mount Laurel, N.J., were indicted on Thursday, and federal and state authorities arrested 15 people in New Jersey who subscribed to the service.
Law enforcement agencies in New Jersey, as well as immigration and postal service officials, collaborated for more than a year on an investigation that focused on a Belarus-based company, Regpay Ltd. The authorities said Regpay operated about 50 child pornography Web sites. The company billed subscribers more than $3 million, according to the federal indictment unsealed Thursday.
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08:13 AM
PHILADELPHIA After a month of investigation, much is still unknown about a nurse who claims to have killed up to 40 patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including the names of most of his alleged victims. But that hasn't stopped relatives of people treated at places where Charles Cullen worked from filing a wave of civil lawsuits against the medical centers that employed him.
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08:11 AM
SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio A woman who said she lost a $162 million Mega Millions lottery ticket when she dropped her purse pleaded no contest Thursday to filing a false police report. Elecia Battle, 40, made no comment in court other than to say "yes" when asked if she understood her rights and the charge.
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08:10 AM
January 15, 2004
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) - Double murder charges will stand against Scott Peterson in the killings of his pregnant wife and unborn son, a judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting a defense motion to dismiss the charges.
Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Marie Silveira denied the motion to toss out the charges on defense claims that prosecutors did not present enough evidence of a crime during a preliminary hearing last year.
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01:58 AM
SOMERVILLE, N.J. Jury selection began Tuesday in the manslaughter trial of former NBA star Jayson Williams, who is accused of fatally shooting a limousine driver at his estate nearly two years ago. More than 300 potential jurors were sworn in and filled out questionnaires after being introduced to the former New Jersey Nets center, who rose and said "Good morning."
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01:56 AM
BATON ROUGE, La. Authorities trying to build a case against a suspected serial killer said Wednesday that a length of telephone cord found near one murder victim matches cord in the home of another woman who was attacked but survived. Sgt. David Smith of the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office said at a hearing for suspect Derrick Todd Lee that the cord was found on a gravel drive leading to the body of Pam Kinamore of Baton Rouge.
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01:54 AM
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - A bullet cracked a car windshield over the weekend in the latest in a string of 19 shootings on or near a stretch of Ohio highway, police said on Wednesday.
The motorist driving on I-270 was not injured in Sunday's incident, and he immediately called police on a cell phone.
But police once again came up empty in the search for the culprit who has been shooting at vehicles, a school and homes in the area south of Columbus since May.
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01:51 AM
HOUSTON (AP) - Andrew Fastow, chief architect of the off-the-books deals that brought down Enron, pleaded guilty along with his wife Wednesday in a deal that could take prosecutors to the top of the corporate ladder at the scandal-ridden company.
The former finance chief agreed to a 10-year prison sentence and will help prosecutors build a case against the executives who once occupied the most opulent offices on the company's top floor: former chairman Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling.
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01:49 AM
January 12, 2004
DENVER (AP) - There is no way to hold public court hearings on the medical records of Kobe Bryant's alleged sexual assault victim without violating her privacy rights, lawyers for the prosecution and the woman say in court filings.
The NBA star's attorneys want access to the woman's medical records because they contend they will prove that she engaged in a pattern of dangerous acts - including suicide attempts - to gain the attention of her ex-boyfriend.
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04:07 AM
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michael Jackson's family, friends and fans are planning a massive show of support when the pop superstar is arraigned on child molestation charges late this week.
Fans and family of Jackson, including his brother Jermaine, scheduled a news conference Monday at the family's complex in Encino to announce their plans for the singer's arraignment, which is scheduled for Friday in Santa Maria.
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04:06 AM
NEW YORK -- When 22-year-old Adrian Lamo pled guilty Thursday to breaking into The New York Times' computer network, he didn't seem nervous, scared or contrite. He looked worn out. Old.
Since his surrender to federal authorities in September 2003, Lamo's friends, far-flung relatives and former co-workers have all been questioned by the FBI, he claims.
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04:05 AM
The man responsible for prompting Saturday's Amber Alert is now charged with second degree murder. Police say 46 year old Jeff Mitchell shot and killed his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend in a minivan in Ozone Park.
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04:01 AM
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A man in West Palm Beach, Fla., faces charges after he was caught sexually assaulting a neighbor's dog, according to Palm Beach County deputies. Officials said William McPhillips, 50, a registered sex offender, sexually assaulted a young mixed-breed dog. A caretaker at McPhillips' group home saw the attack, deputies said.
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03:59 AM
RONKONKOMA, N.Y. - Country music songwriter Hugh Prestwood was arrested after a loaded gun was found in his carry-on luggage at Long Island MacArthur Airport, police said.
Prestwood, 61, who lives in Greenport, was on his way to Nashville on Friday when a screener spotted the .38-caliber revolver, Suffolk County police Sgt. Darrell Dabe said.
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03:55 AM
HOUSTON (AP) -- A businessman who officials say tried to fake his death when his speedboat slammed into a barge this summer has been found and arrested.
The U.S. Coast Guard spent days searching for Larry Michael Nixon after his 40-foot boat, the "Living Extra Fast," crashed in the Houston Ship Channel on Aug. 27.
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03:53 AM
INDIO, Calif. A woman who helped plan the violent abduction of her 9-year-old son from his father's home during a bitter custody dispute has been sentenced to five years in prison. Rose and her boyfriend, 49-year-old Michael Riley, paid two men to snatch Nicholas Farber from his father's home in August 2002. Police found the boy disguised in girl's clothing two days later at a San Diego County campground with Rose and Riley.
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03:47 AM
January 09, 2004
RANGER, Ga. - A jealous ex-husband shot three former in-laws to death with a rifle and strangled his infant daughter, then kidnapped three girls and fled in a stolen sport utility vehicle, authorities said Thursday. The suspect, Jerry William Jones, shot himself in the face, GBI spokesman John Bankhead said. He was in critical condition, said Jan Powell, a spokeswoman with Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga, Tenn. The three girls were in good condition and were staying at the hospital overnight for observation, she said.
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09:04 AM
MODESTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A judge ruled on Thursday that Scott Peterson, who is accused of murdering his pregnant wife and their unborn son, should be tried in another city because jurors in his hometown might be prejudiced against him.
The case, in which Peterson is accused of killing his wife Laci around Christmas Eve 2002 and dumping her body into San Francisco Bay, has generated wide national publicity and turned him into a controversial figure in his central California hometown of Modesto.
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09:01 AM
A former child-care worker at a Valley Stream home for troubled girls was arrested yesterday on a charge of having sexual relations in October 2002 with a 14-year-old girl who lived at the home, Nassau police said.
Scott Frazier, 32, was arraigned yesterday in First District Court in Hempstead on a charge of second-degree rape. He was released without bail.
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08:58 AM
Yalobusha County authorities arrested two Tillatoba residents Friday in connection with the death of a newborn.
Billy Bonner and Kassie Beckham were taken into custody in Tillatoba after an investigation implicated the two in the December 29 death of one-month-old Angelena Noami Beckham, according to Yalobusha County Sheriff Steve Shuffield.
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08:56 AM
Former Atlanta Braves center fielder Otis Nixon was arrested Thursday after allegedly threatening his bodyguard with a knife at a Norcross hotel, police said.
According to police, Nixon, 45, drew the knife during a scuffle with Keven Brown at the Town Place Suites on Bay Circle.
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08:55 AM
An Aurora man was arrested Tuesday in connection with two Nebraska murders more than 20 years ago.
Louis Mcque Walker, 46, was being held without bond at the Arapahoe County Jail on Thursday. He faces two counts of first-degree murder. Walker also has gone by the name of Abdulmalik Husain.
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08:52 AM
First, a Chicago man was charged with burglarizing a Wilmette man's home twice. Now the Wilmette homeowner, who shot the intruder, is charged with firearms violations.
On Thursday, Hale DeMar, 54, was arrested for allegedly violating the North Shore suburb's ordinance banning handgun ownership. DeMar also was charged with failing to renew his Illinois firearm owner's identification card, which expired in 1988.
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08:49 AM
January 08, 2004
RANGER, Ga. (AP) - A manhunt across the Southeast ended late Thursday when a tip led authorities to a jealous ex-husband who allegedly killed three former in-laws and his infant daughter, then fled with three girls.
The girls were found safe, and the suspect shot himself in the face after a police chase on Interstate 75 near the Tennessee line. Authorities said he was hospitalized in critical condition.
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11:07 PM
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) - A judge ruled Thursday that accused murderer Scott Peterson cannot get a fair trial in his dead wife's hometown and ordered the case moved out of the county.
Judge Al Girolami said extensive news coverage of the case, including 8,000 articles published worldwide and more than 150 stories in the local newspaper alone, swayed him to agree with the defense that the trial should not be held in Modesto. He did not immediately say where the trial would be held.
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07:55 PM
RANGER, Ga. A search is underway for a Georgia man who is believed to have kidnapped three girls and killed four people including his own infant daughter, authorities said Thursday Gordon County Sheriff's spokesman Clent Harris said a murder warrant had been issued for 31-year-old Jerry William Jones.
Hubert Pack, the brother-in-law of one of the victims, told Fox News that the trouble started when the children were taken away from Jones by family services for being an unfit parent, and put in the custody of one of the people found killed.
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A former Clark County employee has been arrested on charges of downloading more than 400 images of child pornography on his computer at the county Public Works Department.
50-year-old Carl Stanley Lobsien faces 25 counts of possession of child pornography. He is being held at the Clark County Detention Center on 75 thousand dollars bail.
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A number of Las Vegas parents have reason to believe their children may have been victims of sexual assault. An employee of Creative Beginnings Daycare on east Bonanza near Nellis was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting young boys and videotaping the acts.
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The father of three toddlers in Cocoa, Fla., was arrested Wednesday after his children were found locked behind a door that had been tied off with a rope.
Police said neighbors called deputies to investigate a report of children crying at a house located on Lakeview Boulevard, in Cocoa.
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02:10 AM
SAN DIEGO -- Two men were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of carrying out an adult-bookstore robbery spree, officials said.
In the most recent robbery, two bandits -- one wielding a fake handgun -- held up a clerk at a business in the 6300 block of University Avenue in eastern San Diego at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
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02:08 AM
PLYMOUTH, Mass. -- A man suspected of crashing a stolen car through a small cottage in Dennis and pushing its sleeping occupant from his bed has been arrested. State Police say Thomas Salamone of Yarmouth was arrested at a CVS Pharmacy on Route 3-A in Plymouth Wednesday.
Authorities say Salamone was driving a stolen car that crashed through the cottage early Tuesday morning. Ellis Tomas was thrown from the bed into a parking lot. He suffered minor injuries.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Three members of the cruise ship M/V Discovery have been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle 22 pounds of cocaine into the United States after the boat docked in Port Everglades, authorities said.
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January 06, 2004
MIAMI The mother of a Florida teen who beat a 6-year-old playmate to death said neither she nor her son is happy with the terms of a plea deal yet chose to accept it simply so he could have freedom. Lionel Tate, 16, signed papers Sunday agreeing to plead guilty to second-degree murder in the 1999 beating death of Tiffany Eunick. Tate could be freed by the end of the month from a maximum security juvenile prison in Okeechobee.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Round one of jury selection for the trial of Martha Stewart gets underway on Tuesday when potential jurors will be screened for conflicts of interest in what is the highest profile corporate fraud case in years.
Jurors arriving at federal court in Manhattan will be asked to complete a questionnaire designed by defense attorneys and prosecutors and approved by the U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, who is presiding over the case.
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January 04, 2004
NEW YORK (AP) - A few months ago, reporter Diane Dimond told Court TV Chairman Henry Schleiff that she was working on a great story and would need him to commit money and manpower to help dig it out. But even in the privacy of his office, she wouldn't tell Schleiff what the story was.
Intrigued, he gave Dimond the go-ahead. Schleiff was rewarded in late November when she broke the story of authorities searching Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch for evidence, the precursor to molestation charges filed against the pop star.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) -- A woman has been charged with murder in the death of her 10-month-old daughter, who deputies say was bitten and violently shaken because she was crying.
Sashine Howell, 23, was being held without bail Sunday.
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- A former city police detective already convicted of running a brothel is scheduled to go on trial Tuesday for allegedly soliciting bribes from two people he arrested in 1997.
Witnesses are expected to testify that 16-year veteran James Marshall sought $6,000 in bribes and collected $1,000 during one of three alleged shakedowns.
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10:24 PM
Grand County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a 28-year old Salt Lake City woman for the murder of her 2 and a half year old daughter.
The child was found inside Wendy Bullock's car yesterday on Interstate 70 near Thompson Springs.
Bullock had approached another motorist, asking him for razor blades and saying she wanted to kill herself.
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10:21 PM
A Sergeant and nine year veteran of the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office has been stripped of his badge and could face time behind bars he once guarded. Former detention officer, Norman Gattison III, is charged with felony sexual misconduct with an inmate.
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BAY HEAD, N.J. - Authorities in Ireland have arrested the pastor of a Roman Catholic church in Bay Head on charges that he sexually abused a child more than 30 years ago, a spokesman for the Diocese of Trenton said.
The Rev. Patrick Francis Magee was arrested while on vacation in Ireland.
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10:17 PM
A man wanted in connection with 39 bank robberies in 5 states was arrested in Indiana and has confessed, according to police.
Indiana State Police and detectives in Louisville, Kentucky, say 47-year-old David Brankle was arrested Wednesday and is charged with five counts of robbery.
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10:16 PM
PEARLAND - A Brazoria County man accused of injury to a child in the death of his girlfriend's malnourished 12-year-old daughter has been arrested in Dallas.
James Kevin Yost, 41, was arrested Thursday after his vehicle was found at a motel in Dallas, said Russ Baker, an investigator with the Brazoria County Sheriff's Department.
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10:14 PM
SAN DIEGO -- Three North County men were under arrest Sunday for their alleged involvement in an identity-theft ring that stole personal information by using a fake Web site on the Internet, a sheriff's spokesperson said Sunday.
The suspects allegedly encoded the information onto credit cards, which they used to buy over $10,000 in electronic equipment, said Sgt. Jim Blanco of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.
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10:09 PM
January 02, 2004
CHICAGO - Despite a sharp drop in homicides, Chicago has regained a title it didn't want: America's murder capital.
The city finished 2003 with 599 homicides, police said Thursday. That was down from 648 a year earlier and the first time since 1967 that the total dipped below 600.
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Brian Finkel, a once prominent Phoenix abortion doctor, was sentenced to more than 34 years in prison Friday for sexually abusing patients over a span of nearly two decades in his high-profile practice.
Finkel was also ordered to register as a sex offender and placed on lifetime probation should he serve out his 34-year prison sentence.
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04:57 PM
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Prosecutors asked a judge on Friday to deny accused double murderer Scott Peterson's request to move his upcoming trial from his hometown of Modesto in central California, saying it was Peterson's own lawyer who was generating the negative publicity in the case.
Peterson's attorney, Mark Geragos, last month asked a Stanislaus County judge to move the trial to another part of the state because people living in and near Modesto had a "lynch-mob mentality" whipped up by negative press coverage.
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04:55 PM
January 01, 2004
MIAMI (AP) - The mother of a teenager who once received a life sentence for murdering a 6-year-old playmate has approved a plea bargain that could allow the boy to be released in the next month, an attorney said Wednesday.
Richard Rosenbaum, Lionel Tate's attorney, said the teenager had been awaiting his mother's approval and estimated his client could be released from prison by Jan. 29.
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