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Bangladesh Grants Bail to Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus
A court in Bangladesh’s capital granted bail Sunday to micro-credit pioneer and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus over the firing of three employees by Grameen Communications, where he is chairman. Acting Chairman of the 3rd Labor Court in Dhaka, Zakia Parveen, granted the bail when Yunus appeared before the court. The country’s High Court had set a Nov. 7 deadline last...
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16 Sentenced to Death for Setting Bangladesh Student on Fire
A court in eastern Bangladesh sentenced the principal of an Islamic school and 15 others to death on Thursday over the killing of an 18-year-old woman who was set on fire for refusing to drop sexual harassment charges against the principal. Judge Mamunur Rashid of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal found Principal Siraj Ud Doula and the others...
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Judge in Disciplinary Trial Recommends NYPD Officer in Eric Garner Case Be Fired
An NYPD judge recommended firing the officer accused of using a banned chokehold in the July 2014 death of Eric Garner, bring some measure of closure to a nationally influential case that local and federal officials all declined to criminally prosecute. The judge found officer Daniel Pantaleo — who has been on modified administrative duty in the years since Garner’s...
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‘Blow This Motherf—– Up': Woman Arrested for Trashing Swedish Embassy Over A$AP Rocky's Detention
A woman upset over rapper A$AP Rocky’s detention in Sweden showed up at the Embassy of Sweden complex in D.C. and threatened to “blow this motherf—– up,” screamed obscenities at staff and kicked over furniture before she was arrested by the Secret Service, an affidavit obtained by the News4 I-Team shows.
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Raw: Video Shows Last Time Ole Miss Student Seen Alive
Police have released surveillance video of the last night that Ole Miss student Ally Kostial was seen alive. She was later found dead with gunshot wounds and a college student from Fort Worth has been charged with murder in connection with her death.
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Judge Bars Trump Friend Roger Stone From Social Media, Says He Broke Gag Order
No more Instagram for Roger Stone. Facebook and Twitter are out, too. A federal judge barred Stone from posting on social media Tuesday after concluding that the longtime confidant of President Donald Trump repeatedly flouted her gag order. Stone, who is charged with lying in the Russia investigation, has used social media repeatedly to disparage the case against him and...
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5 Year-Old Girl Paralyzed by Rape Shocks Sierra Leone
At first no one knew why the 5-year-old girl could no longer move her legs or control her urine. For months she lay on the ground, unable to walk or play. Some in the community blamed witchcraft but the real reason was more horrific: The child had been brutally raped and left paralyzed as a result of her injuries. The...
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Mercy or Death? Jury Takes Up Dad's Fate for Killing 5 Kids
A South Carolina father convicted of killing his five young children should die for the murders because he made them suffer in a carefully thought out plan to avoid prison, prosecutors said Thursday. But a lawyer for Timothy Jones Jr. asked the same jurors who convicted him two days earlier to have mercy and choose life in prison without parole...
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8 More Men File Lawsuits Over Convictions Tied to Former Sgt. Ronald Watts
Eight men who were framed in drug cases tied to former Chicago police sergeant Ronald Watts have filed lawsuits in federal court against several officers, the police department and city.
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Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder of Muslim Teen
A Northern Virginia man received four life sentences without the possibility of parole for raping and killing a Muslim teenager as she walked back to a mosque with friends for pre-dawn religious services.
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Coast Guard Lieutenant Accused of Threats Detained
A judge agreed with prosecutors and ruled a Coast Guard lieutenant accused of threats should remain detained. Chris Gordon reports prosecutors must come up with charges other than possession of guns and drugs within 14 days.
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4 More Convictions Overturned in CPD Scandal
Cook County prosecutors threw out the convictions of four more men, Wednesday, in connection with a growing scandal in the Chicago Police Department.
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Defense Lawyer Argues Government Witnesses Lied About El Chapo
A defense attorney for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman assailed the federal case against the Mexican drug lord as “a fantasy,” telling a U.S. jury Thursday that the prosecution relied on a parade of cooperating witnesses who “lie, steal, cheat, deal drugs and kill people” for a living.
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Self-Made Lawyer Wins His Case in Criminal Court
For 16 years, Eric Blackmon worked to free himself from the nightmare of what he had argued from day one was a wrongful arrest and conviction for murder.
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Bail Sought for Ex-Marine Held in Moscow for Alleged Spying
The defense lawyer for a former U.S. Marine who was arrested in Russia for alleged spying said Thursday that he is trying to get the American released from the Moscow prison where he has dealt well with his detention. Michigan resident Paul Whelan, a 48-year-old corporate security director from the Detroit area, was arrested Friday on espionage charges. The Russian...
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Zoo's Missing Meerkat Mystery Solved With 3 People Charged
It wasn’t grand theft. It was tiny. But the snatching of a baby meerkat from a zoo has not only become a major story in the Australian city of Perth, it has led to the arrest of three people. In September, Perth Zoo was ready to publicly show off its new month-old meerkitten to the public and media, but a...
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Trial of Alleged Drug Kingpin ‘El Chapo' Begins in NYC
The high-security trial of infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman got underway on Tuesday, with a prosecutor telling jurors how the man who got his start in a modest marijuana-selling business in Mexico ruthlessly turned it into blood-drenched smuggling operation that funneled cocaine and other drugs as far north as New York.
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Ex-CIA Contractor Gets 90 Days for Retaining Secret Info
A former CIA contractor was sentenced Friday to 90 days in jail for unauthorized retention of classified materials at a hearing that shed little light on his motives. Reynaldo Regis, 54, of Fort Washington, Maryland, had been seeking probation at his sentencing hearing in federal court in Alexandria. His lawyers pointed to probation sentences received by retired Gen. David Petraeus...
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Andrea Constand's Impact Statement Says Bill Cosby ‘Robbed Me'
Victim impact statement submitted in writing by Andrea Constand, the former Temple University employee whom Bill Cosby was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting in 2004, and released by prosecutors at Cosby’s sentencing Tuesday.
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Will Bill Cosby, 81, Go to Prison? Suburban Philadelphia Judge Is Set to Decide
Prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to sentence Bill Cosby to five to 10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, while his lawyer argued that the 81-year-old comedian is too old and frail to serve time behind bars.