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'Merchant of Death' witness gets 5-year sentence
A South African businessman who helped put a notorious Russian arms dealer known as The Merchant of Death behind bars for 25 years was rewarded on Wednesday with a five-year prison term for charges stemming from the same U.S. sting operation. The sentence means Andrew Smulian will be a free ...
Texas drops 2 of 3 in Seattle after 5-3 setback
In Ron Washington's view, Texas pitcher Scott Feldman did an adequate job making a fill-in start after Neftali Feliz ended up on the disabled list and the Rangers were left with limited options. Except for one poorly placed pitch from Feldman that led to four runs. "We wanted a sinker ...
Clinton: US hacked Yemeni al-Qaida sites
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says U.S. cyber experts hacked al-Qaida propaganda online in Yemen, changing ads that bragged about killing Americans into ads that showed the death toll of al-Qaida attacks against Yemenis. Clinton says the cyberattack was launched by State Department specialists who patrol the web and ...
Franciscan files tell abuse story
Robert Van Handel was a 15-year-old seminarian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The priest told him it would help draw the fever out. More than a ...
Illegal immigrants arrested in phony UPS van
It was a special delivery indeed — 13 suspected illegal immigrants from Mexico stuffed in a phony UPS van. The U.S. Border Patrol said Tuesday that agents stopped the van Friday as the driver tried to circumvent a highway checkpoint near Niland, about 150 miles east of San Diego in ...
Wallace heads Hall of Fame group
Sprint Cup champion Rusty Wallace hated running second to anyone and doesn't plan to start now that he's part of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Wallace, the 1989 series champion who won 55 races, headed the group of five picked Wednesday as NASCAR's newest Hall of Famers. The others selected ...
Wyoming pushes workplace safety with new hire
Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead announced Wednesday the state is hiring a veteran public health official from New Mexico to continue the push to reduce Wyoming's workplace fatality rate. Dr. C. Mack Sewell, who has served as New Mexico's state epidemiologist since 1989, will start work in Wyoming in early July. ...
Unabomber submits update to Harvard alumni book
Harvard University's alumni association says it regrets including the Unabomber's references to his convictions in a directory for his 50th class reunion this week. Ted Kaczynski (kah-ZIHN'-skee) graduated in 1962 and is in prison for killing three people and injuring 23 during a nationwide bombing spree between 1978 and 1995. ...
Feds approve operational changes to Arizona dam
The federal government has approved two programs to further test the impact of flooding the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon and to help boost the native fish population. Since the 1960s, Glen Canyon Dam near the Arizona-Utah border has blocked 90 percent of sediment from the river from flowing ...
EU leaders support growth, give few concrete plans
Turmoil in Greece is forcing other eurozone countries to consider the prospect that it might soon leave the single currency club. Luxembourg Prime Minister and president of the group of finance ministers of the 17 euro countries, Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters at the end of a summit of European leaders ...
US soldier: Muslim faith motive for bomb plot
A Muslim U.S. soldier accused of planning to bomb Fort Hood troops says he wasn't seeking vengeance but justice for people in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a recording played at his federal trial Wednesday. Army Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo is heard telling his mother during a recorded jail visit ...
'Merchant of Death' witness gets 5-year sentence
A South African businessman who helped put a notorious Russian arms dealer known as The Merchant of Death behind bars for 25 years was rewarded on Wednesday with a five-year prison term for charges stemming from the same U.S. sting operation. The sentence means Andrew Smulian will be a free ...
Former nanny sues Sharon Stone, claims harassment
A former nanny for Sharon Stone sued the actress Wednesday claiming the Oscar-winner repeatedly insulted her Filipino heritage and fired her after discovering she had been paid overtime. Erlinda T. Elemen's harassment lawsuit claims Stone insulted her accent, her religion and other aspects of her culture in the final months ...
Former coach facing child porn charges appears in federal court
According to the Las Cruces Sun-News, former Picacho Middle School basketball coach Erik B. Khan, made his first appearance in court on Wednesday on federal charges for allegedly possessing child pornography on his home computer. Khan, 32 of the 600 block of La Melodia Drive, had been arrested on state ...
DC zoo hand-raising cubs after rare cheetah birth
Two cheetah cubs have a new home at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and are being raised by human hands after a risky birth last month at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Virginia. The zoo offered a first look at the now healthy cubs Wednesday and hopes to place them ...
Zimmerman complained about Sanford police in 2011
George Zimmerman accused the Sanford police department of corruption more than a year before he shot Trayvon Martin, saying at a public forum the agency covered up the beating of a black homeless man by the son of a white officer. "I would just like to state that the law ...
Dewhurst, Cruz make late loans to Senate campaigns
Two key Republican contenders for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas have used their own money to boost their campaigns in the final days before the state's primary next week. Filings with the Federal Election Commission show Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst lent his campaign nearly $1.2 million on May 14, ...
Private East Texas college furloughs workforce
Ongoing financial woes have prompted a small private East Texas junior college to furlough its workforce while officials try to reorganize and save the 158-year-old school. Jack Nelson, vice president of the Lon Morris College board of trustees, tells the Jacksonville Daily Progress that the furloughs were the decision of ...
GI says Muslim faith motive for Ft Hood bomb plot
A Muslim U.S. soldier accused of planning to bomb Fort Hood troops says he wasn't seeking vengeance but justice for people in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a recording played at his federal trial Wednesday. Army Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo is heard telling his mother during a recorded jail visit ...
Russian boy killed in Nebraska fire laid to rest
A 9-year-old boy originally from Russia who was killed in a Nebraska house fire has been laid to rest, but prosecutors and the Russian government are seeking more information about his death. Nearly 200 people gathered at a Lincoln church Wednesday to mourn the death of Anton Fomin, who was ...
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