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Mexico authorities to pay $2m for drug lords

info — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:29:56 +0000

A reward of $2m (Â£1.37m) each will be paid to informers who help arrest Mexico’s 24 most-wanted drug gang chiefs, BBC announced. Correspondents say the most-wanted list is a public challenge to the cartels. Some 8,000 people have died in the past two years, as drug [...]

Madoff asks court to free him on bail

info — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:04:39 +0000

Disgraced US financier Bernard Madoff has asked a court to release him on bail as he awaits his fate for masterminding a $50bn (Â£35bn) investment fraud. Last week, Madoff, 70, pleaded guilty to all 11 charges against him when he appeared in a New York [...]

World Wide Web creator has fallen victim to online fraud

info — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:31:47 +0000

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of world wide web, who dreamt up the web 20 years ago, said he bought a Christmas present from an online shop. It was only when the present didn’t arrive that he [...]

Man gets 5 years’ probation for starting fire in Malibu

info — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:17:12 +0000

A Los Angeles man involved in starting the destructive Corral Canyon fire in Malibu was sentenced Thursday to five years’ probation and 300 hours of community service. As part of his probation, Brian David Franks, 28, will have to testify at the trials of other [...]

New York Times settled the lobbyist’s lawsuit

info — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:11:21 +0000

A lobbyistâ€™s lawsuit against The New York Times over the newspaperâ€™s account of her ties to Senator John McCain has been settled, both sides announced on Thursday. The suit, filed by Vicki L. Iseman, the Washington lobbyist, was settled without payment and The Times did [...]

Chicago top mob boss Marcello gets life

info — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:10:53 +0000

James Marcello, once called Chicago’s top mob boss by federal authorities, was sentenced to life in prison this afternoon in federal court in connection with one of the most infamous hits in Outfit lore: the 1986 slayings of Anthony Spilotro, the mob’s Las Vegas [...]

Thailand to recruit first women police officers

info — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:39:33 +0000

Thailand’s Royal Police Academy is admitting female cadets for the first time in its 107 year history, but it will be four years before they graduate and start work.The 250,000 strong Thai police force has only a small number of women members, all of [...]

Somali pirate’s body washes ashore with $153,000

info — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:11:52 +0000

The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom washed onshore with $153,000 in cash, a resident said Sunday, as the spokesman for another group of pirates promised to soon free a Ukrainian arms ship.Five pirates drowned Friday when [...]

Fourteen scheduled for execution in Texas

info — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:57:40 +0000

A Fort Worth, Texas, man convicted of shooting and setting his victims on fire is among 14 men to be executed in Texas by April 7, authorities say. Curtis Moore, 40, was convicted of killing three people in 1995 in a drug deal that turned [...]

Bush takes last Air Force One flight to honor dad

info — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:03:16 +0000

reuters.com: President George W. Bush took his last official Air Force One flight on Saturday to Virginia for a ceremony to place a warship named after his father into active duty. Bush, who leaves office on January 20 when President-elect Barack Obama enters the White House, [...]