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Body found near Patriot's home was homicide victim
A prosecutor says a Boston man found dead in an industrial park about a mile from New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's home was a homicide victim.Bristol District Attorney Samuel Sutter's office said Wednesday the state medical examiner has identified 27-year-old Odin Lloyd and ruled he was a homicide victim.Lloyd's family says he had connections to Hernandez but hasn't elaborated...
Admitted father-and-son pimp duo acquitted of sex-trafficking charges
A father and son who ran a prostitution ring in New York were acquittedof sex-trafficking charges Wednesday after three out of the fiveprostitutes who worked for them testified in their defense.Vincent George Sr. and his son, Vincent George Jr., were convicted on charges of money laundering by Judge Ruth Pickholtz.New York District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. said, The goal of this prosecution...
Julian Assange says WikiLeaks helping Snowden gain asylum
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday said members of his anti-secrecy website have been in contact with lawyers of alleged National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and are helping him seek asylum in Iceland.Speaking to reporters during a conference call on the one-year anniversary of his own asylum in the Ecuadoran embassy in London, Assange said his group has a common cause with ...
Naval Academy files sex assault charges against three football players
Three male Naval Academy midshipmen have been charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a female midshipman last year and with making a false official statement.The woman told investigators that she was assaulted by the men all Academy football players at the time at an off-campus party in April 2012.On Wednesday, the academy announced the accused men were charged with making a false officia...
LA schools to give every student an iPad
Los Angeles' school system, the second largest in the United States, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks. The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday approved the purchase of $30 million worth of iPads as the first part of a multi-year commitment. It found that the iPad was the least expensive ...
'Modern-day slavery': State Dept. says millions of human trafficking victims go unidentified
Nine 7-Eleven store owners and managers who authorities say ran a modern-day plantation system, employing dozens of immigrant workers at New York and Virginia convenience stores, were just one thread in a vast human trafficking and forced labor web that stretches around the world and into American homes.Investigators filed indictments earlier this week against the eight men and one woman who wer...
George Zimmerman's parents attend jury selection
George Zimmerman's parents were in a Florida courtroom Wednesday to "visibly advocate" for the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murdering Trayvon Martin, the family said in a statement.Robert and Gladys Zimmerman did not previously attend jury selection because they have received death threats and have been taking care of an elderly relative with Alzheimer's, their older son, Rober...
Feds: 2 plotted to build 'Hiroshima light switch' weapon
Two upstate New York men, one of them said to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan, plotted to build a truck-mounted, industrial-strength X-ray weapon to kill enemies of Israel by poisoning them with radiation, federal authorities said Wednesday.One of them boasted that he could build a Hiroshima light switch and that everything with respiration would be dead by morning, authorities said.Investig...
Google: 'We're not in cahoots with the NSA'
Googles chief legal officer said Wednesday were not in cahoots with the NSA as the company stepped up its efforts to reassure customers that their gmail and Internet browsing history are safe from government prying."There is no free-for-all, no direct access, no indirect access, no back door, no drop box," said David Drummond, Google's top lawyer, in a live webchat with The Guardian newspaper....
Son allegedly stabs father, cuts off his own hands
An argument ended grimly in California this week, with a father found in the driveway bleeding from stab woundsand his son nearby, his severed hands lying on the ground.Shasta County Sherriffs deputies responded to a reported stabbing in Redding, Calif., on Monday afternoon to find the gruesome scene with visible injuries in the driveway, according to a news release.Both Gregory Dunn, 58, and ...
Missing elderly Kansas couple found safe, 400 miles from destination
A missing elderly Kansas couple who set out on an eight-hour trip from Kansas to Illinois to visit family on Monday afternoon was found Wednesday afternoon in Mio, Mich., about 400 miles from their original destination.They took a wrong turn, Garnett Police Chief Kevin Pekarek said.Vernon Hunt, 92, and his wife Goldie, 81, of Garnett, Kan. were reported missing by their son Jay Selanders Monda...
IRS to pay $70M in employee bonuses, senator says
The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees' union on Wednesday to pay the bonuses. Grassley...
FBI director tells Congress agency uses drones for surveillance on U.S. soil
FBI director Robert Mueller said Wednesday that the nation's top law enforcement bureau uses drones to conduct surveillance on U.S. soil, though only on a "very, very minimal basis."Mueller, the FBI director since 2001 who is set to retire this year, acknowledged that his agency uses drones in its investigative and law enforcement practices, and is further working to establish better guidelines fo...
FBI director: Drones 'seldom' used for domestic surveillance
FBI director Robert Mueller said Wednesday that the nation's top law enforcement bureau uses drones to conduct surveillance on U.S. soil, though only on a "very, very minimal basis."Mueller, the FBI director since 2001 who is set to retire this year, acknowledged that his agency uses drones in its investigative and law enforcement practices, and is further working to establish better guidelines fo...
Police return to home of star Patriots tight end Hernandez
Police returned Wednesday to the home of star New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, about a mile away from an industrial park where a body two nights earlier.There was no answer at the door, and police declined to say what was in papers they were carrying, NBC affiliate WHDH in Boston reported.Police also visited the house Tuesday night. Sports Illustrated, citing an unnamed source, repo...
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