Archive for February, 2008

Baseball: Unsealed Bonds testimony shows evidence of two positive tests (AFP)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Baseball player Barry Bonds, formerly of the San Francisco Giants, attends a film premiere at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in January 2008 in Hollywood, California. An American judge ordered Bonds' grand-jury testimony to be unsealed and asked prosecutors to re-write the perjury case against Major League Baseball's home-run king, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.(AFP/GETTY IMAGES/File/Frederick M. Brown)AFP - Grand Jury testimony given by baseball star Barry Bonds in 2003 was unsealed on a judge’s orders on Friday and showed evidence of two positive private drug tests for elevated testosterone.

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New Zealand Teen Charged in Cyber Crime

Friday, February 29th, 2008

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand teenager allegedly at the center of an international cyber crime network appeared Friday in court…

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Ecoterrorism suspect returned to U.S.

Friday, February 29th, 2008

An environmental activist who was serving time in a Canadian prison has been extradited to the United States to stand trial on ecoterrorism charges despite his arguments that he faced political persecution here.

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US citizen pleads guilty to industrial espionage (AFP)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

The Pentagon in Washington, DC. A US citizen pleaded guilty Friday to stealing US defense industry secrets with the purpose of selling them to foreign countries(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)AFP - A US citizen pleaded guilty Friday to stealing US defense industry secrets with the purpose of selling them to foreign countries.

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Ecoterror suspect extradited from Canada (AP)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

AP - An environmental activist who was serving time in a Canadian prison has been extradited to the United States to stand trial on ecoterrorism charges despite his arguments that he faced political persecution here.

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Okla. man found guilty in girl’s slaying (AP)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Kevin Underwood, center, is escorted out of the courthouse by deputies in Norman, Okla., Feb. 28, 2008. Prosecution and defense attorneys rested their cases in Underwood's first-degree murder trial after the jury heard his videotaped confession describing how he killed 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - A jury found a man guilty of first-degree murder Friday in the killing of a 10-year-old girl, reaching its decision within minutes the day after hearing his macabre videotaped confession.

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Police Blotter

Friday, February 29th, 2008

SAN JOSE Story Road and McLaughlin Avenue, 12:37 p.m. Feb. 28 A man snatched a backpack containing a laptop from another man’s shoulder.

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Jury chooses death for Mo. killer of 4 (AP)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

AP - Jurors on Friday recommended the death penalty for a suburban St. Louis man convicted of murdering his girlfriend and her three children.

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‘Girls Gone Wild’ tax trial delayed (AP)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

AP - A federal judge on Friday postponed the tax evasion trial of the founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” video series, but did not rule on whether the filmmaker could be released from jail.

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ID theft charges filed in MN bus crash (AP)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

AP - Federal prosecutors filed identity theft charges Friday against a woman who was driving a van that crashed into a school bus in southwestern Minnesota, killing four students.

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