Archive for February, 2008

Man cited for allegedly throwing acorns at San Francisco Zoo’s rhinos

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Two months after a Siberian tiger mauled three men at the San Francisco Zoo - resulting in the death of one of them - two other men were allegedly caught late Thursday throwing acorns at the zoo’s two black rhinos.

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Court-martial over CBS interview delayed (AP)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich arrives for his arraignment at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Jan. 9, 2008. The court-martial of Sgt. Wuterich, accused of crimes in an attack that killed 24 Iraqis has been postponed indefinitely because a prosecutor is appealing a judge's decision to throw out a subpoena seeking unaired footage of a CBS interview. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - A military prosecutor has appealed a judge’s decision to throw out a subpoena seeking unaired footage of a CBS News interview given by a Marine squad leader charged in the killings of 24 Iraqis.

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Mystery stranger’s secret shocks family

Friday, February 29th, 2008

After a kind family takes in a charming and mysterious stranger, they discover what he was really escaping from a little too late.

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US plans to deport Chinese fugitive (AP)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

This copy of a booking photograph provided by the U.S. Marshal Service shows Chinese fugitive Nai Yin Xue, displayed during a news conference, Thursday Feb. 28, 2008 in Los Angeles. Nai Yin Xue, who allegedly killed his wife in New Zealand, then shown on camera abandoning his daughter at an Australian train station was captured Thursday in suburban Atlanta. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - A Chinese fugitive accused of killing his wife in New Zealand, abandoning his 3-year-old daughter in Australia and fleeing to the United States will be deported instead of facing an extradition hearing, officials said Friday.

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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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Young Santa Clara car thieves to get more access to programs

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Responding to complaints of soft penalties for teen car thieves, Santa Clara County officials have decided to channel more young suspects to monitoring and rehabilitation programs after they are taken to juvenile hall.

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Police investigate Willow Glen jeweler suspected of selling phony diamonds

Friday, February 29th, 2008

A Willow Glen businessman is under investigation after San Jose police saw him on a local news broadcast Feb.

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US judge orders Bonds’ testimony to be made public (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 - An American judge ordered Barry Bonds’ grand-jury testimony to be unsealed and asked prosecutors to re-write the perjury case against Major League Baseball’s home-run king.

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Charges ruled too broad against Barry Bonds (Reuters)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Former San Francisco Giants left fielder Barry Bonds leaves a federal courthouse after a hearing before his perjury trial in San Francisco, December 21, 2007. A U.S. federal judge ruled on Friday that steroid perjury charges against Barry Bonds were improperly structured, a finding that complicates the government case against U.S. baseball home run king. REUTERS/Robert GalbraithReuters - Barry Bonds won an initial
courtroom skirmish on Friday when a federal judge found that
steroid perjury charges against him were improperly structured,
a finding that complicates the government case against the U.S.
baseball home run king.

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2 men freed in child death bite-mark cases

Friday, February 29th, 2008

At a small-town courthouse in one of rural Mississippi’s poorest counties, Dr. Michael West swore under oath that a dead girl had bite marks all over her body and that they were made by the two front teeth of the man charged with murdering her.

Via: MSNBC.com: Crime & courts