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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/720 us Crimes and Trials News en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:43:05 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/720 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_killing_spree ap/20090703/us_sc_killing_spree AP us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:43:05 GMT AP - Terrified residents canceled Fourth of July plans and holed up in their homes Friday as investigators hunted a serial killer believed to have shot four people to death. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_airport_gun ap/20090703/us_airport_gun AP us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:38:36 GMT AP - A Philadelphia man faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to boarding a US Airways flight while carrying a concealed weapon. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_internet_suicide ap/20090703/us_internet_suicide AP us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:06:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_internet_suicide"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.8ff71e4788f64f68bdc356c47b021b47.correction_internet_suicide_la109.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=oKFvkCadtbiSI9zjCWrxcA--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="FILE - In this Monday, May 18, 2009 file photo Lori Drew leaves Federal Court after a hearing in Los Angeles. U.S. District Judge George Wu on Thursday, July 2, 2009, tentatively threw out the convictions of the Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who ended up committing suicide. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Missouri mother said she never should have been prosecuted for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who ended up committing suicide.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_internet_suicide"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.8ff71e4788f64f68bdc356c47b021b47.correction_internet_suicide_la109.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=oKFvkCadtbiSI9zjCWrxcA--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Monday, May 18, 2009 file photo Lori Drew leaves Federal Court after a hearing in Los Angeles. U.S. District Judge George Wu on Thursday, July 2, 2009, tentatively threw out the convictions of the Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who ended up committing suicide. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090703/ts_advocate/_rep_investigate_murder_of_sailor advocate/20090703/_rep_investigate_murder_of_sailor The Advocate topstories Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:17:02 GMT The Advocate - A Congressman for the Camp Pendleton area in Southern California is requesting that the Department of Defense investigate whether a gay sailor who was found dead on Tuesday was the target of a hate crime. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_gay_marriage_federal ap/20090703/us_gay_marriage_federal AP us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:08:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_gay_marriage_federal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.458c7ed122f3472b90aafdc7a51f807c.gay_marriage_federal_cajc102.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=KLZTrT8b.SWiZ5lbmS3Efg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Attorney Theodore Olson, center, speaks as clients Kristin Perry, from left, Sandra Stier, Jeff Farrillo, and Paul Katami listen at a news conference at the Federal Building in San Francisco, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Attorneys behind the federal court challenge to California's voter-approved gay marriage ban plan to argue during a pretrial hearing Thursday that by stripping gays of the right to wed, Proposition 8 runs afoul of the constitutional requirement that the government should treat its citizens equally absent a compelling reason not to do so. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0" /></a>AP - A federal judge in San Francisco said a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban will likely one day reach the U.S. Supreme Court.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_gay_marriage_federal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.458c7ed122f3472b90aafdc7a51f807c.gay_marriage_federal_cajc102.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=KLZTrT8b.SWiZ5lbmS3Efg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Attorney Theodore Olson, center, speaks as clients Kristin Perry, from left, Sandra Stier, Jeff Farrillo, and Paul Katami listen at a news conference at the Federal Building in San Francisco, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Attorneys behind the federal court challenge to California's voter-approved gay marriage ban plan to argue during a pretrial hearing Thursday that by stripping gays of the right to wed, Proposition 8 runs afoul of the constitutional requirement that the government should treat its citizens equally absent a compelling reason not to do so. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_hawaii_furloughs_court ap/20090703/us_hawaii_furloughs_court AP us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:05:37 GMT AP - A Hawaii judge has blocked Gov. Linda Lingle from forcing thousands of public employees to take three unpaid days off per month, dealing her a setback in efforts to tame a huge state budget gap. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_en_ot/us_fashion_designer ap/20090703/us_fashion_designer AP entertainment Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:58:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_en_ot/us_fashion_designer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.5553d0a61fe148f2af6e706ffc7491e7.fashion_designer_ny130.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=x_RdPQ3bhNVqNRxTaUZJ.w--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="FILE - In this April 29, 2004, file photo, fashion designer Anand Jon is shown in New York. Anand, a Los Angeles fashion designer convicted of sexually assaulting seven women and teenage girls should not be granted a new trial even though a juror flirted over the phone with the defendant's sister, prosecutors argued Thursday July 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Los Angeles fashion designer convicted of sexually assaulting seven women and teenage girls should not be granted a new trial even though a juror flirted over the phone with the defendant's sister, prosecutors argued Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_en_ot/us_fashion_designer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.5553d0a61fe148f2af6e706ffc7491e7.fashion_designer_ny130.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=x_RdPQ3bhNVqNRxTaUZJ.w--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this April 29, 2004, file photo, fashion designer Anand Jon is shown in New York. Anand, a Los Angeles fashion designer convicted of sexually assaulting seven women and teenage girls should not be granted a new trial even though a juror flirted over the phone with the defendant's sister, prosecutors argued Thursday July 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, file)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_shootings ap/20090703/us_sc_shootings AP us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:33:27 GMT AP - A sheriff says the shooting deaths of a peach farmer and two women in a rural South Carolina county the past week have been linked to the same killer. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_sailor_death ap/20090703/us_sailor_death AP us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:18:18 GMT AP - The death of a gay sailor who was killed as he stood guard at Camp Pendleton doesn't appear to be a hate crime, officials said Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_senator_investigation_trial ap/20090703/us_senator_investigation_trial AP us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:31:14 GMT AP - A former Pennsylvania state senator convicted of a multimillion-dollar fraud is seeking a new trial on corruption charges, alleging the jury was tainted. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/us_nm/us_gaymarriage_california nm/20090702/us_gaymarriage_california Reuters us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:54:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/us_nm/us_gaymarriage_california"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.b8aff60dccd049a4bf078500ac57411c.gay_marriage_federal_card101.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=7kkffdAKDYwQl3um6gSO0w--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Attorney Theodore Olson, center, shakes hands with Prop. 8 opponents after a news conference at the Federal Building in San Francisco, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Attorneys behind the federal court challenge to California's voter-approved gay marriage ban plan to argue during a pretrial hearing Thursday that by stripping gays of the right to wed, Proposition 8 runs afoul of the constitutional requirement that the government should treat its citizens equally absent a compelling reason not to do so. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The attorney representing two same-sex couples who were denied a right to wed in California said on Thursday he expected the case to end up before the U.S. Supreme Court, which has yet to hear a case on the gay marriage issue.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/us_nm/us_gaymarriage_california"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.b8aff60dccd049a4bf078500ac57411c.gay_marriage_federal_card101.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=7kkffdAKDYwQl3um6gSO0w--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Attorney Theodore Olson, center, shakes hands with Prop. 8 opponents after a news conference at the Federal Building in San Francisco, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Attorneys behind the federal court challenge to California's voter-approved gay marriage ban plan to argue during a pretrial hearing Thursday that by stripping gays of the right to wed, Proposition 8 runs afoul of the constitutional requirement that the government should treat its citizens equally absent a compelling reason not to do so. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/fbn_vick_bankruptcy ap/20090702/fbn_vick_bankruptcy AP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:15:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/fbn_vick_bankruptcy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.5d72aa5957344a2f9680da3c9409ac31.vick_bankruptcy_football_ny154.jpg?x=107&y=130&q=85&sig=QWDawug1pQxEamC4LEg.pw--" align="left" height="130" width="107" alt="FILE - This June 9, 2009 file photo shows Michael Vick arriving at the Norfolk Federal Court n Norfolk, Va. Vick's lawyer, Paul Campsen, disclosed the basic outline of a new bankruptcy plan Tuesday June 30, 2009, in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Norfolk. (AP Photo/Jason Hirschfeld, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Suspended NFL star Michael Vick would keep one vehicle, one home and a large assortment of furniture and personal items if his creditors and the judge who rejected his previous bankruptcy plan approve a revised one filed Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/fbn_vick_bankruptcy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.5d72aa5957344a2f9680da3c9409ac31.vick_bankruptcy_football_ny154.jpg?x=107&y=130&q=85&sig=QWDawug1pQxEamC4LEg.pw--" align="left" height="130" width="107" alt="photo" title="FILE - This June 9, 2009 file photo shows Michael Vick arriving at the Norfolk Federal Court n Norfolk, Va. Vick's lawyer, Paul Campsen, disclosed the basic outline of a new bankruptcy plan Tuesday June 30, 2009, in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Norfolk. (AP Photo/Jason Hirschfeld, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/us_nm/us_myspace_suicide nm/20090702/us_myspace_suicide Reuters us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:10:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/us_nm/us_myspace_suicide"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r1219126911.jpg?x=130&y=110&q=85&sig=q.wSN1gb1g6LkBEwJXL55g--" align="left" height="110" width="130" alt="The MySpace homepage in an undated image courtesy of the company. REUTERS/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A federal judge on Thursday tentatively dismissed the conviction of a suburban mother accused of driving a love-lorn 13-year-old girl to suicide by tormenting her with a fake MySpace persona.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/us_nm/us_myspace_suicide"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r1219126911.jpg?x=130&y=110&q=85&sig=q.wSN1gb1g6LkBEwJXL55g--" align="left" height="110" width="130" alt="photo" title="The MySpace homepage in an undated image courtesy of the company. REUTERS/Handout" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_greenwich_mystery ap/20090702/us_greenwich_mystery AP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:56:18 GMT AP - The trial of a man charged in the killing of a Connecticut real estate mogul could be in jeopardy because a copy of a defense motion pointing blame at the developer's ex-wife that was released to the public may have contained sealed documents, a judge said Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/ca_gay_marriage_federal ap/20090702/ca_gay_marriage_federal AP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:56:17 GMT AP - A federal judge in San Francisco says he wants to conduct a full trial on a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban because he expects the case to one day reach the U.S. Supreme Court. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_rape_rescue ap/20090702/us_rape_rescue AP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:35:16 GMT AP - Tennessee prosecutors dropped charges Thursday against a Georgia man accused of kidnapping and raping a woman in a remote mountain cabin, saying they doubted her credibility after her apparent rescue by a quick-thinking pizza deliveryman. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/us_nm/us_newyork_crime_cellphone nm/20090702/us_newyork_crime_cellphone Reuters us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:53:49 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/us_nm/us_newyork_crime_cellphone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r1853211285.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=t7rFivW3PIxbRiFOervY8Q--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="A customer leaves an Apple Store with his new iPhone 3G in New York July 11, 2008. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Thieves are increasingly going after iPhones and other smartphones but victims now can fight back with technology.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/us_nm/us_newyork_crime_cellphone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r1853211285.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=t7rFivW3PIxbRiFOervY8Q--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="photo" title="A customer leaves an Apple Store with his new iPhone 3G in New York July 11, 2008. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_florida_court_diversity ap/20090702/us_florida_court_diversity AP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:15:21 GMT AP - The Florida Supreme Court says Gov. Charlie Crist can't reject an all-white list of appeals court nominees, even though he wants to appoint someone who will make the judiciary more diverse. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/ts_alt_afp/usattacksguantanamocourtdetainee afp/20090702/usattacksguantanamocourtdetainee AFP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:31:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/ts_alt_afp/usattacksguantanamocourtdetainee"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246555797622-1-0.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=p_4p.2shc5ewWOBOJLbBVg--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="Leg irons and hand cuffs hang on a board at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004. Lawyers for the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be transferred to US soil for a civilian trial, set for September 2010, asked Thursday to see the secret CIA prisons where he was allegedly tortured.(AFP/File/Mark Wilson)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Lawyers for the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be transferred to US soil for a civilian trial, set for September 2010, asked Thursday to see the secret CIA prisons where he was allegedly tortured.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/ts_alt_afp/usattacksguantanamocourtdetainee"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246555797622-1-0.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=p_4p.2shc5ewWOBOJLbBVg--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="photo" title="Leg irons and hand cuffs hang on a board at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004. Lawyers for the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be transferred to US soil for a civilian trial, set for September 2010, asked Thursday to see the secret CIA prisons where he was allegedly tortured.(AFP/File/Mark Wilson)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_guantanamo_detainee ap/20090702/us_guantanamo_detainee AP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:40:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_guantanamo_detainee"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246555797622-1-0.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=p_4p.2shc5ewWOBOJLbBVg--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="Leg irons and hand cuffs hang on a board at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004. Lawyers for the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be transferred to US soil for a civilian trial, set for September 2010, asked Thursday to see the secret CIA prisons where he was allegedly tortured.(AFP/File/Mark Wilson)" border="0" /></a>AP - A prosecutor agreed Thursday that the government will not dismantle overseas locations where a former Guantanamo detainee claims he was interrogated by the CIA before he was brought to the United States for trial on terrorism charges.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_guantanamo_detainee"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246555797622-1-0.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=p_4p.2shc5ewWOBOJLbBVg--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="photo" title="Leg irons and hand cuffs hang on a board at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004. Lawyers for the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be transferred to US soil for a civilian trial, set for September 2010, asked Thursday to see the secret CIA prisons where he was allegedly tortured.(AFP/File/Mark Wilson)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)