Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/720 Crimes and Trials News en-us Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:29:08 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/720 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/diocese_trial_charges ap/20080704/diocese_trial_charges AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:19:55 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/diocese_trial_charges"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.4b432b51e47b4de587caeca9d3d1e076.cleveland_diocese_trial_charges_cd103.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=QboPsOuVpYEEAFzw84uvDQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="Assistant U.S. Attorney John Siegel walks down the steps from the federal courthouse in Cleveland, Thursday, July 3, 2008. A federal jury on Thursday convicted the former top accountant at the Cleveland Catholic Diocese of tax charges and acquitted him of more serious charges related to alleged kickbacks. Joseph H. Smith was convicted of six tax-related charges, including conspiracy to defraud the IRS, making a false tax return and obstructing an IRS investigation. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)" border="0" /></a>AP - A federal jury on Thursday convicted the former top accountant at the Cleveland Catholic Diocese of tax charges and acquitted him of more serious charges related to alleged kickbacks.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/diocese_trial_charges"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.4b432b51e47b4de587caeca9d3d1e076.cleveland_diocese_trial_charges_cd103.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=QboPsOuVpYEEAFzw84uvDQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="photo" title="Assistant U.S. Attorney John Siegel walks down the steps from the federal courthouse in Cleveland, Thursday, July 3, 2008. A federal jury on Thursday convicted the former top accountant at the Cleveland Catholic Diocese of tax charges and acquitted him of more serious charges related to alleged kickbacks. Joseph H. Smith was convicted of six tax-related charges, including conspiracy to defraud the IRS, making a false tax return and obstructing an IRS investigation. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/us_nm/google_viacom_dc nm/20080703/google_viacom_dc Reuters Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:34:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/us_nm/google_viacom_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080704/2008_07_03t193415_450x330_us_google_viacom.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=kOoVhQcakBOjJPqecIT7wQ--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="A screenshot of YouTube.com, taken on July 3, 2008. (www.youtube.com/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A U.S. judge's order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/us_nm/google_viacom_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080704/2008_07_03t193415_450x330_us_google_viacom.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=kOoVhQcakBOjJPqecIT7wQ--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="photo" title="A screenshot of YouTube.com, taken on July 3, 2008. (www.youtube.com/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/us_nm/montgomery_heroin_dc nm/20080703/montgomery_heroin_dc Reuters Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:28:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/us_nm/montgomery_heroin_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080704/2008_07_03t180008_450x319_us_montgomery_heroin.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=R_g_CFvkUfQTAHt2QTfWOw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Former 100-meter world record holder Tim Montgomery looks back at the scoreboard after running in a 100 meters quarter-final heat at the U.S. Olympic team trials in Track and Field, in Sacramento, California, in this July 10, 2004 file photo. (Gary Hershorn/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Former U.S. sprinter Tim Montgomery, an Olympic gold medalist now banned from the sport, pleaded guilty on Thursday to distributing heroin.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/us_nm/montgomery_heroin_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080704/2008_07_03t180008_450x319_us_montgomery_heroin.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=R_g_CFvkUfQTAHt2QTfWOw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="Former 100-meter world record holder Tim Montgomery looks back at the scoreboard after running in a 100 meters quarter-final heat at the U.S. Olympic team trials in Track and Field, in Sacramento, California, in this July 10, 2004 file photo. (Gary Hershorn/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/moussaoui_appeal ap/20080703/moussaoui_appeal AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:41:11 GMT AP - Federal prosecutors want two more months to file their brief in Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui's (zak-uh-REE'-uhs moo-SOW'-eez) appeal. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/dna_exoneration ap/20080703/dna_exoneration AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:29:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/dna_exoneration"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.df450a173d4f430c9ac2fe952d8c3840.aptopix_dna_exoneration_dn102.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=fgkkhaohIau1lNZAEVdtIQ--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="The Innocence Project board of director member John Stickels, right, look on as DNA exonoree Patrick Waller, reacts to the announcement in court that his conviction of a crime that sent him to jail for more than 15 years was being overturned in Criminal Court District 2 at the Frank Crowley Courts Building, Thursday, July 3, 2008, in Dallas. Waller is the 19th man in Dallas County since 2001 shown by DNA evidence to be innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. The Innocence Project in New York says that's a national high. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Texas man who spent more than 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of kidnapping and robbery raised both arms skyward and collapsed in his mother's embrace Thursday after being told he was a free man.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/dna_exoneration"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.df450a173d4f430c9ac2fe952d8c3840.aptopix_dna_exoneration_dn102.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=fgkkhaohIau1lNZAEVdtIQ--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="photo" title="The Innocence Project board of director member John Stickels, right, look on as DNA exonoree Patrick Waller, reacts to the announcement in court that his conviction of a crime that sent him to jail for more than 15 years was being overturned in Criminal Court District 2 at the Frank Crowley Courts Building, Thursday, July 3, 2008, in Dallas. Waller is the 19th man in Dallas County since 2001 shown by DNA evidence to be innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. The Innocence Project in New York says that's a national high. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/aircraft_parts_iran ap/20080703/aircraft_parts_iran AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:44:45 GMT AP - Federal prosecutors in Miami have indicted two men on charges of illegally providing U.S.-made military aircraft parts to Iranian buyers. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/ath_montgomery_heroin ap/20080703/ath_montgomery_heroin AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:00:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/ath_montgomery_heroin"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.1a46cf402f204a00890b0ac87164dc06.montgomery_heroin__ny159.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=_uZ5Q5qj5KSDAMwpIiieTQ--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="In this May 3, 2006 file photo, former track star Tim Montgomery enters Manhattan federal court in New York. Montgomery pleaded guilty Thursday July 3, 2008 to a federal heroin distribution charge days before he was set to go to trial in Virginia. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Former track star Tim Montgomery, once dubbed "the world's fastest man," pleaded guilty Thursday to distributing heroin, averting a trial set for next week.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/ath_montgomery_heroin"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.1a46cf402f204a00890b0ac87164dc06.montgomery_heroin__ny159.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=_uZ5Q5qj5KSDAMwpIiieTQ--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="photo" title="In this May 3, 2006 file photo, former track star Tim Montgomery enters Manhattan federal court in New York. Montgomery pleaded guilty Thursday July 3, 2008 to a federal heroin distribution charge days before he was set to go to trial in Virginia. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/missing_girl ap/20080704/missing_girl AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:29:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/missing_girl"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.31cbb01c4ec84f08b7a1ec362a5ba116.missing_girl_vtbar101.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=L2mpeo4YBVm8ZmDpj_fwPw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Michael Stephen Jacques, 42, of Randolph Center appears Monday, June 30, 2008 in Chelsea District Court in Chelsea, Vt. for his arraignment for aggravated sexual assault on a minor.Police unearthed Brooke Bennett's body Wednesday July 2, 2008 from a makeshift grave about a mile from her uncle's house, ending a weeklong search for the subject of Vermont's first Amber Alert. (AP Photo/Pool, Times Argus, Stefan Hard)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Vermont man whose 12-year-old niece was found dead near his home carefully orchestrated events and e-mails to make it appear she had gone to see someone she met online, prosecutors said Thursday as they charged him with kidnapping.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/missing_girl"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.31cbb01c4ec84f08b7a1ec362a5ba116.missing_girl_vtbar101.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=L2mpeo4YBVm8ZmDpj_fwPw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="Michael Stephen Jacques, 42, of Randolph Center appears Monday, June 30, 2008 in Chelsea District Court in Chelsea, Vt. for his arraignment for aggravated sexual assault on a minor.Police unearthed Brooke Bennett's body Wednesday July 2, 2008 from a makeshift grave about a mile from her uncle's house, ending a weeklong search for the subject of Vermont's first Amber Alert. (AP Photo/Pool, Times Argus, Stefan Hard)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/marines_fallujah ap/20080704/marines_fallujah AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:46:12 GMT AP - A federal judge in Riverside, Calif., has ordered two Marines released from jail despite their refusal to testify before a grand jury investigating the alleged killing of Iraqi detainees in 2004. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/officer_shot ap/20080704/officer_shot AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:28:13 GMT AP - A 44-year-old woman was charged Thursday with first-degree murder and attempted murder in the shooting death earlier this week of a veteran Chicago police officer. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/crane_accident ap/20080703/crane_accident AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:28:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/crane_accident"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080609/capt.b1dec59b18004aaa8b9d44d66702f620.dangerous_cranes_nyr110.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=BmOPEldJ3wt8hf96dV6pVA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="In this file photo of Friday, May 30, 2008, rescue crews work at the scene of a crane collapse on New York's Upper East Side where a 200-foot crane building a condo project smashed into another apartment building and to the street, killing the operator and another construction worker. Crane safety is getting extra scrutiny following an alarming number of crane-related deaths in recent months in places such as New York, Miami and Las Vegas. In New York City, two crane accidents since March have killed nine people - a greater number than the total deaths from cranes over the past decade. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A former city building department inspector pleaded not guilty Thursday to lying about examining a huge construction crane that collapsed days later, killing seven people.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/crane_accident"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080609/capt.b1dec59b18004aaa8b9d44d66702f620.dangerous_cranes_nyr110.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=BmOPEldJ3wt8hf96dV6pVA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this file photo of Friday, May 30, 2008, rescue crews work at the scene of a crane collapse on New York's Upper East Side where a 200-foot crane building a condo project smashed into another apartment building and to the street, killing the operator and another construction worker. Crane safety is getting extra scrutiny following an alarming number of crane-related deaths in recent months in places such as New York, Miami and Las Vegas. In New York City, two crane accidents since March have killed nine people - a greater number than the total deaths from cranes over the past decade. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/us_nm/guantanamo_court_dc nm/20080703/guantanamo_court_dc Reuters Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:27:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/us_nm/guantanamo_court_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_03t152953_450x339_us_guantanamo_court.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=qZRKdYNeShcvRFKO5ZUmvQ--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="In this courtroom sketch reviewed and cleared for release by U.S. military officials, Guantanamo detainee Salim Hamdan (L) sits flanked by his legal team inside a courtroom during a U.S. Military Tribunal arraignment at Guantanamo U.S. Naval Base in Cuba June 4, 2007. (Janet Hamlin/Pool/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Attorneys for Osama bin Laden's former driver said on Thursday a federal judge in Washington should stop his Guantanamo Bay trial from going forward while he challenges the military tribunal system.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/us_nm/guantanamo_court_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_03t152953_450x339_us_guantanamo_court.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=qZRKdYNeShcvRFKO5ZUmvQ--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this courtroom sketch reviewed and cleared for release by U.S. military officials, Guantanamo detainee Salim Hamdan (L) sits flanked by his legal team inside a courtroom during a U.S. Military Tribunal arraignment at Guantanamo U.S. Naval Base in Cuba June 4, 2007. (Janet Hamlin/Pool/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080703/ts_alt_afp/franceusaviationcrash afp/20080703/franceusaviationcrash AFP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:45:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080703/ts_alt_afp/franceusaviationcrash"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080703/capt.cps.mwy51.030708184437.photo00.photo.default-512x337.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=pZXp56Z39JVvAqB9YUi5kQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="The area where an Air France concorde crashed during take-off at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport in July 2000, killing 113 people. US Continental Airlines and two of its employees are to stand trial for manslaughter over the crash, judicial officials have said.(AFP/HO/File/Joachim Bertrand)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US airline Continental and two of its employees are to stand trial for manslaughter over the crash of an Air France Concorde airliner in 2000 that killed 113 people, officials said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080703/ts_alt_afp/franceusaviationcrash"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080703/capt.cps.mwy51.030708184437.photo00.photo.default-512x337.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=pZXp56Z39JVvAqB9YUi5kQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="The area where an Air France concorde crashed during take-off at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport in July 2000, killing 113 people. US Continental Airlines and two of its employees are to stand trial for manslaughter over the crash, judicial officials have said.(AFP/HO/File/Joachim Bertrand)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/smuggling_charges ap/20080703/smuggling_charges AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:37:00 GMT AP - A federal jury found a Bahamian fishing boat captain guilty of second-degree murder in the drowning of three illegal immigrants he was trying to smuggle into the United States. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/bodies_found ap/20080703/bodies_found AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:54:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/bodies_found"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080702/capt.4906085cbc1240fda253216ccaec381d.bodies_found_iljr105.jpg?x=117&y=130&q=85&sig=aZJDEZVFxSHYhT9BhOFTlw--" align="left" height="130" width="117" alt="Nicholas T. Sheley, left, is escorted out of the Granite City police department Wednesday, July 2, 2008, in Granite City, Ill. Authorities from two states conducted an exhaustive manhunt for Sheley, who is suspected in eight grisly killings and was was arrested Tuesday evening outside a bar known as a police hangout in Granite City about 10 miles north of St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)" border="0" /></a>AP - Now that the multistate manhunt has ended, legal wrangling has begun over an ex-convict suspected in a killing spree that left eight people dead in Illinois and Missouri.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/bodies_found"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080702/capt.4906085cbc1240fda253216ccaec381d.bodies_found_iljr105.jpg?x=117&y=130&q=85&sig=aZJDEZVFxSHYhT9BhOFTlw--" align="left" height="130" width="117" alt="photo" title="Nicholas T. Sheley, left, is escorted out of the Granite City police department Wednesday, July 2, 2008, in Granite City, Ill. Authorities from two states conducted an exhaustive manhunt for Sheley, who is suspected in eight grisly killings and was was arrested Tuesday evening outside a bar known as a police hangout in Granite City about 10 miles north of St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/teacher_student_flight ap/20080703/teacher_student_flight AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:11:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/teacher_student_flight"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080701/capt.4f11e58b60eb43e68c78e443a9fcd469.teacher_student_flight_ny139.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=hP86vIThfLJ.H6zp95pIwQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="This undated photo provided by Cass County Jail shows Kelsey Peterson. Peterson, the former Lexington teacher accused of having sex with a 13-year-old male student and fleeing with him to Mexico is expected to plead guilty to reduced charges Wednesday, July 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Cass County Jail, ho)" border="0" /></a>AP - A former teacher pleaded guilty Wednesday to fleeing to Mexico with a 13-year-old student so she could have sex with him. Her plea was part of a deal to ensure she'll spend less than a decade in federal prison.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/teacher_student_flight"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080701/capt.4f11e58b60eb43e68c78e443a9fcd469.teacher_student_flight_ny139.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=hP86vIThfLJ.H6zp95pIwQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="photo" title="This undated photo provided by Cass County Jail shows Kelsey Peterson. Peterson, the former Lexington teacher accused of having sex with a 13-year-old male student and fleeing with him to Mexico is expected to plead guilty to reduced charges Wednesday, July 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Cass County Jail, ho)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/girl_killed ap/20080703/girl_killed AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:07:00 GMT AP - Authorities in South Carolina say they've charged a 14-year-old in the death and sexual assault of an 8-year-old neighbor. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/us_nm/usa_crime_dna_dc nm/20080703/usa_crime_dna_dc Reuters Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:32:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/us_nm/usa_crime_dna_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_02t201803_450x300_us_usa_crime_dna.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=pFr0ruuVj0ppl5fFqgxBag--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="James Waller gives an interview to a Reuters reporter in Dallas, Texas June 25, 2008. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - James Waller spent 10 years behind bars and waited another 14 years -- when his movements were restricted as a sex offender -- before DNA evidence finally cleared his name.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/us_nm/usa_crime_dna_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_02t201803_450x300_us_usa_crime_dna.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=pFr0ruuVj0ppl5fFqgxBag--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="James Waller gives an interview to a Reuters reporter in Dallas, Texas June 25, 2008. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080702/ap_en_ot/people_snipes ap/20080702/people_snipes AP Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:58:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080702/ap_en_ot/people_snipes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080702/capt.c774e6b69fc643bc811b189384fb46c8.people_snipes__ny134.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=i2bP7Xj.Up9tNs3XQUyEtA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="In this Feb. 24, 2008 file photo, Wesley Snipes arrives at the 80th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Wesley Snipes will be allowed to leave the United States to work on two movies while his lawyers appeal his tax convictions. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Wesley Snipes will be allowed to leave the United States to work on two movies while his lawyers appeal his tax convictions.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080702/ap_en_ot/people_snipes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080702/capt.c774e6b69fc643bc811b189384fb46c8.people_snipes__ny134.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=i2bP7Xj.Up9tNs3XQUyEtA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title="In this Feb. 24, 2008 file photo, Wesley Snipes arrives at the 80th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Wesley Snipes will be allowed to leave the United States to work on two movies while his lawyers appeal his tax convictions. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, file)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080702/ap_on_re_us/police_chief_killed ap/20080702/police_chief_killed AP Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:39:42 GMT AP - A man charged with killing a small-town eastern Kentucky police chief was found competent to stand trial Wednesday, but a judge still must sort out whether the man intentionally failed IQ tests to avoid possibly facing a death penalty.