Prosecution

Mass. elementary school teacher accused of having sex with boy pleads not guilty to rape

2009-01-09 15:28:00

ROCKLAND, Mass. (AP) — An elementary school teacher accused of having sex with a teenage boy pleaded not guilty to rape charges Friday. Christine A. McCallum, 29, of Rockland, is accused of having multiple sexual encounters with the boy that...

Charges dropped against ex-Reagan budget director

2009-01-09 15:33:00

NEW YORK -- Federal prosecutors dropped charges today against former Reagan budget director David Stockman, who was accused of overseeing a sweeping fraud at a troubled auto parts supplier that he led before the company collapsed into bankruptcy. The U....

Lloyds TSB Bank pays $350 million to US for skirting US sanctions on Sudan, Iran, Libya

2009-01-09 15:36:00

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lloyds TSB Bank PLC has agreed to forfeit $350 million for helping customers skirt U.S. sanctions on business transactions with Sudan, Iran and Libya. The bank, headquartered in London, admitted responsibility for criminal conduct...

New charges prompt month's delay in Houston trial of federal judge accused of sex crimes

2009-01-09 15:51:00

HOUSTON (AP) — The trial of the first federal judge ever charged with sex crimes has been delayed by a month. Jury selection in the trial of U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent in Houston was moved from Jan. 26 to Feb. 23. Kent is accused of making...

Ex-boyfriend of Tampa mother charged in her murder

2009-01-09 08:47:00

Authorities say the ex-boyfriend of a Tampa mother who called 911 from a car trunk before she was found dead has been charged with her murder and abduction. Tampa police say Vincent George Brown faces first-degree murder and kidnapping charges in the...

Son of former Liberian president gets 97 years in prison for torture

2009-01-09 12:50:00

The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced Friday to 97 years in prison for torture overseas in the first U.S. case of its kind. U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga imposed the sentence on Charles McArthur Emmanuel, 31, who...

Grand jury indicts suspects in West Palm-area murders and robbery

2009-01-09 07:24:00

A grand jury on Thursday indicted three people on murder charges and four for armed robbery. According to the report released by the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office today: Tyrone Booker, 25, was charged with shooting Joshua Francis, 29, in...

Shiite activist in Bahrain says he was summoned on suspicion of inciting against regime

2009-01-09 13:01:00

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — A leading Shiite human rights activist in Bahrain said he was summoned Friday by Bahrain's state prosecutors on suspicion of inciting against the kingdom's Sunni rulers. Abdul Hadi al-Khawaja said he was interrogated for four...

Detroit mom, 2 others face trial in sex-party case

2009-01-09 12:25:00

A woman accused of hosting a party at her Detroit home where men could pay for lap dances and sex is headed to trial. District Judge Ronald Giles on Friday ordered the 34-year-old woman bound over to Wayne County Circuit Court for trial on charges of...

Ex-'Sopranos' actor gets 10 years for botched burglary that ended with NY police death

2009-01-09 12:21:00

NEW YORK (AP) — A former actor on "The Sopranos" was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a botched burglary in the Bronx in which an accomplice shot and killed an off-duty police officer. A jury acquitted Lillo Brancato Jr. of second-degree...

Actor Ryan O'Neal pleads guilty to drug charge, sentenced to drug diversion program

2009-01-09 11:53:00

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan O'Neal has pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge. He entered the plea in a Malibu courtroom Friday morning and was ordered into an 18-month drug diversion program. The Los Angeles County district attorney's office says the...

Pastor arrested in teen-sex case

2009-01-09 14:20:00

A pastor at a Wildwood church has been arrested and charged with repeatedly sexually abusing a teenaged girl. Michael Kennedy, 51, of Mount Dora, was charged with two counts of sexual battery. He was released from the Lake County jail after posting $20,...

An Elmont mother, Anna Candanedo, 25, pleaded not guilty Jan. 8, 2009, to a felony charge of reckless assault of a child after she was accused of violently shaking her crying 8-month-old daughter, causing critical head injuries, police said.

2009-01-09 09:35:26

Charges: Sexual abuse of seven girls, perjury Michael Cardamone, a former gymnastics coach, faced retrial on charges he molested young girls at his family's Aurora gym. Cardamone was convicted in 2005 of abusing seven girls and acquitted of abusing seven others.

2009-01-07 08:37:11

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Neil Jonathan Dennis, an English teacher at a Portsmouth school, has been charged with two counts of Aggravated Sexual Battery.

2009-01-07 00:00:00