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Calif. Couple Plead Guilty to Girl's Kidnap, Rape
By not in system - AOL NewsPLACERVILLE, Calif. -- A convicted sex offender and his wife pleaded guilty Thursday to kidnapping and raping a Northern California girl when she was 11 and holding her captive for nearly two decades. The pleas came as part of a surprise deal with prosecutors that will spare victim Jaycee Dugard and her two daughters born after she was raped by defendant Phillip Garrido from having to testify at a trial. Sacramento Bee / MCT / AP Convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, pleaded guilty Thursday to kidnapping and raping 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard in 1991 and ...
Army Opens Prison of Suspected WikiLeaks Private for Media Review
By not in system - AOL NewsFORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- Army officials are opening the doors to the military prison in Kansas where they are holding an Army private suspected of illegally passing U.S. government secrets to the WikiLeaks website. Pfc. Bradley Manning was moved last week from the Marine brig in Quantico, Va., to the Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Leavenworth amid criticism over his treatment and confinement. Army spokesman Col. Tom Collins said the media tour of the military's medium-security prison at Fort Leavenworth would show the conditions under which the Army holds Manning as he ...
Body of Missing Maine Woman Found in NH Pond
By not in system - AOL NewsCONWAY, N.H. -- The body of a missing Maine woman whose car was abandoned at a ski area with her toddler unharmed inside was recovered Wednesday from a nearby pond. Divers retrieved the body of Krista Dittmeyer about a quarter-mile from where her car was found idling early Saturday in the parking lot of Cranmore Mountain ski area in Conway, a town of 10,000 people. Police said previously that they believed Dittmeyer, 20, was a victim of a crime, but Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young said Wednesday that the case was being investigated as a "suspicious death." She declined ...
NY Suspect Recaptured After Bolting in Handcuffs
By not in system - AOL NewsBUFFALO, N.Y. -- A robbery suspect who escaped from a Buffalo police station by slipping out a back door while handcuffed to a chair has been apprehended after he was spotted riding a bike with the cuffs still on. Police tell Buffalo media outlets that 58-year-old John Caesar (SEE'-zur) of Buffalo was taken into custody Tuesday for questioning in connection with the theft of money from the Anchor Bar, the restaurant known for inventing the city's famous chicken wings. Officials say Caesar was handcuffed to a chair in a police station when he escaped around 4 p.m. Police say he was caught ...
Cold Case Cops Solve 1978 LA Slaying
By Tori Richards - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES -- For three decades the unsolved homicide case of Robert Rathbun sat on a shelf in an archives room, awaiting justice with about 9,000 others. The laid-off engineer was stabbed to death with a butcher knife from his own kitchen by two burglars who then plunged a knife in the back of his 18-year-old son, leaving him for dead. It was May 20, 1978, and without the advent of modern forensics, frustrated detectives soon had to abandon the case with hopes that their future colleagues would have a solution. LAPD Los Angeles police say Richard Daniel Bower, shown in a 1978 ...
Colorado Mall Fire Suspect Was Just Freed From Prison
By not in system - AOL NewsLITTLETON, Colo. -- The man authorities say they suspect of carrying out an apparent attempted bombing at a Colorado shopping mall had been released from prison a week earlier. The FBI said Sunday that agents are looking for Earl Albert Moore after Wednesday's fire at Southwest Plaza Mall, about two miles from Columbine High School, where 13 people were killed 12 years ago. Federal Bureau of Prisons records show that Moore, 65, was released from prison April 13. FBI spokesman Dave Joly said Moore served time in a Georgia federal prison. Federal court records show that Moore pleaded ...
Texas Deputy Killed in Shootout; Suspect Fatally Shot
By not in system - AOL NewsVENUS, Texas -- A North Texas deputy has died after being shot in the line of duty in a small town south of Dallas-Fort Worth and a suspect also was fatally shot, authorities said. Johnson County Sheriff Bob Alford said in a statement that the shooting erupted Saturday afternoon near Venus and that a suspect was shot dead by deputies. Alford didn't identify the suspect or the officer in his release, but local media outlets said Alford later spoke to reporters outside a Fort Worth hospital where the deputy had been rushed and identified him as Clifton Taylor, 31. The Fort Worth ...
Las Vegas Mob Exhibit Gets Whacked (by Critics)
By Larry Knowles - AOL NewsA new Las Vegas Mafia exhibition that displays mob memorabilia and takes visitors on an interactive journey in which they may "get whacked" is attracting intense criticism from historians and Italian-American groups. The Las Vegas Mob Experience, which opened in early April at the Tropicana Hotel, has on display 1,500 artifacts purchased from the estates of Meyer Lansky, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Sam Giancana and other mobsters who gained notoriety in Las Vegas. During the interactive portion, patrons are given credentials with a new mob nickname and spirited through a series of role plays ...
Lohan Quickly Released From Jail in Theft Case
By not in system - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES --- The day unfolded all too familiarly for Lindsay Lohan: a court hearing, a jail sentence, a quick release. The starlet appeared before a judge Friday for the fourth time in nearly a year and was sentenced to 120 days for violating her probation by taking a designer necklace. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner said she thought the actress had intentionally taken the $2,500 necklace from an upscale Venice store and shown poor judgment in not trying to return it until police became involved. The judge reduced the actress' charge from felony grand theft to a ...
Judge Sends Lohan to Jail in Necklace Theft Case
By not in system - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES -- Lindsay Lohan was ordered taken into custody and led out of a courtroom Friday, returning again to a Los Angeles County jail after being sentenced to 120 days for violating her probation by taking a designer necklace. It was a déjà vu day for the starlet, who was admonished by a judge - the fourth she's faced in nearly a year - who said she thought the actress had intentionally taken the $2,500 necklace from an upscale Venice store and shown poor judgment in not trying to return it until police became involved. But by reducing the actress' charge from felony grand ...
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