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Mayweather arrested on battery charges
Published: Dec. 17, 2010 at 5:17 PM Las Vegas police say boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was arrested on a battery charge resulting from an altercation over a parking citation at a Strip casino. UPI/Roger Williams LAS VEGAS, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Las Vegas police say boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was arrested on a battery charge resulting from an altercation over a parking citation at a Strip casino. The Thursday arrest and charge stem from allegations he repeatedly poked a Southern Highlands casino security...

Police release video in Hilton sports book robbery
Updated Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008 The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is asking for the public's help in identifying the man seen in this video. He is a Person of Interest in the Robbery at the Las Vegas Hilton on Friday, Sept. 26. Metro Police on Thursday released video of a "person of interest" in the Robbery of the Las Vegas Hilton's Race and Sports Superbook early Friday morning. Police had earlier released photographs of two suspects and a possible getaway car in the racebook robbery...

SCOTUS ruling continues to impact Iowa inmates
A ruling earlier this year by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in the sentencing of non-homicide juvenile offenders continues to ripple through the Iowa  judicial system. In an opinion released Friday, justices on the Iowa Supreme Court have reduced the sentence of Julio Bonilla, who was convicted of first degree Kidnapping in 2005. Instead of serving life in Prison without the possibility of Parole, Bonilla, who was 16 at the time of the offens...

Mississippi 2010: Lynchings and Double Life Sentences
Another instance brought to the attention of participants, by conference founder and organizer Attorney Jaribu Hill, of the Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights, is the case of Mississippi sisters Jamie and Gladys Scott. She urged participants to write letters to Gov. Haley Barbour on behalf of the unjustly held sisters. They went before the Mississippi Board of Pardon and Parole on December 13. The sisters have already been imprisoned sixteen years. "The case of the Scott sisters is b...

Pregnant teen attacked on Seattle bus: 'I could see my face bleeding'
A pregnant teen says she feared for her baby after she and her boyfriend were attacked by a group of four girls and a woman on a Metro bus last month, and it was all captured on the bus' security camera. A pregnant teen says she feared for her baby after she and her boyfriend were attacked by a group of four girls and a woman on a Metro bus last month, and it was all captured on the bus security camera. Jessica, who spoke on condition that her last name not be used, was riding on the packed N...

A.C. casino fights bank on seizure
ATLANTIC CITY - Atlantic City's smallest casino is headed back to court to try to stop its lenders from seizing control of the gaming hall. The Hilton has lost more money this year than any other Atlantic City casino and is in default on its Mortgage. The Press of Atlantic City reported Sunday the U.S. Bank National Association had filed a motion seeking permission to foreclose. A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday morning in Atlantic City before state Superior Court Judge William C. Todd III. The...

BREAKING: Yet another fatal attack on assassinated Juarez activist Marisela Escobedo's family
Source: All Voices The tortured body of the man who was executed and dumped in the Juarez streets is the brother in law of Marisela Escobedo, the Attorney General confirmed today. Escobedo herself was gunned down at point blank range on December 16 in front of the State Capital building in Chihuahua City as she was protesting the release from Prison of the man who murdered her daughter. Escobedo is the Activist who was known in Mexico simply as "Rubi's mother." The latest Victim in the family, ...

BREAKING: Yet another fatal attack on assassinated Juarez activist Marisela Escobedo's family
The tortured body of a man who was executed and dumped in the Juarez streets is the brother-in-law of Marisela Escobedo, the Attorney General confirmed today. Escobedo herself was specifically gunned down on December 16 in front of the State Capital building in Chihuahua City as she was protesting the release from Prison of the man who murdered her daughter. [See video, above which shows a gunman pursuing Escobedo across a busy street, shooting her in the head, then fleeing in a get-away car.] E...

Anti-sexting bill to be debated next year in state legislature
COLUMBIA -- Child safety proposals up for debate next year include measures that would bar teens from sexting and require people who operate a daycare in their homes to have parents' written permission to spank their Children. The bills are among those prefiled by legislators on a children's committee that includes House members, senators and the heads of agencies that oversee children's issues, including education, Social Services and juvenile justice. "The mission of all of these bills is to i...

Murders, shootings and home invasion mark violent week in Providence
PROVIDENCE — It was a violent week in the city, with two murders, at least five reported drive-by shootings and an armed Home Invasion, according to Police Reports. The police said Sunday that the two homicides — which bring this year’s count to 15 murders in the city — are still under investigation. Last year, the city had 24 murders. On Friday, Ernesto Juarez, a 55-year-old West End resident, was shot to death in his home on Sorrento Street. The police said there was no...

Egypt uncovers 'Israeli spy ring'
Egyptian officials have charged a local businessman and two Israelis with recruiting agents to spy for Israel. State prosecutor Hisham Badawi said Tareq Hassan was charged with harming Egypt's national interests. The two Israelis were charged in absentia. It comes a day after Egyptian sources said an alleged spy cell, with four Egyptians and two Israelis, had plotted to kidnap tourists in the Sinai area....

Egypt arrests 4 citizens over spying for Israel
CAIRO - Egypt's State Security says an Egyptian and two Israelis have been charged with recruiting agents in Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon to spy for Israeli intelligence. Prosecutor Hisham Badawi in press conference Monday charged an Egyptian businessman with harming the country's national interests. Two Israelis were charged in absentia as well. Khaled Hassan, the suspect, was arrested in August. The disclosure comes just a day after authorities announced the discovery of a spy cell involved...

Maryland: Obama-Doubting Army Doctor Sentenced
An Army doctor who disobeyed orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he questioned President Obama’s eligibility to be commander in chief was sentenced by a jury on Thursday to six months in a Military Prison and dismissal from The Army. The Military jury spent nearly five hours deliberating punishment for Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin after three days of court-martial proceedings at Fort Meade, Md. Colonel Lakin was convicted of disobeying orders — he had pleaded guilty to that count &mda...;

Shawcross killings inspire playwright Ex-Watertown resident uses her memories of murder sprees in NNY, Rochester to build 'My
When Lori A. Marra was growing up in Watertown, one of the top news stories she recalls was the prosecution of Arthur J. Shawcross, who was convicted of killing two city Children in 1972. Shawcross was released in 1987 after serving 14 years and seven months of a 25-year sentence. Seeking a place to live, he was rejected by many communities and eventually settled in Rochester, where Ms. Marra also was living. Eleven months after Shawcross's release from Prison, the body of his first Roches...

Man gets prison sentence over series of break-ins
LOWVILLE — A Madison County man was sentenced Friday in Lewis County Court to state Prison time for several camp and business break-ins over the summer. Christopher M. Nugent,22, Canastota, was sentenced to one to four years in prison, $3,402.62 restitution and $375 in court fees on two counts of fourth-degree Grand Larceny and a single count of third-degree Burglary, to which he pleaded guilty Nov. 12. Judge Charles C. Merrell recommended he participate in the Prison system's shock ...

AC Hilton heads to court to fend off foreclosure
Atlantic City's smallest casino is headed back to court to try and stop its lenders from seizing control of the gaming hall. The Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort has been trying to restructure its Debt and hasn't made a loan payment in nearly a year and a half. The Press of Atlantic City reports that U.S. Bank National Association has filed a motion seeking permission to foreclose. A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday. Rodgers leads No. 20 Hoyas to win over Missouri St ...

Playing Pete Campbell in the South
By which I mean, of course, pretending that one is Pete Campbell in “The Fog” and discovering a trend long after it began trending and figuring out how to exploit it.   Because I haven’t been back to or through Lousiana in over two years, yesterday I was taken aback by the different advertising environment that confronted me on the trip from Houston, TX to Natchez, MS.  First, the signage now works according to the general principle: if it’s not for a gas station,

Contractors behaving badly mean headaches for US
WASHINGTON—At two in the morning on Sept. 9, 2005, five DynCorp International Security Guards assigned to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's protective detail returned to their compound drunk, with a Prostitute in tow. Less than a week later, three of these same guards got drunk again, this time in the VIP lounge of the Kabul airport while awaiting a flight to Thailand. "They had been intoxicated, loud and obnoxious," according to an internal company repor...

US boxer to face battery charge
US boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr has been briefly arrested on suspicion of assaulting a Security Guard outside his home. Mr Mayweather, 33, was detained at a casino in the Las Vegas area and held at the Clark County jail, police said. He was later released without bail. He is due to appear in court on Monday charged with battery, officials say. The charge alleges he poked a Security Guard in the face during a row over Parking Tickets on 15 November. He faces six months in Prison and a $1,000 (£645...

Yemen nuclear material went unsecured for a week
Stumble This! A facility housing Yemen's radioactive material went unguarded for up to a week after its guard was removed and its Surveillance camera was broken, a secret U.S. State Department cable outed by Wikileaks revealed Monday. At one point there was practically nothing protecting the material at Yemen's National Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC), according to the diplomatic dispatch dated January 9 this year. The lone Security Guard at the facility had been removed and the only closed cir...

Activists stage new tax protests
Should companies offer to pay more tax? Protesters against tax avoidance have staged demonstrations at shops across the UK on what is traditionally the busiest shopping weekend of the year. UK Uncut said it held 55 Protests in cities including London, Edinburgh and Manchester against the Arcadia Group, Boots, Vodafone and Barclays. Arcadia Group's flagship Topshop and BHS shops in Oxford Street were hit. The wife of Sir Philip Green, the firm's boss, has been criticised for living in ...

Report: 191 Prisoners Escape Mexico Border Jail
As many as 191 Mexican Prisoners escaped early Friday morning from a jail in Nuevo Laredo near the US border, reports local TV station KGBT-TV. Nuevo Laredo is the sister city of Laredo, Tx. The Prisoners allegedly just walked out the front door, reports Agence France Presse. After the escape, the Prison's 44 Security Guards and its director were arrested, KGBT-TV reports. It was one of the biggest prison escapes in recent years, surpassing the 85 inmates who broke out of a prison in the norther...

U.S. 'vigilant' for holiday terror threats, adviser says
U.S. security is "particularly vigilant" to terror threats over the holidays, the president's Counterterrorism adviser said Friday, striking a confident note that the United States is ready. "We always have to remain on guard," said John Brennan, the White House Counterterrorism adviser said at an event for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The holidays are a particularly sensitive time because of the increased pace of travel, Brennan noted. "I'm ...

Security Guard Shot Dead In Atlanta
(NewsCore) - A Security Guard for a towing company in Atlanta was shot and killed early Saturday morning in what police said was a targeted attack, WSB-TV reported. The unarmed Security Guard was on duty in his guard shack when an SUV pulled up around 3:30 am local time Saturday. A person exited the vehicle with an Assault Rifle and shot the guard at least nine times, Atlanta police spokesman Keith Meadows said. The guard had several gunshot wounds to his torso and one to his arm. He was taken t...

About Those Low-Paid TSA Flunkies
Corey writes: Just for some perspective, according to usajobs.com, a Transportation Security Officer in Dodge City, KS starts out making just over $31,000 annually. According to Salary.com, the median annual income for private Security Guards in Dodge City is just under $25,000. Those poor, incompetent molesto-crats only make 25% more than their productive sector counterparts! ...