Why Lawyers For 'Fabulous Fab' Didn't Call A Single Witness In His Huge Fraud...
Fabrice Tourre, an ex-Goldman Sachs VP who made $2 million when he was just 28, was found liable for fraud after his lawyers used a strategy some legal experts called very risky.His lawyers didn't call...
View ArticleWhy Silvio Berlusconi's Jail Sentence Could Be A Disaster For Italy
Yesterday, Silvio Berlusconi's luck ran out. Italy's highest court ruled that the decisions made by two lower courts in a tax fraud case were correct, and that the former Italian Prime Minister should...
View ArticleMan Arrested For Calling 911 After McDonald's Mixed Up His Order
A Georgia man called 911 after McDonald's mixed up his order. Larenzo Riggins ordered seven McDoubles, one McChicken, and one order of fries, but got six McDoubles instead, he told local station WALB....
View ArticleSupreme Court Says California Has To Release 10,000 Inmates
The Supreme Court rejected Gov. Jerry Brown's request to delay the release of nearly 10,000 inmates in a 6-3 decision Friday, the Associated Press reports.Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence...
View ArticleD.A. Says Mobster Whitey Bulger Had Nothing To Do With The Murder Of A...
Police have arrested a 69-year-old man, William Camuti, in connection with the death of Stephen Rakes, a former liquor store owner who was planning to testify at mobster Whitey Bulger's trial.At a...
View ArticleSCALIA: 'Terrible Things' Will Happen When 10,000 Inmates Are Unleashed
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has written a scathing dissent opposing the majority's decision not to delay the release of 10,000 imates in California.A lower court had ordered the state to...
View ArticleWhat It Looks Like When A Russian Gay Rights Activist Tries To Protest On A...
Today a lone LGBT activist, later identified as Kirill Kalugin, walked into St. Petersburg's Palace Square in an attempt to protest Russia's controversial "gay propaganda" laws.Unfortunately for him,...
View ArticleCleveland Police Disciplining 75 Cops After An Unarmed Couple Was Shot 137 Times
Cleveland police officials said Friday they're disciplining 75 of officers for their involvement in a police chase that ended in the shooting deaths of an unarmed man and woman, The Plain Dealer...
View ArticleCollege Film Takes Terrifying Turn When Cops Almost Shoot Masked Actors In...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — College filmmakers were using fake guns to shoot a robbery scene at a suburban Los Angeles coffee shop when the movie took a scary twist that wasn't in the script.Eight police...
View ArticleHorribly Abused Teenage Twins Could Inherit The Duke Tobacco Fortune
Twins Georgia and Patterson Inman, 15, have grown up horribly abused and neglected, but when they turn 21 they could inherit $60 million.In "The Poorest Rich Kids In The World" in this week's Rolling...
View ArticleHow California Prisons Got To Be So Insanely Overcrowded
California has been ordered to release nearly 10,000 inmates by the end of the year to resolve a notorious overcrowding problem that's been brewing for decades.The Golden State's prison crisis reached...
View ArticleWitnesses Say Man Who Plowed Through Crowded L.A Boardwalk Did It Purposefully
A car that plowed into a crowd of pedestrians on the Venice beach boardwalk in Los Angeles "seemed to be deliberately trying to hit people," a witness told CBS affiliate KCAL9. Twelve people were...
View ArticleTexas Is Running Out Of Drugs To Kill Criminals
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Texas, the state with the highest execution rate in the country, is running out of a sedative used for lethal injections for the second time in 13 months, a state official said...
View ArticleArmed 14-Year-Old Killed By Cops In Bronx
A armed 14-year-old boy was shot and killed by a police officer early Sunday morning in the South Bronx, the New York Post reports. Two cops who had just graduated from the police academy were...
View ArticleBradley Manning Faces A Tough Life In Prison
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bradley Manning, the soldier convicted in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history, faces the prospect of years of monotony with no Internet access in a small...
View ArticlePAUL RYAN: Using Government Shutdown To Repeal Obamacare Won't Work
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Influential Republican congressman Paul Ryan disagreed on Sunday with the idea of using the threat of a government shutdown as a means of trying to get rid of President Barack...
View ArticleDeath Row Inmate In Ohio Found Hanged Days Before Execution Date
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - An Ohio death row inmate was found hanged in his prison cell on Sunday, three days before he was due to be executed for the 1987 murder of a babysitter, a prison spokeswoman...
View ArticleDEA Agents Are Told To Cover Up Spying Program Used Against Americans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to...
View ArticleTor 'Deep Web' Servers Go Offline As Irish Man Is Held Over Child Abuse Images
Freedom Hosting, described by an FBI special agent as "the largest facilitator of child porn on the planet", has gone offline, as the FBI sought the extradition of a 28-year-old suspect from...
View ArticlePsychologist Analyzes Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Tweets, Says He Committed To...
One of the big questions still surrounding the Boston marathon bombings, which killed three on April 15, is how involved younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was in the planning.Some think his older...
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