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'Barefoot Bandit' gets 6-1/2 years for federal charges
Jan 27, 2012 13:53 EST
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A serial burglar nicknamed the "Barefoot Bandit" was sentenced on Friday in Seattle to 6-1/2 years in prison for his guilty plea to federal charges stemming from a sensational, two-year crime spree as a sometimes-shoeless teenage runaway.
"Barefoot Bandit" gets 6.5 years for federal charges
Jan 27, 2012 13:53 EST
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A serial burglar nicknamed the "Barefoot Bandit" was sentenced on Friday in Seattle to 6-1/2 years in prison for his guilty plea to federal charges stemming from a sensational, two-year crime spree as a sometimes-shoeless teenage runaway.
"Barefoot Bandit" gets 6.5 years of federal time
Jan 27, 2012 13:53 EST
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A serial burglar nicknamed the "Barefoot Bandit" was sentenced on Friday in Seattle to 6-1/2 years in prison for his guilty plea to federal charges stemming from a sensational, two-year crime spree as a sometimes-shoeless teenage runaway.
"Welcome Back, Kotter" star Robert Hegyes dies at age 60
Jan 26, 2012 22:39 EST
(Reuters) - Robert Hegyes, who played the Jewish Puerto Rican wisecracking student Juan Epstein in 1970s comedy "Welcome Back, Kotter," died on Thursday at age 60, a hospital official said.
Environmentalists sue to protect whales from Navy sonar
Jan 26, 2012 21:37 EST
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Environmentalists sued the U.S. government on Thursday over naval training exercises off the West Coast involving sonar that they say harms endangered marine animals in the Pacific Ocean including killer whales.
California lawmakers move to limit protests at funerals
Jan 26, 2012 20:20 EST
SACRAMENTO, Calif (Reuters) - California's state Senate approved a bill on Thursday to restrict protests at funerals in a move aimed at limiting the impact of controversial demonstrations like those led by a fringe Kansas-based church against homosexuality.
Texas executes man caught years after crime by DNA
Jan 26, 2012 19:33 EST
(Reuters) - Texas executed convicted murderer Rodrigo Hernandez by lethal injection on Thursday, administering the ultimate punishment to a man who had been paroled for an assault in Michigan when his DNA linked him to a years-old murder in San Antonio.
U.S.-based polygamist sect buys newspaper ads urging repentance
Jan 26, 2012 19:06 EST
SAN ANGELO, Texas (Reuters) - A breakaway Mormon sect loyal to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has placed a series of ads urging repentance in major U.S. and Canadian newspapers that display purported revelations from God via their faith's self-proclaimed prophet.
Reward offered for released Mississippi murderer
Jan 26, 2012 17:26 EST
STARKVILLE, Miss (Reuters) - Mississippi's attorney general is offering a reward for information that helps locate a convicted murderer who vanished since his release from prison earlier this month after being pardoned by former Governor Haley Barbour.
Ex-aides to Wisconsin governor charged with misconduct
Jan 26, 2012 12:42 EST
MADISON, Wis (Reuters) - Two former aides to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker were charged on Thursday with political fundraising on public time in a move that could give fresh ammunition to critics seeking to unseat him over controversial curbs on public sector bargaining imposed last year.
San Diego authorities make over 100 gang arrests
Jan 25, 2012 21:26 EST
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Police and federal agents arrested more than 100 suspected gang members in San Diego and surrounding communities on Wednesday in a major operation on charges including drug trafficking and weapons violations, authorities said.
Alaska Airlines ends decades-old prayer card tradition
Jan 25, 2012 20:13 EST
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Alaska Airlines, America's seventh-largest carrier in terms of passenger traffic, said on Wednesday that it would end a decades-old tradition of handing out prayer cards with its in-flight meals.
Man pleads not guilty in NJ synagogue firebombings
Jan 25, 2012 19:53 EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 19-year-old man accused of attempted murder in the firebombing of two New Jersey synagogues including one that housed a rabbi who was burned when fire ignited a blanket on his bed pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.
John Travolta's stolen vintage Mercedes recovered in pieces
Jan 25, 2012 15:54 EST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Film star John Travolta's vintage Mercedes-Benz, stolen from a Los Angeles suburb, has been recovered in pieces and two men have been arrested, police said on Wednesday.
Country music great Haggard recovering from pneumonia
Jan 25, 2012 01:17 EST
NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - Country singer Merle Haggard, who was admitted to a Georgia hospital last week after illness forced him to cancel a show, was recovering from a host of health issues discovered while he was being treated for pneumonia, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
Bus passengers get prison in Texas cash smuggling case
Jan 24, 2012 22:34 EST
McALLEN, Texas (Reuters) - A federal judge sentenced a busload of passengers to prison terms of up to three years for their role in a foiled smuggling operation to ferry more than $3.1 million in cash into Mexico, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson said on Tuesday.
Hope fades for four missing at Mount Rainier, Park Service says
Jan 24, 2012 20:52 EST
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Chances are slim of finding four people alive who have been missing since last week on Mount Rainier in Washington state as rescue efforts were suspended on Tuesday due to a snow storm that hit the region, a Park Service official said.
Dentist pleads guilty to fraud over paper clip root canals
Jan 24, 2012 17:18 EST
BOSTON (Reuters) - A former Boston-area dentist accused of substituting paper clips for stainless steel posts in patient root canals faces the possibility of decades in prison when he is sentenced next week for Medicaid fraud, authorities said on Tuesday.
U.S. Marine spared from detention in Iraq killings
Jan 23, 2012 13:44 EST
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine sergeant accused of leading a 2005 massacre of 24 civilians in Iraq was spared jail time when he was sentenced on Tuesday for his role in the killings in the city of Haditha that brought international condemnation of U.S. troops.
U.S. Marine spared incarceration in Haditha, Iraq, killings
Jan 23, 2012 13:44 EST
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif (Reuters) - A Marine sergeant accused of leading a 2005 massacre of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, was spared jail time on Tuesday for his role in a case that brought international condemnation of U.S. troops.
