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The New Jersey officials and their associates charged in a federal probe of public corruption exchanged hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in parking lots, restaurants, boiler rooms and bathrooms, an acting U.S. attorney said Thursday.
Four police officers were arrested by the special investigation team probing the alleged rape and murder of two young Muslim women in India-administered Kashmir Wednesday evening, a senior police officer confirmed.
A Cook County cemetery where hundreds of graves were dug up and allegedly resold has been declared a crime scene, meaning that relatives of people believed buried there will not be allowed to visit for several days, an official said Friday. “It would be the height of irresponsibility for me to invite people in, to raise expectations and then crash them,” Cook County Sheriff Thomas J
Two British soldiers were killed in separate incidents Thursday in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, the British military said Friday. 14-year-old Jack Waterhouse sustained serious head injuries after the alleged attack during a science lesson at All Saints’ Roman Catholic School in Mansfield, central England Wednesday morning. The boy was rushed to hospital but was later transferred to a specialist head injury unit at the town’s Queen’s Medical Center where his condition was described Friday as stable
Police in the United Kingdom are questioning a teacher on suspicion of attempted murder after one of this students was allegedly struck in the head with a metal weight. 14-year-old Jack Waterhouse sustained serious head injuries after the alleged attack during a science lesson at All Saints’ Roman Catholic School in Mansfield, central England Wednesday morning
A Guantanamo Bay detainee indicted in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa arrived in New York on Tuesday to face criminal charges
A photographer sued Chris Brown on Wednesday, claiming the R&B singer’s bodyguards roughed him up outside a fitness center when he took a photo of Brown. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court — the same court where Brown will be the subject of a hearing Thursday on charges that he assaulted his then-girlfriend, singer Rihanna
European intelligence agencies are on alert for new al Qaeda terrorist plots following the arrest of two men at an Italian port and investigations into the activities of an alleged al Qaeda network based in Brussels. The two are closely tied to a Brussels-based al Qaeda recruiting network, Belgian counter-terrorism officials have told CNN. They are Bassam Ayachi, 62, and Raphael Gendron, 33 — and they were detained in the port of Bari on November 11 last year after allegedly trying to smuggle three Palestinians and two Syrians into Italy in the false bottom of a camper van they were driving
Prosecutors dropped corruption charges Monday against South Africa’s ruling party president Jacob Zuma, who is expected to win the presidential race later this month. The leader of the African National Congress had been charged with more than 700 counts of corruption and fraud. The charges, which were linked to a multibillion dollar arms deal in the country, were dropped after eight years of investigations
The argument that led to singer Chris Brown’s arrest on felony assault charges began when his girlfriend found a text message on his cell phone from "a woman who Brown had a previous sexual relationship with," according to a sworn police statement. Authorities charged Brown on Thursday with felony counts of assault and making criminal threats, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said