A 16-year-old Hong Kong boy makes two phone calls for delivery: one for pizza, the other for the drug ketamine. Two teenage girls are found semi-conscious in a car park in the southern Chinese enclave after overdosing on ketamine. A 13-year-old boy joins a gang and is given free ketamine
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$700 million fraud gets lawyer 20 years in prison
New York attorney Marc Dreier, who pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding hedge funds of about $700 million, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Yes, Virginia, the DTV transition still isn’t over
In less than 24 hours all full-power broadcast TV stations in the U.S. will flip a switch to stop broadcasting their analog TV signals and will only broadcast TV signals in digital. And for millions who are unprepared, it could mean lights out on their favorite TV shows.
UK appeals for release of British hostages in Iraq
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has appealed for the release of five British hostages in Iraq as the second anniversary of their capture approaches.
New York lawyer pleads guilty in $700 million fraud
New York attorney Marc Dreier on Monday pleaded guilty Monday to charges of defrauding hedge funds of about $700 million, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Man opens fire at unemployment center in Greece
A man, apparently upset at the way his fellow students had been treating him, opened fire outside a training center for the unemployed in Athens on Friday, police said.
Search continues for Turkish ultra-nationalist in chopper crash
Turkish officials continued searching Thursday for the leader of an ultra-nationalist political party whose helicopter crashed a day earlier in the mountains of eastern Turkey.
Search called off after plane crash deemed false
Emergency crews called off a search in Texas for the wreckage of a C-17 transport plane after reports Monday of a possible crash proved unfounded.