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A burglar who allegedly broke into the late Steve Jobs' Palo Alto home and stole $60,000 worth of computer equipment had no idea of its significance, said a prosecutor who called the burglary "totally random."
William Sylvester, the judge presiding over the criminal case against James Holmes decided on Monday that most of the documents in his case should remain sealed, but he did release some documents, which at least provide a clue to what evidence is going to come into play.
At a press briefing, Assistant Police Chief Scott McCollum confirmed to reporters that two people have died following the shooting in a residential neighborhood near Texas A&M: Brian Bachmann, a Brazos County Constable, and an unidentified civilian. The alleged shooter has also been reported killed.
The worrisome part of Sunday's big New York Times expose on TSA racial profiling at Boston's Logan Airport is that some in the agency look to be expanding their role into everyday police work, when they still can't get the hang of actually securing airports
A new independent report (PDF) on the police response to last summer's massacre on Utoya Island in Norway finds that the Oslo bombing, which preceded the island shooting, could have been prevented using protocols the police already had in place.
A former soldier who was arrested last year for plotting to bomb and shoot other soldiers at Fort Hood was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences on Friday, but not before guards were forced to put a mask on him for spitting what he thought was HIV-infected blood at them.
When Gu Kailai's murder trial ended after just seven hours on Thursday, the same-day stories still carried very few details about the crime, but now, thanks to leaks from the courtroom, we finally have a narrative, and it's juicy.
Offering the first hint of a defense strategy in the murder trial accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes, defense attorneys said on Thursday their client was mentally ill.
By now you may have heard that Abdulrahman Zeitoun, the protagonist of Dave Eggers' 2009 book Zeitoun, is in jail for allegedly beating his ex-wife, but the latest addition to Zeitoun's legal troubles is even darker: He's accused of plotting her murder.
The Florida State Attorney's Office caused some havoc in newsrooms on Thursday when it released a batch of evidence in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder case, then recalled it 25 minutes later, saying it hadn't been reviewed properly.
Remember torture? It used to be quite the scandal here in the United States, when officials at places like Guantanamo Bay would waterboard prisoners, but you don't hear about it as much anymore. Don't you know? Waterboarding is so suburban these days.
Wade Michael Page, the man authorities say opened fire in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on Sunday, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after he had been shot by police, the FBI said at a press conference on Wednesday, helping to clarify a narrative that has been incomplete so far.
It was the specificity of the threats that made New York police lean on Twitter to turn over the identifying details of a user who said he wanted to shoot up the Longacre Theater, the location where Mike Tyson's one-man show is playing.
Jared Loughner, the man accused of shooting former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others, killing six in Tucson in January 2011, is competent to stand trial, a judge found, before Loughner formally pleaded guilty to 19 counts of murder and attempted murder.
There are many details that came out overnight about the mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, but the one that may be the most upsetting is the report of the Sikh temple leader who died while trying to defend his congregation.
If you want to censor the Internet in China, you'd better be a part of the government, or else you might get arrested and then fired like the three Baidu workers accused of deleting posts for pay.
Robert Stolarik, a New York Times freelance photographer whose clashes with police became part of the narrative of Occupy Wall Street was arrested while on assignment for the paper in the Bronx over the weekend, apparently for getting too close to an arrest in progress.
Reports are saying Jared Loughner will be declared mentally fit enough to face the charges against him for the mass shooting that killed six and injured Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others, on Tuesday, and he's expected to enter a guilty plea in exchange for life in prison.
The good thing about Wednesday's news that Levi Aron would plead guilty to last summer's horrific murder of an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy is that the boy's family and the public don't have to relive the whole horrific ordeal again in a trial.
Try to wrap your head around this: The judge in George Zimmerman's case can't disagree with George Zimmerman's lawyers' claim that he's not impartial, because then he'd be expressing an opinion and he really wouldn't be impartial.
Japan’s prosecutors officially began investigating Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and its former top executives on criminal charges today in relation to the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima following last year's March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Japan's national Diet approved the revisions of the Organized Crime Group Countermeasures Law (改正暴力団対策法) last Thursday which allows police to designate organized crime groups as “extremely dangerous” and then arrest any member of that group, without issuing a cease and desist order, if he (or she), makes unreasonable or illegal demands towards ordinary citizens.
After the wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai was arrested for murder on Thursday, the state is getting ready for its highest profile criminal case in years, and while it really wants to project an image of fairness, nobody's buying it.
If you thought we were done hearing about the graphic details of former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse of young boys, you were wrong.
Fox News is getting some attention for a bombshell report about a notebook supposedly sent to a University of Colorado psychiatrist that may outline Aurora shooting suspect James Holmes' plans for a massacre at a movie theater, but at least one local news organization, Denver's alt-weekly Westword, has doubts.
An FBI expert's comparison of Aurora shooting suspect James Holmes' booby-trapped apartment to a "house bomb" refers to a technique popularized by Iraqi insurgents in the Diyala Province but apparently never before used in the United States.
On the first of what will likely be many appearances in an Arapahoe County courthouse, alleged Auroro, Colorado shooter James Holmes sported dyed orange-red hair and said nothing.
One thing that still continues to shock about Friday's massacre in Colorado is that the suspect, James Holmes, apparently bought his equipment legally, including 6,000 rounds of ammunition and a 100-round magazine.
The first pictures of James Holmes, the 24-year-old who allegedly opened fire on a theater full of people in Aurora, Colorado, are making their way to the public, as a biography begins to emerge of the man accused in one of the nation's deadliest recent massacres.
The unraveling of Peregrine Financial Group after its CEO's confession to fraud in a suicide note has been a sad story, but one funny detail emerged Thursday with the news that some of its assets included silver SpongeBob Squarepants coins.
Sean Hannity has been in touch with George Zimmerman since before he turned himself in, so it's no surprise he scored the first media interview with the suspect in the Trayvon Martin shooting.
Attorneys for George Zimmerman have requested a new judge in his trial for shooting Trayvon Martin, alleging current judge Kenneth Lester Jr. is biased and they can no longer get a fair trial.
The Mexican cartels' tunnels under the U.S. border keep getting better and better—at least for the cartels.
The scary thing about the Washington, D.C., cop reassigned after saying he would shoot Michelle Obama is that he's worked in the president's motorcade.
George Zimmerman was easygoing with police when they arrived at the scene of Trayvon Martin's shooting, but according to new evidence from the FBI, he was afraid for his life in the weeks after the shooting became national news and even tried to buy more guns.
It's not quite Dewey Defeats Truman, but The New York Post may come to regret its "OWS Murder Link" headline now that The New York Times is reporting that a DNA match supposedly linking a 2004 killing to a March protest was the result of a laboratory error.
It's not clear whether federal prosecutors ever took seriously a terrorism plot, foiled last year, to blow up the Pentagon using model planes, but on Tuesday they were poised to get a serious conviction out of it as the defendant, Rezwan Ferdaus, agreed to plead guilty.
It's a good thing Kim Dotcom is becoming a popular "cult hero" in his adopted home of New Zealand, because for now it looks like he'll be stuck there at least until March of 2013 as his extradition hearing has been delayed.
George Zimmerman has a safe house in Seminole county, Florida and that's where the defendant in the Trayvon Martin killing headed after walking out of jail Friday on $1 million bail, for which $20,000 in donations came in over 24 hours.
Add this to your list of reasons not to get arrested in India (or maybe to get arrested if you're an adventurous druggie): If you get interrogated, you just might find yourself shot full of sodium pentathol in order to elicit a confession.
The charge that Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman hid fundraising proceeds from the court during his first bail hearing didn't stop a Florida judge from granting him bail once more, but the court significantly increased the size of his bond.
The last missing mystery of the Luka Magnotta puzzle has been solved. Montreal police have confirmed a human head found in Angrignon Park in Montreal belongs to Jun Lin, the man Magnotta dismembered and shipped across the country.
French police investigating former president Nicolas Sarkozy on corruption allegations wasted little time in raiding his and wife Carla Bruni's home and offices Tuesday, less than a month after his immunity against prosecution ended.
If you tweet something, you can't consider it private speech even if you later delete it, a New York judge ruled on Monday, denying for the second time a motion to quash a subpoena against an Occupy Wall Street protester arrested last October.
Nothing ruins your night out quite like an open-container ticket, but if one Brooklyn judge gets his way, citations for drinking in public will become almost impossible to issue.
Now that investigators have confirmed the hands and feet mailed to Vancouver schools last week came from Jun Lin, the man Luka Magnotta allegedly killed, ate, and dismembered on tape, there's one pressing mystery left: Where's his head?
Well, this is the end of it. Unless someone comes up with a whole new narrative about something John Edwards did to break the law, his legal troubles are over.
Things are not going well for the Zimmerman family: After a judge revoked George Zimmerman's bail on June 1, his wife Shellie Zimmerman was arrested on Tuesday for perjuring herself during his original bail hearing.
It's amazing that Mexico's Zetas drug cartel managed to launder money through as huge a U.S. horse-racing operation as it allegedly did for as long as it allegedly did, seeing as how one of its horses was named Number One Cartel.
It's weird to read about a human rights activist calling a law against having sex with children "stupid," but that's what we saw in The New York Times' India Ink story about a push to raise the age of consent there.
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