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Two Tunisians who had been detained at Guantanamo arrived in Italy late Monday and will be tried on international terrorism charges for having allegedly recruited fighters for Afghanistan, officials said.

A New Jersey prisoner has won a settlement that allows him to preach at services inside the prison.

BAYTOWN, Texas A convicted sexual predator escaped from custody Monday morning in the Baytown area after holding two transport officers hostage, officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said.

Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa, an official said Monday, an attack that could pose a huge environmental or security threat to the region.

John Demjanjuk goes on trial today on charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp, opening the final chapter of some 30 years of efforts to prosecute the retired Ohio autoworker.

Johnson, Gene - A Pierce County Sheriff deputy runs to the site where four police officers killed in an ambush at the Forza Coffee Co.

Roman Polanski is expected to trade the confines of a Swiss jail this week for house arrest in a luxury chalet with a view of the Alps, where he will await a Swiss decision whether to extradite him to the United States.

Roman Polanski is expected to trade the confines of a Swiss jail this week for house arrest in a luxury chalet with a view of the Alps, where he will await a Swiss decision whether to extradite him to the United States.

Jose Mujica's opponents claimed he would transform the South American country into a radical socialist state, but he campaigned as a consensus builder, and polls suggested most voters were convinced he would govern from the center.

Porfirio Lobo and Elvin Santos , two prosperous businessmen from the political old-guard, are the front-runners in an election where campaign promises have been overshadowed by the debate over whether Hondurans should cast ballots at all in a vote largely shunned by international monitors.

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A dozen prisoners escaped jail through a tunnel they dug from their cell to the outside in western Afghanistan, police said Saturday.

An American man wanted in the United States on terrorism charges has been sentenced in China for manufacturing drugs, a court official said Saturday.

The United States just didn't believe him. So it took the most powerful military in the world 18 years to find the remains of the only U.S. Air Force pilot shot down in an aerial battle in the 1991 Gulf War.

Avary was sentenced in September to a year in jail and five years probation for causing a drunken driving car crash that killed a passenger and injured Avary's wife.

The United States was "hell bent" on a 2003 military invasion of Iraq and actively undermined efforts by Britain to win international authorization for the war, a former British diplomat told an inquiry Friday.

The Virginia couple who crashed a presidential dinner met President Barack Obama in the receiving line, the White House said Friday, as a "deeply concerned and embarrassed" Secret Service acknowledged its officers failed to check whether the couple was on the guest list.

Tim Montgomery started taking performance-enhancing drugs because he wanted to beat American sprint rival Maurice Greene and become the fastest man in the world, the former 100-metre world-record holder said in an interview with a British newspaper.

Heinrich Boere, 88, made his first comments to the Aachen state court since his trial opened at the end of October.

November 27, 2009 -- Police are looking for an escaped prisoner, who was behind bars for murder.

The Harper government introduced legislation Thursday to make it tougher for Canadians imprisoned abroad to serve their sentences in Canada.

Cuba's armed forces launched three days of intense military exercises across the island Thursday, a mobilization that state-controlled media says is designed to guard against an American invasion.

Computer hacker Gary McKinnon could be sent to the US within weeks after the Home Secretary refused to block his extradition.

Thanksgiving Day for soldiers in this valley ringed by towering snowy peaks began with a 6-mile slog to aid village schools without desks and windows, and promises to end with five, once scrawny local turkeys soldiers have been fattening up for the past month.

Anti-war protesters from the 'Stop the War' group, wearing masks depicting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, center and former US president George W. Bush, left, pose for the photographers, outside the conference center where the Iraq war inquiry is taking place, in central London, Tuesday Nov.

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It's a crime so profitable that even dead people are in on the act. A Senate committee revealed last year that public health insurer Medicare had paid as much as $92 million from 2000 to 2007 for medical services or equipment ordered or prescribed by doctors who were dead at the time.

A young woman from Mexico was smuggled over the border and forced to work as a prostitute for years in New York City, and the remains of an infant were found in concrete at the home where she was held prisoner, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Israel's prime minister on Wednesday proposed a 10-month freeze on new West Bank settlement construction in what he said was an attempt to jump-start Mideast peace talks.

Dr. Carmelita Bautista said in a deposition filed in U.S. District Court that she had never before been involved in an execution.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani prosecutors charged seven men on Wednesday with planning and helping execute last year's Mumbai terror attacks.

Khalid Sheik Mohammed has acknowledged doing what his nephew Ramzi Yousef couldn't: toppling the World Trade Center towers.

Prosecutors in the genocide trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded a 40-year jail sentence Wednesday for a man who they described as snuffing out innocent lives and spreading terror across Cambodia.

The U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that it is now offering a reward of up to $5 million for a Palestinian bomb-maker suspected of once targeting commercial airliners and of aiding the Iraq insurgency.

The panel, which opened with a moment of silence for those who died, will question dozens of officials over several months a ' including Blair, military officials and spy agency chiefs.

Behind the elaborate ceremony of the Indian prime minister's state visit Tuesday, Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama will be working to smooth over differences on climate change and U.S. ties with Indian rivals China and Pakistan.The White House is eager to show that, despite what some Indians see as a lack of attention during Obama's first ...

One of the trio jailed over the death of Baby Peter is challenging his conviction for the rape of a two-year-old girl at the Court of Appeal.

British TV productions won five International Emmys on Monday night as Brazil claimed its first, and Brits Julie Walters and Ben Whishaw took the top acting awards.

A western Pennsylvania woman has been ordered to stand trial on charges she passed a drug-filled balloon to a state prison inmate while kissing him.

The Oregon State Hospital has reinstated a security worker who was fired after someone reported seeing him having oral sex with a co-worker in a state vehicle parked near the Salem campus.

New York's highest court ruled Monday that families forced to pay high phone rates to talk to relatives in state prison won't receive refunds for the cost.

An Afghan agency, at one time entrusted to monitor Canadian-captured insurgents in Kandahar, says it has documented nearly 400 cases of torture across the war-ravaged country.

SEOUL: Chinese and North Korean defence chiefs have pledged to strengthen their military alliance - dating back to the Korean War - during talks in Pyongyang, state media said on Monday.

The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one - as his home state of Ohio has proposed - as long as the drug works efficiently.

Residents from the seven-county area surrounding the Thomson, Ill, prison would be "excellent candidates" for up to 1,400 of the jobs generated in the deal's first year, according to the report by the president's Council of Economic Advisers.

It has been reported from Algeria that a court has acquitted two former detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

A stepped-up campaign by Iraq's prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections.

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened ...

Talk of a bus driver strike in Charleston is over as a tentative deal has been reached.

British TV personality David Frost is being honoured at the 37th Annual International Emmy Awards for a wide-ranging career that has taken him from pioneering political satire on television to conducting serious interviews with former President Richard Nixon and other newsmakers.

On the night of Nov. 20, 1969, two rented boats filled with activists billing themselves "Indians of All Tribes" pulled ashore on Alcatraz.

CANON CITY, Colo.-- A man convicted 16 years ago of killing his former girlfriend in Portland has been arrested in connection with the death of an inmate in a Colorado prison.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay has opened talks with other nations asking them to provide a security force for diplomats and development workers when the Canadian army withdraws from Kandahar in 2011.

Iran will begin large-scale air defense war games Sunday aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from possible attack, a senior military commander said Saturday, reflecting the country's concern that Israel could make good on threats to strike militarily.

It was the ninth attack in two weeks in and around Peshawar , the largest city in the northwest and the main gateway to the al-Qaida and Taliban -infested frontier region.

A western Pennsylvania woman has been ordered to stand trial on charges she passed a drug-filled balloon to a state prison inmate while kissing him.

They were so close to finishing their sentences, but instead, two inmates at the Coastal Transitional Center ended up under arrest.

On Wednesday evening, a Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility inmate was beaten to death by another inmate.

A 17-year-old has pleaded guilty to murder in the July slaying of a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in head, neck and torso in July.

When federal officials descended on this small South Carolina town to investigate a kickback scheme that had caught up the mayor and another official, they stumbled across a web of corruption they believe is deeper and more widespread through the county.

Lead prosecutor Giuliano Mignini said Amanda Knox of Seattle and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito broke a window in a bedroom of the apartment that Knox shared with victim Meredith Kercher.

A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China suffers from narcissistic personality disorder, expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense testified in federal court Thursday.

In fact, a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin Laden followers a month after Sept.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said any new U.S. forces President Barack Obama sends to Afghanistan could move into the country swiftly, despite logistical hassles that force almost all major deliveries of troops and supplies to go by air.

The wife and two children of Roman Polanski are bearing the brunt of the director's imprisonment in Switzerland as he awaits a decision on his extradition, his lawyer said in an interview to be published Friday.

A third man has been sentenced in Miami to federal prison for his role in a terrorism plot to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower, shown, and blow up FBI offices.

An exiled former leader of the 1989 student pro-democracy movement went on trial in southwestern China on Thursday on financial fraud charges after being extradited from Hong Kong, a human rights group reported.

Gov. Rick Perry may have to decide whether condemned killer Robert Lee Thompson, set for execution Thursday, lives or dies.

With nearly 4,000 swine flu deaths so far in the U.S. Congress wants to know, are terror suspects getting the vaccine first, before students, pregnant women, and sick Americans? A key health official did a 180 when pressed on that Wednesday.

The suspect in the brutal slaying of a gay teenager in Puerto Rico was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder and four other counts, the prosecutor in the case told CNN.

Film star Nicolas Cage has visited a Kenyan prison holding suspected Somali pirates awaiting trial to highlight the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean.

A man who took hostages at one of Hillary Rodham Clinton's New Hampshire presidential campaign offices in 2007 is expected to be released from state prison.

The administration no longer feels it can meet the January 2010 deadline Obama set for closure soon after taking office.

Attorney General Eric Holder is defending his decision to put the professed Sept.

A Republican congressman from Illinois says his comment that suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay follow a "savage religion" has been misinterpreted.

When Gov. Jennifer Granholm ordered state departments last month to propose ways to slash their budgets by 20 percent in advance of her 2011 budget proposal, the Michigan Department of Corrections quickly tabulated that they had to come up with $380 million in savings.

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Former civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart speaks to supporters outside Manhattan federal court following her 2006 sentencing for helping an imprisoned terrorist sheik communicate with his followers on the outside.

A former Army counterintelligence worker from Maryland is set to die by electrocution unless Gov.

Afghanistan and Iraq, countries that receive billions of dollars a year in international support, are among the world's most corrupt nations, a watchdog group said in a report released Tuesday.

Chinese President Hu Jintao gestures the way forward for visiting U.S. President Barack Obama in Beijing on Tuesday.

Federal officials visited a prison in northwest Illinois Monday that the government might buy to house Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Hot sauce and a comb were all an al-Qaida suspect in New York needed to nearly kill one of his guards nine years ago.

Federal officials are due to arrive in rural northwest Illinois to inspect a prison that could be bought by the federal government and used to house Guantanamo Bay detainees.

A vintage 55-foot yacht named ''Bull'' and two smaller boats that once belonged to imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff are headed for the auction block, along with an even bigger yacht once owned by Madoff's right-hand man.

In this photo released by the French Army, Nato French soldiers evacuate wounded from Tagab, Afghanistan, Monday Nov.

Afghan officials launched a new anti-corruption unit and major crime fighting force Monday amid stiff international pressure to clean up the government following a fraud-tainted presidential election.

A man convicted of using an assault rifle to kill a Carrick High School sophomore in March 2005 has died in the state prison where he was serving a life sentence for the slaying, according to police.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is backing a proposal to sell one of the state's prison to the federal government to house Guantanamo Bay detainees.

As President Barack Obama visits China seeking to balance a seesawing relationship, Chinese-Americans embody the challenges facing the giants of East and West.

In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison, sometimes even testifying on their own behalf by video from the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

Not long after he was rousted from his bed and seized in a predawn raid in Pakistan in March 2003, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed gave his captors two demands: He wanted a lawyer, and he wanted to be taken to New York.

Iran's embattled opposition leaders accused the government of becoming more brutal than the shah's regime in Web statements Saturday, and authorities announced a new Internet crackdown aimed at choking off the reform movement's last real means of keeping its campaign alive.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has blocked the public release of any more pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors, saying their release would endanger American soldiers.

The Obama administration may buy a near-empty prison in rural northwestern Illinois to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay along with federal inmates, a White House official said Saturday.

A Coast Guard Auxiliary insignia is seen on the aircraft of Cmdr. John Friedlander.

By Lynn Sweet Sun-Times Washingon Bureau Chief WASHINGTON--A nearly empty state prison in northwestern Illinois has emerged as a possible site to house detainees transferred from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, the Obama White House told the Chicago Sun-Times on Saturday.

Quoting a recent United States report, city-based NGO--Bombay First--said India follows Iraq in the number of lives lost in various terror attacks last year.

They're the spoils of a feast that's over forever: Bernard Madoff's stuff on a government auction block.

WASHINGTON a ' In a shakeup, White House Counsel Greg Craig abruptly announced his resignation Friday, just weeks after telling reporters that he had no plans to leave.

Ohio on Friday became the first state to adopt a procedure for lethal injections that uses one drug, a method never before tried on U.S. inmates.

TEXARKANA, Ark. - Evangelist Tony Alamo was sentenced today to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across state lines for sex, effectively punishing him for the rest of his life for molesting children he took as "brides" in his ministry.

WASHINGTON Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, an Obama administration official said Friday.

File - From left to right, White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, Greg Craig, White House Counsel, David Axelrod, and Anita Dunn White House Communication Director walk across Pennsylvania Ave.

U.S. Army psychiatrist Nadil Malik Hasan has been charged by the Army with 13 counts of premeditated murder in last week's deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood Army base, Texas, an Army spokesman said Thursday.

Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.

The Colorado parents who reported their 6-year-old son floated away aboard a helium balloon will plead guilty to some charges so that the family can stay together, the attorney for the boy's father said Thursday.

A man from Tajikistan seeking his freedom from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is challenging a practice among federal judges here who are short-circuiting the cases of some long-time detainees.

Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.

President Barack Obama's decision to close the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison by Jan.

Special from CSMonitor.com Fort Hood suspect: Portrait of a terrorist? The tragedy that swept Fort Hood is now raising questions about the shooter's attempts to contact Al Qaeda and his connections with an extremist cleric.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 5:29 p.m. Read more: National , Crime , Military , Fort Hood , Death Penalty , Military , Execution WASHINGTON a ' Though the suspect in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood could face the death penalty, he will be prosecuted in a military justice system where no one has been executed in nearly a half-century. Maj.

A California man is facing a criminal charge for wearing numerous Navy medals despite the fact he never served in the military, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist alleged to have killed 13 people at the massive Army installation in Texas last week, might also benefit from protections the military provides defendants that are greater than those offered in civilian federal courts.

A massive blackout plunged tens of millions in Brazil's largest cities into darkness, sparking major disruptions, fears of crime and energy supply concerns Wednesday for the newly named Olympic hosts.

A 42-year-old man who said he was upset by the treatment of U.S. military personnel sneaked a shotgun into a middle school just after classes began Tuesday and held the principal hostage for more than two hours.

Members of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee are trying to figure out if an innocent man was sent to death row because of bad forensic science.

Hundreds gathered in this small English market town Tuesday to pay tribute to six soldiers killed in Afghanistan - five of whom were shot to death by an Afghan police officer who turned against them.

The mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks that killed 10 in the Washington, D.C., region has been executed.

Several eastern Europeans and an unidentified accomplice were indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly hacking into a computer network operated by the Atlanta-based credit card processing company RBS WorldPay and stealing $9 million.

It's unlikely any of the terror detainees held there will get any of the sought-after vaccine now after the possibility became a political and public relations headache for the Obama administration at a time when many Americans are still waiting for doses that are scarce.

Hundreds gathered in this small English market town Tuesday to pay tribute to six soldiers killed in Afghanistan - five of whom were shot to death by an Afghan police officer who turned against them.

A Los Angeles businessman has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for selling uncertified aircraft manufacturing parts that were used to make Boeing 737 airplanes.

Unless Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine steps in, sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad will be executed Tuesday for the attacks that terrorized the nation's capital region for three weeks in October 2002.

The man accused of killing 13 people and wounding 29 at Fort Hood is able to talk, a hospital spokesman said Monday, but it's unknown when investigators might take advantage of his improving health to press forward with their probe into the shooting spree.

Authorities are investigating whether a man whose home and yard harbored the remains of at least 11 people is connected to any killings in places he lived while in the military, including Japan, California and the Carolinas.

A senior Iranian prosecutor accused three Americans detained on the border with Iraq of espionage on Monday, the first signal that Tehran intends to put them on trial.

President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered Venezuela's military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying his country's soldiers should be ready if the United States attempts to provoke a war between the South American neighbors.

Ida, the first Atlantic hurricane to target the United States this year, plodded Sunday toward the Gulf Coast with 105 mph winds, bringing the threat of flooding and storm surges.

Based on the rhetoric, America's war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders.

The U.S. Army's top general expressed concern on Sunday that last week's mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, blamed on a Muslim Army officer, could fuel a backlash in the military against Muslim troops.

This Oct. 26, 2009, photo Northwestern University professor David Protess, founder of the Medill Innocence Project, talks with journalism students at a reporting strategy session in Evanston, Ill.

U.S. officials are reviewing which Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial in American courts and the first indications could come next week, the U.S. attorney general said Sunday.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell meets Japan's Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in Tokyo.

Russia and the United States have a good chance of reaching a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year's end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday.

Recent arson attacks and shootings in this violence-wracked South American nation are the work of a mastermind living in the United States, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo alleged.

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill could land people in jail.

Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack.

In this file photo of Jan. 28, 2009, Nicholas Hausch appears in court in Riverhead, N.Y. where he and six other Long Island teenagers are accused in the stabbing death of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero.

Egyptian authorities have prevented a leading political dissident from traveling to the U.S., saying Friday that the conditions of his early release from prison do not permit him to travel abroad.

T hey were angry about the food. A guard at a Kentucky prison says that was the main reason inmates rioted and set fire to buildings in August.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pushed Mideast peace prospects into unknown territory Thursday, announcing he doesn't want another term and opening the way to a succession battle that could play into the hands of his rival, the militant Hamas.

South Carolina's Republican U.S. senators differ on whether Guantanamo Bay detainees should be sent to the Navy brig in Hanahan, but said they will work together to keep the accused terrorists out of federal courts.

Suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell seemed like a "civilized person" on the April evening that Tanja Doss went up to his third-floor bedroom for a beer -- until, she said, he leapt up and began choking her and threatening to kill her.

No bars or razor wire hold former Florida inmate No. 082629. Instead, William Dillon sits on furniture the color of ripe lemons, surrounded by cheerful animal statues and blooming plants, a prisoner no longer after 27 years.

ELDORADO, Texas -- The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year's raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a so-called "spiritual marriage." Raymond Jessop, 38, didn't visibly react when the verdict was read after just more than ...

An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorites said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.

BLITZER: Just clarify that one little nugget because there's been a lot of concern about the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, that they are going to get the vaccine before people here in the United States who really need it.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Thursday tackled the problems posed by shell companies, or companies with hidden ownership.

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. -- A Tennessee woman was arrested after she repeatedly made nonemergency calls to the city's 911 system, Clarksville police said.

The killing of five British troops by a rogue Afghan police officer underlines concerns about training and discipline within the ranks and possible insurgent infiltration of a police force that the U.S. hopes will be its ticket out of Afghanistan someday.

Some ache for revenge, others simply for justice. There is frustration, too, and defiance.

A federal judge has approved a settlement ending a prison lawsuit filed by Pamela Smart, who is serving a life sentence in one of New Hampshire's most notorious murders.

A San Carlos man was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for the slaying of a security guard.

Officials at a prison hospital say chronic medical problems are complicating a psychiatric evaluation for the 89-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a guard at Washington's Holocaust museum.

Disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy was a free man Wednesday after serving most of a 15-month sentence in a gambling scandal.

Italian judge convicts 23 Americans in CIA renditions Italian Judge Oscar Magi is seen at the Milan court, Italy, Wednesday, Nov.

Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons and fired tear gas Wednesday on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover, witnesses and state media reported.

After admitting to nine fraud charges, he's out of jail while he helps the government further investigate the mega investment ripoff.

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 5:38 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 5:38 p.m. Alabama death row inmate David Larry Nelson, on death row for more than 27 years for a killing near Birmingham, has died of natural causes at the Holman prison infirmary, prison officials said Tuesday.

Xie Caiping, left, and other gangster suspects stand trial at the Chongqing No.5 Intermediate People's Court in Chongqing, China , Tuesday, Nov.

This April 7, 2009 file booking photo released by the Butler County, Missouri Sheriff's Department shows Adam Dylan Leon.

By JONATHAN KAMINSKY Updated: November 03, 2009, 1:31 PM / They've shaved off the long beards they wore at Guantanamo Bay, and they were angered at a local newspaper report that casually referred to them as terrorists.

This combo of file photos shows Kurt Campbell , assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs and Scot Marciel , the US ambassdor for ASEAN affairs.

A Southern California man who aimed a laser beam at two airliners as they approached an airport has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for disrupting the flights.The U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles says Dana Christian Welch of Orange, who was sentenced Monday, was the first person in the nation to be convicted at trial of ...

A New York City imam accused of tipping off a suspected al Qaeda-trained militant that he was under investigation pleaded not guilty on Monday to lying to the FBI.

A couple and their son were found slain in their home in Medicine Hat in southern Alberta in April 2006.

An attorney for the man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy said Monday his client was transferred from a prison that houses high-risk offenders to a new facility where his life could be in danger.

A Canadian engineer cannot sue the United States after being mistaken for a terrorist when he was changing planes in New York a year after the 2001 terrorist attacks, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

With the possibility of finding survivors all but gone and the ocean search shifted from a rescue effort to a recovery mission, focus fell Monday on what caused a Marine Corps helicopter and U.S. Coast Guard plane to collide over the Pacific.

A maximum security unit at a prison in Saskatchewan has been locked down. Officials locked down the unit at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert, Sask., after an inmate was found injured in a common room on Saturday.

A Peabody woman convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 9-month-old daughter is heading back to court for sentencing.

Mexico set a new high in extraditing criminal suspects to the U.S. on Sunday, reaching a total of 100 so far this year in what the U.S. Embassy called a "record for bilateral cooperation between the two countries." The milestone underscored the long distance the two countries have come since the 1990s, when Mexico was so loath to send fugitives ...

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON US securities investigators raised repeated concern over how Bernard Madoff could be running an honest business, but never followed through on the many red flags they uncovered.

Guantanamo Bay SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico a ' Terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will soon get swine flu vaccines, despite complaints that American civilians should have priority, a military spokesman said Sunday.

In this Monday, Sept. 29, 2008 file photo, Polish Director Roman Polanski is seen in Oberhausen, western Germany.

A Fort Lauderdale man only needs to sign a few legal papers to start receiving $179,000 from the state and become the first wrongfully convicted person compensated under a new Florida law.

The latest echo of doom arrived a few days ago: U.S. newspaper circulation dropped 10 percent from April through September, compared to the same period last year.