Three British nationals accused of smuggling over two pounds of cocaine into Indonesia were charged Tuesday in a court on the tourist island of Bali. They face the death penalty under the country’s strict drug laws. Convicted drug smugglers in Indonesia are sometimes executed by firing squad. Jonathan Christopher Collyer, …
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A jury on Monday convicted a retired four-star admiral who served as the U.S. Navy’s second-highest-ranking officer on corruption charges for steering contracts to a company in exchange for a lucrative job. Robert Burke ordered staff to award a $355,000 contract to a company, and then began working there …
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Two women wanted in connection with a double-homicide case in Colorado have been arrested in northwest Arizona, authorities said Wednesday. Mohave County Sheriff’s officials said 43-year-old Toni Gurule and 42-year-old Suzzette Salyer remain jailed without bond as they await extradition. They said the women were arrested by a SWAT team …
Read More »An Iowa woman who falsely claimed to have cancer and documented her “battle” on social media will stay out of prison after a judge gave her probation and a suspended sentence. Madison Russo, 20, never had pancreatic cancer, leukemia nor the football-sized tumor wrapped around her spine she that claimed …
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The Navy has taken an active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton into custody after a missing 14-year-old girl was found in the barracks, CBS News Los Angeles’s Matthew Rodriguez reports. In a statement obtained by CBS News Friday, a spokesperson for the base north of San Diego says the Marine …
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A man is facing felony charges after he allegedly stabbed a dog while her owner was playing pickleball at a North Carolina park. The suspect, 43-year-old James Wesley Henry, “eviscerated” the dog in an unprovoked attack on Monday afternoon, Asheville Police Department said in a statement on Facebook. The dog’s …
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FBI agents arrested a Michigan man on Friday accused of planning a mass killing at a synagogue in East Lansing, according to federal court documents filed in the Western District of Michigan. Seann Patrick Pietila discussed the attack on Instagram, court documents said, where he frequently posted anti-semitic remarks about …
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Former NFL receiver Travis Rudolph was found not guilty on all counts in connection to a fatal 2021 shooting outside his Florida home. On Wednesday, a jury found Rudolph not guilty of one count of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder. Rudolph was arrested on April 7, …
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More than four years after the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history at a Pittsburgh synagogue, a federal trial that could lead to the suspect being sentenced to the death penalty got underway Tuesday with prosecutors saying he had “malice and hate” for Jewish people. Eleven worshippers were killed at …
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Nima Momeni, the tech consultant and executive accused of stabbing Cash App founder Bob Lee to death, pleaded not guilty in a San Francisco courtroom Thursday. Momeni did not speak, CBS Bay Area reported. Instead, his attorney, Paula Canny, entered the plea on his behalf as Lee’s mother, sister, and …
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