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APNewsBreak: Franciscan files tell abuse story
Robert Van Handel was a 15-year-old seminarian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The priest told him it would help draw the fever out. More than a ...
Woman charged in NJ death of 2 Canadian tourists
A woman arrested in the daytime stabbing deaths of two Canadian tourists near an Atlantic City casino laughed, frowned, grimaced and repeatedly asked where her lawyer was Tuesday as she was charged with murdering the women, one of them 80 years old. Antoinette Pelzer stabbed the women Monday morning as ...
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Serial Stabbings Suspect Guilty of Murder
A man suspected of fatally stabbing five men and wounding nine others in and around a Michigan city two summers ago was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder in the first case to go to trial. (May 22)
NY rail workers in disability scam can get amnesty
Railroad retirees who faked disability claims in order to get more lucrative pensions from the country's second-largest commuter rail system would avoid prosecution and be able to keep some benefits if they admit wrongdoing, federal officials said Tuesday. In announcing the arrest of an additional 10 people in the months-long ...
Honduras names new national police chief
The newest top cop who President Porfirio Lobo is giving the responsibility of cleaning up the national police force has faced questions in the past about his record on human rights. Lobo swore in Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, a veteran law enforcement official known as "El Tigre" or "The Tiger," ...
Amnesty: Jamaica panel should probe alleged abuses
Amnesty International urged Jamaica's government Tuesday to appoint an independent fact-finding panel to investigate human rights violations allegedly committed during a bloody state of emergency to catch gang boss Christopher "Dudus" Coke. The London-based rights group complained that "two years have passed with no answers" since the May 2010 emergency ...
Silicon Valley tech exec accused of Lego thefts
A Silicon Valley software executive put fake bar codes on Lego sets at various Target stores, bought the toys at steeply discounted prices, then sold them online for thousands of dollars, authorities say. Thomas Langenbach, 47, is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday on four felony counts of burglary. Authorities ...
Hunt for trafficker terrorizes Honduran villagers
A fearsome rattle of gunfire from the sky. The roar of helicopters descending on a tiny, Honduran town. And the sound of commandos speaking in English as they battered down doors and detained locals in the hunt for a drug trafficker. Villagers say the drug bust that left four passengers ...
APNewsBreak: Franciscan files tell abuse story
Robert Van Handel was a 15-year-old seminarian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The priest told him it would help draw the fever out. More than a ...
Family: Suspect in kidnap case wrongly accused
The family of the man charged with kidnapping and murdering a Northern California teenager says he has been wrongly accused. Laura Torres, the mother of suspect Antolin Garcia-Torres, said Tuesday she asked her son before his arrest Monday whether he had anything to do with the case, and he said ...
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