(AP) MOSCOW–A Russian court has denied parole to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group. In its ruling Thursday, the court accepted a claim by prosecutors that Maria Alekhina had systematically disobeyed prison authorities and failed to repent for
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect, participated in a 2011 triple homicide, according to sources. Ibragim Todashev, who was killed in a shoot out with authorities yesterday, confessed to his role in the burtal murders and identified Tsarnaev
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/22: Hacker releases names of South African whistleblowers, cops respond to Israeli blogger’s social media rant, sexting controversy at Indiana school, 10 Reasons To Worry About The Syrian Electronic Army,
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) said during Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing that the Senate’s immigration bill would make immigrants “indentured servants” to unscrupulous companies. Sensenbrenner’s comments came during an exchange with hearing witness Julie Myers-Wood, the former assistant secretary of
A British soldier is dead, and two suspected terrorists were shot in a shocking daylight attack outside London Wednesday. Some accounts say the soldier was shot, while other witnesses described the attack as a “beheading,” the London Telegraph reports. ITV News obtained video of a
(AP) – Michoacan is burning. A drug cartel that takes its name from an ancient monastic order has set fire to lumber yards, packing plants and passenger buses in a medieval-like reign of terror. The Knights Templar cartel is extorting
By MICHAEL R. BLOODAP Political WriterLOS ANGELESCouncilman Eric Garcetti held a slender edge Tuesday in early returns over city Controller Wendy Greuel to become the next Los Angeles mayor, while slow-coming returns suggested it could take a day or more
(AP) – Citizens of Los Angeles are choosing a new mayor. The turnout tally is expected to be very low when polls close at 8 p.m. PDT Tuesday, with only 1 in 4 voters in the nation’s second-largest city expected
Award-winning novelist Andrew Klavan wants to turn your iPad into a house of horrors. Klavan, whose novel True Crime was brought to the big screen by Clint Eastwood, has penned a new horror story delivered as an app. The Haunting Melissa app
Police are releasing more than 300 photos from the January 2011 Tuscon shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and 12 others. Among the photos to be released are pictures of Jared Loughner’s Glock
Several major cases will be decided by the Supreme Court over the next six weeks, including historic issues such as gay marriage and affirmative action. These cases make the remainder of the Court’s term–which ends in June–one of the most
Bill Maher shocked Hollywood filmmaker Michael Moore on Friday night with this declaration that he owned two guns and kept them in his house. Moore told Maher that he should go to the gun range to practice often but said
(AFP) – When Malcolm X’s grandson was beaten to death in a seedy Mexico City bar last week his name joined the hundreds of US citizens who have been murdered in this country in recent years. Excluding terror attacks and
By NOMAAN MERCHANTAssociated PressWEST, TexasInvestigators working in the remnants of an exploded Texas fertilizer plant sifted by hand through untold kernels of corn, moved tons of debris and conducted more than 400 interviews, while searching for the missing piece to
(AP) – Jurors in Jodi Arias’ trial on Wednesday found the former waitress should be eligible for the death penalty after they convicted her last week of murdering her one-time boyfriend. The decision came after a day of testimony in
Late on the night of the May 14, seven people–five men and two women–were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir. Part of Boston’s drinking water comes from the Quabbin. These seven individuals hail from Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. According
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/14 include: an FBI briefing of banks on DDoS attacks shares classified intelligence, an epic social media meltdown, an underground escape for a Bahrain blogger, social media anxieties and creeper
Jack Bauer will be back to smash more terrorist cells, but will TV’s toughest crime fighter still pull out all the stops to save innocent lives? Fox is expected to announce a new, limited series version of the popular terrorism
(CNN) — The Chicago Crime Commission named a new Public Enemy No. 1 on Thursday, a designation originally crafted for Al Capone. The new holder of this dubious distinction, however, is not American nor believed to be in the United
Illinois State Police are scrambling to deal with a backlog of applications for Firearms Owner ID (FOID) cards. They received more than 28,000 applications in April alone, and those have not been added to the 76,000 backlogged applications from the
On Friday Spokesman Patrick Ventrell announced that Gregory Hicks testimony concerning Susan Rice’s assertion that a protest caused the Benghazi attacks on Wednesday to Congress was not supported by the State Department. Ventrell said that Hicks’ claim that Rice contradicting
ICE Union president Chris Crane was interviewed on Mark Levin Show Wednesday night to discuss the challenges ICE agents face with crippling regulation from the Obama administration. Crain claimed ICE authorities can no longer arrest those they suspect to be
Terrorism is back in the headlines, from the Boston Marathon bombings to the horrors of the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi. What pop culture consumers want is the return of Jack Bauer, the fictional terrorism fighter from Fox’s long-running
Obama’s gun control bill may have gone down to stinging defeat in the Senate, but gun owners in New York weren’t so lucky. And you would think that New Yorkers, being virtually controlled by liberal Democrats, would welcome restrictions on
There is no question that the story unfolding in Ohio, in the aftermath of the daring escape of three women who had been kidnapped and held captive for nearly a decade, is a compelling one. The media is certainly over-hyping
