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The Associated Press GEORGETOWN - Jimmy Lewis Fennell Jr., 35, entered the plea Tuesday. Under the plea deal, prosecutors and Fennell's attorney, Bob Phillips, asked for two years in state jail for the charge of improper sexual activity with a person in custody, and 10 years of probation for the...
ISTANBUL, May 20 (Compass Direct News) – Iraqi church leaders have spoken out against the death sentence given to the alleged murderer of a Chaldean bishop kidnapped in northern Iraq in March. The Iraqi Central Criminal Court sentenced al-Qaeda in Iraq member Ahmed Ali Ahmed for killing Mosul’s...
SALT LAKE CITY -- Some advice from kidnap survivor Elizabeth Smart to other kidnap survivors: "Hang on. Keep moving forward. Take one step at a time. It will get easier." And this: "You have a new, and different, life now -- a new normal. This new life can be something good if you make it that...
A man has been charged with kidnapping and falsely imprisoning British soldier Robert Nairac 30 years ago in Northern Ireland. The 57-year-old suspect will appear in court on Thursday in connection with the 1977 disappearance of the undercover Army officer in south Armagh.
From NBC News: A Texas woman is recovering after an unbelievable ordeal. The 63-year-old Gun Barrel City woman, who did not want to be identified, was pulled from the bottom of an abandoned well after Joshua James Cannon, a registered sex offender, allegedly beat her up, demanded money, kidnapped...
Dozens of citizens groups in Tijuana plan to protest the rising drug cartel violence and lawlessness in the region today. One group that's been particularly emphatic in its pleas for a government crack down is doctors. At least 20 have been kidnapped during the last few months, and more extorted...
Cross Posted at Monkey in the Middle.What started with high ideals and lofty aspirations, has become a hotbed of corruption and scandal.In 1945 the victorious Allies who fought against the horrors of Nazi Germany and Japan sat down and wrote a charter for a new organization to help the world...
BELFAST (Reuters) - A 57-year-old man has been charged with false imprisonment and kidnapping in connection with the killing of British army officer Robert Nairac in the province in the 1970s, police said. Irish Republican Army (IRA) guerrillas were widely believed to have abducted and executed...
Arkan Hasnawi. Click the image to view wanted the Mahdi Army leaders in Baghdad. The US military killed a senior member of the Mahdi Army, according US and Mahdi Army sources. Arkan Hasnawi, a senior lieutenant of the Mahdi Army commander in Sadr City, was killed in a guided rocket strike in Sadr...
Special Correspondent CHENNAI: A businessman kidnapped a couple of days ago at Otteri for ransom was rescued by the police on Wednesday. Five persons, including one wanted in several cases, were arrested on the charges of kidnap and demanding ransom. The action followed a complaint that...
