Eleven suspected pirates from Somalia have been brought to the United States to face piracy and other charges for attacks on two U.S. Navy ships off the coast of Africa, the Justice Department said on Friday.
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Law enforcement officials say a man charged in a plot to attack the New York subway system with homemade bombs plans to plead guilty.
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A condemned killer appears headed for a date with death in Utah that could see him sit before a firing squad — a development that would likely re-ignite protests over an antiquated, Old West-style of justice.
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A federal jury finds a man not guilty of murder in a killing on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, during the height of the militant American Indian Movement.
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A trucker who stunned a small Michigan community by killing an abortion protester and a businessman was sentenced Thursday to life in prison during a court hearing that began with an apology and ended with a verbal attack on the judge.
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A Connecticut man is due in court on charges that he targeted his neighbor in an online advertisement that invited strangers to a rowdy orgy with a soccer mom.
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Below the perpetual fog that shrouds the redwood groves, green hills and rocky coastline of remote Humboldt County thrives a lucrative but hush-hush industry — marijuana.
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A U.S. military jury cleared a Navy SEAL of failing to prevent the beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding a 2004 attack that killed 4 American contractors.
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A former Somali military colonel now living in Ohio ordered the detention and torture of a human rights advocate in Somalia in 1988, a federal lawsuit charges.
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