Category Archives: Charged

Citi hikes fees on checking accounts

By doris | Published: October 5, 2011

Full Story at cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The fees keep coming. Citi is the latest big bank to slap customers with a round of fee hikes. This time, on its checking accounts. Starting in December, customers who hold its mid-level Citibank Account will be charged $20 a month if they fail to maintain a [...]

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WHO: No short-term risk from contaminated food

By doris | Published: March 21, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Tokyo (CNN) — Short-term exposure to food contaminated by radiation from Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant poses no immediate health risk, a spokesman for the World Health Organization said Monday. The United Nations organization initially said the food safety situation was “more serious” than originally thought. But spokesman Peter Cordingley [...]

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Judge: Dallas man should be free after 25 years

By doris | Published: January 27, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com DALLAS — A Texas judge ordered a Dallas man released from prison Thursday, saying recent DNA tests showed he should not have been convicted of sexual assault 25 years ago. State District Judge Gracie Lewis apologized to Larry Sims, 61, on behalf of the state of Texas. “I know an apology [...]

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Utah moves to fire 2 over immigrants data list

By doris | Published: July 21, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The Utah Department of Workforce Services has moved to fire two employees believed to have created and distributed a list containing personal information of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants, officials said Tuesday. The agency terminated a temporary worker and issued an “intent to terminate employment” notice to the other, spokesman [...]

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U.S. urges North Korea to free American after suicide attempt

By doris | Published: July 12, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The U.S. is urging Pyongyang to release an American held captive after reports that the man attempted suicide in a North Korean prison. Swedish diplomats met with Aijalon Mahli Gomes, a U.S. State Department official confirmed Friday. He declined to release details about the 31-year-old’s condition, citing respect for [...]

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Manson follower faces parole board for 19th time

By doris | Published: July 6, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS ANGELES — Leslie Van Houten, the one-time Charles Manson follower long seen as the most likely of his ex-acolytes to win freedom someday, faces her 19th parole hearing on Tuesday with a new lawyer and new case law which may give her the best chance yet for release. Even if [...]

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Pakistan jails 5 Americans over terror plots

By doris | Published: June 24, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com SARGODHA, Pakistan – A Pakistani court on Thursday convicted five Americans on terror charges and sentenced each to at least 10 years in prison, a prosecutor said. They were accused of contacting militants in Pakistan over the Internet and plotting terrorist attacks. Rana Bakhtiar made the announcement Thursday in the Punjab [...]

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2nd Navy SEAL found not guilty in Iraq

By doris | Published: April 26, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — A military judge Friday found Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe, one of three Navy SEALs accused in the alleged beating an Iraqi detainee, not guilty, a military spokesman said. Keefe was accused of dereliction of duty for not preventing abuse of a prisoner. The verdict comes a day [...]

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Failed Attack Signals New Threat?

By doris | Published: December 27, 2009

Full Story at CBS News.com (CBS/AP) U.S. counterterrorism officials are scrambling to assess a potential new threat from an explosive mixture that evaded detection aboard a Detroit-bound airliner but failed to bring down the plane. The suspect, identified by multiple law enforcement officials as a Nigerian man named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, claimed to have ties [...]

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U.S. soldiers in Iraq could face courts-martial for getting pregnant

By doris | Published: December 22, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — A new order from the general in charge of northern Iraq makes getting pregnant or impregnating a fellow soldier an offense punishable by court-martial. The directive, part of a larger order restricting the behavior of the 22,000 soldiers under Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo’s command, is meant to prevent [...]

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Jordanian accused in Dallas bomb plot goes to court

By doris | Published: September 27, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian, said little during a 20-minute hearing at the Dallas federal courthouse. His lawyer, however, said Smadi understood the gravity of the charge. Judge Irma Ramirez set a probable cause hearing for October 5. Smadi initially drew authorities’ scrutiny because of his violent posts on [...]

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Airport workers accused of smuggling migrants

By doris | Published: September 7, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A federal grand jury in the U.S. Virgin Islands has indicted two ticket agent contractors who worked for Delta Airlines and an airport employee on charges of conspiracy to smuggle illegal immigrants into the U.S. The ticket agents, identified as Diana Telemaque, 33, and Felicia Browne, [...]

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Jury rules against Minn. woman in download case

By doris | Published: June 19, 2009

Full Story At Tech.yahoo.com MINNEAPOLIS – A replay of the nation’s only file-sharing case to go to trial has ended with the same result — a Minnesota woman was found to have violated music copyrights and must pay huge damages to the recording industry. A federal jury ruled Thursday that Jammie Thomas-Rasset willfully violated the [...]

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Prepaid Wireless: Finding The Best Bargain

By doris | Published: May 16, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News After the economic meltdown over this past year, many Americans are looking for ways to cut back their monthly expenses. And prepaid wireless plans offer a great alternative to expensive contract plans. Traditional prepaid services or pay as you go services allow people to buy their own phone at full [...]

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Insurers offer to stop charging sick people more

By doris | Published: March 25, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com WASHINGTON – The health insurance industry offered Tuesday for the first time to curb its controversial practice of charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems. The offer from America’s Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is a potentially significant shift in the [...]

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Anna Nicole Smith’s boyfriend, doctors charged

By doris | Published: March 13, 2009

Full Story At news.yahoo.com LOS ANGELES – Anna Nicole Smith’s boyfriend Howard K. Stern and two doctors were charged Thursday with giving thousands of prescription drugs to the former Playboy Playmate in the years leading up to her fatal drug overdose in 2007. Stern and doctors Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich were each charged with [...]

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