Daily News Digest: Crimes and Trials

Yahoo! Alerts Yahoo! News - My Alerts - Edit Alert Saturday, November 05, 2005 09:00 PM PST Today's Crimes and Trials: Woman in witch costume wanted for heist Sex.com thief faces justice after hiding out in Mexico for four years Expert testifies that rare disease, not vegan diet, led to baby's death Judge ratifies gay marriage ban in US state of Oregon 'Intelligent design' case draws to close Police search for escaped death row inmate New DeLay Case Judge May Face Challenge Court Won't Hear Anonymous Sources Case Expert: Fla. Baby Died of Natural Causes Court Rejects Mo. Child Abuse Registry Men Admit to Attack in Probe of Sheriff Bush tries to sell Americans on Alito Judge Weighs Evolution Arguments in Pa. Alito hearings, vote set for January Chemist linked to BALCO indicted in San Francisco US charges 'Botmaster' in unique computer crime Former White House aide pleads not guilty to CIA leak charges DNA prompts NY rape retrial after 32 years Cheney aide pleads not guilty Lawyer: Robert Blake killed his wife, must be held accountable for crime Woman in witch costume wanted for heist Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:53 pm PST CourtTV - (Court TV) — Police in Lacey and Olympia, Wash., are looking for a serial bank robber who got into the spirit of Halloween for her latest heist. Full Story Top Sex.com thief faces justice after hiding out in Mexico for four years Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:34 am PST CourtTV - SAN FRANCISCO (Court TV) — The high-stakes manhunt that ended with the cuffing of Internet porn site thief Stephen Cohen last week in Tijuana may seem like the happy conclusion to a sordid tale of greed, sex, and the excesses of the Internet gold rush. Full Story Top Expert testifies that rare disease, not vegan diet, led to baby's death Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:14 am PST CourtTV - MIAMI (Co urt TV) — Infant Woyah Andressohn may have subsisted on wheatgrass, coconut milk and almond juice, and weighed less than 7 pounds until her death at 6 months old, but lawyers for the vegan parents accused of her death deny that the infant succumbed to malnutrition. Full Story Top Judge ratifies gay marriage ban in US state of Oregon Fri, 04 Nov 2005 05:00 pm PST AFP - Gay marriage supporters failed to overturn in court a same-sex union ban endorsed by voters in the US state of Oregon last year. Full Story Top 'Intelligent design' case draws to close Fri, 04 Nov 2005 04:28 pm PST Reuters - One attorney accused a witness of lying on Friday during closing arguments in the trial over whether U.S. public schools should teach the theory of intelligent design. Full Story Top Police search for escaped death row inmate Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:21 pm PST Reuters - Police searched in downtown Houston and surrounding areas on Friday for a prisoner who escaped from Harris County Jail a week after he was sentenced to die for two 1998 murders. Full Story Top New DeLay Case Judge May Face Challenge Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:11 am PST AP - A new judge has been appointed to preside over Rep. Tom DeLay's campaign finance trial after two judges stepped away from their involvement in the case because of their own political contributions. Full Story Top Court Won't Hear Anonymous Sources Case Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:10 am PST AP - A divided federal appeals court for a second time has rejected four journalists' appeal of a judge's order directing them to testify about their confidential sources as part of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee's lawsuit against the government. Full Story Top Expert: Fla. Baby Died of Natural Causes Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:32 pm PST AP - A 6-month-old girl whose parents fed her only raw foods died of natural causes because of a compromised immune system — not malnutrition, a medical expert testified in her parents' manslaughter trial. Full Story Top Court Rejects Mo. Child Abuse Registry Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:23 pm PST AP - A judge declared Missouri's child abuse registry unconstitutional Thursday, ruling that suspected offenders deserved a court-like hearing before being listed. Full Story Top Men Admit to Attack in Probe of Sheriff Sat, 05 Nov 2005 05:11 pm PST AP - Two men with ties to an indicted sheriff pleaded guilty to witness tampering and admitted beating up and biting a state trooper as payback for his role in the investigation. Full Story Top Bush tries to sell Americans on Alito Sat, 05 Nov 2005 09:31 am PST Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush sought to persuade Americans on Saturday to support Judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court after his first choice, Harriet Miers, withdrew under fierce attack from conservatives. Full Story Top Judge Weighs Evolution Arguments in Pa. Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:19 am PST AP - A federal judge is contemplating whether the mandatory teaching of "intelligent design" improperly promotes religion in schools, after the historic evolution trial drew to a close. Full Story Top Alito hearings, vote set for January Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:55 pm PST Reuters - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday brushed aside White House requests for an early hearing on Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito and scheduled hearings and a vote in January. Full Story Top Chemist linked to BALCO indicted in San Francisco Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:51 pm PST Reuters - A U.S. grand jury in San Francisco on Thursday indicted an Illinois chemist suspected of supplying a previously undetectable steroid to the BALCO lab in a global scandal that tarnished some top names in sport. Full Story Top US charges 'Botmaster' in unique computer crime Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:53 pm PST Reuters - A 20-year-old man accused of using thousands of hijacked computers, or "bot nets," to damage systems and send massive amounts of spam across the Internet was arrested on Thursday in what authorities called the first such prosecution of its kind. Full Story Top Former White House aide pleads not guilty to CIA leak charges Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:38 pm PST AFP - Former top White House aide I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby pleaded not guilty to lying to investigators probing the unmasking of a CIA agent, in the first step towards a politically explosive trial. Full Story Top DNA prompts NY rape retrial after 32 years Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:36 pm PST Reuters - Kathleen Ham stared at the man accused of raping her 32 years ago, grimaced, and then testified on Thursday, injecting new life into an old case that could be linked to more than 20 other rapes. Full Story Top Cheney aide pleads not guilty Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:47 pm PST Reuters - Vice President Dick Cheney's former aide, Lewis Libby, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges in the CIA leak probe, and his lawyer promised to fight it out in a public trial that could put a spotlight on how the White House made its case for the Iraq war. Full Story Top Lawyer: Robert Blake killed his wife, must be held accountable for crime Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:44 pm PST CourtTV - BURBANK, Calif. (Court TV) — In an emotional plea for justice, an attorney asked jurors Thursday during closing arguments to find "Baretta" star Robert Blake liable for his wife's death, saying the circumstantial evidence linking the actor to her killing was overwhelming. Full Story Top You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts. Use this link to unsubscribe from this alert. To change your communications preferences for other Yahoo! business lines, please visit your Marketing Preferences. To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, including the use of web beacons in HTML-based email, please read our Privacy Policy. Yahoo! is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.