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Former UBB Security Chief To File Appeal
A former security chief at the Upper Big Branch Mine will take his case to the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. Hughie Elbert Stover, 60, from Clear Fork will appeal his October conviction on charges of lying to investigators
Updated: 03/14/2012 12:35P
Angelina Jolie hails ICC verdict in child soldiers case
The International Criminal Court in its first verdict found Thomas Lubanga, 51, guilty of abducting and conscripting children as young as 11 to fight and kill in a conflict in a gold-rich region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Updated: 03/14/2012 12:35P
More delays in Hlophe son's case
After several delays, two caused by the withdrawal of two different magistrates from the case, Hlophe's trial was to have started in the Bellville Regional Court in Cape Town on Wednesday. Instead, magistrate Kenny Pieterse postponed proceedings to
Updated: 03/14/2012 12:34P
Rafferty trial hears details of what happened in weeks after Stafford was killed
McClintic told the court that after leaving the scene of the murder in Mount Forest, she and Rafferty made several stops, including a car wash where they cleaned and shampooed the car. When McClintic got home, she told the court she took OxyContin.
Updated: 03/14/2012 12:30P
ICC Verdict Finds Lubanga Guilty of Using Child Soldiers
After a trial lasting more than three years, involving more than 60 witnesses and more than a thousand items of evidence, the three judges of Chamber I at the International Criminal Court came to a unanimous decision. Presiding judge Adrian Fulford
Updated: 03/14/2012 12:30P
Tori Stafford trial: Terri-Lynne McClintic helped in search for Tori
``I helped my neighbour hand out flyers,'' said Terri-Lynne McClintic on her second day on the witness stand at the first-degree murder trial of her ex-boyfriend, Michael Rafferty. McClintic, 21, told the court that the posters contained pictures of
Updated: 03/14/2012 12:29P
McClintic handed out missing-child flyers about Tori
McClintic resumed her testimony Wednesday morning, telling the court that she and Michael Thomas Rafferty, who is currently on trial for Tori's killing, took steps to cover their tracks immediately after the eight-year-old was slain.
Updated: 03/14/2012 12:29P
Wrongful death trial in Tech killings goes to jury
The jury of seven was given the case Wednesday after hearing testimony over seven days in a Christiansburg courtroom. They will decide whether the decision of Virginia Tech officials to delay alerting students and faculty of the first shootings on
Updated: 03/14/2012 12:27P
ODNR employees are back in court
David Graham, Randy Miller, James Lehman, Michele Ward-Tackett and Todd Haines were each indicted on single counts of obstruction of justice and complicity to obstructing justice after an investigation into charges against former Brown County Wildlife
Updated: 03/14/2012 12:24P
Baby murder mum on trial
A BABY aged four months died as a result of “deliberate and violent shaking”, a court has heard. Karen Irvine, 19, of Gerrard Street, Lancaster, and Christopher Roberts, 19, of Garth Lane, Powys, North Wales, are accused of assaulting Lucas Irvine
Updated: 03/14/2012 12:24P
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