Violence Against Agents In Yuma, Ariz. Up To 154 In First Six Months Of Fiscal Year

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Joe Francis, the "Girls Gone Wild" founder, was indicted today on federal tax evasion charges for illegally deducting more than $20 million in phony business expenses from his 2002 and 2003 corporate tax returns.

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  A jury awarded $786,760 to an Ohio man who says he has endured years of pain and must walk bowlegged after his left testicle was struck by a broken weight-machine bar at an athletic club.

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A Buddhist woman was shot and burned alive in Thailand's violence-torn Muslim-majority south on Wednesday, prompting angry protests in front of visiting army chief Sonthi Boonyaratglin.

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Some of the details of the Duke University rape case may never be solved, but one thing is startlingly clear: Crystal Gail Mangum, the woman who accused three college lacrosse players of locking her in a bathroom and raping her, has had a very troubled life.

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The important story of the charges being dropped in the Duke lacrosse rape case, though a step in the right direction, isn’t a victory — yet.

This has to be a relief to those who were wrongfully pursued for political and maybe even financial reasons by a rogue prosecutor seeking re-election and an accuser who has yet to answer for her attempts to ruin the lives of several people based on flat-out lies and vodka-goggled recollection.

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Many science and science fiction writers have explored the idea of uploading the information in our brains into a computer substrate – to make a digital copy of ourselves, or to actually transfer our consciousness into a machine. The idea is interesting, but the looming existential question that is never fully answered is whether or not the computer version of you would really be you – often referred to as the question of continuity. This is not a trivial question – without continuity, you die and a mental doppelganger takes your place. With continuity, this can serve as a pathway to virtual immortality. I thought I would add my neurologist’s take on this question.

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A number of election law experts, based on their own research, have concluded that the accusations regarding widespread fraud are unjustified. And in this case, one of the two experts hired to do the report was Job Serebrov, a Republican elections lawyers from Arkansas, who defended his research in an e-mail message obtained by The Times that was sent last October to Margaret Sims, a commission staff member

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Hospital staff claim they were banned from handing out hot cross buns this Easter in case they upset non-Christians.

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Karen Koning AbuZayd, commissioner general of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, said Thursday no specific country has offered to receive Palestinian refugees in Iraq, "but I know the United States confirmed it can take 7,000 of them."

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A federal judge refused to dismiss terrorism charges against a suspected al-Qaida operative over claims he was tortured in U.S. military custody, but the possibility that the allegations could resurface at his upcoming trial was left open.

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In a report that contrasted sharply with the optimism of several U.S. military chiefs, Rand said China could pressure Japan to deny the United States the use of bases in a conflict, strike computer systems to delay the deployment of U.S. military forces, or attack air bases and naval assets to prevent an influx of forces and supplies.  

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With President Hugo Chávez setting a May 1 deadline for an ambitious plan to wrest control of several major oil projects from American and European companies, a showdown is looming here over access to some of the most coveted energy resources outside the Middle East.

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Within minutes, Martinez was sexually attacking the little girl.

Court documents said the little girl screamed and ran into the bedroom.

"One of the family members interrupted it and told him that she was going to call police," he said. "Prior to us arriving, he fled the scene."

Police said the 22-year old Martinez is in the United States illegally. He's been in Ogden and Salt Lake City before settling in Syracuse..

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Martyn Burke says that the Public Broadcasting Service and project managers at station WETA in Washington, D.C., excluded his documentary, Islam vs. Islamists, from the series America at a Crossroads after he refused to fire two co-producers affiliated with a conservative think tank.

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An Italian television channel aired footage on Tuesday of the beheading of a driver for an Italian journalist, who was held for about two weeks by Afghanistan's Taliban until Kabul negotiated his release.

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