A court in Paris jailed three men for 2 to 7 years Tuesday for offering logistical support to al Qaeda agents who killed Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Masood shortly before the attacks on September 11th, 2001. The north African trio – Abderrahmane Ameuroud, Adel Tibourski, and Youssef el Aouni – were convicted of funding [...]

Rape defendant and accused killer Brian Nichols pleaded not guilty in Atlanta's Fulton County Courthouse Tuesday to multiple counts of murder, kidnapping, escape, and other charges in connection with the March 11 shootings at the same courthouse when he allegedly overpowered a deputy sheriff, stole her gun, and then shot presiding judge Rowland Barnes and [...]

The trial of Nur-Pashi Kulayev, the sole surviving member of the militant group responsible for Beslan School Crisis in September 2004, began Tuesday under tight security in Vladikavkaz, the capital of Russia's North Ossetian region. Kulayev has been charged with terrorism, banditry and murder, among other things. While he admits playing a role in the [...]

A British judge ruled Tuesday that Babar Ahmad can be extradited to face charges of supporting terrorism, conspiring to kill Americans and running a Web site that US authorities say was used to fund terrorists. The case has been heard under a "fast track" extradition procedure under the UK Extradition Act 2003 that decreases the [...]

Military spokesmen at Fort Bliss, Texas, announced Monday that three more soldiers have been charged in connection with prisoner abuse at an Afghanistan detention facility. The Army has charged Sgt. Selena Salcedo and Sgt. Joshua Claus of Fort Bragg, NC and Sgt. Anthony Morden of the Army Reserve's 377th Military Police Company in Cincinnati with [...]

Supporters of an Arizona initiative seeking a ban on same-sex marriages and legal recognition of unmarried couples launched their public campaign Tuesday on the one year anniversary of the Massachusetts Supreme Court's decision legalizing gay marriage. While Arizona law already prohibits same sex unions, supporters of the ban such as the Center for Arizona Policy [...]

A Florida jury Monday ordered Morgan Stanley to pay $604 million in damages to billionaire investor Ronald Perelman after finding that he relied on the company when it advised him to sell his 82-percent stake in camping goods company Coleman for cash and stock in appliance company Sunbeam. An accounting fraud scandal that led to [...]

Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky was found guilty of all seven charges of tax evasion, fraud and embezzlementafter the Moscow court on Tuesday finished reading the verdict it began announcing on Monday . The court will rule Wednesday on another charge relating to alleged theft of a 20-percent stake in a fertilizer plant that the [...]

A United Nations-appointed committee investigating the UN oil-for-food program has won the right to inspect internal documents a former investigator turned over to the US Congress. Robert Parton resigned last month from the Independent Inquiry Committee because he felt the UN investigation wasn't tough enough. The House had subpoenaed the documents for their own investigation [...]

The chief federal prosecutor in a terrorism case marred by prosecutorial misconduct resigned on Monday. Richard Convertino won convictions against four terrorism suspects in Detroit in 2003, but the government later had them tossed out because possibly-valuable defense information was not turned over by the prosecutors as required. Convertino later sued then-Attorney General John Ashcroft [...]