Marissa Alexander, a Jacksonville Florida mother of three, who is serving 20 years in prison for firing a shot in the air during an argument with her estranged husband, will get a new trial. The one caveat is that Alexander will not be able to invoke a "stand your ground" defense, an appeals court ruled
Acting upon requests from Kenyan authorities, Interpol (the International Criminal Police Organization) issued an arrest notice on Thursday for Samantha Lewthwaite, the fugitive British Muslim woman dubbed the "white widow."
Authorities said that skeletal remains ere ound in an old Studebaker believed to be tied to the 1971 disappearance of Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson, two 17-year-old girls in South Dakota.
Judges in the Hague upheld the 50-year jail sentence of former Liberian President Charles Taylor for aiding murderous rebels in Sierra Leone's civil war in the 1990s. The 65-year-old Taylor had been found guilty by the Special Court for Sierra Leone on April 26, 2012 of 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity including terrorism, murder, rape and use of child soldiers.
