Baltimore City Police Officer and Four Others Indicted in Drug Trafficking Conspiracy
A federal grand jury has indicted Baltimore City Police Officer Daniel Redd, age 41, of Baltimore, Maryland, and four others on drug and gun charges. The indictment was returned on July 7, 2011 and unsealed today upon the arrest of Redd and the...
Former United States Probation Officer Sentenced to 10 Years
Mark John Walker, 52, of Eugene, Oregon, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Ralph R. Beistline, who is a visiting judge from Alaska, to 10 years in prison for violating five victims’ constitutional rights to bodily integrity...
Linden Man Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison in Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice
United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Stephen J. Johnson, 62, of Linden, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Oliver W. Wanger to 21 months in prison for conspiring to obstruct justice, four counts of perjury before a...
Senior UN official highlights counter-narcotics efforts on visit to Iran
Seized opium
OSCE media freedom representative calls on governments to recognize access to the Internet as a human right
Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, called on governments to treat Internet access as a human right that should be enshrined in their constitutions, in testimony today at the U.S. Helsinki Commission.
LEBANON: "Acute social marginalization" of Dom community
Children from the Dom community are vulnerable to violence, chronic malnutrition, child marriage, dangerous...
UNICEF CHIEF ARRIVES IN HORN OF AFRICA TO BOOST RESPONSE TO CRISIS
These Somali refugees in northeastern Kenya are among those affected by the crisis
Real Estate Agent, Loan Officer Among Five Defendants to Plead Guilty to $11 Million Mortgage Fraud
Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former real estate agent and a former loan officer are among five co-defendants who have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in an $11 million...
St. Clair County Man Pleads Guilty to Mailing Series of Hoax Anthrax Letters
BIRMINGHAM—A St. Clair County man pleaded guilty today in federal court to mailing a series of hoax anthrax letters in Alabama in March and April last year, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.
Security Council calls for parties that attack schools and hospitals to be held accountable
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses Security Council meeting on Children and Armed Conflict
