ORLANDO, Fla. — The state medical examiner’s office has ruled that the death of a Florida A&M University drum major last month was a homicide after concluding that the student was severely beaten in a hazing incident and died within an hour. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office issued a statement Friday evening saying it planned to work with the State Attorney’s office “to identify the charges that are applicable” in the death of 26-year-old Robert Champion. Read full article > >

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Death of Florida A&M drum major in suspected hazing incident ruled homicide

At a trial scheduled to begin Monday in Cambodia, three senior members of the Khmer Rouge leadership are charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and other charges.

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Cambodian Survivors Seek Truth at Khmer Rouge Trial

Not all 12 jurors were ready to acquit Maryland Sen. Ulysses Currie on bribery and other charges when deliberations began, and at times things got pretty heated. But in the end, the group agreed that prosecutors had fallen short of proving a criminal case beyond a reasonable doubt. That account was provided late Tuesday night by Seth Binfield, Juror No. 12 in the federal case against Currie (D-Prince George’s) and two grocery chain executives. Read full article > >

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Juror No. 12 recounts deliberations in Currie case

The Hermanator is now the hunted. Herman Cain, the long-shot Republican presidential candidate turned frontrunner, has done just about everything wrong since news broke Sunday night that his former employer had paid two women to settle sexual harassment complaints against him. Cain denied it. He said the women didn’t understand his humor . He said his accusers fabricated the charges. He said he couldn’t remember the details, then suddenly he could . He said he had no knowledge of the settlement, then suddenly recalled some details, which turned out to be vastly understated. He publicly predicted more allegations would surface. He blamed his opponents, he howled about racism, and he accused the media and the entire city of Washington of trying to do him in. Read full article > >

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The Herman Cain crack-up

A Ballyclare man, accused of raping two of his nieces, is to face a retrial after a jury failed to reach a verdict on some of the charges against him.

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Niece abuser to face a retrial

A Springfield-area teenager has been arrested on charges that he abducted a 5-year-old girl from her bed and then sexually assaulted her in a wooded area near her home, Fairfax County police said Thursday. The 16-year-old was arraigned on four charges in Fairfax County juvenile court Thursday in connection with the Aug. 27 incident. Read full article > >

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Teenager charged in abduction of 5-year-old girl

As the charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn were about to be dropped in New York, a friend of mine who lives in the Tribeca neighborhood, next to where the Frenchman was under house arrest, casually mentioned that he often saw Strauss-Kahn and his wife Anne Sinclair through a skylight in the roof of the building.

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Can DSK make a comeback in France?

Appearing at a war crimes tribunal, the ex-Bosnian Serb commander said the charges contained big words, and he demanded extra time to review them.

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Mladic calls charges ‘obnoxious’

Former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic made his first appearance before the Hague war crimes tribunal, while relatives of victims of the Bosnian war gathered outside the courtroom. Initially he asked the judge not to read the charges out loud, but…

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Mladic Appears Before Hague

MOSCOW — Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky , the former oil tycoon who has been behind bars since 2003, lost an appeal of his second conviction for fraud Tuesday, reinforcing the widespread belief here that rule of law remains a distant objective in Russia. Khodorkovsky, and his business partner and fellow defendant Platon Lebedev, had a year trimmed from their sentences, however, and they can now expect freedom in 2016. The two men were convicted in 2005 of tax fraud at their company, Yukos Oil. Then, as the end of their sentences approached, they were tried again and in December were convicted on embezzlement charges. Khodorkovsky had made an enemy of Prime Minister Vladi­mir Putin, and the charges were widely seen as politically motivated and legally dubious. Read full article > >

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Khodorkovsky loses appeal, but sentence is reduced

The New York Post says friends of Dominique Strauss-Kahn have contacted the family of the hotel maid who has accused him of sexual assault, offering a payout to make the charges go away. While the accuser is in protective custody, sources tell the Post…

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NEW YORK — Test results returned Monday found that DNA from former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn matched material on the work clothes of a Manhattan hotel maid who says he attacked her, two people familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press. The two people would not describe the material found on the shirt, but said DNA matched a sample from Strauss-Kahn, who submitted to testing after his arrest more than a week ago. He denies the charges. The two people said additional testing was being performed on other items. They were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. Read full article > >

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AP sources: DNA found on NYC hotel maid’s shirt from alleged sex attack matches ex-IMF leader

Many people were shocked by the charges that the head of the I.M.F. sexually assaulted a hotel housekeeper, but those in the industry say that sexual affronts happen regularly.

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Sexual Affronts a Known Hotel Hazard

The managing director of the IMF could claim immunity from prosecution in the US, but his actions suggest he has decided instead to fight the charges against him.

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Does IMF boss have diplomatic immunity?

The Virginia-based Olympic champion speedskating coach who has been accused of using corporal punishment on local youth skaters is seeking to resolve the charges against him through a settlement rather than a hearing.

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Speedskating coach Kim Dong-Sung seeks settlement on charges of corporal punishment