It is being reported on August 27, 2015 that the South African parole board which decides when Oscar Pistorius can be released, will meet to decide on September 18, 2015.
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Category: Crime & Courts
VA Man gets 2 years for making fake IDs for illegal immigrants
August 26, 2015 – A man in Virginia, Ho-Man Lee, 43, plead guilty to “conspiring to unlawfully produce identification documents . . .He was a broker for Young-Kyu Park, 59 . . who led a cross-country criminal enterprise, authorities said.”
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14-year-old boy holds students hostage in Virginia high school
August 26, 2015 – A fourteen year old high school student has been arrested after holding 29 students students hostage in a high school in West Virginia. The student was described as “very troubled.”
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$4,500 reward for information on dog abuser in SoCal
It is being reported on August 26, 2015 that authorities are seeking information on the identity of an animal abuser. Five dogs in the last two months have been found with severe burns in Lancaster and Kern County in Southern California.
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Russia sentences Ukrainian filmmaker to 20 years in prison
It is being reported on August 25, 2015 that a Ukrainian filmmaker, Oleg Sentsov, who was opposed Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. “The 39-year-old Crimean native was tried along with Crimean activist Alexander Kolchenko, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison.”
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911 call about offensive odor leads to discovery of dead bodies in garage
August 25, 2015 – Police received a 911 call regarding a foul smell emanating from a garage in northern Philadelphia. After police accessed the space, they discovered three dead bodies. Two corpses were in boxes and one in a coffin. Investigators traced the stinky stiffs to a funeral home around the corner.
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Two men in France sentenced for threatening a ‘Charlie Hebdo 2’ attack on train
August 25, 2015 – Just two days after a terrorist attack on a Paris bound train which was heroically thwarted by young Americans, another group of passengers were terrorized. Two young men, 22 and 23, aboard a train headed to Mantes-la-Jolie, told passengers that they had a bomb and would blow everyone up.
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Names of NASA employees who bought child porn kept secret
It is being reported on August 24, 2015 that the identities of NASA employees who were found to have bought child pornography from an Eastern European website will not be revealed. “An investigation by Daily Mail Online found 16 staff members from the space agency paid for pictures and videos of children in sexual situations, but were never prosecuted.”
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Defense for Boston Marathon murderer wants to look at jurors social media accounts
August 24, 2015: Judge O’Toole has denied requests by the lawyers for Boston bomber, DzhokharTsarnaev, for the names of the jurors who sentenced him to death three months ago. The Boston Globe also requested the identities of the jury.
500K bounty on Ashley Madison Hacker
A news was conference held on Monday August 24, 2015 to offer a $500,000 reward to anyone who identifies the hackers that released private data from the Ashley Madison website. The repercussions of this security breach has spread all over the world. At least two suicides have been directly connected to this computer attack.
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