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- Six "Americans" Among Nairobi Mall Attackers
Rep. King Urges Increased Surveillance of Ethnic Somalis in US - Al-Shabaab has released the names of the attackers in the weekend mall siege in Nairobi, Kenya, and they include at least six Americans, two from Minnesota, one from Kansas City, as well as one each from Maine, Illinois, and Arizona. Though the group’s rank-and-file are overwhelmingly Somalis, the attackers were predominantly ethnic Somalis from overseas, and mainly Western countries including not only the Americans, but Canadians, English, Swedish and Finnish 'citizens'.
- Why the White Widow is prime suspect: Kenyan anti-terror police believe British woman, 29, may be behind mall massacre
Last night, as the bodies were still being counted at the shopping mall, one British woman was notably slow to join the condemnation. For Samantha Lewthwaite, the daughter of a former British soldier who grew up attending school discos in Buckinghamshire, views these awful events as a cause for jubilation. Kenyan anti-terror police revealed yesterday that Lewthwaite - who is known to many as the White Widow - may be the brains behind the operation to bring terror to the heart of Kenya, a country once synonymous with the sexual high-jinks of the Happy Valley expatriate set, but rapidly becoming a new battleground in the war between Islamists and the West. ‘I suspect this woman Lewthwaite is behind this attack,’ a senior anti-terror source told me last night as survivors described how a woman in a veil appeared to be commanding the other terrorists as they hunted down and killed non-Muslim shoppers
- Report: White Woman Seen Taking Part In Al-Shabab Siege of Kenyan Mall, Thought To Be British Muslim Convert…
- Four Britons dead in Kenya mall attack
A joint Australian-British architect and his heavily pregnant Dutch wife were named by friends and media Monday as among those killed in the attack on an upmarket Nairobi shopping mall. Ross Langdon, 33, and his wife Elif Yavuz were among 69 people known to have died in the terrorist attack by Islamist gunmen.
- Christians protest Pakistan church bombing
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CHESTER, Pa. -- Police have arrested and charged the female suspect in the shooting death of a Rite Aid manager in Chester, Delaware County. Police say 23-year-old Rita Pultro was taken into custody Sunday afternoon. "She was arrested around 12:30 somewhere in the 15th district. She did try to flee, ran into a house and was arrested." Pultro was the second piece of the puzzle as police investigated the shooting death of Jason McClay. The first suspect - 24-year-old David Wiggins was arrested in the Grays Ferry section of the city. - (Black-on-white)
HINDS COUNTY, MS - A Jackson teenager has been convicted of sexually abusing a 2-year-old girl. Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith announced Thursday that Demario Mangum, 16, was found guilty of sexual battery. Mangum was babysitting the
A 35-year-old legless Athens man recently was sentenced to 60 years for attempting to rape an 11-year-old girl. Following a week-long trial that ended late Friday, a Clarke County Superior Court jury found Elbert Roman Tate guilty of the rape attempt, along with charges of aggravated sexual battery, aggravated sodomy and multiple counts of child molestation. Tate was sentenced to 35 years in prison to be followed by 25 years of probation. Police arrested Tate on Feb. 7, 2012, after they said he had already been assaulting the girl for several months.
NASHVILLE, TN - A man was arrested for allegedly breaking into a woman's apartment and sexually assaulting her while she was asleep. Police say the crime happened at an apartment complex on 17th Avenue North. The victim started screaming, waking up her brother and sister, who chased the man out of the home and held him down until police arrived. Police say the suspect, Troy Jones, stole an alarm clock and a phone. Jones is in jail facing burglary and sexual battery charges.
VICKSBURG, Miss. —A Vicksburg man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to three sex crimes earlier this month. The judge sentenced Malcolm Shorter, 35, on charges of enticing a child to meet for sexual purposes, molestation and statutory rape. Shorter was arrested Feb. 11 by Vicksburg police after a mother reported he had contacted her 
and ask if she wore underwear on the night of the attack - Defense attorneys tried to prove that the victim's opening her mouth counted as 'active participation'. The defense asked her if she was wearing a bra and underwear at the party. Her case is an Article 32 military proceeding which allows for personal questions to determine whether a case is fit for trial.
Vanderbilt University on Tuesday dismissed wide receiver Chris Boyd from the football team and athletic program four days after he pleaded guilty to helping cover up an alleged on-campus gang rape. The star athlete accepted a yearlong probation sentence and agreed to testify against four men accused directly in the crime. Vanderbilt's athletic administration conducted a review of the case. "The review concluded that Mr. Boyd's admitted actions are clearly inconsistent with the high standards of behavior expected of our student-athletes," a vice chancellor said in a statement.
When police interviewed convicted felon Van Dralan Dixson in connection with a series of South Dallas rapes earlier this month, they had to ask him to give a DNA sample. He did. Within days, his DNA was matched to four of nine reported rapes in the Fair Park area. Dixson had already fled town, starting a manhunt that led to his capture in Baton Rouge. But a reader posed a question: Dixson served 11 years in state prison — why didn’t police already have his DNA profile in the state’s database? Ref: 
COLUMBUS, Ohio - One of the two Ohio high school football players convicted this year of raping a 
Baltimore City Police have arrested four suspects in connection with a fatal beating that took place on the streets of Reservoir Hill. Kwan Blackburn, 17; Malik Hampton-Cummings, 17; Willie Mayes, 59; and Latiqua Mayes, 19, were taken into custody on and slapped with murder and assault charges. An investigation revealed that as
SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. -- An associate pastor in Norwalk has been arrested for allegedly preying on at least 20 female parishioners over an eight-year period. Investigators say he used their illegal status in the U.S. to cower them into silence. Detectives received information in April that
PROVO — A Provo man has been charged with raping a 
A butt-naked Goldman Sachs managing director shoved his way into a bathroom at his flashy Hamptons rental and raped a 
CINCINNATI — A priest charged with taking a 
CHESTER, Pa. - -- A $20,000 reward is being offered after the manager of a Rite Aid was shot dead in Chester. It happened after 10:00 p.m. Thursday at Rite Aid at the intersection of 9th and Highland. The two suspects were caught on surveillance: a woman wearing a red hoodie with white stripes down the sleeves, blue jeans and gray sneakers; and a man wearing a white V-neck shirt over a black long-sleeve top, rolled up blue jeans and black boots. Police say the couple walked into the store and got into some kind of argument with the manager, identified as
POLICE are searching for two men who allegedly randomly attacked two others on a busy Melbourne nightclub strip, leaving their victims with facial injuries. The
Prosecutors have charged a St. Louis man in a 1994 rape. Details about the incident were vague Thursday but authorities say a DNA match has led to rape and sodomy charges against Tyrone Young, 48, of the 3700 block of Chippewa Street. Court documents say Young raped a female in the 4600 block of West Florissant Avenue on May 3, 1994. The victim, whose age was not available, told authorities Young struck her with a brick and a piece of wood resembling a branch. She told police she went to a hospital and got stitches for her injuries. Evidence collected at the hospital matched that of Young's DNA, court documents say. The alleged victim later identified young in a photo lineup.
A man accused of sexually abusing a
After a woman was abducted at gunpoint and sexually assaulted during a robbery, Richmond Police are asking for help to identify the two people wanted as persons of interest in the case. Richmond Police say a woman was abducted at gunpoint by an unknown man and a woman in the 2500 block of East Cary Street, near South 25th Street. It happened around 2:30 a.m. August 14. Police say the woman was then forced to drive her abductors around and withdraw money from several locations before the male assaulted her. The male suspect is described as a black male with a dark complexion in his mid-30s to mid-40s, approximately 5'9" to 5'10" and weighing between 170 and 180 pounds. He was bald with a full beard and mustache, yellow eyes, unkempt teeth and spoke broken English. The female suspect is described as a white female, petite, approximately 5'2" and weighing between 120 and 125 pounds. She's in her late 30s to mid-40s with shoulder-length, strawberry blond hair and possibly goes by the name Renee.
Strip shooting suspect and self-proclaimed pimp Ammar Harris was found guilty Friday of raping and robbing a woman in June 2010. “This was round one of two,” District Attorney Steve Wolfson said afterward. The verdict was significant for prosecutors, who can use the convictions as aggravating factors when seeking the death penalty for Harris for the Strip shooting that left
YAKIMA, Wash. -- A doctor in Yakima is accused of raping one of his patients. Friday night, Dr. 
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Myron Farley, 32, is charged with murdering one homeless man and attempting to murder another homeless man. Police have also named him as a person of interest in the murder of a third homeless man in Clearwater. Tarpon Springs police and Clearwater police held a joint news conference Friday afternoon to announce Farley's arrest. He is charged with the murder of 
A gutsy student tried to save a woman from a crazed homeless person and was shoved onto the subway tracks for his effort, police said Friday. Pace University student 
A 25-year-old Anchorage-based soldier is in custody after being arrested in connection with a series of sexual assaults at gunpoint in Anchorage since July. Tony Earl Bullock Jr. was arrested and charged in a nine-count felony complaint with multiple charges of sexual assault and assault with a weapon after police served search warrants on locations where Bullock lived, including his barracks room and a Mountain View apartment he shared with his girlfriend. Bullock's arrest stems from three reported sexual assaults. A young woman reported being abducted off the street in Mountain View on July 16 and forced at gunpoint into a secluded alley, where the suspect forced "multiple sex events" on her. On July 17, a young woman was abducted at gunpoint on Bragaw Street and subjected to "multiple similar sex acts." Then, at about 4:30 a.m. on Aug. 11, a woman reported a black male attempted to rape her in Mountain View. After he punched her, she got away while he was trying to open a condom package.
JENNINGS — A Jennings man, wanted in Georgia for allegedly committing sex crimes against children, was captured Wednesday by the Louisiana Attorney General's Fugitive Apprehension Unit at a local residence. Elton Freeman, 21, is wanted on charges of molestation of a juvenile, aggravated sodomy, cruelty to children and sexual battery of a minor, according. Freeman is also wanted by the Fulton County, Georgia Sheriff's office for failing to appear in court on separate charges of molestation of a minor and sexual battery. Freeman was located and arrested Wednesday at a residence on East Willis Street in Jennings. 
TODD COUNTY, KY - A kidnapping victim stopped a crime by calling police without her captor ever knowing. Suspect James Young offered a woman a ride home from her friend's house last week. "He told her he needed to run some errands before he took her home, so it didn't surprise her he was turning some directions he would not have normally turned." "However, when he left the county, crossed over into back roads in Todd county, then she started getting alarmed about what was going on." Young kept the woman in the car by threatening her with a box cutter, but just out of view, the woman dialed 911 and was giving hints to dispatch about what was happening. "She used the word 'kidnapped', and she used words about the box cutter he was using." "Dispatch was able to track the call and determine her location even though she was moving in the vehicle." James Young is charged with kidnapping, attempted rape and first degree assault.
MARIETTA, Ga. — A Cobb County judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a man accused of kidnapping, raping and robbing a woman. The defense team for Darrious Mathis, of Marietta, had been claiming the incident was actually "consensual" and "the woman went home with him because of his good looks". 
A 19-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on allegations that he sexually abused two girls. Martwan Peak is facing allegations of lewd or lascivious battery. He remained in custody at the Palm Beach County Jail. One of Peak’s alleged victims told investigators that Peak had been sexually
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. -- Police have arrested a man who they say raped a woman in her home. Demain Dacosta was arrested by the Prince George's County Warrant/Fugitive Divison after a warrant was issued on September 9, officials said. According to the warrant, Dacosta raped a female acquaintance in her home in late August. Dacosta was taken into custody without incident.
INDIANAPOLIS - The suspect accused in the shooting death of IMPD Officer
Prosecutors in central Pennsylvania say they'll seek the death penalty against a man in the killing of an 87-year-old relative of a witness in a sexual assault case against him. DaJuan Porter broke into a Derry Township home early on June 11 and stabbed 
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Charges were filed against Calah D. Johnson, 32, for second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon on Friday. Johnson is now accused in the shooting death of 
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – Two men accused of killing a Fort Campbell soldier have been found guilty. Giovanne Treymane Johnson, 19, and Rakeem Rashan Jones, 18, were convicted of second degree murder and especially aggravated robbery in the death of 22-year-old Specialist 
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - This weekend the family of 
New details in the shooting of 
Bond was denied Friday for Erica Jenkins, charged with first-degree murder in the death last month of 22-year-old 
A mentally challenged Florida man who had saved up for months to purchase a copy of "Grand Theft Auto V" was robbed of the video game as he left a GameStop store this week, police report. After buying the game Tuesday afternoon, 
MEMPHIS, TN - - An argument between a Memphis couple ended in a big pool of blood from a sensitive spot. Ruthie Joyner, 60, is charged with aggravated assault/domestic violence, accused of trying to castrate her live-in boyfriend. According to an affidavit of complaint, Joyner and her boyfriend, 
David Guth, the University of Kansas journalism professor who sent a tweet wishing violence on
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Homosexual activist Floyd Lee Corkins has pled guilty to charges stemming from the August 15 shooting of a security guard at the Family Research Council’s D.C. headquarters. Corkins, who carried a handgun, a box of ammunition and 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches when he shot
New York -- An activist for immigration reform was arrested and arraigned on child pornography charges in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday. Roy Naim, 29, pleaded not guilty to a count of receiving child pornography, and was denied bail by Judge Joan M. Azrack. Assistant U.S. Attorney Saritha Komatireddy argued Naim was a risk to the community as his alleged crimes involved children, and he sometimes worked with a youth advocacy group and volunteered at a camp for children. She added he was a flight risk as he has no real job and isn't a citizen of the country. Finkel continued to explain that Naim did not work because he spent most of his time "helping others" and studying with rabbis. Naim moved with his family from Israel when he was 3 years old, but has not attained U.S. citizenship.
WAGENER, SC - Authorities say a woman has been shot and killed during a drug deal in Aiken County. Deputies say a woman called 911 around 9:45 p.m. Thursday to report her friend had been shot. Authorities say when officers arrived they found 25-year-old
A woman whose family says she was strangled and stabbed multiple times feared for her life but had vowed to handle a deteriorating relationship with the Marine veteran charged this week in her slaying. “She told me that every time she had had problems in her life, she’d always run back home to her mama and this time she was going to handle things herself,” said Lily Cantrell, speaking of her daughter, 
SEATTLE — A man accused of stabbing a couple in Pioneer Square is described in court documents as a "dangerous, mentally ill person." Police said 44-year-old Donnell Jackson randomly stabbed and killed 46-year-old 
Philadelphia police have identified the man beaten to death early Saturday morning in Wissinoming as 
One of four people convicted in a notorious 1993 attack on two British tourists in Jefferson County was sentenced to 40 years in prison after his original life term was overturned. At the Jefferson County Courthouse, Aundra Akins, 34, was sentenced to 40 years in the attempted murder of 
MIAMI – An Opa-Locka teenager is being held without bond after a court hearing and after Miami-Dade Police arrested him for shooting and killing a 71-year-old man. As first reported first reported by the blog Random Pixels, Miami-Dade Police have identified the suspect who fatally shot 
A Mercer County grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging two men with the shooting death of an off-duty corrections officer at a Trenton banquet hall last year. Maurice Skillman, 27, and Hykeem Tucker, 26, were each indicted on one count of murder, one count of second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and one count of second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun. They were also indicted on three counts of fourth-degree aggravated assault for pointing a firearm at three additional victims. Investigators charged Skillman and Tucker with firing a semi-automatic weapon from the parking lot of the Baldassari Regency banquet hall on Morris Avenue in the early morning hours of November 11, 2012.
The mother of a 12-year-old girl killed by a teenage boy told a judge today: 'I am living every parents' worst nightmare'. 
DALLAS - A man pleaded guilty Tuesday to the murder of a Good Samaritan outside a popular north Dallas bar. Prosecutors said Justin Jones shot and killed 36-year-old 