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A look at Missouri's next scheduled execution 05/21/2014 05:00am • JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Missouri's seventh execution in seven months, and the nation's first since one went awry in Oklahoma, was on hold after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito granted a stay of execution. Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said the full Supreme Cour Supreme Court justice suspends Missouri execution 05/21/2014 12:36am • JIM SALTER Associated Press BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued an order late Tuesday suspending the planned execution of a Missouri inmate with a little more than an hour to spare before the inmate's scheduled lethal injection.Alito, who handles emergency matters Mali urges UN to demand disarmament of all groups 05/21/2014 12:09am • EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Mali's foreign minister urged the U.N. Security Council at an emergency meeting Tuesday to demand that all armed groups in the volatile West African nation lay down their weapons, especially separatist Tuareg rebels who launched a deadly attac German probe finds 20 former death camp guards 05/20/2014 03:14pm • DAVID RISING Associated Press BERLIN (AP) -- Around 20 former guards at the Majdanek death camp could face charges in Germany, following a widespread probe of the Nazi SS men and women who served there during World War II, war crimes investigators said Tuesday.Federal prosecutor Kurt Schrimm, who he Case against former Va. Gov. McDonnell to proceed 05/20/2014 03:11pm • ALAN SUDERMAN RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The corruption case against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, is set to go to trial this summer after a judge tossed out a motion to dismiss most of the charges against the couple.U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer also decided Tuesday t Ex-Los Angeles NAACP head says Sterling distraught 05/19/2014 11:10pm • TAMI ABDOLLAH Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The former president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP said Monday that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was a "wreck" and almost crying after a television interview in which Sterling derided Magic Johnson as a role model.Leon Jenkin Credit Suisse pleads guilty to helping Americans evade taxes; will pay criminal penalties 05/19/2014 10:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- European bank Credit Suisse AG has pleaded guilty to helping wealthy Americans avoid paying taxes through secret offshore accounts and agreed to pay about $2.6 billion.The Justice Department says it's the largest penalty imposed in any criminal tax case. It is also the largest ban Supreme Court revives Taser death lawsuit 05/19/2014 08:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a lower court to take a new look at a case involving repeated police use of a Taser stun gun on a handcuffed Louisiana man who later died.The justices sent the case of Baron Pikes back to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Tha 58 countries urge UN to refer Syria to ICC 05/19/2014 06:40pm • EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Nearly 60 countries urged the U.N. Security Council on Monday to refer the war in Syria to the International Criminal Court for investigation of possible crimes against humanity and war crimes.France, which drafted the resolution, has called f Kathleen O'Toole nominated as Seattle police chief 05/19/2014 03:33pm • GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) -- Kathleen O'Toole, a one-time Boston police commissioner and former inspector general for Ireland's national police force, was nominated Monday as Seattle's first female police chief.If approved by the City Council, she would take over a department of abo Man gets 20 years for role in cybercrime syndicate 05/19/2014 02:00pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A Phoenix man has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for his role in what authorities say is an unprecedented criminal case involving an international cybercrime syndicate with hundreds of thousands of U.S. victims.A federal judge in Las Vegas imposed the sentence Thursda Taser death in La. could get Supreme Court review 05/19/2014 09:58am • MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Handcuffed but not obeying police commands, the 21-year-old suspect absorbed the first shot from a 50,000-volt stun gun as he lay on the ground.Over the next 14 minutes, a police officer used his Taser on Baron Pikes at least seven more times when Pik Mali: Tuareg rebels take 30 hostages in north 05/19/2014 04:42am • ALOU DIAWARA Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Separatist Tuareg rebels launched an assault on the northern Mali city of Kidal over the weekend, killing eight soldiers, storming government buildings and taking 30 hostages in a "declaration of war" on the government, officials said Sunday.The att GM is fined $35 million over deadly defect 05/18/2014 07:06am • JOAN LOWY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal safety regulators slapped General Motors with a record $35 million fine Friday for taking more than a decade to disclose an ignition-switch defect in millions of cars that has been linked to at least 13 deaths.Under an agreement with the Transpor Ex-defense contractor surrenders to US marshals 05/17/2014 06:21pm • POWAY, Calif. (AP) -- A former defense contractor convicted of bribing former U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham of California surrendered to U.S. marshals after exhausting his appeals options.Brent Wilkes was convicted in 2007 and sentenced to 12 years in prison for bribery and other charges for lav