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Court: Tribal convictions might not stand 10/01/2014 03:50pm • AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors can't always use past tribal court convictions as proof of a defendant's criminal history, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found in a Montana case.The determination came Tuesday as the three-judge panel ruled Mom: Jailed Marine in Mexico suffering greatly 10/01/2014 03:22pm • BRADLEY KLAPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Marine jailed in Mexico on charges of bringing weapons into the country tried to kill himself after receiving threats of rape, torture and execution, his tearful mother told a House panel Wednesday. She said her son was suffering an ordeal worse 3 soldiers charged in Mexico army killing of 22 10/01/2014 10:20am • MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Months after the Mexican army said it had killed 22 suspected gang members in a fierce shootout, three soldiers are being charged with homicide.The announcement late Tuesday was another step in dismantling the official version of the June 30 confro Pot decriminalization bill drafted in Jamaica 10/01/2014 12:30am • DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Jamaica's justice minister said Tuesday that legislation has been drafted to decriminalize marijuana on the Caribbean island where the drug has been pervasive but prohibited for a century.Mark Golding told reporters that lawmakers should make Maximize an Online Criminal Justice Degree 10/01/2014 12:00am • Ada Alers spent eight years working in the insurance agency industry when she realized it wasn't really her calling. "Sometimes you fall into a career not by choice but by circumstances," says Alers, a single parent of two teenagers who lives in Manchester, Connecticut. "I needed a job."After thinki Algeria identifies some kidnappers of French hiker 09/30/2014 03:20pm • AOMAR OUALI Associated Press ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- Algeria's justice minister said Tuesday that some of the members of the group that kidnapped and beheaded a French hiker have been identified.Tayeb Louh told state TV that the initial investigation has resulted in the identification of "certain m Police: Drunk Teen Tries to Stab Patrons at Ballston Sports Bar 09/30/2014 01:15pm • A 19-year-old D.C. resident tried to stab multiple people at First Down Sports Bar in Ballston last night before fleeing from police, avoiding a taser and ultimately being tackled and arrested, police say. Larry Sutton was already wanted for armed robbery by the Metropolitan Police Department w Thai man gets death penalty for train rape, murder 09/30/2014 05:36am • THANYARAT DOKSONE Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) -- A former railway worker in Thailand was sentenced to death Tuesday for raping a 13-year-old girl on an overnight train, then killing her and throwing her body out the window, an attack that sparked outrage in the Southeast Asian nation and prompted Release ordered of man convicted in trooper death 09/29/2014 06:50pm • DAVID PORTER Associated Press A man convicted in the shooting death of a New Jersey state trooper in a crime that still provokes strong emotion among law enforcement more than 40 years later was ordered released on parole by a state appeals court Monday.Sundiata Acoli was known as Clark Edward Squir Trial in Canadian dismemberment case begins 09/29/2014 05:06pm • BENJAMIN SHINGLER Associated Press MONTREAL (AP) -- A Canadian man accused of dismembering his Chinese lover and mailing the body parts to schools and political parties around the country admitted to the killing but pleaded not guilty Monday. His lawyer said he is schizophrenic and not criminally re Obama says mistrust of police corroding America 09/29/2014 04:20am • DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The widespread mistrust of law enforcement that was exposed by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Missouri exists in too many other communities and is having a corrosive effect on the nation, particularly on its children, Presi James Traficant, convicted ex-congressman, dies 09/29/2014 04:18am • MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) -- James Traficant, the colorful Ohio politician whose conviction for taking bribes and kickbacks made him only the second person to be expelled from Congress since the Civil War, died Saturday. He was 73.Traficant was seriously injured Tuesday after a Obama: Mistrust of police corrodes America 09/28/2014 04:30am • DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Saturday said the widespread mistrust of law enforcement that was exposed by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri, is corroding America, not just its black communities, and that the wa Suspect's confession is center of missing boy case 09/28/2014 12:48am • COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- While a judge weighs whether a murder confession in one of the nation's most notorious missing child cases can be used at the suspect's trial, a larger question is looming: Was it all made up?Pedro Hernandez is seen in hours of videotaped statements tel Russian FM issues blistering attack on US, NATO 09/28/2014 12:16am • STEVEN R. HURST Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The Russian foreign minister issued a blistering attack on the West and NATO on Saturday, accusing them of being unable to change their Cold War "genetic code" and saying the United States must abandon its claims to "eternal uniqueness."Sergey