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A woman who slapped a California sheriff's deputy this week in a deliberate attempt to be thrown in jail so she could stop smoking got her wish when a judge sentenced her to 63 days for battery.The woman, Etta Me Lopez, 31, of Sacramento, waited outside the Sacramento County jail for several hours Tuesday for the first deputy to come along, Sgt. Jason Ramos told NBC station KCRA of Sacramento. Whe...
A bloodless bank heist that netted more than $45 million has left even cyber crime experts impressed by the technical sophistication, if not the virtue, of the con artists who pulled off a remarkable internationally organized attack."It was pretty ingenious," Pace University computer science professor Darren Hayes said Friday. On the creative side of the heist, a small team of highly skilled hacke...
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was buried in a Muslim cemetery in Virginia after a Christian woman spearheaded an interfaith effort to find a resting place for his remains, she said in a statement.The donation of a plot by Al-Barzakh Cemetery in Doswell, Va., quickly sparked new controversy, with Virginia officials complaining they were not notified and questioning whether any l...
