AP - A man accused of shooting and wounding two eighth-graders outside their middle school pleaded not guilty Monday by reason of insanity.

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AP - A man accused of shooting and wounding two eighth-graders outside their middle school pleaded not guilty Monday by reason of insanity.

Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood, 32, entered his plea in Jefferson County District Court, and was ordered to undergo a mental evaluation at the state Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. The evaluation would take at least 45 days.

Eastwood faces 15 charges, including attempted first-degree murder in the Feb. 23 shootings outside Deer Creek Middle School in south suburban Denver. Teachers tackled and restrained Eastwood until deputies arrived. He faces decades in prison if convicted of the charges or an indefinite amount of time in a mental health institute if found not guilty by reason of insanity.

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AP - Two Chicago-area cousins who pleaded guilty to taking part in a plot to attack American soldiers overseas have been sentenced in Ohio to prison.

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AP - Switzerland will make an announcement Monday about the extradition of Roman Polanski to the United States for sentencing on a charge of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl, the government said.

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AFP - Fugitive burglar and Internet folk hero, the "Barefoot Bandit," was nabbed by Bahamas police Sunday after one last daring attempt to evade capture -- this time in a stolen boat. Bahamian authorities said 19-year-old Colton Harris-Moore was arrested seven days after they found the wreckage of a stolen plane he is believed to have flown to the archipelago.

"In an effort to avoid capture, the suspect engaged in a high-speed chase, by boat, with police," a police official told reporters.



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This undated image provided by the Island County Sheriff's Office in Washington state shows Colton Harris-Moore, aka the "Barefoot Bandit," that he reportedly snapped in June 2008 using a stolen camera that was later recovered by deputies. Fugitive burglar and Internet folk hero, the "Barefoot Bandit," was nabbed by Bahamas police Sunday after one last daring attempt to evade capture. (AFP/HO/File)

AFP - The Obama administration is still mulling where to hold the trials of the alleged co-plotters behind the September 11 attacks, US attorney general Eric Holder said Sunday.

"We are still in the process of considering that," Holder said in an interview with CBS "Face The Nation," adding "No decision's been made yet as to exactly where the trial is going to occur." Holder, who has vowed to push for the death penalty for the self-confessed mastermind of the 2001 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, recalled he had recommended the trial should be held in civilian court. But many are still pushing for the trial to be held in a military court, and the process has bogged down with no trial yet underway more than eight years after the attacks.



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AFP - British police were under investigation Sunday over the death of Raoul Moat after their dramatic armed stand-off ended with them firing a stun gun at him and the fugitive shooting himself dead.

One of Britain's biggest ever manhunts ended on Saturday when Moat killed himself after a six-hour siege -- though it is unclear whether he pulled the trigger before or after being fired at with the Taser electric shock device. The Independent Police Complaints Commission confirmed they were looking into Moat's death.



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Forensics officers at the scene of an armed stand-off in Rothbury, northeast England. Police were under investigation after one of Britain's biggest ever manhunts ended in two officers firing stun guns at fugitive Raoul Moat and the wanted man shooting himself dead.

AP - The man charged with 10 murders in the Los Angeles "Grim Sleeper" case was arrested at least 15 times over four decades but never sent to state prison despite recommendations of probation officers, including one who urged he receive a maximum sentence because it was a bad sign that a man in his 50s still committed crimes, court and jail records show.

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AP - The man charged with the September 1998 murder of a 10-year-old Utah girl has been extradited to Utah. Matthew John Breck was an Idaho prison inmate in January when prosecutors said DNA evidence linked him to stabbing death of Anna Palmer. Breck was serving time in Idaho for a 2001 conviction on charges of sodomy/lewdness of a minor child under 16.

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AFP - One of Britain's biggest ever manhunts ended dramatically on Saturday when fugitive gunman Raoul Moat shot himself dead after a six-hour stand-off with heavily armed police.

After seven days on the run during which he apparently shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend, killed her new partner and injured a policeman, armed police surrounded Moat in the village of Rothbury in northeast England.



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A CCTV image released by England's Northumbria Police shows fugitive gunman suspect Raoul Moat in Newcastle on July 2. One of Britain's biggest ever manhunts ended dramatically when Moat shot himself dead after a six-hour stand-off with armed police. (Northumbria Police)

AP - Investigators are re-examining more than 30 cold case files to see if they can be tied to a suspect in the "Grim Sleeper" killings, the police chief said Friday. Investigators believe they have connected "Grim Sleeper" suspect Lonnie Franklin Jr. to 10 murders. Now they are trying to tie him to dozens more.



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**CORRECTS SOURCE** Lonnie David Franklin Jr. appears for arraignment on multiple charges as the alleged 'Grim Sleeper' killer, in Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday, July 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Al Seib, Pool)

AP - A federal judge on Friday drastically trimmed a $675,000 verdict against a Boston University graduate student who was found liable for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs online, saying the jury damage award against a person who gained no financial benefit from his copyright infringement is "unconstitutionally excessive."

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AP - A federal grand jury has returned new charges against 11 Somali men accused of separate pirate attacks on Navy warships, including allegations they had a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and assaulted federal officers.

The latest charges add another possible mandatory life term for five defendants accused in the April 1 pirate attack upon the USS Nicholas off the coast of Africa. The six defendants accused in the April 10 attack on the USS Ashland face an additional charge of assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon, which carries a maximum term of 20 years in prison, plus other charges.



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A view of the container terminal at the southern Yemeni port of Aden June 16, 2010. Somali pirates trawl the sea south of the Bab al-Mandab strait off Yemen's coast, and in recent months have stepped up attacks on tankers, cargo ships and fishing vessels in defiance of a major crackdown by navies from at least a dozen countries. But Yemen has deeper worries about security off its coast after a resurgent al Qaeda arm called for a blockade of the strait between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, through which 25,000 ships -- 7 percent of world shipping -- pass each year. Picture taken June 16, 2010.

AP - A judge's rulings in Massachusetts that the federal law banning gay marriage is unconstitutional could have implications far beyond the state if they're upheld by a higher court after an appeal by the Obama administration, legal experts say.

U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro said the law, the Defense of Marriage Act, interferes with the right of a state to define marriage and therefore denies married gay couples some federal benefits. He ruled Thursday in favor of gay couples' rights in two separate challenges to DOMA, which the administration of President Barack Obama has argued for repealing.



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Supporters of gay marriage rally outside the federal courthouse in San Francisco, California January 11, 2010.

AP - A white former transit officer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in the videotaped shooting death of an unarmed black man on an Oakland train platform, a verdict that touched off violent protests in Oakland that damaged businesses and led to at least 50 arrests.

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Reuters - A white former transit police officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter on Thursday in the videotaped shooting death of an unarmed black man last year that triggered riots in Oakland, California.

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AP - To many of his neighbors and customers, Lonnie Franklin Jr. was just a friendly mechanic who often stopped to chat as he tinkered on cars in the front driveway of his mint-green house on 81st Street.



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FILE - This undated sketch provided Nov. 24, 2009 by the Los Angeles Police Department, shows a suspect who is believed to have killed at least 11 people since 1985. Police arrested a man, Lonnie Franklin Jr., in the city's 'Grim Sleeper' serial killings Wednesday July 7, 2010 after decades of frustrated investigations into at least 11 slayings dating back 25 years. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Police Department, File)

AP - Acclaimed pianist and conductor Mikhail Vasillievich Pletnev may have left Thailand days after he was charged with raping a teenage boy, his housekeeper and news reports said Thursday.

Pletnev, who was arrested at a restaurant Monday in the beach town of Pattaya, left Thailand aboard an Aeroflot flight, according to Russisan state news agency RIA Novosti. Another news agency said he was flying to Moscow via Dubai on an Emirates airliner. His housekeeper in Pattaya, contacted by The Associated Press by telephone, said Pletnev left Wednesday night and was headed for Moscow. She declined to give her name.



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** CORRECTS SPELLING OF SOURCE ** In this photo taken Monday, July 5, 2010, Thai police officer presents the arrest warrant to Russian pianist and conductor Mikhail Vasillievich Pletnev, at his residence in Pattaya, Thailand. Pletnev has been charged with raping a 14-year-old boy in a Thai beach town, police said Wednesday, July 7. The founder of the Russian National Orchestra, was charged Tuesday with rape and appearing in compromising photographs with several other boys, said police Lt. Col. Creetha Tankanarat.

AFP - A former US lawmaker has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and working as an unregistered agent for a foreign charity linked to global terrorism, officials have said.

Mark Deli Siljander, 59, a former US representative from Michigan, pleaded guilty to charges contained in a 2008 indictment related to his work for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) of Columbia, Missouri, the Justice Department said.

Co-defendant Abdel Azim El-Siddig, a former IARA fundraiser, also pleaded guilty to conspiring with Siljander and others to hire Siljander to lobby for IARA's removal from a Senate Finance Committee list of charities suspected of having terrorist ties.



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Police officers stand guard outside a Federal Court in United States. Former US lawmaker, Mark Deli Siljander, has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and working as an unregistered agent for a foreign charity linked to global terrorism, officials have said. (AFP/File/Timothy A. Clary)

AP - Two men were charged Wednesday with attempted murder after a seven-month string of failed assassination tries against police officers in a small Southern California town.

Nicholas John Smit, 39, engaged in an elaborate plot to try to kill a detective with the Hemet Police Department after the officer arrested him for trying to grow marijuana, authorities said. Smit believed that if the detective were killed or injured, the case against him would disappear, Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco said.



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This image provided by the Hemet Police Department shows Nicholas John Smit who was arrested Friday July 2, 2010, being held on a suspicion of making a booby trap and assault on a police officer with intent to commit murder. (AP Photo/Hemet Police Department)