A Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife murdered 27 years ago in Los Angeles has been found dead in an apparent suicide, less than 24 hours after he set foot in the continental United States to answer to the charges.
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Accused Japanese businessman Miura found dead
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 7:21am EDT
His attorney says he apparently hanged himself in his cell. Miura was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on a charge of conspiring to murder his wife.
A Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife murdered 27 years ago in Los Angeles has been found dead in an apparent suicide, less than 24 hours after he set foot in the continental United States to answer to the charges. -
Fear, greed produce wild ride for stocks on Wall Street
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 3:00am EDT
Wild fluctuations in the Dow cap the worst week in its history. It ends down 128 points.
In a fitting end to the worst week on Wall Street since the Great Depression, the stock market underwent a titanic battle between greed and fear Friday as stock prices rallied from two bone-rattling sell-offs only to fade late in the day. -
Palin ethics lapse cited
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 3:00am EDT
Alaska investigators say it was OK to fire a state commissioner, but her efforts against a trooper went too far.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin violated ethics laws and abused her power as governor in pressing to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, an independent legislative investigation concluded Friday. -
Phillies beat Dodgers to take 2-0 series lead
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 3:00am EDT
Philadelphia batters Chad Billingsley for eight runs in 2 1/3 innings and survives Manny Ramirez's three-run homer to win, 8-5.
PHILADELPHIA -- Chad Billingsley tried to gather himself but couldn't. -
Leland Wong gets 5 years in 'pay to play' corruption scandal
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 3:00am EDT
Wong was a Los Angeles commissioner for more than a decade. He used his influence during Mayor James Hahn's administration in seeking city deals for Evergreen, a Taiwan-based shipping company.
A judge on Friday sentenced onetime Los Angeles city commissioner Leland Wong to five years in state prison, bringing an end to Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley's "pay to play" investigation of the administration of former Mayor James K. Hahn. -
More than two dozen die amid Mexico violence
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 3:00am EDT
A newspaper publisher, two federal agents and 11 people gunned down in a bar are among those killed as Mexico endures drug warfare.
In another violent spasm, more than two dozen people were killed in Mexico within hours late Thursday and early Friday, including a newspaper publisher, two federal agents and a group gunned down as they drank at a bar. -
Cruel end for an L.A. homeless man
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 3:00am EDT
'John,' Buddha-like and unassuming, is doused with gas and set ablaze in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood where he'd lived for more than a decade.
He had called the multi-ethnic Mid-Wilshire neighborhood home for more than a decade. Sitting outside a shuttered dental office near Berendo and 3rd streets, the homeless man with the Buddha-like frame rarely asked for money. But he got it anyway. -
U.S. to buy shares in banks
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 10:05pm EDT
Treasury secretary says the move, previously rejected, is now needed to inject cash into the financial system.
Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson said today that the Bush administration would buy stakes in banks and other financial institutions to help ease the economic crisis. -
O.J. Simpson seeks new trial in Las Vegas
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 6:08pm EDT
O.J. Simpson is citing judicial errors and insufficient evidence in seeking a new trial after he was convicted of kidnapping and robbing two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in Las Vegas. -
Connecticut high court rules same-sex couples can marry
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 12:22pm EDT
Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled today that same-sex couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions.