International Business News - Slaying http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A California man has been sentenced to 16 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing a fellow baseball fan after a San Francisco Giants game four years ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081011/man-gets-prison-for-killing-fan-after-bonds-700th.htm Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:23:01 EDT A car salesman was pushed or fell to his death along a highway as he went on a test-drive with a customer, authorities said. A 42-year-old man with a history of mental illness was charged with murder. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/police-arrest-man-in-texas-car-salesmans-slaying.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:50:20 EDT A suspect in the slaying of the leader of the San Francisco Hells Angels motorcycle gang a month ago surprised police in this small city in Oklahoma by turning himself in. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/hells-angels-slaying-suspect-surrenders-in-okla.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:13:55 EDT A new federal indictment has been handed up against a Canadian man who was days from being tried in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement member when a judge threw out the original charges. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/new-indictment-in-aim-slaying-days-after-dismissal.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:58:10 EDT The software chief executive accused in the killing of 32 of his neighbor's bison is considering a plea agreement to settle the case. Jeff Hawn appeared at the Park County court house to enter a plea on Monday with his attorney Pam Mackey. Minutes before the hearing was to begin, assistant district attorney Katherine O'Brien asked Mackey to step outside. When they returned for the hearing, Mackey said Hawn needed 30 days to consider a plea agreement that had been offered and Judge Stephen A. Groome agreed. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/tech-ceo-offered-plea-deal-in-bison-slaying-case.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:56:29 EDT A soldier has been charged with murder in the September shootings of a superior and a fellow team leader at their Army patrol base in central Iraq, the military said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081003/ga-based-soldier-charged-with-murder-of-2-in-iraq.htm Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:04:32 EDT A federal judge in South Dakota has dismissed an indictment against a Canadian accused of killing an American Indian activist in 1975. But prosecutors quickly filed a new complaint Friday against former American Indian Movement member John Graham. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081003/charge-dismissed-in-american-indian-movement-death.htm Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:30:48 EDT The man was naked, teetering on a building ledge and jabbing at police with an 8-foot-long fluorescent light bulb as a crowd gathered below. Lt. Michael Pigott responded by ordering an officer to fire a stun gun at the man, who froze and plunged headfirst to his death in a scene captured on amateur video and replayed frequently on the Internet. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081003/nypd-officer-kills-himself-over-taser-episode.htm Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:30:36 EDT A teacher who disappeared after her then-husband killed her 18-year-old lover is living in Texas with her sons and another teenage man, according to testimony at a hearing Wednesday on who should get custody of the boys. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/tenn-teacher-in-texas-after-teen-lover-was-slain.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:27:56 EDT The man was naked, teetering on a building ledge and jabbing at police with an 8-foot-long fluorescent light bulb as a crowd gathered below. Lt. Michael Pigott responded by ordering an officer to fire a stun gun at the man, who froze and plunged headfirst to his death in a scene captured on amateur video and replayed frequently on the Internet. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/nypd-officer-kills-himself-over-taser-episode.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:01:19 EDT The personal assistant accused of killing a punk rock pioneer in New York faces new charges that she stole cash and property from her. Natavia Lowery already was charged in Manhattan with second-degree murder in Linda Stein's death. An indictment updated Friday added grand larceny, forgery and identity theft charges. She has pleaded not guilty. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/new-charges-in-death-of-nyc-punk-rock-pioneer.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:00:03 EDT Georgia's top court Monday upheld the murder conviction of a millionaire for hiring an assassin posing as a flower delivery man to kill his 35-year-old socialite wife. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/ga-court-uphelds-conviction-in-socialite-slaying.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:45:12 EDT A soldier was detained in Iraq after he allegedly opened fire on a superior and another unit member, killing them both, the Army said Wednesday. The soldier was subdued by other troops, and medics tried unsuccessfully to save the wounded soldiers, said Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo, commanding general at Fort Stewart in southern Georgia, where the soldiers' unit is based. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080917/soldier-in-iraq-held-in-deaths-of-2-unit-members.htm Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:14:38 EDT Prosecutors sought a first-degree murder conviction and could have sent him away for life. Instead, a jury convicted the teacher's husband of reckless homicide, for fatally shooting his wife's student lover. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/128694-teacher-sex-slaying.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080912/man-reflects-on-verdict-death-of-ex-wifes-lover.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080912/man-reflects-on-verdict-death-of-ex-wifes-lover.htm Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:21:00 EDT Keep your bison off my property or risk having them hunted, software executive Jeff Hawn warned his neighbor outside this old Colorado mining town. In a lawsuit he said the animals knocked his satellite television dishes off line and left dung, tracks and hair on "pristine pasture on rolling hills." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/128588-bison-slaying.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080912/colorado-ranch-owner-accused-in-deaths-of-32-bison.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080912/colorado-ranch-owner-accused-in-deaths-of-32-bison.htm Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:51:46 EDT A teacher's husband who was charged with murder in the death of his wife's student lover was found guilty Thursday of a lesser crime, which could mean little or no time in prison. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080911/tenn-teachers-husband-convicted-in-student-death.htm Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:03:56 EDT A Philadelphia teenager was convicted of first-degree murder Tuesday for killing a 16-year-old boy to steal his dirt bike. The verdict against Eric Smith, 18, carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no parole. He is to be formally sentenced Oct. 24 for killing Luis Navarro last year. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080909/philly-teen-guilty-of-killing-boy-for-dirt-bike.htm Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:05:25 EDT A millionaire convicted of hiring an assassin posing as a flower delivery man to kill his socialite wife asked Georgia's top court for a new trial Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080909/slain-ga-socialites-husband-asks-for-new-trial.htm Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:01:35 EDT A judge in Tennessee is refusing to throw out a first-degree murder charge against a man accused of killing his wife's student lover. A lawyer representing 33-year-old Eric McLean made the request Tuesday after prosecutors rested their case against the man accused of shooting of 18-year-old Sean Powell. Powell was the former student and lover of McLean's schoolteacher wife, Erin. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080909/tenn-judge-wont-eject-first-degree-murder-charge.htm Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:40:32 EDT A teacher's husband accused of killing his wife's teen lover told interrogators in a videotape that was played in court Monday that he had only a hazy recollection of killing the teen. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/126142-teacher-sex-slaying.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/officer-man-remembered-shooting-wifes-teen-lover.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/officer-man-remembered-shooting-wifes-teen-lover.htm Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:58:42 EDT