Man to Plead Guilty in Spider Smuggling Case
Feds Bust German Smuggling Tarantulas to LA (U.S. Dept. of Justice)
LOS ANGELES (CBS/KCAL/AP) Sven Koppler, a German man who admitted mailing hundreds of tarantulas into the United States, has agreed to plead guilty to a smuggling charge, according to court documents.
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Continue »Mariner Milton Bradley Arrested in Los Angeles
Milton Bradley (Getty Images/Otto Greule Jr.)
LOS ANGELES (CBS/KCBS) Seattle Mariners outfielder Milton Bradley was arrested Tuesday morning in Los Angeles after he allegedly threatened a woman.
Continue »Possible Evidence Found in Death of N.C. Girl
Zahra Claire Baker (AP Photo/Independent Tribune, file)
CALDWELL COUNTY, N.C. (CBS/WBTV) Possible evidence in possibly related to the murder of Zahra Clare Baker, the 10-year-old North Carolina girl whose dismembered body was scattered throughout Caldwell County, N.C., was discovered in the area where the girl's prosthetic leg and a bone were discovered last fall.
Continue »Maine Woman I.D.'d Among Long Island Remains
Twenty-two-year-old Megan Waterman, a young mother from Scarborough, Maine, was missing since June, 2010 (MeganWaterman.com)
She was last seen at a Holiday Inn Express in Hauppauge, N.Y. on June 6. Her body was found Dec. 13.
Suffolk County police also say they are close to identifying the other remains uncovered in the same area.
Continue »Cops: Phila. Strangler Confesses to Three Murders
Antonio Rodriguez (CBS/Philadelphia Police Dept.)
PHILADELPHIA (CBS/KYW) Police say the man they call the "Kensington Strangler" has confessed to three murders, after a month-long series of fatal attacks on women in the lower Northeast section of Philadelphia.
Antonio Rodriguez, who was linked to the sexual assaults and murders of Elaine Goldberg, 21, Nicole Piacentini, 35, and Casey Mahoney, 27, via DNA, told detectives Tuesday that he picked his victims at random, paid them for what he described as "rough sex," and then killed them during that act.
Continue »FBI: Spokane MLK Day Bomb Try is Domestic Terrorism
Backpack, T-shirts FBI says were found at bomb scene before MLK Jr. Day Parade in Spokane, Wash., Mon. Jan. 17, 2011 (KREM.com)
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to release information, said it was the most potentially destructive device he has ever seen.
Continue »Drunk Owl Taken In By German Police
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NEW YORK (CBS) After a night of partying, a wild German owl that had apparently discovered two discarded bottles of Schnapps, got so drunk that it got picked up by police.
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Continue »Hospital Patient Spits, Charged with Attempted Murder
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CBS/AP) Alaska authorities filed attempted murder charges Tuesday against a 29-year-old man with hepatitis C after he allegedly spit on a hospital worker.
Continue »Rep. Giffords' Husband Thought His Wife Was Killed
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, left, is shown with her husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly. (AP Photo/Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords)
TUCSON, Ariz. (CBS/KOLD/AP) Mark Kelly, husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, said he believed for approximately 20 minutes that his wife was dead after watching a mistaken television news report.
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"I just, you know, walked into the bathroom, and you know, broke down," he told ABC News in an interview. "To hear that she died is just, it's devastating for me."
Continue »Bride of Irish Athlete Slain on Honeymoon
John McAreavey and Michaela Harte (AP Photo/Irish News/PA)
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius (CBS/AP) Police have charged four hotel employees with the murder of Irish woman Michaela Harte-McAreavey, who was slain during her honeymoon on the Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius.
The 27-year-old teacher was killed two days after arriving in the African country. Harte-McAreavey was the daughter of a prominent manager in Gaelic football, Mickey
Harte, and had married Gaelic footballer John McAreavey on Dec. 30.
