NCRI - The head of the Iranian regime's judiciary in southern city of Abadan has sentenced a man to hand amputation. He has also been sentenced to 10 months of imprisonment and 99 lashes for alleged financial crimes.
The state-run Mehr news agency, quoted Nematollah Behroozi on Wednesday (July 31) that also a woman working with him had been sentenced to 74 lashes and two years imprisonment for financial crimes and 99 lashes for alleged adultery.
Another man working with them had been charged with 74 lashes and two years imprisonment, the report said.
A New York waitress has been accused to pocketing tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for reducing patrons’ bills.
Judith Mejia, a long-time waitress at Cosmic Diner in midtown Manhattan, has been accused by the restaurant owners of reducing customers’ tabs in exchange for cash, according to the New York Post.
Mejia believes the allegations against her were brought on as retaliation for complaints she and fellow workers made regarding discriminatory behavior by their employers.
According to the lawsuit, which was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court last week, Mejia, who is still working at the diner, is accused of reducing patrons’ tabs in exchange for cash.
The lawsuit state she “fraudulently and secretly reduced the amount of the check” and “demanded, received and retained…bribes and kickbacks [from customers].”
The owners claim Mejia cost them at least $75,000 during her time with the diner.
A California news anchor is facing public-intoxication charges mere months after her disappearance sparked an extensive search.
On Monday, Paula Lopez of KEYT News was arrested near her home in Santa Barbara. She was charged with public -intoxication, taken into custody, and ultimately released with a citation to appear in court.
This weekend’s incident comes after Lopez’s disappearance on February 27. That day, Lopez’s family reported her missing, but shortly after, they reported to authorities that she had been found.
Neither her family nor authorities gave the reasoning for her disappearance, with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department simply stating, “We are not commenting on the reasons surrounding why Ms. Lopez went missing due to the fact it is a private family matter.”
She later claimed her disappearance was a result of neglecting medical issues including dehydration and pneumonia.
Lopez is the wife of Superior Court Judge Frank Ochoa, with whom she has three children. She is a co-anchor for the ABC affiliate’s 11 p.m. news. However, since the February incident, Lopez has not been anchoring the news as regularly.
A German man died while vacationing in Spain after he attempted to jump into a pool from a balcony.
The tourist, whose name and age were not released, jumped from a fifth-floor balcony of a hotel in the Catalonia region. He was attempting to jump into the pool below, but did not make it.
It is unclear if he slipped, did not jump far enough, or was injured once in the pool.
Investigators have not determined if drugs or alcohol were involved in the jump, which is just the latest in a series of accidents involving “ballooning.”
The jump reportedly occurred at around 1 a.m.
The Sheriff San Diego County, California reported that in the last days they have arrested 375 people suspected of collaborating with drug traffickers in Mexico.
The sheriff’s deputy, Ed Pendergast said the operation “Allied Shield Four” included over a thousand police officers from different locations.
Pendergast reported that the operation had been directed against drug-related offenders and gang organizations.
He also said that authorities had reviewed activities of offenders on parole in San Diego County.
According to him, this operation has slowed traffic and distribution of drugs in the United States, as well as the output of weapons and cash to the Mexican Drug Cartels.
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BANGKOK — An American tourist was stabbed to death in a fight over music at a bar in a beach town in Thailand, police said.
Bobby Ray Carter Jr., 51, died at a hospital of a stab wound in his chest after a brawl broke out early Wednesday at the bar at Ao Nang beach in Krabi province, police Lt. Col. Jongrak Pimthong said.
He said Carter, a Texas native, was intoxicated, began singing with the band and refused to leave the stage to let other customers sing.
"Witnesses said Carter got angry when the band played 'Hotel California' instead of the song he requested, and he refused to step down," Krabi city police chief Col. Taksin Pochakorn said.
Police said the band then stopped playing and Carter and his 27-year-old son got into an argument with the musicians.
Jongrak said Carter was stabbed in his chest with an iron rod during the fight outside the bar and his son was injured in the head.
The three band members were arrested and face charges of causing death by physical attack.
Ao Nang is a popular spot for foreign tourists on Thailand's west coast.
MANILA, Philippines - International organizations promoting journalists' rights and welfare decry the murder of two Filipino tabloid columnists.
France-based Reporters Without Borders said it is appalled by Tuesday's murder of Bonifacio Loreto and Richard Kho of Aksyon Ngayon Newspaper.
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“It is obvious from the method used that this double murder was premeditated,” Reporters Without Borders said on its website. “The two journalists were clearly targeted and were gunned down in cold blood. We urge the police to actively consider the possibility that they were killed in connection with their work. It seems the most likely explanation at this point.”
Meanwhile, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) also asked Philippine authorities for a comprehensive probe on the incident.We urge police to investigate these murders thoroughly and identify the motive behind this double murder," CPJ senior Southeast Asia representative Shawn Crispin said on the group's website.
"President Benigno Aquino and the authorities under his command must do more to bring to an end to the impunity in the killing of journalists in the Philippines," he added.
According to Reporters Without Borders, the recent media killing is second shooting involving a journalist in the past month on LuzonIf the current suspicions are confirmed, yesterday’s double murder brings the number of journalists killed in connection with the their work in the Philippines to five since the start of the year," the group said.
The Philippines is ranked 140th out of 179 countries in the 2013 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index.
Based on CPJ research, at least 73 Filipino journalists have been killed in direct connection to their work since 1992, making the Philippines the second deadliest country in the world for the press.
At least 55 journalist murders in the past decade have been unresolved, the CPJ said.
The country ranks third on CPJ's Impunity Index, which calculates unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country's population
