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| Ninety people arrested across U.S. in $260 million Medicare fraud | | | By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - Ninety people, including doctors, pharmacy owners and elderly patients, were arrested this week in six cities and charged with submitting fake billings to Medicare worth nearly $260 million, federal officials said on Tuesday. \"They each tried to use the Medicare program as their own personal ATM machine and to line their pockets with our money,\" U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer told reporters. Since 2007, when federal agencies stepped up efforts to crack down on Medicare fraud, authorities have arrested and charged more than 1,900 people who collectively have falsely billed more than $6 billion to the government health program for the elderly and disabled. A majority of the recent arrests were made in south Florida, which has emerged as a hotbed of Medicare fraud. |
| Sudanese woman may face death for choosing Christianity over Islam | | | A Sudanese court gave a 27-year-old woman until Thursday to abandon her newly adopted Christian faith and return to Islam or face a death sentence, judicial sources said on Monday. Mariam Yahya Ibrahim was charged with apostasy as well as adultery for marrying a Christian man, something prohibited for Muslim women to do and which makes the marriage void. Ibrahim's case was the first of its kind to be heard in Sudan. Young Sudanese university students have mounted a series of protests near Khartoum University in recent weeks asking for an end to human rights abuses, more freedoms and better social and economic conditions. |
| Five students injured in shooting near Atlanta area high school | | | By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - Five students were shot near an Atlanta area high school on Tuesday afternoon, although none of the injuries was life threatening, police said. The shooting occurred near Therrell High School in southwest Atlanta, Atlanta Police Department spokesman John Chafee said in an email statement. The high school was briefly locked down, although the shooting did not take place on its grounds, the Atlanta Public Schools system said. Those shot were believed to be students from Therrell High School, it added. |
| Man crashes truck into Maryland TV station building | |  By John Clarke ANNAPOLIS Md. (Reuters) - A 29-year old man who said he was God crashed a truck through the glass doors of a Maryland television news station building on Tuesday and barricaded himself inside before being arrested hours later, police and witnesses said. The man banged on the doors of WMAR-TV in Towson, just outside of Baltimore, asking to be let inside shortly before noon (1600 GMT). When he was refused, he crashed a truck into the lobby and made his way to the second floor, police said. From the beginning, it was clear we were dealing with a very disturbed individual,\" Baltimore County Police Chief James Johnson said at a press conference.
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| Separatists kill seven Ukraine soldiers in heaviest loss for Kiev forces | |  By Richard Balmforth and Alissa de Carbonnel KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists ambushed Ukrainian troops on Tuesday, killing seven in the heaviest loss of life for government forces in a single clash since Kiev sent soldiers to put down a rebellion in the country's east. With the uprising and Russia's annexation of Crimea poisoning East-West relations, Moscow retaliated against U.S. sanctions by hitting aerospace projects, including refusing to extend the life of the International Space Station, a showcase of post-Cold War cooperation. In Kiev, Ukraine's defence ministry and state security service said the troops were killed and seven others wounded when their armoured column was ambushed near the town of Kramatorsk, one of several hot spots in the largely Russian-speaking east where the army has had scant success against the rebels. About 30 rebels, who had taken cover among bushes along a river, attacked with grenade-launchers and automatic weapons near a village 20 km (12 miles) from Kramatorsk, the ministry said in a statement on its website.
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| Puerto Rico priest arrested on child sex abuse charges | | | U.S. authorities on Tuesday arrested a 58-year-old Catholic priest in Puerto Rico on child sexual abuse charges, marking the first such detention in the U.S. territory by federal officials. Israel Berrios was taken into custody at a relative's home in the rural town of Naranjito, said Ivan Ortiz, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Berrios was arrested after a federal grand jury delivered four charges against him for sexual trafficking of minors and transportation of a minor with the intention of involving the minor in an illicit sexual act, Ortiz said. Berrios faces a sentence from 10 years to life in prison. |
| Widow sues Porsche over crash that killed actor Paul Walker | |  Design defects of a Porsche sports car caused the crash that killed actor Paul Walker, the widow of the car's driver said in a lawsuit against the automaker, alleging negligence and wrongful death among other claims. Kristine Rodas says in the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday that a suspension failure of the 2005 Porsche Carrera GT led to her late husband losing control of the vehicle before it careened into trees and a utility pole killing Walker and driver Roger Rodas last November. Walker's death at age 40 led to a temporary halt in production of \"Fast & Furious 7,\" the successful movie series about illegal street racing that helped popularize his career. Rodas' attorney, citing expert inspections of the crash, say in the lawsuit that Roger Rodas, an experienced race car driver, was traveling at 55 miles per hour (89 km per hour) on a street in Santa Clarita, California, at the time of the crash, below the speed Los Angeles County Sheriff investigators said.
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| Oracle faces scrutiny over $1.3 billion verdict against SAP | |  By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court appeared skeptical on Tuesday about reinstating a $1.3 billion jury verdict won by Oracle Corp against SAP, in a case where the European software company admitted massive copyright infringement. At a court hearing on Tuesday, two 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges also suggested Oracle may deserve more than the roughly $300 million it had been assigned by a lower court. A Northern California jury awarded Oracle $1.3 billion in 2010 over accusations that SAP AG subsidiary, TomorrowNow, wrongfully downloaded millions of Oracle files. SAP had acquired TomorrowNow as part of a strategy to provide software support to Oracle customers at lower rates than what Oracle charged, and eventually convince some of those companies to become SAP customers.
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| U.S. seeks prison time for ex-Guatemalan leader after bribe plea | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are pushing for a prison sentence for former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo that ensures he remains behind bars after admitting to taking $2.5 million in bribes from Taiwan and laundering funds through U.S. banks. Lawyers for Portillo have asked a federal judge in New York to sentence the fallen leader to time served, citing the years he has spent detained in prisons in Guatemala and the United States since his arrest in January 2010. \"The defendant should receive a substantial punishment for using the United States' banking system as a means of transferring millions of dollars of his corruptly obtained funds,\" prosecutors wrote. Sentencing before U.S. District Judge Robert Patterson is scheduled for May 22. |
| French journalist murdered in Central African Republic- Hollande | | | A French journalist has been murdered in Central African Republic, President Francois Hollande's office said in a statement on Tuesday, the first Western reporter to be killed in the country since France sent troops there in December. Camille Lepage, 26, a freelance photojournalist, had been based in South Sudan since July 2012. French troops found her body in a car they had stopped, the presidency said in a statement. Thousands of French and African troops have failed to stop the intercommunal violence. |
| Russia targets space station project in retaliation for U.S. sanctions | | | By Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia cast doubt on the long-term future of the International Space Station, a showcase of post-Cold War cooperation, as it retaliated on Tuesday against U.S. sanctions over Ukraine. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Moscow would reject a U.S. request to prolong the orbiting station's use beyond 2020, and bar Washington from using Russian-made rocket engines to launch military satellites. Moscow took the action, which also included suspending operation of GPS satellite navigation system sites on its territory from June, in response to U.S. plans to deny export licences for high-technology items that could help the Russian military. |
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