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| Venezuela protesters, troops clash, death toll at six | | Friday, February 21, 2014 3:56 AM | |
|  By Andrew Cawthorne and Daniel Wallis CARACAS (Reuters) - Security forces and protesters fought around Venezuela on Thursday in streets blocked by burning barricades and a supporter of socialist President Nicolas Maduro was shot dead, the sixth fatality from more than a week of violence. Maduro said a "fascist bullet" killed Alexis Martinez, a brother of a ruling Socialist Party legislator, in the central city of Barquisimeto. The protesters, mostly students, want Maduro to resign, and blame his government for violent crime, high inflation, shortages of goods and alleged repression of opponents. The most sustained clashes on Thursday were in the western Andean states of Tachira and Merida, which have been especially volatile since hardline opposition leaders called supporters onto the streets in early February.
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| Two men plead guilty in 2011 Dodger Stadium beating | | Friday, February 21, 2014 1:43 AM | |
| | By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two men were sentenced to prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to charges stemming from the severe beating of a San Francisco Giants fan outside Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on opening day of the baseball season in 2011. Bryan Stow, a 45-year-old paramedic and father of two from Northern California, was left with brain damage from the attack in the stadium's parking lot after a game between the Dodgers and Giants on March 31, 2011. Stow's beating raised questions about security at Dodger Stadium and led to calls to address violence tied to sports rivalries. Louie Sanchez, who was accused of attacking Stow from behind and knocking him to the ground, pleaded guilty to a felony count of mayhem, which includes physical attack, and was sentenced to eight years in prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in a written statement. |
| New York police surveillance of Muslims constitutional: judge | | Friday, February 21, 2014 1:39 AM | |
| | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's secret police surveillance of mosques, Muslim businesses and a Muslim student group in New Jersey did not violate the U.S. Constitution, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. U.S. District Judge William Martini in Newark, New Jersey, threw out a lawsuit brought by several New Jersey Muslims who claimed the New York Police Department illegally targeted them for undercover monitoring solely because of their religion. The plaintiffs in the case, led by Syed Farhaj Hassan, a U.S. Army reservist, claimed the program impaired their freedom of expression, caused them to stop attending religious services and threatened their careers. In a 10-page ruling, Martini said the city had persuasively argued that its surveillance was intended as an anti-terrorism, not an anti-Muslim, measure. |
| Venezuela protests rumble as demonstrators, troops face off | |  By Andrew Cawthorne and Daniel Wallis CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan security forces and demonstrators faced off in streets blocked by burning barricades in several provincial cities on Thursday as protests escalated against President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government. The protesters, mostly students, want Maduro to resign, and blame his government for violent crime, high inflation, product shortages and alleged repression of opponents. Thursday's most serious unrest was in the western Andean states of Tachira and Merida, which have been especially volatile since hardline opposition leaders called supporters onto the streets in early February demanding Maduro's departure. In the city of San Cristobal, which some residents are describing as a "war zone", many businesses remained shut as students and police faced off again.
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| Man called muse for 'Wolf of Wall Street' charged with fraud | |  By Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man who served prison time for conning Hollywood stars and reputedly inspired Leonardo DiCaprio's performance in "The Wolf of Wall Street" was in federal court on Thursday facing charges that he used a friend's credit card to buy liquor, a plane ticket and food, according to court filings. Dana Giacchetto, 51, a former investment advisor to A-listers like DiCaprio and singer Michael Stipe of the rock band R.E.M., was charged on Thursday in Manhattan federal court with two counts of fraud. Giacchetto served three years in prison in the early 2000s for fraud after being charged with swindling millions from his famous clients. His attorney Ronald Fischetti said his client "absolutely denies" the latest charges.
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| 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author, museum settle lawsuit over book | |  By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - A federal lawsuit that pitted "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee against the Alabama museum she accused of illegally profiting from her Pulitzer prize-winning book has been dismissed after the two sides reached a settlement. The reclusive author sued the Monroe County Heritage Museum in October, saying it had never paid her a licensing fee for using the novel's title and a mockingbird image on merchandise it sold in its gift shop. U.S. District Judge William Steele dismissed the case on Wednesday after attorneys said they were finalizing a settlement, court records show. The details of the agreement were not announced, and museum officials and attorneys for Lee had no comment on Thursday.
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| R&B singer Chris Brown to face the music at April assault trial | |  By Tom Ramstack WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Washington judge on Thursday set an April 17 trial for Grammy-winning R&B singer Chris Brown, who faces a misdemeanor assault charge stemming from an altercation outside a hotel. Brown, 24, who is at a California facility undergoing anger management treatment, did not appear at the hearing and was represented by two lawyers. Brown's probation was revoked following the Washington incident. A judge in Los Angeles turned down motion by prosecutors to jail Brown because of the assault charge, but ordered him to stay at a treatment facility for substance abuse and anger management.
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| Iran shuts reformist paper over comments on law | | | Iranian authorities shut a reformist newspaper on Thursday, less than a week after its launch, because it published comments critical of Islamic criminal law. "Aseman" (Sky) newspaper, a weekly magazine turned newspaper aligned with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, had quoted a political science professor describing eye-for-an-eye punishment as "inhumane." "The newspaper was banned for spreading lies and insulting Islam," an official from Tehran's Prosecutor's office told the official IRNA news agency. Numerous articles by Iran's hardline Fars News agency had called for the paper's closure, reflecting conservative displeasure with any challenge to shariah law, which mandates equal retribution for a crime. |
| Death toll from Islamist attack in northeast Nigeria doubles to 98 | | | By Ibrahim Mshelizza BAMA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen from Nigeria's Islamist Boko Haram sect killed 98 people in the northeastern town of Bama on Wednesday, residents there said after burying their folk, more than double the figure given by police a day earlier. Gunmen stormed the town in the early hours of Wednesday, firing on a school, shooting or burning to death dozens of people and trashing the palace of a traditional ruler of one of West Africa's oldest Islamic kingdoms. "We recovered 98 bodies that have already been buried since the attack," Akura Satomi, a pro-government civilian militia leader responsible for security in the town, told Reuters. The insurgents, fighting for an Islamic state in northern Nigeria and posing the main threat to Africa's top oil producer, seem to have adopted a tactic of maximum civilian casualties. |
| Lawyer sues over portrayal as degenerate 'Rugrat' in 'Wolf of Wall Street' | |  By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer has sued Paramount Pictures and the makers of "The Wolf of Wall Street" for $25 million in damages, saying he is portrayed as a toupee-wearing, degenerate drug user in the Oscar-nominated film. Andrew Greene, of New York, also wants the film based on the memoir of stock swindler Jordan Belfort, to be removed from theaters. Greene claims the character of Nicky "Rugrat" Koskoff in the movie directed by Martin Scorsese was repeatedly ridiculed about his toupee and is shown as a person having no moral or ethical values. Viacom Inc-owned Paramount Pictures said it had no comment when contacted about the lawsuit.
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