Calif. man to plead guilty in terror case
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A man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a lesser charge rather than be retried on allegations that he lied to the FBI about his son&#039;s attendance at a terrorist training camp, according to court papers.
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Former Gov. John G. Rowland will plead guilty Thursday to federal charges in U.S. District Court, the Associated Press has learned.
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A man has decided to plead guilty to murder for the death of his 3-year-old foster son left bound up in a closet while he went to a family reunion, his attorney and the prosecutor said Monday.
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One of the American soldiers facing a court martial for his part in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal yesterday indicated he intended to plead guilty to at least some of the charges.
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An Army sergeant accused in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal will plead guilty to reduced charges next week as part of a deal with military prosecutors, his lawyer said Thursday.
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A third defendant in the O.J. Simpson memorabilia robbery case told a Las Vegas judge on Monday that he would plead guilty and testify against the former football star, a court official said.
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Australia's first convicted terrorist, who confessed to conspiring with Al-Qaeda to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra, wants a deal in exchange for testifying against terror suspects in foreign courts.
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former executive at Qwest Communications International, who was scheduled to go on trial next month on charges related to accounting irregularities, will plead guilty, his lawyer said yesterday.
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A man has agreed to plead guilty to trying to extort more than $1m (Â£494,000) from actor Tom Cruise.
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A California man was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison Monday for attending an al-Qaida terrorist training camp in Pakistan and plotting to attack targets in the United States.
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Third British-based man pleads guilty to using internet to spread extremist propaganda.
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The Golden State Warriors' Stephen Jackson pleaded guilty to charges stemming from firing a gun during a fight in Indiana last year under an agreement that will spare him jail time, officials said on Wednesday.
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A 19-year-old man has pleaded guilty to infecting thousands of businesses and U.S. government computers with the Blaster B virus.  Jeffrey Lee Parson of Hopkins, Minnesot...
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A California man pleaded guilty Friday to charges that he shut down the datacenter responsible for managing the state&#39;s electrical supply.Lonnie Denison, 33, is now facing as much as five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after admitting to breaking a glass cover and hitting the emergency &quot;off&quot; switch at the California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO) data center in Folsom, California, on April 15. By doing so, he shut off the power in the datacenter. He was formerly a contract Unix system administrator at the center.Cal-ISO is the nonprofit organization that manages California&#39;s power. By knocking these systems offline, Denison effectively cut the state off from the energy market, leaving California vulnerable to blackout conditions. No blackouts occurred, however, because the data center went down at 11:23 p.m. on a Sunday -- a time when electricity demand is typically at a lull. &quot;If this deliberate shut-off had occurred in the morning ... things would have been far more severe,&quot; wrote Matthew Amant, the California Highway Patrol officer assigned to investigate the incident, in an affidavit.It&#39;s not clear why Denison would have wanted to flip the switch on California&#39;s power, but according to U.S. attorneys, he was in a dispute with co-workers and just minutes before the incident had discovered that his computer privileges had been revoked.Prosecutors allege that he followed up the power outage by sending an e-mail bomb threat the next day to an unnamed Cal-ISO employee, saying, &quot;Hey, at one point I respected you ... you have a new kid. So this is only because of him. Get out before the timer expires. Not long now. Take care.&quot;Following this threat, Cal-ISO evacuated about 500 employees from all three of its Folsom campus buildings, transferring control of the grid to a second control center.That same day Denison spoke with a friend, admitting that he had tried to &quot;shut off the power grid,&quot; according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.The Sunday night incident knocked the data center down for about two hours, but it took 20 computer technicians about seven hours to fully restore the system. The total cost of the outage is estimated at $14,000.Denison, of Sacramento, California, is set to be sentenced on Feb. 29, 2008, in federal court.
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A California man whose abandoned  suicide bid was blamed for a fatal commuter train wreck last  month pleaded innocent on Tuesday to 11 counts of murder.
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A U.S. Marine accused in the April killing of an Iraqi man in the town of Hamdania pleaded guilty on Tuesday to lesser charges as part of an agreement with prosecutors.
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A man has been charged with preparing a terror attack, police say.