U.S. man convicted of pipeline, energy attack plan
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SCRANTON, Pennsylvania  - A Pennsylvania man was convicted on Friday of plotting to blow up U.S. oil pipelines and energy installations and of attempting to enlist al Qaeda militants on the Internet to help carry out his plan.
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Jose Padilla, a Chicago gang member once accused by the Bush administration of plotting a radioactive bomb attack, was sentenced by a U.S. court on Tuesday to 17 years and four months in prison for supporting terrorism.
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Farc leader Ricardo Palmera is convicted in the US over the kidnapping of three Americans in Colombia.
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A U.S. federal jury convicted the former owner and president of ATE Tel Solutions Inc., a telecommunications and Internet service provider, on seven of nine counts of wire fraud in a scheme to defraud the E-Rate program, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.
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An American who served as Iraqâs electricity minister before being jailed on corruption charges.
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A man who police said deliberately caused a natural gas leak in a suicide bid, leading to an explosion that damaged dozens of homes, has been charged with arson, aggravated assault and other offenses.
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A top Colombian guerrilla leader was convicted on Tuesday in a U.S. court on charges she conspired to import cocaine into the United States to raise cash to buy weapons and ammunition.
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An Iraqi-American illegally acted as  an agent for Iraq under Saddam Hussein and received millions of  dollars worth of oil from the country's U.N. oil-for-food  program, U.S. court documents showed on Tuesday.
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The charges include the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker and plotting to kill the United States ambassador. One man was sentenced to death for killing a Yemeni police officer and seven received 10 year prison terms.
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LA CROSSE, Wis. - A man who said he threw a live electrical wire into his wife's bath hoping a near-death experience would save their marriage was convicted of attempted first-degree intentional homicide Wednesday.
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The last of four former El Paso Corp. natural gas traders charged with making false reports used to calculate the index price of natural gas has pleaded guilty, US Attorney Michael Shelby announced Friday.
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BLOOMSBURG, Pa. - A man was convicted of using a specially rigged system in his car to spray a family's vehicle with a chemical mixture.
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A man who applied for a temporary position at a nuclear power plant but was not hired has been convicted of theft for refusing to return &#36;2,194 in wages that were accidentally mailed to him because of a paperwork mistake.
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By Wendy Leonard Deseret Morning News  A man who intentionally caused a widespread Internet blackout in the Vernal area earlier this yea was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison.
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The first American civilian charged with mistreating a detainee during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was convicted Thursday of assaulting an Afghan man who later died.
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A former state legislator was convicted Tuesday of trading his legislative influence for bribes from a company that was seeking to profit from a proposed natural gas pipeline.
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri  - A federal judge resentenced David Wittig, the former chief executive of Westar Energy Inc. , to 24 months in prison for bank fraud on Monday.