Activist Charged With Blackmailing Yankee
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A federal judge refused to dismiss charges Thursday against a self-styled community activist accused of attempting to blackmail New York Yankees slugger Gary Sheffield and his wife with a purported sex videotape, and ordered him held in jail.
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A Connecticut man was arrested on Tuesday on charges that he illegally sold a secret source code used for Microsoft Corp.&#39;s MSFT.
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CHICAGO -- Federal authorities have seized a videotape believed to be at the center of an alleged blackmail attempt against New York Yankees slugger Gary Sheffield and his wife, a prosecutor said.
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An anti-prostitution activist known for videotaping prostitutes and their customers and giving the footage to police and television shows now faces accusations that he set up some of the sexual encounters so he could capture them on camera.
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Employees of some of Wall Street's top banks were among more than a dozen people charged on Thursday in what authorities called one of the most pervasive insider trading rings since the 1980s, accused of using leaked information and even blackmail to make millions of dollars.
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BEIJING, Feb. 1 -- Hu Jia, an online human rights activist detained last month, has been formally charged with inciting subversion against the Chinese government, human rights groups reported Friday.
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Federal authorities have seized a videotape believed to be at the center of an alleged blackmail attempt against Yankees slugger Gary Sheffield and his wife, a prosecutor said.
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A man was charged on Sunday with threatening US Vice President Dick Cheney during a campaign stop in Michigan, according to the US Secret Service on Monday.
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Man had been charged with one of the largest such scams in U.S. history.
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A New York state employee who had access to government-owned archives has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of historic documents, many of which he sold on eBay, authorities said on Monday.
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A man who allegedly stored nearly 1,500 pounds of potassium nitrate and other chemicals in his Staten Island home and a nearby storage facility was charged with reckless endangerment Friday, according to the New York City Police Department.
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A dog let out to chase foxes by his owner, a sheriff's deputy, was picked up by an animal rights activist who now faces a felony theft charge.
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By The Associated Press. Yankees outfielder Gary Sheffield said yesterday that he and his wife were the targets of a blackmailer who claimed to have embarrassing videotapes showing her having sex with a professional musician.
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By Matt Gryta, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Mar. 8--The attorney for the main suspect in the disappearance of two  elderly Southtowns women complained today about prosecutors using anonymous  "sources" to keep his client jailed on six-figure bail in an unrelated house  burglary.
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An engineer at a nuclear power plant has been charged with sending threatening letters containing a powdery substance to a country club where President Bush is scheduled to appear Tuesday for a Republican campaign event.
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A man who purported to offer rare sports cards including that of baseball legend Mickey Mantle has been charged with defrauding eBay (EBAY.
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VERNON TOWNSHIP, N.J. - An animal rights activist protesting the state's bear control methods locked herself into a bear trap Monday before being arrested...