Cleared Atlanta Olympic bombing suspect dies
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A man named as a suspect in the Atlanta Olympic Park bombing of 1996 and later cleared without being charged has died at his home, a Georgia coroner said on Wednesday.
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A British contractor has been killed in a roadside bomb attack in southern Iraq, reports have said. The Foreign Office in London confirmed a Briton was dead in the incident in Basra, but gave no further details.
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ISLAMABAD : Pakistani security forces killed an Al-Qaeda kingpin allegedly behind an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf and indicted in the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl, a security official said.
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British police said Thursday that interim tests indicate Georgian billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili, a presidential candidate in the ex-Soviet republic who claimed he was targeted for assassination, had died of natural causes.
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LONDON, Dec. 20 -- A judge in Belfast on Thursday acquitted the only person ever charged with murder in the 1998 bombing in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh, which killed 29 people in the bloodiest attack of the province's three decades of sectarian violence.
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"Iran had the most potent motive of anybody for destroying an American airliner"  A Libyan man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing will find out on Thursday if he can appeal, potentially throwing the case wide open after nearly two decades. via The Epoch Times
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A Greek soldier guarding an Olympic  facility in Athens was shot dead Monday after apparently  playing game of Russian roulette with a policeman, security  sources said.
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A man wanted in connection with a homicide in California was arrested in Salt Lake City last week.  Police detectives from Oakland told Salt Lake City police they expected a Chris Wayne Emory, 20, to be making a stop in Salt Lake while traveling by Greyhound bus to Atlanta.
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PONCA CITY, Okla. - Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols will not appeal his state murder convictions for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, his attorney said Thursday...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Pakistan World Cup cricket coach Bob Woolmer died from natural causes and was not strangled as police earlier concluded, the Jamaican police commissioner said Tuesday in announcing the end of an international homicide investigation.
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A 25-year-old man from Georgia who was apparently distraught over President Bush's re-election shot and killed himself at ground zero. Andrew Veal's body was found Saturday morning inside the off-limits site, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. A shotgun was found nearby, but no suicide note was found, Coleman said.
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FAIRFAX, Va. - A judge dismissed an indictment Friday against convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, ruling that the state waited too long to try him for capital murder in the death of an FBI analyst who was shot in a store parking lot...
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A New York police detective died of lung disease caused by injecting ground-up pills not exposure to toxic air from working in the rubble of the World Trade Center after the September 11 attacks, the city's medical examiner said on Thursday.
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(Corrects headline and paragraph 2 to show cameraman died, not reporter)
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A Greek soldier guarding an Olympic facility in Athens has been shot dead after apparently playing game of Russian roulette with a policeman, security sources say.
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ATLANTA (Sports Network) - Atlanta Thrashers right wing  Dany Heatley, who is charged with vehicular homicide and five  other counts in the 2003 car crash that killed teammate Dan  Snyder, had his Wednesday arraignment waived by a judge.
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FAISALABAD: A suspect believed of having links with Al-Qaeda died in police custody in Pakistan on Wednesday, about a week after his arrest, police said.