hImmigrant cabdriver returns lost diamonds

hImmigrant cabdriverreturns lost diamonds
LOS ANGELES -- Cabdriver Haider Sediqi, an Aghan immigrant, waits for his next fare outside his cab. He discovered a pouch containing about 100 diamonds worth $350,000 after dropping off a passenger at Los Angeles International Airport this week. With the pouch was a cell-phone bill. Sediqi called the number and arranged to return the diamonds to their owner.
Man charged in '68 killing
APPLETON, Wis. -- A 75-year-old man was arrested at a group home and charged Friday with murdering a night watchman during a robbery at a car dealership nearly 40 years ago. District Attorney Carrie Schneider said authorities decided to charge Robert D. Mitchell after he recently confirmed information that investigators had gotten from others. In court papers, authorities said Mitchell had confessed to involvement in the crime to a friend and a girlfriend. Martin J. Jansen, 34, was shot twice in the head with a shotgun in 1968 when he interrupted a burglary at a Buick dealership in the town of Grand Chute, where he worked as a part-time night watchman and janitor.
Jury orders Blake to pay $30M in wife's death
BURBANK, Calif. Eight months after Robert Blake was acquitted at a criminal trial of murdering his wife, a civil jury decided Friday the tough-guy actor was behind the slaying, and ordered him to pay Bonny Lee Bakley's children $30 million. The jury deliberated eight days before ruling in a 10-2 vote that the former "Baretta" star "intentionally caused the death" of Bakley, who was gunned down in 2001 in the actor's car outside a restaurant where the couple had just dined. The plaintiffs had argued that Blake either killed Bakley himself or hired someone to do so. The jury was not asked to decide which theory it believed. However, the panel decided that Blake's handyman, Earle Caldwell, did not collaborate in the killing.
Police believe missing girlwas killed long ago
AURORA, Colo. -- Police used dogs to search for the body of a missing 6-year-old girl Friday, a day after authorities said they believe the child had been killed and that her father and his girlfriend were "persons of interest" in the case. Aaron Thompson reported his daughter Aarone missing on Monday, but police accused him of lying and said she may have been killed more than a year ago. The search for the missing girl was called off late Wednesday and became a homicide investigation after a tip that someone had killed Aarone at her home, interim Police Chief Terry Jones said. Aarone should be celebrating her seventh birthday in a couple of weeks, but she was not enrolled in school, and investigators could not find any pictures of her older than age 4 1/2, Jones said.
Police seek suspect who faked being firefighter
NEW YORK -- He is not a killer, a mobster or a terrorist. But a bizarre sexual assault, a cat-and-mouse manhunt and a tabloid feeding frenzy have combined to make a failed fashion writer named Peter Braunstein the most wanted man in New York City. Detectives want to question Braunstein, 41, about a Halloween night episode in which a woman was molested for 13 hours by a man who bluffed his way into her apartment by posing as a firefighter coming to her rescue. Police cannot find him -- despite a $12,000 reward, a mug shot that has become a front-page mainstay and repeated appeals by his father to give up.
Nigerians convicted
LAGOS, Nigeria -- Two Nigerians were convicted Friday in an international fraud scheme that led to the collapse of a Brazilian bank, anti-corruption officials said. Frank Nwude and Nzeribe Okoli were found guilty of working with an official of Banco Noroeste of Sao Paolo to steal $242 million over seven years -- a fraud related to promised kickbacks on a bogus Nigerian airport contract. The Brazilian bank collapsed as a result of the fraud. According to prosecution documents, a bank worker was promised $13.4 million in kickbacks from an $187 million airport contract if he paid certain fees up front.
Associated Press