Calif. Man Gets Prison for Aiming Laser at Planes
A Southern California man who aimed a laser beam at two airliners as they approached an airport has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for disrupting the flights. Read Full Story From Newsvine
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Manoj Kohli, chief executive of India's biggest mobile phone group Bharti Airtel, told an industry conference in Hong Kong that his firm is aiming to almost double its customer base to 200 million people in the next few years. |
Prosecutors say former staff Sgt. Bryan Damone Cunningham pleaded guilty Friday to felony charges of committing lewd acts and sodomy with a child under 14. |
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he believes the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, can be closed next year, but he acknowledged that he will not meet his original January deadline. |
 | The governing board of the University of California approved a $2,500 student fee increase Thursday after two days of tense campus protests across the state.
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 | Washington state authorities have charged a laser eye surgeon with trying to have two colleagues killed. Local media reported that Dr. Michael Mockovak allegedly paid $10,000 to an informant to have a business partner murdered.
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 | Retired NBA star Jayson Williams has cut a plea deal that would send him to prison for up to three years for accidentally shooting a driver at his New Jersey estate in 2002, according to a source with knowledge of the case.
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 | Recently thirty-five inmates were indicted for cell phone use in New Jersey prisons. Law enforcement officials say most of them are gang members. Across the country cell phones are finding a way into prisoner's hands. Nearly 400 cell phones were confiscated from prisoners in New Jersey last year.
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 | Out of 6,300 suggestions, San Diego Zoo managers have chosen a name for a baby panda born this summer. Zoo officials announced that the 3-month-old black-and-white ball of fur will be called Yun Zi.
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 | Dubai air show highlights growing demand for planes in the Mideast.
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 | A game with roots in Belgium is something of a Detroit fixture. Featherbowling has players roll wooden balls down a dirt lane, aiming to place the wobbling ball closest to a single pigeon feather sticking out of the earth.
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