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A Moroccan named in newspapers as a possible suspect in the London bombings has pleaded his innocence. Mohammed al Qarbouzy said he was not on the run and was not being hunted by police, who knew his address. Reports have said police across Europe are looking for him in connection with Thursday's London bombings which have killed at least 49 people. Mr Qarbouzy was speaking in London when he gave his interview to Arab television station al Jazeera. He said: "I affirm that I am not in hiding or on the run and the British police are not looking for...

YEONGJONGDO, South Korea, June 14 (Yonhap) -- Kim Woo-choong, founder of the now-defunct Daewoo Group, arrived Tuesday from Vietnam after being in hiding overseas for nearly six years, a return which is likely to touch off a heated debate over his contribution to the economy. The 69-year-old former business tycoon, wearing a dark suit, looked tired and appeared along with investigators of the prosecution. After being surrounded by hundreds of reporters and protesters, Kim was whisked to the Supreme Prosecutors' Office for the start of an investigation which is likely to ripple through the political and business communities. Kim,...

VENICE BEACH, California -- One of Northeast Ohio's most wanted fugitives has been captured Monday afternoon. John Dallas Lockhart, a 36-year-old attorney from Akron, was arrested by Akron Police detectives and United States Deputy Marshals in Venice Beach, California. Lockhart has been on the run since August of 2004 days before prosecutors filed a series of sex crimes charges against him, including the rape of a 4-month-old baby girl. What prosecutors call photo evidence of the crimes was recovered from a computer Lockhart shared with a business associate. United States Marshal Peter J. Elliott tells Channel 3 News "Lockhart had...

Rape Suspect Surrenders Himself In SerbiaMay 27, 2005 10:48 am US/Central CHICAGO (AP) A man police allege took part in the videotaped rape of a teenage girl was expected to return to Chicago on Friday, days after giving himself up in Serbia after eight months on the run. Adrian Missbrenner, 20, and others allegedly videotaped themselves in December 2002 having sex with a 16-year-old girl during a party at the Missbrenner family's suburban Burr Ridge home. Authorities said the girl was too drunk to consent to the sex acts. Missbrenner disappeared eight months ago while free on bail. He surrendered...

A Predator In Paradise Police created this sketch of a predator who attacked young children. A man who was arrested for preying on children at a popular tourist spot near Disneyworld is on the run. Police say 31-year-old Emanuel Veiga, a Brazilian citizen in the United States on a work visa has disappeared, and police fear he's victimizing more children. In 2003, there'd been dozens of sexual assaults near Disneyworld; the youngest victim was just nine years old. Most of the victims had been ambushed in hotel elevators or stairwells. For months, cops say the predator stalked, attacked and violated numerous small children. Then, it...

Osama bin Laden is on the run with a small band of fighters, but his al-Qaida network has been paralyzed by Pakistani government forces, the country's foreign minister was quoted as saying Friday. Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri declined to say whether Pakistan had specific information on the whereabouts of the world's most wanted fugitive, accused by the U.S. of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and the Pentagon. ``Osama bin Laden is alive and moving around from place to place, but not with a large group of people,'' Kasuri was quoted as saying in the English-language newspaper...

Clerics strip fugitive Taliban leader of power By Tom Coghlan in Kandahar (Filed: 20/05/2005) A crowd of 600 Afghan clerics gathered in front of an historic mosque yesterday to strip the fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar of his claim to religious authority, in a ceremony that provided a significant boost to the presidency of Hamid Karzai. The declaration, signed by 1,000 clerics from across the country, is an endorsement of the US-backed programme of reconciliation with more moderate elements of the Taliban movement that Karzai has been pursuing ahead of the country's first parliamentary elections, due in September. Symbolically,...

A former North Myrtle Beach High School teacher who had a sexual relationship with a student for about a year declared his love for the girl Tuesday just before he was sentenced to six years in prison for criminal sexual conduct with a minor. Stephen George Zeltman told the court: "She's an angel. My actions hurt my angel." The girl, who is not being identified because she was 14 when the pair began their relationship in March 2002, now is 18. Zeltman is 50. "They had a consensual relationship," Assistant 15th Circuit Solicitor Karen Hanebrink said. "They considered themselves boyfriend...

Atlanta Killings Suspect Pleads Not Guilty ATLANTA - Courthouse shooting suspect Brian Nichols pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges including four shooting deaths. A 54-count indictment has accused Nichols of murder, kidnapping, escape and other charges related to the March 11 shootings at the downtown Fulton County Courthouse. A judge and court reporter were killed inside a courtroom. Outside, a sheriff's deputy was killed and a federal agent was killed north of downtown. Nichols, 33, was arrested in suburban Gwinnett County 26 hours after the shootings started. He was on trial on a rape charge at the time of the...

05/04/2005 By BRUCE SCHREINER / Associated Press Russell Winstead spent two years eluding Kentucky authorities who wanted him in the brutal slaying of his aunt, but his luck eventually ran out at a casino in Costa Rica. Winstead was arrested Tuesday by Costa Rican authorities at a casino in the capital city of San Jose. Kentucky prosecutors were eager to try him on murder and first-degree robbery charges. "It's a day we've been waiting for," Hopkins County Commonwealth's Attorney David Massamore said Wednesday in reacting to Winstead's arrest. Winstead, 40, fled in June 2003. A month later he was indicted...

Feds offer $1 million reward for fugitive Chesimard EWING, N.J. -- Fugitive cop killer Joanne Chesimard is now on the same terrorist watch lists that include Osama bin Laden. In an indication of how badly New Jersey authorities still want to recapture the Black Liberation Army member who executed a state trooper as he lay on the ground 32 years ago, the bounty on Chesimard's head was increased Monday from $150,000 to $1 million. State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes said he hopes the sweetened reward will encourage someone to come forward with information leading to the capture of Chesimard,...

Roundup Nabs More Than 10,000 Fugitives By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - More than 10,000 fugitives, many wanted for violent crimes, were rounded up over the past week in a coordinated nationwide effort led by U.S. marshals. Officers from 960 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies took part in the concentrated search, which coincided with Crime Victims Rights Week, officials said. The dragnet caught 10,340 people, some of whom had two or more outstanding arrest warrants, Justice Department officials said. More than 150 who were arrested were wanted for murder, another 550 were sought on rape or...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. State Department said Monday it was offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the capture and conviction of the last remaining fugitive wanted for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. In a statement released in Baghdad, the State Department said it was looking for Iraqi-American Abdul Rahman Yasin, 45, believed to have helped build the bomb used in the Feb. 26, 1993, attack that killed six people. The statement described Yasin as being 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing about 180 pounds. He is epileptic and "possibly...

Thomas Herman was sitting in his Boston law office Tuesday afternoon when his secretary told him a "Norman Porter'' was on the phone from Cook County lockup. "Can you imagine?'' said Herman, who represented the escaped convict 20 years ago. "I said, 'Norman, are you OK?' He chuckled and said, 'I'm all right. They are treating me well.'" Herman and others who knew Porter were still reeling Wednesday with how suddenly a man who dodged law enforcement for decades was finally tracked down. A 12-year-old fingerprint match drew Porter out his underground life in Chicago as a poet, activist and...

BOSTON - In Massachusetts, he is a twice-convicted murderer who vanished after escaping from prison. In Illinois, he is a poet and anti-war protester devoted to his local Unitarian church. The two lives of Norman Porter crumbled in Chicago on Tuesday, when undercover police investigators arrested the man who 20 years ago fled from justice here and built a new life in Chicago. "He had us all fooled," said C.J. Laity, who knew Porter from poetry readings. "I've known him for many, many years. Obviously, I didn't know him as well as I thought." Porter waived extradition at a hearing...

ALARM - Bobby Fischer leaves Japan for Iceland TOKYO - the ex-champion of the American world of failures Bobby Fischer, held in Japan for eight month, flew away airport of Tokyo-Narita Thursday at the beginning of afternoon for Iceland, from which it obtained nationality, one learned near the airport authorities.

The United States demanded Tuesday that Japan hand over Bobby Fischer despite Iceland's move to accept the chess legend currently detained by Japanese immigration authorities since last July. "That's what we've asked for," Adam Ereli, deputy spokesman for the U.S. State Department, told reporters, when asked if the United States wants Japan to hand him over to the United States. Ereli expressed "disappointment" about the Icelandic parliament's decision Monday to grant citizenship to Fischer, 62. "It's an arrangement that we're disappointed by. Mr. Fischer is a fugitive from justice. There is a federal warrant for his arrest. He's being...

Authorities say Jesse James Hollywood, a fugitive wanted in the August 2000 kidnapping and slaying of a 15 year old boy, has been captured.

A Ramsey County sheriff's deputy was shot Wednesday on St. Paul's East Side while trying to arrest a reputed gang member, a fugitive from California whom police link to a Columbia Heights double homicide and the shooting of a Wisconsin grocery clerk this month. Deputy Chris Tayson, 42, was shot once in the abdomen, but the bullet didn't strike any critical organs. He underwent surgery at Regions Hospital and is expected to recover in a few days, Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said. Tayson, married with two children, is a 12-year veteran of the department. A large perimeter was established,...

Estranged husband shoots wife in car in front of 13 year old daughter Police are searching for Raymond G. DiLorenzo, described by witnesses as: - 5 feet, 5 or 5 feet, 6 inches tall - weighing 265 pounds - with some facial hair - wearing a light-colored jacket at the time of the incident. - driving a Nissan Pulsar with the license plate (NY)CRZ3365. Assumed to be armed with a "hunting rifle"