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A judge on Monday entered not guilty pleas for the man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death last year. Bryan Kohberger, 28, has been charged with burglary and four counts of first-degree murder in connection with the November 2022 deaths. He declined to enter pleas on his own, and the judge in Latah County District Court entered them on his behalf. Kohberger, who was a graduate student studying criminology at Washington State University at the time of the killings, was arrested and charged last year and indicted by a grand jury last week.

With the passing of Martin Milner of Adam 12 today.. I donated another 12 bucks to Free Republic. I challenge all to match that 12 so we can put this to bed Prayers up for the Milner family and friends Thank you all Alan R

WASHINGTON - As Sen. Tom Harkin (news, bio, voting record) drafted letters to the Bush administration on behalf of an Iowa tribe, he had no shortage of ideas for wording: A tribal lobbyist who donated to the Democrat's campaign suggested language for him to use. Harkin wrote at least three letters in 2003 pressing the government to release federal money to help the Sac & Fox tribe in his state cope with the temporary closing of its casino due to a tribal dispute, according to Interior Department documents obtained by The Associated Press and records provided by Harkin's office. In...

CRYSTAL RIVER - Too weary to walk, the father and grandparents of a missing 9-year-old girl drove the 50 yards from their home to a bank of microphones and TV cameras. "I really ... I really need as much help as I can right now," Mark Lunsford said between sobs. "I need my daughter home." Jessica Marie Lunsford was reported missing Thursday morning. She was still missing when Lunsford, 41, and his parents addressed the media for the first time at 9 a.m. Friday. And she was still missing long after darkness fell and well-wishers held candles and prayed. For...

More flee Darfur as pleas to Bashir go unheeded By David Blair, Africa Correspondent (Filed: 14/10/2004) An upsurge of fighting in Darfur has forced a further 220,000 people to flee their homes for refugee camps and severely disrupted the international relief effort, the United Nations said yesterday. The situation in Sudan's war-torn western region has continued to worsen despite heavy pressure on President Omar al-Bashir's regime and constant official assurances that the violence would be curbed.Members of the Sudanese Liberation Army on parade Mr al-Bashir repeated these pledges when he met Tony Blair in Khartoum last week and agreed to...

<p>What a field day for the heat. A thousand people in the street. A-singin' songs and carryin' signs. Mostly say, "Don't you dare cut any of our programs!"</p> <p>With apologies to Buffalo Springfield, the annual summer budget fight has started early in Sacramento. Welfare mothers, students and many others are showing up at the Capitol to beg us lawmakers to give them your money.</p>

Saudis step up pleas for 'acquittal' over September 11 attacks By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 31/07/2003) Saudi Arabia's campaign to clear itself in the court of American public opinion of involvement with the September 11 attacks was stepped up yesterday with an offer to let the United States interrogate a Saudi official. Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, in Washington for a hastily arranged meeting with President Goerge W Bush, said he had granted a request from the US national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to question Omar al-Bayoumi.But the prince declined to say if his government would extradite...

Go to the source URL and click on "Indictments, Pleas, and Convictions" to review the extent that Whitewater corruption was exposed and successfully prosecuted ... and to see the list of related pardons granted by Clinton on his final day in office.