Tom Hays

December 18, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - A fan obsessed with RB star Ashanti composed a barrage of creepy text messages detailing his lewd fantasies about the multiplatinum-selling singer, her mother testified Thursday at the man's trial.Tina Douglas told a Manhattan jury that Devard Hurd also attached photos of male genitals to some of the more than 30 rambling text messages sent to her cell phone over several weeks earlier this year.

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June 23, 2010 | Daily Report Online

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August 05, 2008 | Daily Report Online

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January 19, 2010 | Daily Report Online

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December 09, 2008 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - Four attackers may have mistaken two brothers walking arm in arm as gay before using an aluminum baseball bat, a bottle and their feet to beat one of them into critical condition, New York City police said Monday.One of the attackers used an anti-gay slur when first confronting the brothers, Ecuadorean immigrants who were walking down a Brooklyn street early Sunday after a night of drinking.

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May 15, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - A court-appointed trustee unraveling Bernard Madoff's massive fraud signaled Thursday that he may go after the disgraced financier's family to pay victim claims, which have grown to almost 9,000.Legal action against the family "is a matter that's being looked into," trustee Irving Picard said during a telephone conference call with reporters.

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September 24, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - Casting a wide net in a neighborhood where high-profile raids prompted nationwide terror warnings, investigators searched for anyone who might have been behind the alleged terror plot beyond an airport shuttle driver and two others, authorities said.The driver, Najibullah Zazi, his father and New York City imam Ahmad Wais Afzali all were scheduled to be in court for detention hearings later Thursday in Denver and New York.

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April 02, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - A judge, saying he wanted to send a message to "quick-buck artists," handed down stiff sentences Wednesday to two former executives and a lawyer with accounting firm KPMG for helping rich people evade more than a billion dollars in taxes.U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan sentenced former KPMG executive John Larson to more than 10 years in prison; a fellow executive, Robert Pfaff, received more than eight years.

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March 25, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - A law enforcement source says a teenager arrested for stabbing a veteran New York City radio reporter told police the victim offered him $60 for rough sex.Police officials say sixteen-year-old John Katehis KAY'tis confessed to killing George Weber shortly after being taken into custody late Tuesday in Middletown, N.

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July 14, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - A once-prominent Manhattan attorney was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison for a hatching a massive fraud in a brazen attempt to keep his law firm afloat and bankroll a lavish lifestyle.Prosecutors had sought 145 years behind bars for Marc Dreier. But the judge concluded he was "no Mr. Madoff" - a reference to disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, who last month received a 150-year term.

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