Daniel Wilkey, a former sheriff s deputy in Hamilton County, Tenn., had 44 charges, including rape, sexual battery, oppression and extortion, dismissed after a prosecutor didn t provide investigative material to support the charges.
Seven Buddhist monks are among nine suspects who are being held in pretrial detention after being arrested for allegedly embezzling assets worth about 300 million baht (US$8.9 million) from donations received by a temple in Thailand s northeast, authorities said Thursday.