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worth tens how fast thousands of dollars in exchange for favors. good evening, i m iain page. i m lucy noland. the jury has made up of ten women and two men and seated yesterday. jeff cole was in the courtroom today. joins us live outside federal court in center city. jeff? reporter: lucy, this is a historic trial, right? you ve got a sitting da arc sitting da who s being tried for corruption bite federal government. the government says the district attorney williams accepted bribes and gifts. defrauded the government his mom s nursing home to support his sometime lavish lifestyle. in testimony this afternoon, prosecutors pressed on their claim that he misused about 20 grand supposed to go to his mom s care in the st. francis nursing home it s a non-profit. a nursing home collections person told the jury williams didn t seem to care about. didn t seem to want to pay. williams attorney argued it wasn t made clear to him what his financial obligations were. we press ....
the victims of charleston s mass murderer is laid to rest as an activist takes down the confederate flag the fight for rite assistance. the supreme court says same-sex marriage is legal, but the l.g.b.t. says more needs to be done for true equality we begin with the greek financial crisis, european financial ministers met without greece at the table and denied a request to extend the bailout programme behind tuesday, threatening to destabilize the markets. as andrew simmonds reports, it paves the way for greece to default on a crucial payment to the international monetary fund this week. reporter: a finance minister from greece sent to brussels for a day that takes a place in european history. not everyone shook hands. after five years and an estimated 242.8 billion euro of - dash is this how it ends. greece alone with its debt could be about to default and potentially go out of the eurozone. the foreign ministers say they have no alternatives. the bail out stops. ....
with first-degree murder in the 2012 death of emily fazzino. he has pleaded not guilty, saying she drowned in a bathtub. todd: des moines police release new details in a late night shooting. it happened around 10:30 last night at 1422 east 17th court. 22-year-old dustin lee curtis of des moines told police he was visiting his child and girlfriend. he walked outside to his car and heard a pop sound, then felt pain in his stomach. police say the incident is suspicious and believe curtis wound may be self inflicted to gain sympathy from his girlfriend. the case remains under investigation. stacey: right now two inmates , are missing from the newton correctional release center. the iowa corrections department says michael amodeo and jessy foley weren t present at inmate counts saturday night. amodeo is serving a 10 year drug sentence. foley is serving a 27 year prison term. in johnston, police have identified two fraud suspects caught on surveillance camera. investigator ....
neighbor built his mother to death with a steel pipe back in june 2014 in the family home and following the death of his father neunaber had a sudden realization that became his motive to commit the crime. when dad died i did not know what to do next. i was not prepared to be the man of the house. that realization led to the mother of his mother - murder of his mother esther. the judge decided the ruling was fair. jonathan neunaber it has been found guilty of the charge of murder in the second degree and also guilty of the charge of willful injury. today he tried two different offenses on the first-degree murder charge including a defense of insanity and a defense of diminishing responsibility, neunaber also says on the night he killed his mother he took pills trying to so. i took some pills with the idea that we could be very together. that did not work and i am still here. as a result of this new plea neunaber could possibly face up to 60 years in prison. now ....
victimized. long has he worked in the county? at least since the beginning of last school year. he spent more time at this middle school than any other school. some are school that coming from. montgomery county schools hasn t given an exact number but multiple didn t have come ofward accusing jose pineda inappropriate conduct. this is really troubling. the new accusations come after he was charged in another case. the school district waited more than a month before telling parents that he knew about a september incident. he allegedly grabbed a 12-year-old student in the behind while standing next to her in science class and then touched her in the leg and bottom come up to five more times after she had gone to her seat. a light went off upstairs after our knock but no one answered. since last year, pineda worked as a substitute teacher at 20 different schools. to principles have been told send home letters. this comes a week after the district warned parents at 5 ....