Arraignments

A federal magistrate ordered suspected sleeper agent Ali Saleh Kahlah Marri detained on conspiracy and terrorism charges Wednesday, setting the stage for a trial that could explore Al Qaeda's plans after the terrorist strikes in the United States in 2001. At a proceeding in Charleston, S.C., Justice Department counter-terrorism prosecutor Michael Mullaney urged court officials to declare Marri a flight risk and a danger to the community. Authorities say Marri arrived in the U.S. on Sept.

A man has been arrested for allegedly arranging for his 14-year-old daughter to marry a neighbor in exchange for $16,000, 100 cases of beer and several cases of meat, police said. Authorities in Greenfield, a farming community on California's Central Coast, said they learned of the deal after Marcelino de Jesus Martinez, 36, asked them for help getting his daughter back after payment wasn't made. Martinez, a member of the indigenous Mexican Trique community, was arrested Sunday.

Ask attorney Hassan Jabbar Salman what should happen to five Blackwater Worldwide guards accused of killing 17 unarmed Iraqis and wounding 20 others, including himself, and his answer is simple: They should be hanged. Salman watched helplessly from his car on Sept. 16, 2007, as Blackwater's Raven 23 convoy opened fire in Baghdad's crowded Nisoor Square, firing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Four bullets struck his back, one piercing his left lung.

What wily defusers the New York Giants proved to be Sunday. They weren't much at football, but man, could they defuse. After a dreary and clunky 20-14 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles stemmed their fine consistency and docked their record to 11-2, people with pens asked them questions along the lines of, Did this abrupt dip in caliber relate to the weeklong clamor over your best receiver's getting arraigned after accidentally shooting himself in the thigh at a Manhattan nightclub with the .

Two Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton are to be arraigned today in O.C. Superior Court on charges of fatally shooting a fellow Marine over stolen drug money, authorities said Thursday. Lance Cpl. Christian Carney, 21, of Manorville, N.Y., and Pvt. Alvin Lovely, 20, of Dallas are accused of killing Pvt. Stephen Serrano, 20, of El Dorado, Calif., on May 13 because they believed he and an unidentified Marine had stolen money Carney had made selling cocaine and ecstasy on the base, according to the Orange County district attorney's office.

Santa Ana insurance salesman James R. Halstead is scheduled to be arraigned June 9 on charges that he drugged a former Olympic ice dancer in an attempt to sexually assault her. An arrest warrant for Halstead was withdrawn Friday after a bail bonds company posted a $50,000 bond on his behalf, Orange County Superior Court records show. Halstead was not present.