U.S. Official Accused of Spying for China

A civilian official within the U.S. Department of Defense has been charged with providing information on U.S. military technology to China. The case also includes several Chinese citizens, some of whom have U.S. green cards.

The official has not yet been named; he or she and co-conspirators are accused of illegally removing secret information from research facilities, universities or laboratories that had access to the material.

The Justice Department is expected to announce the indictments on Feb. 11 in Washington, D.C. The U.S. DOD official was expected to appear in a U.S. District Court in Virginia.

Court Convicts Man of Murder; Hid Her Body in Steel Drum in Backyard in 1983

58-year-old Frederick Boyle, who pleaded not guilty in the murder of his wife Edwina 23 years ago, has been convicted. He had stored her in the back yard of his home on the southern outskirts of Melbourne using a steel drum.

Boyle said he found his wife, 30 years old at the time, dead from two gunshot wounds to the head and a necktie of his tied around her throat while lying in bed. Afraid he'd be a suspect since he was having an affair, he stashed the body.

He said to the court, "Obviously, I didn't want to be charged with a murder I didn't commit." The body was discovered by the husband of one of his two daughters. He told them at the time that she had run off with a man who was a truck driver.

Woman Died After Being in Contact With Second-Hand Smoking

A young waitress, who had asthma, died at her workplace. Her death was the result of environmental tobacco smoke.

The waitres was quite healthy when arriving at her workplace. A bit later she collapsed and passed away after 20 minutes. The autopsy showed that the woman died from acute asthma, which is linked to work-related ETS (environmental tobacco smoke).