Lawyer: USS Cole victims’ families to get at least $200K after judge unfreezes Sudanese moneyRICHMOND, Va. — Nearly nine years after 17 sailors were killed in a terrorist attack on the USS Cole, some relatives of the victims are set to receive at least $200,000 each from Sudan, a lawyer said Tuesday. NY judge unfreezes more than $13M in Sudanese accounts to pay families of USS Cole victimsRICHMOND, Va. — Nearly nine years after 17 sailors were killed in a terrorist attack on the USS Cole, a judge has ordered New York banks to release $13.4 million in frozen Sudanese accounts to family members of the victims. Mich. man convicted of defrauding Defense Department caught in Bahamas after 21 years on runRICHMOND, Va. — After 21 years on the run, a Michigan man convicted of defrauding the Defense Department returned to a Virginia courtroom Tuesday to face a charge of failure to appear at his 1988 sentencing, federal prosecutors said. NY judge unfreezes more than $13 million in Sudanese accounts to pay Cole victims’ kinRICHMOND, Va. — A federal judge in New York has unfrozen more than $13 million from Sudanese bank accounts to compensate the families of the 17 sailors killed in the attack on the USS Cole. Fire damages country music legend Jimmy Dean’s Va. home; 3 firefighters injured, singer unhurtVARINA, Va. — Country music legend Jimmy Dean and his wife escaped a fire that heavily damaged their house in Virginia, authorities said Tuesday. |