US drops charges against '20th (Alaska lawyer) hijacker' facing Guantanamo

US drops charges against '20th hijacker' facing Guantanamo trial - PR Inside SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guantanamo who was alleged to have been the so-called 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 attacks, his U.S. military defense lawyer said Monday. Mohammed al-Qahtani was Source: www.pr-inside.com NYC judge gives rapper Remy Ma 8 years in prison - Chicago Tribune NEW YORK - Remy Ma has been sentenced to eight years in prison in the shooting a woman outside a Manhattan nightclub. The state Supreme Court sentence was handed Tuesday to the 26-year-old rapper, whose real name is Remy Smith, for assault, weapon Source: www.chicagotribune.com Court will decide case of Va. man on death row - USA Today WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court on Monday granted a temporary reprieve to a death row inmate in Virginia to consider whether lower courts correctly weighed his claim that his lawyer did a poor job of representing him. Edward Nathaniel Bell, 40 Source: www.usatoday.com