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Guilty plea in Arizona photo radar shooting case

Posted on July 21, 2010
A Phoenix man accused of fatally shooting the operator of a photo speed-enforcement van has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.Maricopa County Superior Court spokeswoman Karen Arra says 69-year-old Thomas Patrick Destories entered the plea Tuesday, stipulating 22 years in prison...

Seton Hall ex-coach Gonzalez pleads not guilty

Posted on July 21, 2010
Former Seton Hall basketball coach Bobby Gonzalez has pleaded not guilty to a shoplifting charge.Gonzalez is accused of taking a satchel worth about $1,400 from the Polo Ralph Lauren store in The Mall at Short Hills last month. Police say he removed the sensor device from the satchel and walked out of the store without paying for it...

Law firm office manager stole $176000, Pinellas deputies say

Posted on July 21, 2010
A 34-year-old Clearwater woman is accused of stealing at least $175,000 from her employer over several years and spending it on vacations, trips to the hair salon, personal bills and student loan payments.Kerry Sue McCallister-Higgins was arrested Monday night on a felony charge of grand theft...

Ex-Raider Russell pleads not guilty in Ala. case

Posted on July 21, 2010
Former Oakland Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell pleaded not guilty to a charge of illegal drug possession Tuesday in Alabama.Russell, 24, is a former LSU star who was released by Oakland after being the No. 1 draft choice in 2007. He entered the plea in court in Mobile...

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Court grants bail to jailed ex-media mogul Black

Posted on July 20, 2010
Conrad Black, the brash former newspaper magnate who lived extravagantly before his 2007 federal conviction for defrauding shareholders, may soon be released from a Florida prison after a federal appeals court granted him bail Monday.The ruling from the 7th Circuit U...

Goldman profit slides on SEC charge, revenue drops

Posted on July 20, 2010
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Tuesday its second-quarter net income dropped 83 percent to $453 million as its trading revenue fell and it booked a charge for its settlement of civil fraud charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The company's revenue fell short of expectations and helped send the stock market falling...

Guilty plea entered in Obama student loan case

Posted on July 20, 2010
Another person accused of viewing President Barack Obama's student loan records at a U.S. Department of Education contractor in Iowa has pleaded guilty.Patrick Roan pleaded guilty last week to a misdemeanor. The Iowa City man is scheduled to be sentenced Oct...

Wis. justices uphold ex-Jesuit priest's conviction

Posted on July 20, 2010
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld a sexual abuse conviction of a former Jesuit priest who claimed he was falsely accused.In a 7-0 ruling on Tuesday, justices ruled that Donald McGuire's prosecution 36 years after he allegedly abused two teenage boys in the 1960s was fair...

Creditors raise new concerns over Rangers' sale

Posted on July 20, 2010
Angry creditors have thrown plans for an Aug. 4 auction of the Texas Rangers into jeopardy, saying they don't like the bidding procedures and arguing that the lease for the team's ballpark should be severed from the sale.U.S. Bankruptcy Judge D. Michael Lynn on Monday granted a motion to seal the creditors' request to reconsider the bidding procedures that are heavily controlled by Major League Baseball...

RICO law made to combat Mafia used in BP lawsuits

Posted on July 19, 2010
Using a law originally enacted to combat the Mafia, attorneys are filing lawsuits accusing BP PLC and Transocean Ltd. of committing a longterm series of crimes by concealing flaws in deepwater drilling plans and lacking safeguards to contain a catastrophic Gulf of Mexico spill...

Americans' views on immigration reveal complexities

Posted on July 19, 2010
When it comes to the highly inflamed issue of immigration, Americans hold complex and seemingly contradictory views. On one hand, a clear majority of Americans in numerous polls ? including Texans ? support Arizona's tough new law, which would require police officers to ask suspected illegal immigrants for identification...

Lohan to comply with sentence, says lawyer

Posted on July 19, 2010
Lindsay Lohan is set to begin serving a 90-day jail sentence on Tuesday and the troubled young actress will follow through, her new lawyer pledged on the weekend. Noted attorney Robert Shapiro, best known as a member of the so-called legal "dream team" that represented O...

Singapore arrests British writer for defamation

Posted on July 19, 2010
Singapore has arrested a British author as part of a criminal defamation investigation related to his book on the city-state's death penalty policy, police said Monday. Alan Shadrake, 75, was in Singapore to promote the book and was arrested Sunday, police said in a statement...

NH lawyer out $240,000 in scam targeting attorneys

Posted on July 19, 2010
A New Hampshire lawyer is out $240,000 after falling prey to an international Internet scam, prosecutors said. The attorney general's office declined to identify the lawyer but said he is one of two lawyers in the state who were targeted in recent weeks by scam artists who used Internet messages, fake companies and counterfeit checks to "retain" them...

$20 billion oil fund to begin payments in August

Posted on July 16, 2010
The $20 billion that BP has set aside to pay for losses caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will start making payments in early August.Ken Feinberg, who is in charge of paying individuals and businesses for lost income, told a meeting of government officials in Louisiana on Thursday that he expected a seamless transition from BP management to his administration...

NM hosting border meeting AZ canceled

Posted on July 16, 2010
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson plans to host a meeting of U.S. and Mexican border governors in his state, a venue change in response to Mexican governors' objections to Arizona's tough new immigration enforcement law.Richardson spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said Thursday the meeting will be held in Santa Fe in late September...

NY lawyer gets 10-year term in terrorism case

Posted on July 16, 2010
A 70-year-old civil rights lawyer was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison in a terrorism case by a judge who boosted her original sentence by nearly eight years after concluding she lied to a jury and lacked remorse."I'm somewhat stunned," Lynne Stewart told U...

Former Kansas athletics official pleads guilty

Posted on July 16, 2010
A former University of Kansas athletics official has admitted in court that he knew other school officials were involved in a lucrative ticket-scalping racket but concealed the crime and didn't alert authorities.Former assistant director of ticket operations Jason Jeffries pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Wichita to one count of misprision of a felony...

No bail for Maine man detained in car bomb probe

Posted on July 16, 2010
A Pakistani man detained on an immigration violation in Maine while authorities investigated the attempted Times Square car bombing will continue to be held in jail because an immigration judge revoked his bail.Mohammad Shafiq Rahman's family rounded up the $10,000 to secure his release only to learn the judge had revoked bail at the urging of immigration officials, said Barry Hoffman, Pakistan's consul general in Boston...

Government seeks tough sentence against NY lawyer

Posted on July 15, 2010
A judge was poised to decide whether the government and some fellow judges were right when they said a 70-year-old former civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case received too much leniency when she was sentenced to just over two years in prison...

Ruling on Visteon retiree benefits overturned

Posted on July 15, 2010
A federal appeals court has overturned rulings allowing auto parts supplier Visteon Corp. to terminate its retirees' health and life insurance benefits.In a ruling Tuesday, the appeals court in Philadelphia sided with attorneys representing some 2,100 retirees from two Visteon manufacturing plants in Indiana...

Law firm offering reward for finding killer of UT student

Posted on July 15, 2010
A local law firm is now offering a reward for information that leads to the capture of the person who shot and killed University of Tampa student Ryan McCall last August.McCall and a friend were walking near the campus when a man robbed and shot them...

Immigration law to get first major court hearing

Posted on July 15, 2010
A federal judge will hear arguments Thursday over whether Arizona's new immigration should take effect on July 29.It will mark the first major hearing in one of the seven challenges to the strict law.U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton also will consider arguments over Gov...

US transfers Gitmo prisoner to Yemen

Posted on July 15, 2010
A Guantanamo Bay prisoner has been transferred to his homeland of Yemen, the U.S. Defense Department announced on Tuesday, after a U.S. district court ordered the longtime detainee's release.The release of 26-year-old Mohammed Odaini after eight years at Guantanamo Bay was an exception to the Obama administration's freeze on prisoner transfers to the turbulent country after the failed attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day...

Both sides allege fraud in Dole case

Posted on July 14, 2010
Lawyers for Dole Foods and six Nicaraguan plaintiffs suing them have accused each other of fraud in heated closing arguments as a judge ponders whether to dismiss a $2.3 million award to purported banana workers.The Dole defense team noted Monday that plaintiffs' lawyer Steve Condie never called the six plaintiffs to testify in the current hearing and has not even met them...

NYC court tosses FCC's fleeting expletives policy

Posted on July 14, 2010
A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down a government policy that can lead to broadcasters being fined for allowing even a single curse word on live television, saying it is unconstitutionally vague and threatens speech "at the heart of the First Amendment...

eBay sued for $3.8bn for patent infringement

Posted on July 14, 2010
The online auctioneer eBay is being sued for $3.8m over six alleged patent infringements and breaking a confidentiality agreement relating to its PayPal payment service. According to Reuters, XPRT Ventures claims that eBay incorporated information shared in confidence into the "PayPal Buyer Credit" and "Pay Later" services, and used it in a 2003 patent application...

Former Detroit mayor arraigned on federal charges

Posted on July 14, 2010
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has returned to his hometown for his first court appearance since being indicted last month on tax and fraud charges.Kilpatrick was arraigned Tuesday afternoon and a not guilty plea was entered at the request of his lawyer...

Taylor arrives at NY court to face rape charge

Posted on July 14, 2010
Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor is getting his chance to respond to charges that he had sex with a 16-year-old girl.The former NFL star smiled as he arrived at a Rockland County courthouse on Tuesday for arraignment on charges that include third-degree rape...

Glaxo Said to Pay $460 Million to End Avandia Suits

Posted on July 13, 2010
GlaxoSmithKline Plc agreed to pay about $460 million to resolve a majority of lawsuits alleging the company?s Avandia diabetes drug can cause heart attacks and strokes, people familiar with the accords said.Glaxo, the U.K.?s biggest drugmaker, agreed to settle about 10,000 suits for an average of at least $46,000 apiece, the people said...

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