Hockey coach gets 15 days in jail for tripping
A Vancouver pee-wee hockey coach has been sentenced to 15 days in jail for tripping a player during a postgame handshake. Martin Tremblay swept out ...

NJ's 'tanning mom' won't face endangerment charge
A grand jury in New Jersey has decided to let a woman who became an overnight sensation as "the tanning mom" bronze away in peace. Prosecutors in ...

Court appears conflicted over DNA sampling issue
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled with what one of the justices called its most important criminal procedure case in decades, whether to let ...
Jury gets Fla. Taliban terror support case
After a nearly two-month trial, a federal jury began deliberating Tuesday in the case of an elderly Muslim cleric accused of funneling tens of ...

NY Times, others back AP lawsuit against Meltwater
The Newspaper Association of America, the New York Times Co. and several other newspaper companies have filed papers in support of a lawsuit filed by ...
Court takes up question of arrestee DNA sampling
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled with what one of the justices called its most important criminal procedure case in decades, whether to let ...
Court won't allow challenge to surveillance law
A sharply-divided Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out an attempt by U.S. citizens to challenge the expansion of a surveillance law used to monitor ...

Prosecutors do not object to Kenya trial delays
The trials of four prominent Kenyans charged with orchestrating deadly postelection violence in 2007 and 2008 could be delayed until next summer.
Top Hungarian court overturns disputed church law
Hungary's top court issued a ruling on Tuesday on the procedure the country should follow to decide which religions to officially recognize. But the ...
Dutch court rejects terror suspect's injunction
A court has rejected a Dutch-Pakistani terror suspect's final attempt to use the Dutch legal system to block his extradition to the United States, ...

High-stakes trial begins over 2010 Gulf oil spill
BP bears most of the blame for the disastrous 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico because it cut corners and put profits ahead of safety, a U.S.

Prosecutor seeks trial for Costa cruise ship capt
Italian prosecutors on Monday officially requested an indictment of the Costa Concordia's captain on manslaughter charges in the shipwreck of the ...
FBI to release records on Withers' informer work
The FBI will release records about civil rights-era photographer Ernest Withers' work as an informant for the FBI, to settle a Tennessee newspaper's ...

Spanish king's son-in-law makes court appearance
Protesters jeered the Spanish king's son-in-law before he was questioned Saturday by a judge about allegations he and a partner funneled away millions ...

Ex-Legion priest says he saw fiscal improprieties
A former priest for the disgraced Roman Catholic religious order the Legion of Christ said in sworn testimony that he witnessed financial ...
Justice Dept joins suit against Lance Armstrong
The Justice Department joined a lawsuit Friday against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong that alleges the former seven-time Tour de France champion ...

Irish nanny accused of US baby beating in court
A lawyer for an Irish nanny charged with beating an infant who later died won a request Friday to preserve evidence in the case, including the baby's ...
US man fights extradition over UK poison case
A U.S. man is fighting extradition to Scotland, where he is facing attempted murder charges for allegedly poisoning a fellow college student's wine.

Haiti's 'Baby Doc' summoned to court after no-show
A Haitian judge on Thursday summoned Jean-Claude Duvalier to appear in court after the former dictator defied an order to attend a hearing to ...

3 British men convicted in terrorist bomb plot
They were very ordinary would-be terrorists, with big plans but bad luck. On Thursday, a London jury convicted the three young British men of being ...
Judge grants access to secret Guantanamo camp
The judge presiding over the Sept. 11 war crimes tribunal is allowing defense lawyers their first chance to see the secret section of the Guantanamo ...