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Ex-Credit Suisse trader arrested in Britain
A former Credit Suisse executive facing extradition to the U.S. on fraud charges for his handling of mortgage-based securities during the financial ...
Arkansas court upholds medical marijuana proposal
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a proposed ballot measure that, if successful, would make the state the first in the South to legalize ...
Judge backs lobbyist ban on gov't boards
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's ban on federally registered lobbyists serving on government advisory ...
Victim 1 in Jerry Sandusky trial has book deal
A key witness against convicted child molester and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, known in court papers as Victim 1, has ...
Pope's ex-butler goes on trial for leaked papers
There was a time when a Vatican trial could end with a heretic being burned at the stake. Paolo Gabriele doesn't risk nearly as dire a fate, but he ...
Court fast-tracks some green card applications
A federal appeals court has ruled that immigration officials must give priority status to thousands of green card applicants who lost their place in ...
Penn St. officials lose pretrial motion on perjury
Two weeks before former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is expected to be sentenced on child molestation charges, a county judge ...
NY animal hospice Oprah praised shuts amid lawsuit
An animal hospice once praised by Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities is shutting down as its owner faces a lawsuit from the state attorney general ...
Non-profit PTA sues for-profit rival PTO Today
The nonprofit PTA sued a for-profit rival on Wednesday, accusing it of denigrating the established group in a bid to siphon off members — a dispute ...
US general charged with adultery, other sex crimes
An Army brigadier general who served five combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan has been charged with forcible sodomy, multiple counts of adultery and ...
Man once on death row faced financial problems
Joyce Robbins wanted to know why her aunt wasn't coming to a big family barbeque. Mamie Brown and her husband, Joseph Green Brown, who was on ...
Google's Brazil chief detained in YouTube case
Google Inc.'s head of operations in Brazil was detained by the country's federal police Wednesday after the company failed to heed a judge's order to ...
Jury in NJ convicts Ill. man in military info case
A former employee of a New Jersey-based defense contractor was found guilty Wednesday of taking U.S. military technology trade secrets from his ...
UC agrees to pay $1M to settle pepper-spray suit
The University of California has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by demonstrators who were pepper-sprayed during an Occupy protest ...
UK court issues injunction in radical cleric case
A British court issued an interim injunction Wednesday blocking the extradition of a radical cleric to the United States on terror charges, granting ...
Perjury case against 2 Penn St officials proceeds
A judge on Wednesday upheld perjury charges against two Penn State administrators accused of lying to a grand jury that investigated allegations ...
Insane Clown Posse sues FBI over Juggalos report
Lawyers for rap-metal duo Insane Clown Posse have filed a lawsuit in Michigan seeking documents that would explain why the FBI considers its fans a ...
Army: Fort Hood shooting suspect out of hospital
An Army psychiatrist charged in a deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage was returned to jail Wednesday after a brief stay in the hospital, military ...
Daughter of Bahrain opposition leader sentenced
The daughter of a jailed rights activist in Bahrain was sentenced Wednesday to two months in prison for damaging property at the police station, ...
SAfrica firebrand charged with money laundering
Firebrand South African politician Julius Malema proclaimed his innocence Wednesday and said the money laundering charges against him were a political ...
Former Murdoch tabloid journalists face charges
Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of News Corp.'s British newspapers, and Andy Coulson, the ex-communications chief for Prime Minister David Cameron, ...
Anti-Muslim filmmaker's probation case creeps on
The federal probation violation investigation targeting the man behind the anti-Muslim video inflaming the Middle East is proceeding slowly and ...
Chemist's education questioned in drug lab scandal
A chemist whose alleged mishandling of drug samples has thrown thousands of criminal cases into question testified under oath that she holds a ...
Corps let off the hook for Katrina flooding
A surprise ruling by a federal appeals court that lets the Army Corps of Engineers off the hook for paying compensation for Hurricane Katrina's ...