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Famed architect gets 6 months for drug smuggling
A highly acclaimed architect was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for trying to enter the U.S. with nearly 13 pounds of cocaine hidden in his ...
Minn. gay couple in '71 marriage case still united
When Jack Baker proposed to Michael McConnell that they join their lives together as a couple, in March 1967, McConnell accepted with a condition that ...
Hope and fear in gay marriage cases at high court
Gay marriage supporters see 41 reasons to fret over the Supreme Court's decision to take up the case of California's ban on same-sex unions.
Same-sex weddings in Wash. to begin on Sunday
Two retired military women who fought for the rights of gays in the military were among the hundreds of couples who received their marriage licenses ...
Same-sex marriage cases get Supreme Court review
The Supreme Court is taking a potentially historic look at same-sex marriage by agreeing to hear two cases that challenge governments' different ...
Supreme Court will hear same-sex marriage cases
The Supreme Court plunged into the contentious issue of gay marriage Friday when it agreed to take up California's ban on same-sex unions and a ...
Doctor gets 20 years in Miss. cancer center fraud
A federal judge on Friday sentenced a doctor to 20 years in prison and ordered her to repay nearly $8.2 million for fraud at a former Mississippi ...
Drug makers' settlements get high court review
The Supreme Court will take a close look at payments from brand-name drug makers to manufacturers of generic equivalents to keep the no-name products ...
Judge aims to resolve Apple-Samsung legal dispute
Urging the world's largest smartphone makers to settle their differences, a federal judge said she will issue rulings aimed at resolving a ...
Judge may trim Apple's $1 billion patent verdict
A federal judge on Thursday appeared ready to trim millions from a $1.05 billion jury verdict Apple Inc. won over Samsung Electronics this summer as ...
Former Nazi guard appeals to immigration board
A former Nazi concentration camp guard who has lived quietly in western Pennsylvania for more than 50 years took his fight against deportation to the ...
RI to seek dismissal of challenge to pension law
The high-stakes legal dispute over Rhode Island's public retirement overhaul faces a key court date Friday when attorneys for the state will ask a ...
Argentina: Cablevision partner wants Clarin sale
Argentina's government has found an ally in its campaign to force its leading media opponent, Grupo Clarin, to comply with the nation's law against ...
At 450 pounds, Ohio killer fights execution
At about 450 pounds, Ohio death row inmate Ronald Post is so fat that his executioners won't be able to find veins in his arms or legs for the lethal ...
Justices struggle with international custody law
The Supreme Court seemed to struggle Wednesday to find a middle ground on whether American courts have any further say in an international custody ...
Oklahoma executes inmate for 1993 shooting deaths
An Oklahoma death row inmate whose attorneys had claimed he was mentally unfit to be executed was put to death Tuesday for the 1993 shooting deaths ...
Calif. gay therapy ban sparks competing rulings
Two federal judges in California have arrived at opposite conclusions on whether the state's first-of-its-kind law prohibiting licensed ...
High court says government can be liable for flood
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the federal government is not automatically exempt from paying for damage caused by temporary flooding from ...
Court upholds $319M verdict in 'Millionaire' case
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $319 million verdict over profits from the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and rejected Walt ...
Judge removed in Fort Hood shooting rampage case
The military's highest court ousted the judge in the Fort Hood shooting case Monday and threw out his order to have the suspect's beard forcibly ...
Vilma's testimony ends latest bounty hearings
The latest round of appeal hearings in the NFL's bounty investigation concluded Monday evening following witness appearances by former Minnesota ...
Dem on trial seen as part of old Chicago politics
The grizzled Chicago Democrat has compared himself to a virile hog, likened a then-chief prosecutor to a Nazi and bragged about directing government ...
Kutcher is Jobs, Seyfried is Lovelace at Sundance
Ashton Kutcher as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Amanda Seyfried as porn star Linda Lovelace are among the highlights at January's Sundance Film ...
New EPA rule could upend high court runoff case
Wearing his gray morning coat and striped trousers, Justice Department lawyer Malcolm Stewart was the very picture of Supreme Court propriety Monday ...