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NJ judge scolded for mocking defendant's English
(AP)
AP - The New Jersey Supreme Court's disciplinary committee has publicly reprimanded a lower-court judge who belittled an immigrant defendant's poor English skills and compared another defendant to O.J Simpson.
03/10/2010 - 06:33 PM
Ex-Detroit councilwoman gets 37 months for bribery
(AP)
 AP - A former Detroit city councilwoman was sentenced to more than three years in prison Wednesday for bribery after a federal judge refused to set aside her guilty plea during a stormy court hearing dominated by a dispute over evidence of other payoffs.
03/10/2010 - 06:25 PM
Ex-Texas school worker pleads guilty to abuse
(AP)
AP - A former employee of Texas state facility for the developmentally disabled accused of sanctioning fights among residents has pleaded guilty midway through his Corpus Christi trial.
03/10/2010 - 06:21 PM
Dallas man suspected in office shootings dies
(AP)
 AP - Dallas police say a former city attorney accused of shooting a father and son inside their financial business has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
03/10/2010 - 06:12 PM
Check on Ohio State gunman found no criminal past
(AP)
 AP - Ohio State University says a background check on a janitor who shot two supervisors didn't reveal a criminal record, even though he had spent five years in prison.
03/10/2010 - 05:54 PM
2nd mistrial declared in case against NJ blogger
(AP)
AP - A New York judge has declared a second mistrial in the case against a New Jersey blogger charged with threatening federal judges.
03/10/2010 - 05:46 PM
Appeals court hears arguments on forest roads rule
(AP)
AP - Lawyers for the state of Wyoming and the Colorado Mining Association say a 2001 federal rule banning construction of new roads on National Forest land violates the law.
03/10/2010 - 03:40 PM
Accused Letterman extortionist pleads guilty
(Reuters)
 Reuters - A television producer pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to extort $2 million from U.S. talk show host David Letterman by threatening to reveal his affairs with women who worked on his late-night program on CBS.
03/10/2010 - 11:02 AM
Pakistan court stalls on US terror suspects: lawyers
(AFP)
 AFP - An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan again failed Wednesday to frame charges against five young Americans accused of plotting attacks with Al-Qaeda-linked groups, lawyers said.
03/10/2010 - 10:00 AM
Conviction vacated for Mass. man who ran over duck
(AP)
AP - A judge has overturned the verdict against a Massachusetts man convicted of running over a duck walking her ducklings across a mall parking lot, and prosecutors say they will not appeal.
03/10/2010 - 09:45 AM
Calif. jury recommends death for serial killer
(AP)
 AP - It was 2005 when Bruce Barcomb received the call he'd been awaiting for nearly three decades: Police had finally identified the man who raped and murdered his little sister in a remote canyon on a dark night in 1977.
03/10/2010 - 07:47 AM
Partner convicted in NY execution-style slaying
(AP)
AP - A Long Island man has been convicted in the execution-style slaying of his business partner in the parking lot of a Korean restaurant.
03/09/2010 - 10:04 PM
Man who caused Newark airport breach pleads guilty
(AP)
 AP - A lovesick graduate student from China who slipped under a rope barrier at Newark Liberty International Airport to say goodbye to his girlfriend, prompting a security breach and leading to worldwide flight delays, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge Tuesday and apologized publicly for the first time.
03/09/2010 - 06:15 PM
Eritrean pleads not guilty to aiding terrorists
(AP)
AP - Evidence collected by the United States against an East African charged with providing support to a Somali terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida includes lengthy statements he made to authorities, a prosecutor told a judge Tuesday.
03/09/2010 - 05:53 PM
Ohio doctor gets 20-to-life in wife's poison death
(AP)
AP - Relatives of the victim sobbed and held each other as a judge handed down a life prison term Tuesday for a doctor convicted of killing his wife by lacing her calcium supplement with cyanide so he could be with his mistress.
03/09/2010 - 05:42 PM
Man pleads not guilty in Colo. to smuggling drugs
(AP)
AP - A man charged with helping smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine from Mexico to the United States has pleaded not guilty in Denver federal court.
03/09/2010 - 05:18 PM
Assisted suicide network members indicted in Ga.
(AP)
 AP - A grand jury indicted four members of an assisted suicide group Tuesday on charges they helped a 58-year-old man with cancer kill himself, clearing the way for a trial that could not only decide their fate but also help validate — or repudiate — their work.
03/09/2010 - 03:57 PM
TV producer admits attempting Letterman shakedown
(AP)
 AP - A former television producer pressured by debt and riven by jealousy admitted Tuesday he tried to extract vengeance and money by shaking down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon's affairs with staffers.
03/09/2010 - 06:42 PM
Probation report cites predatory traits of suspect
(AP)
 AP - A decade-old probation report on a sex offender accused of murdering California teenager Chelsea King contained a psychiatrist's conclusion that the defendant had "significant predatory traits" toward underage girls and should be kept in prison for as long as possible.
03/09/2010 - 06:20 PM
Suspect in Fla. shooting rampage pleads not guilty
(AP)
AP - A man accused of a January shooting rampage in Florida that left three people dead has pleaded not guilty to two of the murder charges.
03/09/2010 - 01:32 PM
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