Three key players in the troubled world of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith have been ordered to stand trial after a hearing that plumbed the drug-fueled depths of her final years and the alleged roles of her boyfriend and two doctors in feeding her addiction to prescription drugs. ...more

October 31, 2009

A jury has begun deliberations in the trial of Brazilian race car driver Helio Castroneves on charges that he and two advisers schemed to dodge taxes on his earnings. ...more

April 10, 2009

More than 45 years ago, as attorney general of Minnesota, I joined with the attorneys general of 21 states in asking the Supreme Court to ensure that counsel would be appointed for all people facing criminal charges who could not afford it. The court answered our plea. Yet today, its historic decision in Gideon v. Wainwright is at risk. ...more

March 14, 2009

The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at then-President George W. Bush was convicted Thursday of assaulting a foreign leader and sentenced to three years in prison, lawyers said. He shouted "long live Iraq" when the sentence was read. ...more

March 12, 2009

The U.S. Department of Defense announced Saturday that it transferred six detainees out of Guantanamo, leaving about 245 at the offshore prison as President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office. ...more

January 17, 2009

A judge is allowing prosecutors to continue with a criminal contempt case against a man once accused by the U.S. government of being a top Palestinian terrorist. ...more

January 16, 2009

Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards indicted in Washington for the 2007 shooting of Iraqi civilians plan to surrender to the FBI in Utah today, a person close to the case said, setting up a fight over the trial site. ...more

December 8, 2008

More than a year after the fatal shootings of 17 Iraqi civilians, five decorated military veterans who were Blackwater Worldwide security guards are headed to court in a case that strained diplomatic ties and raised the level of anti-Americanism in Baghdad. ...more

December 6, 2008

Bullies beware - Florida school district's, including the School Board of Highlands County, are revising their bullying and harassment policies. ...more

October 23, 2008

A federal judge scolded prosecutors Monday for sending a potentially important witness in the trial of Sen. Ted Stevens back to Alaska, a move that defense lawyers asserted was intended to hide exculpatory evidence. ...more

September 30, 2008