Arrested, cited for contempt and jailed after she tried to wear a headscarf into a Douglasville, Ga., court two years ago, a Muslim woman filed a federal civil rights lawsuit…
After a federal judge’s acceptance of a plea deal last month, after he was accused of carrying loaded firearms in his vehicle and buying drugs for a stripper with whom…
A former Alabama lawyer is being held in a Georgia jail because he allegedly kept on practicing after having his license suspended in both states, forging court documents and misleading…
Eager to put what his lawyer calls a “tough situation” behind him, a federal judge accused of carrying loaded firearms in his car around the time he allegedly purchased drugs…
In the latest challenge to a controversial nationwide method of registering mortgage ownership, a Virginia lawmaker is requesting an opinion from the state attorney general on whether Mortgage Electronic Registration…
Developing: Perhaps 100 people have been arrested in California, Georgia, Ohio, New Mexico and New York, in a record-breaking Medicare fraud case that allegedly involved $100 million in bogus billings…
Friends are wondering whether a head injury spurred unusual behaviors in a senior federal accused earlier this month of buying drugs from an undercover agent…
A federal judge in Atlanta yesterday okayed a $375 million settlement of a criminal case by Allergan Inc. concerning the company’s marketing of Botox drug…
Lawyers are debating whether charges against the senior federal judge accused of a making a parking lot drug buy will spur successful appeals by defendants whose cases he oversaw.
A secretary who testified for a Georgia lawyer accused of federal drug and money-laundering charges, helping win his acquittal last year, apparently had a change…
Half of $1 million won by a Georgia educator on the show Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? may go to her creditors rather than the schools she designated…
Acquitted less than a year ago in a federal drug and money-laundering case, after being accused of accepting drug money for legal fees, a Georgia lawyer has been arrested again.…
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