Officials at the Michigan High School Athletic Association are still reeling, weeks after a federal judge awarded $7.4 million in legal fees to the prevailing plaintiff in a 10-year-old case…
A married Michigan woman who advertised on Craigslist for a hit man to murder her boyfriend’s wife has pleaded guilty to three federal charges in the murder-for-hire scheme.
During a hearing that began today over a controversial $8.4 million settlement by the city of Detroit of police whistle-blower cases, a lawyer representing the mayor told the city council…
A controversial $8.4 million settlement by the city of Detroit that critics contend was made largely for the purpose of covering up a sex scandal involving Detroit’s mayor has put…
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, 37, and his former chief of staff were charged today in an obstruction of justice case related to their testimony in a police whistle-blower case last…
In a highly unusual action, U.S. trustees in three states are seeking sanctions against Countrywide Financial Corp., contending that the major mortgage lender has abused the bankruptcy process by making…
Four college buddies who spent nearly a year planning to rob a group of very rare and valuable books from a Kentucky university would have been better-advised to focus on…
The chief federal district court judge in southern Ohio has lightened the caseload of a colleague who had five unresolved death penalty appeals sitting on his docket for between three…
If only Roger Dillon had plotted as successfully how to avoid detection. The 23-year-old Youngstown, Ohio, resident allegedly spent months working for an armored car company and learning its confidential…
Only because a federal informant relented and recanted his false testimony, it appears, are 16 wrongfully convicted defendants being freed from prison.
Contending that one of the nation’s mortgage finance giants is responsible for a massive national housing fraud, the Ohio attorney general has filed a federal securities class action suit against…
A former federal prosecutor who was acquitted last fall on criminal charges that he withheld evidence favorable to four North African suspects in a high-profile 2003 Detroit terrorism trial is…
A Michigan school district may pursue its lawsuit against the federal government over funding for the No Child Left Behind Act, the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled…
A man who spent 20 years on Ohio’s death row before a federal appeals court overturned his sentence has agreed to a plea deal that will result in his release.
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