An Alabama man offered to pay $45,000 for the murder of Talladega County lawyer Blake Lazenby, according to testimony by the man who says he acted as a go-between for…
Alice Lee, reportedly the oldest practicing lawyer in Alabama until recently and the sister of famed author Harper Lee, died Monday after “her heart wore out,” according to a local…
An Alabama federal judge accused in a domestic battery case was asked to confirm or deny extramarital affairs, domestic violence and prescription drug abuse in now-unsealed files in his 2012…
It isn’t just football players who are facing career blowback over claimed domestic violence incidents. A federal judge arrested last month after a dispute with his wife in an Atlanta…
A federal judge charged with battery in a domestic dispute with his wife that took place in an Atlanta hotel room has apologized and agreed to a plea deal.
Updated: An Alabama federal judge has been released on bond after he was arrested this weekend at the Ritz-Carlton in Atlanta on a charge of misdemeanor battery.
Fiercely protective of her privacy, the 88-year-old author of one of the most famous trial novels ever published says she never willingly cooperated with a journalist who moved next door…
A $37 million default judgment against a bar accused of overserving a patron was reversed Friday by Alabama’s top state court, which found that insufficient efforts were made to notify…
In a written settlement agreement concerning the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with a 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, BP agreed to a compensation…
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