A seemingly ordinary product sold by home-supply retailers to keep patio lights burning can act like napalm, splashing into the air and onto people when spilled, fueling flash fires that…
A Washington judge has temporarily stayed his own ruling granting a search warrant sought by the Renton city prosecutor after a lawyer for an unidentified videographer known as “MrFuddlesticks” provided…
Five adults and four juveniles have been charged with first-degree murder and other crimes in the killing last month of a Kansas attorney who was shot to death when she…
Enacting federal medical malpractice reform can help the county improve its credit rating, former White House Office of Management and Budget director Peter R. Orszag wrote today in a column…
The survivors and estate of a hiker who bled to death soon after being gored by a monster 370-pound mountain goat in Olympic National Park last year are pursuing a…
Four cannabis clubs in Arizona, where voters last year passed a law allowing medical marijuana use, were sued today by the state attorney general, who alleges that the groups’ actions…
Pierce O’Donnell, a Los Angeles litigator whose clients over the years included Faye Dunaway, Art Buchwald and Steven Spielberg, pleaded guilty yesterday to making illegal campaign contributions.
An Arkansas lawyer and businessman admitted in federal court yesterday that he orchestrated a $47 million Ponzi scheme involving seven banks by creating fake rural improvement bonds.
A Manhattan federal judge won’t hold the Central Intelligence Agency in contempt for destroying videotapes chronicling harsh interrogations of two al-Qaida detainees.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ordered the CIA…
Criticized over the recent forced resignations of two lawyers in her office who had been investigating mortgage foreclosure issues, Florida’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, is now calling for an independent…
Only a year ago, Attila-the-Hen, Buffy-the-Wormslayer and Motherclucker could have been roosting on the wrong side of the law in a palatial $1,200 coop in the back yard of Jody…
For the second time in four months, a sitting Illinois prosecutor facing felony charges over his alleged misuse of his office for political purposes has won a directed verdict in…
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