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The wife of a Baptist preacher from R. Kelly's hometown, a business executive and a telecommunications company employee were the first three jurors chosen Monday for the R&B superstar's child pornography trial. ... But he said he felt he could give a fair trial to the...
The case calls attention to the occasionally uncomfortable consequences of justices' ownership of individual stocks. ... Financial and personal conflicts of interest affecting four Supreme Court justices left the court without a quorum last week and unable to decide...
Archive | Police: Philadelphia couple, including Everett man, financed enviable lifestyle PHILADELPHIA — A brash college student whose life of luxury came crashing down with her arrest on identity-theft charges now admits that many others who crossed her path unwittingly financed the fun. Jocelyn...
By SAMUEL MAULL Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California. Gokhan Mutlu, of...
The Detroit City Council has spent weeks debating what to do with scandal-plagued Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick: force his ouster or slap him on the wrist. Council members are to consider three possibilities: Remove Kilpatrick from office themselves, ask Gov. Jennifer Granholm to do it, or publicly censure...
Prosecutors said Monday they will not seek the death penalty against four people charged with murdering Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor because the accused shooter was a minor when the crime was committed. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that people cannot be executed for crimes committed...
Indiana University told the NCAA on Monday that its own self-imposed penalties should be enough keep the organization from having to punish the school for improper phone calls made by Kelvin Sampson before he resigned as basketball coach. ... "In light of the fact that...
CINCINNATI (AP) ― A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter hit the books has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma. Brian Gegner, of Fairfield, was sentenced last week to 180 days in jail for contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a...
Federal prosecutors on Monday accused a man and woman of training the woman's child to be a dominatrix, selling her sexual services and photographing some of the acts. ... Couple accused of using child as dominatrix They allegedly sold girl's sexual services, used porn to...
A top political fundraiser parlayed his success at amassing enormous amounts of campaign money for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich into the access and influence to launch a $7 million shakedown scheme in state government, a prosecutor told jurors in his closing argument.
