ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio - Jury selection has begun in the trial of one of two Ohio police chiefs accused of snooping on the woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.
Barry Carpenter is on suspension as chief ...Read More
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Nov 15, 2009
Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon has said little about the theft charges leveled against her nearly a year ago. But with her trial under way, the silent void is being filled by backers offering personal and political support.
Dixon's family members streamed ...Read More
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Nov 12, 2009
BALTIMORE - Prosecutors say receipts prove Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon went on personal shopping excursions with holiday gift cards meant for the needy.Jurors were shown slides of the receipts Thursday.
However, defense attorneys argued in opening statements that the cards were ...Read More
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Nov 12, 2009
BALTIMORE — Store receipts prove Mayor Sheila Dixon used gift cards for the needy during personal shopping sprees, prosecutors said Thursday, though defense attorneys argued they were intended for her use.
Prosecutors showed slides of the receipts to jurors in opening ...Read More
WARWICK, R.I. - A hospital did not do enough to care for the brother of James Woods when he went to the emergency room complaining of a sore throat and vomiting in 2006, a lawyer for the actor told jurors ...Read More
WARWICK, R.I. -- A lawyer for Oscar-nominated actor James Woods has told a jury that a hospital in Rhode Island did not do enough to care for Woods' brother, who died after going to the emergency room complaining of a ...Read More
WARWICK, R.I.—Actor James Woods is expected in a Rhode Island courtroom as a trial begins in a lawsuit he brought against the hospital where his younger brother died in 2006.
Opening statements are scheduled for Monday in Kent County Superior Court.
Woods ...Read More
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Nov 3, 2009
Hoping to avert a partisan meltdown, Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) yesterday offered an olive branch to Republicans who are planning to boycott today's markup of a sweeping global warming bill.
Boxer still plans to begin the ...Read More
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Oct 27, 2009
Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Radovan Karadzic, accused ofgenocide against Bosnia’s Muslim population, stayed away fromthe second day of his UN trial in The Hague as the prosecutionmade its opening statements.
The United Nations court may continue proceedings in hisabsence if Karadzic ...Read More
The battle of wills between Radovan Karadzic and the judges in the Hague intensified today when the court decided to push ahead with the genocide trial of the former Bosnian Serb leader, even though he boycotted the proceedings for a ...Read More