DETROIT, Sep. 4, 2008 (Reuters) — Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty on Thursday to obstruction of justice in a plea agreement that forces him from office and caps a scandal that had threatened to spill over into the U.S. presidential campaign in a key battleground state. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Sep. 4, 2008 (Reuters) — Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced on Thursday to serve four more years in prison in a corruption scandal that rocked Washington's power elite and helped Republicans lose control of Congress. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Sep. 3, 2008 (Reuters) — A retired professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee was convicted on Wednesday of violating U.S. arms export controls and passing sensitive data to a Chinese national, the U.S. Justice Department said. ... > full story
NEW YORK, Aug. 28, 2008 (Reuters) — A U.S. appeals court has upheld the dismissal of criminal charges against 13 former executives at KPMG, saying prosecutors violated the defendants' rights by pressuring the accounting firm not to pay their legal bills. ... > full story
SPOKANE, Washington, Aug. 27, 2008 (Reuters) — A federal jury in Idaho sentenced Joseph Duncan on Wednesday to death for shooting to death a 9-year-old boy in front of his younger sister after kidnapping and sexually abusing the boy. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2008 (Reuters) — A U.S. firm pleaded guilty to illegally providing a Chinese national with data used in developing an unmanned aerial weapons system, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. ... > full story
DETROIT, Aug. 18, 2008 (Reuters) — Embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick won a legal victory on Monday when a judge blocked the city council from holding hearings intended to oust him. ... > full story
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, Aug. 15, 2008 (Reuters) — An accused al Qaeda videographer abandoned his hearing in the U.S. war crimes court at Guantanamo on Friday, setting up what could be a fast trial with no defendant and no defense. ... > full story
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13, 2008 (Reuters) — A 33-year-old woman arrested on charges of stalking actor John Cusack is mentally competent to stand trial, a judge ruled on Wednesday. ... > full story
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Lawyer says mayor wrestled over plea Sep. 4, 2008 (MLive.com) — Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's chief lawyer says he agreed to plead guilty after weighing the impact on his family and deciding he no longer ...
Knoxville love triangle murder trial has national spotlight Sep. 2, 2008 (ABC 6 Knoxville (WATE)) — On Wednesday, Eric McLean's murder trial, in one of Knoxville's most publicized recent legal cases, begins its time in the national spotlight. . ...
Kinder Morgan sentenced for ocean dumping Aug. 17, 2008 (BizJournals) — A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals Inc. to pay $240,000 for illegally dumping potash into the Pacific Ocean.. ...
Suspect in bus beheading described as hard working Aug. 4, 2008 (Boston Globe) — A man who witnesses said stabbed, beheaded and cannibalized a fellow traveler on a Greyhound bus immigrated to Canada from China four years ago and ...
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