Category Archives: Legal

David Spade helps Phoenix police buy rifles

By doris | Published: December 22, 2008

Full Story at Yahoo! News AP – In this Sunday, May 18, 2008 picture, David Spade arrives at the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music … * ShowBiz Minute: Hilton, ‘Yes Man,’ Foxx Play Video TV Video: ShowBiz Minute: Hilton, ‘Yes Man,’ Foxx AP * Hollywood Nation: 12/19 Play Video TV Video: Hollywood Nation: 12/19 [...]

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Pirates to receive millions in ransom for release of arms ship

By doris | Published: December 19, 2008

Full Story At  CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — Pirates holding a ship full of tanks and ammunition off the coast of Somalia are likely to be paid millions of dollars in ransom within days, senior U.S. military officials said.Somali pirates holding the MV Faina stand guard on the merchant vessel’s deck on October 19. Somali pirates [...]

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Police: Drifter killed Adam Walsh in 1981

By doris | Published: December 16, 2008

Full Story At CNN.com HOLLYWOOD, Florida (CNN) — A deceased drifter long suspected in the abduction, murder and beheading of 6-year-old Adam Walsh committed the crime that put missing children on the national agenda, police said Tuesday.Adam Walsh 6, disappeared from a mall in August, 1981. His head was found two weeks later, 120 miles [...]

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Yellow margarine: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Legal!

By doris | Published: December 16, 2008

Full Story At  USATODAY.com JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A state legislator wants to dump a 19th-century law banning the sale of yellow margarine, though it’s been years since any violator was ordered to spread ‘em. Rep. Sara Lampe said Tuesday she plans to file legislation repealing the law when the 2009 legislative session starts [...]

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Banks and consumers brace for new credit card rules

By doris | Published: December 13, 2008

Full Story At Boston.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. credit card industry, harshly criticized for imposing surprise fees and interest rate hikes on consumers, may face a day of reckoning on Thursday. The Federal Reserve is to vote on credit card reforms that may bring some relief to customers who face a variety of ways [...]

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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Is ‘Senate Candidate No. 5′, Says He Did Nothing Wrong

By doris | Published: December 11, 2008

Full Story At ABC News Chicago Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., is the anonymous “Senate Candidate No. 5″ whose emissaries Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich reportedly offered up to $1 million to name him to the U.S. Senate, his attorney confirmed today after it was reported earlier on ABCNews.com “The Blotter”.Jesse Jackson Jr. denies any involvement [...]

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TV station defends plan to show man’s suicide

By doris | Published: December 10, 2008

Full Story At msnbc.com LONDON – A British television channel said Wednesday it was planning to broadcast the death of an American man at a Swiss euthanasia clinic. The death of 59-year-old Craig Ewert in 2006 is due to be shown Wednesday during a documentary on the Sky Real Lives channel.

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Obama tries to gain distance from Ill. governor

By doris | Published: December 10, 2008

Full Story At  msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Though Barack Obama isn’t accused of anything, the charges against his home-state governor — concerning Obama’s own Senate seat no less — are an unwelcome distraction. And the ultimate fallout is unclear. As Obama works to set up his new administration and deal with a national economic crisis, suddenly [...]

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Congressman gets jail for drunken driving

By doris | Published: December 9, 2008

Full Story At msnbc.com ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Disgraced New York Rep. Vito Fossella has been sentenced to five days in jail for drunken driving. Judge Becky Moore decided Fossella was so drunk he met the legal threshold for a five-day stint in jail. Fossella’s May 1 arrest led to revelations he had fathered a child [...]

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Tech commission suggests new cybersecurity post

By doris | Published: December 8, 2008

Full Story At CNET News The Department of Homeland Security has failed to ensure the nation’s cybersecurity, a new report to be released Monday concludes, because the threat of cyberattacks is too vast for any one agency to tackle and must be addressed by a new White House office, as well as revised laws and [...]

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Louisiana Voters Oust Indicted Rep. Jefferson

By doris | Published: December 7, 2008

Full Story At ABC News: In a year when national Republican fortunes took a turn for the worse, Louisiana delivered the GOP two seats in Congress in elections delayed by Hurricane Gustav.William Jefferson hugs a supporter after losing to Republican newcomer Anh “Joseph” Cao in the Louisiana congressional race, New Orleans, Saturday Dec. 6, 2008. [...]

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Boy George Guilty Of False Imprisonment

By doris | Published: December 6, 2008

Full Story At CBS News AP) Boy George, the flamboyant former Culture Club frontman, was convicted Friday of falsely imprisoning a male escort. Norwegian escort Audun Carlsen had alleged he was handcuffed to a wall hook at the singer’s east London apartment on April 28, 2007. Prosecutors said Carlsen was held by the singer, whose [...]

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O.J. Simpson Gets Up To 33 Years In Prison

By doris | Published: December 6, 2008

Full Story At CBS News (CBS/AP) A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to as much as 33 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, “It was much more than stupidity.” The 61-year-old football Hall of Famer stood shackled and stone-faced as Judge Jackie Glass rattled [...]

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Dixie Chicks singer sued for defamation

By doris | Published: December 5, 2008

msnbc.com LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines is the target of a defamation lawsuit by the stepfather of one of three 8-year-old boys slain in 1993. Maines spoke out for three people convicted of the slayings and alleged the stepfather was instead involved in the killings. Terry Hobbs, stepfather of Steve Branch, [...]

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Feds to Judge: Don’t ‘Second Guess’ Bush Domestic Spy Program

By doris | Published: December 3, 2008

Full Story At  Wired.com SAN FRANCISCO -– The Bush administration on Tuesday urged a federal judge to dismiss lawsuits against the nation’s telecommunications companies accused of complying with the government’s once-secret spy program adopted in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks on the United States. “That was designed to protect from a terrorist attack,” [...]

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Half-Naked Teen Shows Up At Gym In Chains

By doris | Published: December 3, 2008

Full Story At CBS News (CBS/ AP) A husband and wife have been charged with torture and other counts after a bruised, terrified 17-year-old showed up at a gym with a chain locked to his ankle, claiming he had just fled his captors, authorities said Tuesday. Kelly Layne Lau, 30, and Michael Schumacher, 34, were [...]

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High Court Hears Sex Discrimination Case

By doris | Published: December 3, 2008

Full Story At  CBS News AP) A Massachusetts girl’s awful experience on a school bus is at the heart of a case argued in the Supreme Court Tuesday over limits on lawsuits about sex discrimination in education. The 5-year-old kindergarten student in Hyannis, Mass., told her parents that in 2000 a third-grade boy repeatedly made [...]

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Mobile phones distract drivers more than passengers

By doris | Published: December 1, 2008

Boston.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mobile phone calls distract drivers far more than even the chattiest passenger, causing drivers to follow too closely and miss exits, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. Using a hands-free device does not make things better and the researchers believe they know why — passengers act as a second set of eyes, [...]

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Mystery piano in woods perplexes police

By doris | Published: November 24, 2008

Full Story CNN.com (CNN) — Was it a theft? A prank? A roundabout effort to bring some holiday cheer to the police? Authorities in Harwich, Massachusetts, are probing the mysterious appearance of a piano, in good working condition, in the middle of the woods.A police officer examines an oddly placed piano in the woods of [...]

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Parents Leave Kids With ‘Safe Haven’ Loophole

By doris | Published: November 22, 2008

Full Story At ABC News Parents have been using Nebraska’s Safe Haven law to drop off children of any age at Nebraska hospitals without being prosecuted for abandonment. But a new state law approved Friday limits dropoffs to infants no more than 30 days old.Nebraska mother seeks treatment for her troubled 12-year old-son. The Safe [...]

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