Latest Law News
Legal fight over Navy A-12 plane to continue
The court threw out a federal appeals court ruling in favor of the government, but sent the case back to that court to consider other issues. Justice Antonin Scalia said the outcome “will please neither side.”
Updated: 05/23/2011 11:57A
Fiery Crash Kills 2, Closes Interstate
GREENVILLE, SC -- A fiery crash along Interstate 85 will leave the highway closed to northbound traffic for days, according to the South Carolina Department of Transportation. The Highway Patrol said a tractor-trailer crashed into a bridge support
Updated: 05/23/2011 11:57A
Driver Falls Asleep, Strikes Confederate Monument
Police said 40-year-old Mark Anthony Vincent wasn't cited in the crash and was traveling at the posted 35 mph speed limit at impact. Vincent told officers that the last thing he remembers seeing before falling asleep was the intersection of Wentworth
Updated: 05/23/2011 11:57A
AP Enterprise: States' immigration efforts fizzle (9:45 am)
Mitch Daniels signed into law more modest bills: the in-state tuition ban and an end to tax credits for companies that hire illegal immigrants. In Utah, businesses helped create the Utah Compact, the basis for the most comprehensive immigration law to
Updated: 05/23/2011 11:57A
BuCor chief Diokno goes on leave but won't resign
MANNY MARCELO MANILA, Philippines - Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director Ernesto Diokno took a leave of absence yesterday as the Department of Justice started its investigation on his possible liability for the alleged jail pass of former Batangas
Updated: 05/23/2011 11:57A
Lawyer's past questioned in Mexican kingpin's case
A well-known criminal defense attorney was disqualified Monday from representing one of Mexico's earliest drug kingpins after prosecutors questioned whether he was linked to his client's cartel. US District Judge Larry Burns said
Updated: 05/23/2011 11:57A
Inconclusive Autopsy Results For Randy Savage
An autopsy was performed after the Macho Man was killed in an auto accident. The accident was believed to be a direct result of Savage suffering a heart attack while behind the wheel. His 2009 Jeep Wrangler veered off the road, crossed the median and
Updated: 05/23/2011 11:57A
Antigua judge severs 2 killings from trial in pair charged with killing
Instead Justice Richard Floyd divided the cases. The men will now go on trial June 1 in the slaying of the British couple and of a Jamaican shopkeeper. They will face a later trial in the killing of a Syrian national and a college student.
Updated: 05/23/2011 11:57A
Services set for southern Ill. nurse hit, killed while trying to help at other
By AP TAMAROA, Ill. (AP) — Services are set in southern Illinois for a nurse who was hit by a car while trying to render aid at another accident scene. Authorities tell WSIL-TV that 43-year-old Stacey Fox of Tamaroa died Thursday night along US 51 in
Updated: 05/23/2011 11:57A
Revisiting Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline Memorial at the crashsite where she died in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee in 1963. (photo: Thomas R Machnitzki) Patsy Cline Memorial at the crashsite where she died in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee in 1963.
Updated: 05/23/2011 11:57A