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2 Live Crew Rapper Suing Miami Booster for Slander, Defamation
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, Campbell seeks more than $15000 in damages from Nevin Shapiro, an imprisoned Ponzi scheme architect. Shapiro has claimed he provided 72 Miami players and recruits with cars, money and prostitutes
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:45P
Dec. 1 deadline for feds on Fatal Vision appeal
1 to respond to a motion by attorneys seeking a new trial for former Army doctor Jeffrey MacDonald, who is serving three life sentences for the 1970 killings of his pregnant wife and two daughters at Fort Bragg. US District Court Judge James C. Fox
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:44P
Driver killed in Cape Coral crash identified
Members of the Cape Coral Police Department investigate the scene of a one-vehicle accident at the intersection of Chiquita Boulevard and Jacaranda Parkway in Cape Coral Wednesday. One fatality has been confirmed. / Andrew West/news-press.com Cape
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:44P
Chinese trial for homicide in Canada breaks new legal ground
the foremost Western expert on China's justice system, said the circumstances of the Li murder trial may be a first in North America, let alone Canada. “I've never heard of an American equivalent,” said Prof. Cohen, in an e-mail response.
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:43P
Davis execution delayed
Martina Correia, who is battling breast cancer and uses a wheelchair stands up for change to the US justice system. Tension is mounting outside a US jail amid a massive police presence after a stunning last-minute intervention by the US Supreme Court
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:43P
Public Reacts To The Payne Case Sentencing
"I'm all for western justice and I don't think there was justice don in any one of the decisions," Randy Schutz said. "I feel like they got what they deserved," said Kay Banner. "They maybe deserved more, but according to what they were charged with,
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:42P
Ex-AEC chief cautions against scrapping nuclear project
Noting that there is some amount of misunderstanding in the minds of the people protesting against the project after the Fukushima accident in Japan, he said, “Safety is not in anyway compromised.” “The Atomic Energy Department, Nuclear Power
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:42P
Political Bailout: Did Mitt Romney Save Rick Perry's Job?
Rick Perry has made his record of job creation a top selling point for the nomination. The Texas Republican has chosen, as a tag line for his candidacy, the pledge to “get this country working again.” He's touted Texas as a model of economic growth,
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:42P
Highway 70 at Yuba/Sutter county line reopened
Northbound Highway 70 near the Yuba/Sutter county line has reopened following an accident at Highway 70 and Feather River Boulevard, east of Plumas Lake, the California Highway Patrol said. At about 3:20 pm, according to the CHP log, two trucks,
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:42P
Texas man accused of rapes convicted of 1 assault
But prosecutors told jurors Harris' assertions of mental illness were part of a con to manipulate the justice system and that there were no records or witnesses that could verify Harris' claims. "We're happy that justice has been served and he has been
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:41P