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Ashland resident can't promote tax evasion, court says
However, PQI clients seeking the tax evasion and debt elimination vendors were required to join PQI, with the cost of membership ranging from $1350 to $18750. Reach reporter Sanne Specht at 541-776-4497 or e-mail sspecht@mailtribune.com.
Updated: 11/09/2011 05:01A
Feds hope to overturn Katrina flood ruling
A landmark ruling by US District Judge Stanwood Duval is scheduled to be heard Wednesday by a panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. The case focuses on the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, a navigation channel on the eastern side
Updated: 11/09/2011 04:38A
Man allegedly fed to crocs
The court case of Keegan Govender – the man accused of murdering his girlfriend's alleged molester and then feeding him to crocodiles–- resumed in the Mtunzini High Court on Monday. The court is situated near Richards Bay. Over a year ago,
Updated: 11/09/2011 04:38A
Methuen school official's trail of theft ends with jail
"The fact that it was election day was never a consideration," said Steve O'Connell, spokesman for District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett. Just before 10 yesterday morning, as he stood at the podium in Lawrence District Court, Salvo, a lifelong Methuen
Updated: 11/09/2011 04:38A
Judge dismisses case against fake lawyer
He has also shown up a number of times at Salem District Court just to sit in the courtroom — as he did yesterday. Judge Robert Brennan called a prosecutor and the court-appointed lawyer for Burnham, who happened to also be in court, to the side of his
Updated: 11/09/2011 04:36A
Indian court convicts 31 Hindus of killing Muslims
Two of the suspects died during the trial, which had been expedited by orders from India's top court, the Supreme Court. Relations between Hindus and Muslims have been largely peaceful since the bloody partition of the subcontinent into India and
Updated: 11/09/2011 04:35A
Man charged in assault on family
He is being held at the Wicomico County Detention Center on $75000 bond following a District Court bail review hearing this week. Deputies were dispatched to Walker's home on Ocean Gateway at about 6:16 pm Saturday in response to a reported domestic
Updated: 11/09/2011 04:33A
Dad faces new trial over his baby's death
Tom Smith denied the manslaughter of his eight-week-old daughter Chantelle Pilkington during a trial last month, but a jury failed to reach a verdict in the case. Chelmsford Crown Court heard the prosecution had been given time to
Updated: 11/09/2011 04:32A
Danish court clash leads to 62 arrests
Some 62 people were arrested near Copenhagen on Tuesday following a clash between two rival gangs outside a courthouse where a gang member was on trial for the 2008 murder of a Young Turk, police said. The people arrested in the Copenhagen suburb of
Updated: 11/09/2011 04:29A
Mehanna lawyer lashes out at prosecutors
The trial, which could last two months, is in its second full week in US District Court in Boston, and it has already become a tug of war between the government and defense. The roiling emotions in the case became evident yesterday with Carney's
Updated: 11/09/2011 04:26A