SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Alito's gripe: Obama said high court reversed 100 years of law Star Tribune | WASHINGTON - Still wonder exactly why Justice Samuel Alito shook his head and mouthed the words "not true" during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address? He objected to the president's saying the ruling reversed a century of law. | The president touched off a controversy whe...
UN chief can't judge if Gaza probes are 'credible' The News & Observer | UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. secretary-general reported Thursday night he was uncertain whether Israel or the Palestinians had met U.N. demands to undertake "credible" investigations into allegations that they deliberately targeted civilians during last year's Gaza offensive. | Ban Ki-moon's highly ...
S.C. Supreme Court reprimands ex-judge The State | The S.C. Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded former Lee County Magistrate Alston Wesley Woodham for his role in ticket-fixing incidents, according to a decision announced late Monday. | "Ticket-fixing constitutes improper ex parte (third party) ...
Attorney: Brooke Sheen wants case dismissed The Guardian | P. SOLOMON BANDA | Associated Press= ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Charlie Sheen and his wife were reunited Monday after a judge modified a restraining order and allowed them them to work out their differences following a Christmas Day domestic violence di...
Courts: Should child-porn victims get restitution? Star Tribune | Every day, "Misty" finds out that another pedophile has been caught with images of her. He could be a pastor, a cop or a mechanic busted with pornographic pictures taken when she was 8 or 9 years old. In each case, another person is makin...
Jennifer Lopez to be questioned about sexuality in court DNA India | WASHINGTON: American actress Jennifer Lopez's ex-husband Ojani Noa's representative has revealed that he will question her about her sexuality in open court. | The announ...
Video: 3-city action to impeach 'Torture Judge' Bybee The Examiner | Related articles LA Human Rights defenders to take on Torture Judge Bybee at Court We will not be silent. Dupré interviews Torture Judge Bybee protester Sharon Tipt...
In Pictures: 'Michael Jackson Doctor Arrives for Court' m&c | Michael Jackson's personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray (C) arrives at the Los Angeles Superior Court Airport Courthouse in Los Angeles, California USA on 08 February 2010. Michael Jackson's doctor has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in t...
Trial begins for illegal alien accused of killing Colorado toddler and two others The Examiner | Francis Hernandez AP | Illegal alien Francis Hernandez is on trial this week in Arapahoe County District Court for an automobile crash that resulted in the deaths of three people, including a 3-year-old boy. | Francis Hernandez, faces a total of 19...
Attorney: Brooke Sheen wants case dismissed Breitbart ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Charlie Sheen and his wife were reunited Monday after a judge modified a restraining order and allowed them them to work out their differences following a Christmas Day domestic violence dispute in which the actor allegedly pinned...
Iran's Two-Edged Bomb The New York Times | Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. | WITH Iran having notified the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency on Monday that any day now it will begin enriching its stockpile of uranium in order to power a medical reactor, we should admit that Washington's approach to countering the Islamic Republic is leading nowhere. What's needed, however, may be less o...
Wintry weather drives energy prices higher Houston Chronicle | NEW YORK - Energy prices climbed today as another winter storm was expected to dump even more snow on the East Coast. | Already, parts of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Washington are blanketed in about three feet of snow, knocking out power for tens of thousands of people and forcing government offices to close. | As those regions dig out ...
