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Newsboys deliver rock
When Peter Furler stepped aside as lead singer of the Newsboys last spring, it was akin to U2 losing Bono.
Madoff accomplice denied bail, again
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge in New York challenged the government to prove that jailed financier Bernard Madoff's former finance chief is a valuable cooperator Wednesday, implying he may only be pretending to help prosecutors in the hopes of garnering a lighter sentence.
ACORN pleads not guilty to 13 counts of Nevada vote fraud
LAS VEGAS — Lawyers for the political advocacy group ACORN and a former voter registration supervisor pleaded not guilty Tuesday to illegally paying canvassers to register Nevada voters during last year's presidential campaign.
US border agency personnel tied to array of misconduct, crimes
EL PASO — One immigration agent was accused of running an Internet pornography business and enjoying an improper relationship with an informant. Another let an informant smuggle in a group of illegal immigrants. And in a third case, an agent was investigated for soliciting sex from a witness…
Man sentenced to 3.5 years for hindering murder prosecution
One of three men charged with first-degree murder in the November 2008 shooting death of a Tucson man was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to hindering prosecution.
Charge against teen in fatal beating is dropped
CHICAGO — A first-degree murder charge was dropped Monday against one of four teens accused in the brutal beating of a Chicago honor student that was recorded in a cell-phone camera video.
The expert witness: an inexact system
Contract attorneys hired by the county spent almost five times as much taxpayer money on expert witnesses as the prosecutor's office and other public defenders combined.
Strategy, as well as cost, factoring into hiring experts
Cost is just one thing attorneys consider in hiring expert witnesses.
Testimony of Anna Nicole Smith sexual liaison barred
LOS ANGELES — Saying he wanted to avoid "a circus sideshow," a judge barred prosecutors Thursday from asking a witness whether a sexual relationship existed between celebrity model Anna Nicole Smith and the female psychiatrist accused of providing her with excessive medication.
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