Nov 19 - By Herbert A. Sample, Associated Press Writer
A Maui man accused of spying for China is difficult to work with and makes wild exaggerations but is legally able to stand trial, a federal prosecutor asserted Friday.
Nov 16 - By Mike Robinson, AP Legal Affairs Writer
A millionaire power broker who was to go to trial on corruption charges alongside ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was dropped Monday from the list of defendants.
Nov 13 - By Betsy Blaney, Associated Press Writer
A Lubbock businessman pleaded guilty Thursday to two charges related to his bilking $50 million from investors in a Ponzi scheme.
Oct 13 - By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press Writer
Authorities on Tuesday made an arrest in a nearly 20-year-old southeast Texas case where an 8-year-old girl was attacked and left for dead in a field, unable to cry out for help because her throat had been slashed.
Oct 13 - By Sam Hananel, Associated Press Writer
The Supreme Court seemed receptive Tuesday to reinstating the death sentence of a flamboyant neo-Nazi convicted of murdering three men in Ohio more than a quarter century ago.
Oct 5 - By Associated Press
The Supreme Court has refused to revive a libel claim against the Chicago Tribune by a former prosecutor who accused the newspaper of a "witch hunt" against him.
Sep 30 - By Associated Press
The California attorney general's office has issued an arrest warrant in a 28-year-old triple homicide case in Riverside County.

Sep 29 - By Graham Dunbar, AP Sports Writer
Brazilians are confident that if the International Olympic Committee practices what it preaches, then Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Summer Games.
Sep 28 - By Associated Press
A northwestern Oregon man who used a shock collar for dogs on his young children has been sentenced to three years of supervised probation.
Sep 28 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
Roman Polanski's legal troubles did not end with his guilty plea in a 1970s child rape case. They only got more complicated. The movie director fled the country before sentencing and remained a fugitive from justice for three decades until his arrest in Switzerland over the weekend.
Sep 17 - By Associated Press
An Australian man has been arrested on charges of raping his daughter for 30 years and fathering four children with her, media reports said Thursday.
Sep 12 - By Associated Press
Breaking his silence in the case, a 58-year-old man has confessed to killing a fellow Brigham Young University student 35 years ago.
Sep 11 - By Associated Press
Prosecutors have dismissed charges against four school officials who were accused of failing to report a hazing in which high school football players were sodomized with a broomstick.
Aug 21 - By Associated Press
A judge says the man accused of ordering the murder of a California journalist must stand trial on separate kidnapping and torture charges.
Aug 17 - By David Rising, Associated Press Writer
An American man has been extradited to Germany to face charges that he raped and murdered a 19-year-old woman near where he worked on a U.S. military base 25 years ago, police said Monday.
Aug 4 - By Associated Press
Many members of a Florida middle school's flag football team were in the locker room when a 13-year-old boy was sexually assaulted by some of his teammates with a hockey stick and broomstick, according to court documents released Tuesday.
Jul 14 - By Associated Press
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has defended her ruling against white firefighters who accused the New Haven, Conn., government of engaging in reverse discrimination against them.
Jul 6 - By Ben Fox, Associated Press Writer
Lawyers for an alleged Sept. 11 plotter held at Guantanamo want to inspect secret CIA overseas prisons, saying in court papers Monday the conditions in the so-called black sites may yield insight into a mental disorder that has raised questions about whether he is competent to stand trial.
Jul 6 - By Michelle Locke, Associated Press Writer
The mystery of Amber Swartz-Garcia, a 7-year-old Northern California girl who disappeared after going to jump rope outside her home 21 years ago, has been solved, police said Monday.
Jul 6 - By Christine Armario , Associated Press Writer
In a Tampa middle school locker room, prosecutors say four flag football players held down a younger teammate and committed a horrifying assault: Raping him with a hockey stick and a broom handle.
Jun 23 - By Thomas Watkins, Associated Press Writer
Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide detectives on Tuesday asked the public's help in solving the 1976 rape and killing of the ex-wife of The Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley.
Jun 22 - By Associated Press
A 50-year-old Syracuse woman was sentenced Monday to five years on probation for killing her newborn son and tossing his body in a park trash can nearly 30 years ago.
Jun 22 - By Associated Press
The Supreme Court will not revive a lawsuit that former CIA operative Valerie Plame brought against former members of the Bush administration.

Jun 16 - By Schuyler Dixon, Associated Press Writer
Former major league outfielder Mel Hall was sentenced to 45 years in prison Wednesday after being convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl he coached on an elite basketball team. Hall was convicted on three counts of aggravated sexual assault and two counts of indecency with a child. Among his accusers during sentencing Wednesday were others who said he carried on inappropriate relationships with them.
Jun 5 - By Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press Writer
A reputed Ku Klux Klansman convicted two years ago in the 1964 kidnappings of two black men asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to decide whether the statute of limitations had expired before prosecutors charged him.