21 hours ago - By Ben Nuckols, Associated Press Writer
The accusations that Mayor Sheila Dixon used holiday gift cards for the needy during personal shopping sprees may sound like a minor embarrassment at worst, a small-time case of a politician enjoying the perks of power.
Nov 6 - By Tom Hays, Associated Press Writer
Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers charged with lying to investors always were honest about the risks of investing in securities linked to the volatile subprime mortgage market, a defense lawyer told a jury on Friday.
Nov 5 - By Associated Press
The former manager of a kosher Iowa slaughterhouse that was the site of a massive immigration raid says he never intentionally violated federal laws.
Nov 5 - By Associated Press
A jury has found an Iowa woman guilty of killing her 2-year-old son and seriously injuring his older brother when she slit the boys' throats before cutting her own neck last year.
Nov 4 - By Associated Press
The United States expressed disappointment over an Italian court's conviction of 23 Americans in absentia of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street.
Nov 4 - By Justin Juozapavicius, Associated Press Writer
Poultry giant Tyson Foods Inc. cared more about preserving its public image than protecting a million-acre watershed from environmental pollution, attorneys for the state of Oklahoma claimed Tuesday.

Nov 4 - By Colleen Barry, Associated Press Writer
An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world against people involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program.

Nov 3 - By Michelle Roberts, Associated Press Writer
After being duped by false leads and chastised by a court for its handling of polygamist sect children, the state of Texas has won a criminal conviction in its first trial of a sect member charged with sexually assaulted an underage girl.
Nov 3 - By David Twiddy, AP Business Writer
Four years after two former utility company executives were last tried, federal prosecutors are trying to get their case back on track.
Nov 2 - By Associated Press
Italian news reports say Premier Silvio Berlusconi is seeking to postpone the resumption of his fraud trial in Milan.
Nov 2 - By Tom Parsons, Associated Press Writer
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals will get a new trial to determine if the drugmaker should pay punitive damages to a woman who got breast cancer after taking hormone replacement therapy, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
Nov 2 - By Associated Press
A former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager accused of defrauding a bank was incompetent and in over his head, a plant employee testified Monday.

Nov 2 - By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press Writer
An attorney for the Minnesota businessman accused of orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme attacked the credibility of the prosecution's star witness Wednesday, playing recordings in which she and other key figures in the case speculated about how much he knew about the scam.
Oct 31 - By Michael Virtanen, Associated Press Writer
The lawyer for an investment company that paid former state Senate leader Joseph Bruno to generate business testified Wednesday that company files did not contain disclosure statements the lawmaker was required to present to clients.
Oct 29 - By Associated Press
A southwest Ohio pediatrician convicted of sex crimes involving former patients has been found guilty of drug trafficking and money laundering charges.
Oct 29 - By Associated Press
A former kosher slaughterhouse supervisor has testified the plant scrambled to get workers new identification documents the night before a massive immigration raid.
Oct 29 - By Amy Luft, Associated Press Writer
A Rwandan man who was the first person convicted under a law allowing people in Canada to be tried for war crimes committed abroad has been sentenced to life in prison.

Oct 27 - By Mike Robinson, AP Legal Affairs Writer
A federal deputy marshal was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for leaking information about the government's star witness at Chicago's biggest organized crime trial in decades.

Oct 26 - By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press Writer
More than 6,000 people crowded outside a Tokyo courthouse Monday as Japanese actress Noriko Sakai pleaded guilty to drug use and prosecutors sought a prison sentence in a trial that has caused a media frenzy.
Oct 25 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
Prosecutors say Petters Co. Inc. was just a common Ponzi scheme at its core.
Oct 25 - By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press Writer
Jurors in a Minnesota businessman's fraud trial heard Friday how one hedge fund was fooled into losing $60 million in what prosecutors call one of the largest Ponzi schemes ever uncovered.
Oct 24 - By Associated Press
A woman was convicted of conspiracy and false imprisonment after she harbored a 6-year-old boy who was snatched by her friend to protest what the women claimed was lax security at a Nevada elementary school.

Oct 24 - By Michelle Roberts, Associated Press Writer
A 38-year-old man from a polygamist sect sexually assaulted a teenager less than half his age at the Yearning For Zion Ranch, a prosecutor charged Wednesday to open the first criminal trial since the ranch was raided.

Oct 23 - By Tom Odula, Associated Press Writers
One of Kenya's most prominent white aristocrats was released from prison Friday after more than three years in jail for killing a black poacher on his vast family estate.
Oct 22 - By Justin Juozapavicius, Associated Press Writer
A former Arkansas poultry company executive testified Thursday that he wrote a memo in 2005 warning of the environmental dangers of spreading too much chicken waste on farmland in certain areas.