An arson fire broke out Friday at a mosque in Riverside County, a week after the deadly terrorist attack in San Bernardino that killed 14 and injured 22 others, according to local news reports.
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Defense attorneys for the first of six Baltimore officers on trial for the death of Freddie Gray rested their case Friday with a police department official who pinned blame for Gray's fate on two officers still awaiting trial.
There is one way and one way only to clean up the political disaster that is dragging our country into the mire, here and across the world. A constitutional amendment - the 28th - which will say, in toto: "All key terms of the laws of the United States, and of the several states, shall be written in Yiddish." |
An Oklahoma City policeman was convicted Thursday of four counts of rape and 14 other charges of sexually assaulting middle-aged black women and could spend the rest of his life in prison. The alleged getaway driver for the 2006 murder of a businessman testified Thursday that Chinatown crime boss Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow had ordered the hit.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether courts have the right to review U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' determinations about whether a body of water is subject to its authority under the Clean Water Act. Minutes after Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl slipped away from his combat outpost in the dead of night, triggering a five-year search for answers that altered the trajectory of U.S. operations in Afghanistan, he had a sinking feeling: "Good grief, I'm in over my head." A missing safety warning on a pet cage led to disaster when an infant was attacked and bitten by ferrets who escaped from the cage, her guardian claims in court. Cross-examination in the trial of Chinatown crime boss Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow on Friday revealed wide-reaching tensions to the point of warfare among Bay Area Asian-American gangs, but not much more. An Alaska state judge on Friday canceled a hearing that could have resulted in the release of three men imprisoned for a 1997 murder, saying a deal offered by prosecutors had no legal precedent. Dow and DuPont said Friday they will merge to form the world's second-largest chemical company, with an estimated market value of $130 billion, then split into three. Scientists studying children in California's Salinas Valley have linked a decrease in lung function to exposure to commonly used agricultural pesticides called organophosphates, according to a University of California Berkeley study.
Arbitration in Singapore that ended with a $9 million judgment does not block Uthe Technology from seeking treble damages in California, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday. A group of students who support Harvard University's consideration of race in undergraduate admissions decisions cannot intervene in lawsuit aimed at curbing that practice, the First Circuit ruled. A 16-year-old girl who had a sexual relationship with her teacher should not bear a portion of the blame, a Louisiana appeals court ruled. A New Jersey Turnpike plaza operator didn't trample the constitutional rights of a strip club when it ordered the club's brochures removed from the plaza's displays, the Third Circuit ruled. One year to the day since sixth grader Emilie Olsen killed herself after years of bullying, her family filed a federal complaint Friday in Ohio against the Fairfield City School District Board of Education. Four Garden State residents want to represent a class alleging that Comcast is unconscionable in providing deficient goods and services, with unhelpful customer service to boot. |
Parishioners at two Roman Catholic Churches in New York claim in court that their pastor routinely dipped into donation baskets to fund an illicit lifestyle of sex, drugs and sadomasochistic rituals.
A charter elementary school asked a Washington, D.C. superior court judge to block anti-abortion demonstrators from protesting a Planned Parenthood clinic set to open across the street next year.
A federal judge settled a squabble over attorneys' fees for counsel representing college athletes in class actions against video game maker Electronic Arts.
The former president of a California bank is accused of leading an international money laundering operation that also involved drug trafficking.
A state appeals court upheld sanctions against a California attorney who threatened opposing counsel with pepper spray and a stun gun. Aiming to boost its stock for an upcoming merger, Time Warner Cable fired workers who resisted inflating subscriber numbers, five ex-employees claim in court.
A former commander of the Baltimore Police Department took the stand on behalf of the officer being tried for the death of Freddie Gray. Alexander McQueen keeps black employees out of customer sight, except when it "searches them for theft in front of the other employees and customers," two black workers claim in court. Trustees at Congregation B'nai Israel of New York City maliciously acted to oust the Village Temple's devoted rabbi, a class claims in court. |
A federal jury wasted little time before convicting former New York State Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Friday on corruption charges.
The Second Circuit refused to convene an en banc hearing for John Ashcroft, with the former attorney general in the hot seat for widespread abuses against undocumented Muslims during "hysteria" after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. 
Radio giant Cumulus fired Geraldo Rivera over an email, then locked him out of his studio while he was covering the terror attacks in Paris, he claims in court. 
After arresting his chief jailer on a felony charge and taking control of the jail, a New Mexico sheriff was served with a restraining order - at his news conference - and the Board of Commissioners told him he is "not needed nor even wanted at the jail." 
An attorney who used secret Navy documents to file a whistleblower lawsuit against defense contractors acted unethically and has no right to pursue the litigation, a federal judge ruled. 
The woman accused of killing four people with her car at Oklahoma State University's homecoming parade is competent to stand trial, a judge ruled Thursday.
Rhythm & blues singer The Weeknd faces a copyright infringement lawsuit from an English company that claims he copied music from a British sci-fi thriller for his hit single "The Hills." 
Seven Citadel cadets have been suspended after photos showing them wearing white hoods reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan showed up on social media