Two men who met during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the police slaying of Michael Brown admitted Tuesday in federal court in St. Louis that they planned to blow up…
Two men stole tens of millions of dollars from Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines over a 20-year period through a relatively simple billing fraud, authorities say.
A former Arkansas judge who pleaded guilty earlier this year in a federal bribery case concerning his reduction of a jury award from over $5 million to $1 million has…
A federal judge has ordered a Minnesota employer to pay a monster $2.1 million in legal fees for work by its opposing counsel in an employment discrimination case.
Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt said he had a special interest in sealed records in federal death-penalty litigation in Missouri–the man who admittedly shot Flynt outside a state courthouse in…
A federal jury in St. Louis on Monday awarded $491 million in damages concerning a failed prepaid funeral operation that has been described by prosecutors as a Ponzi-like scheme.
A suspended Minnesota attorney was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison for using his law firm to launder money from a brother-in-law who sold marijuana.
Agreeing with the NFL Players Union that a new personal conduct policy for the football league did not apply retroactively, a federal judge on Thursday said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell…
A former Arkansas judge waived indictment and pleaded guilty Friday to a federal criminal information (PDF) charging him with accepting a bribe for reducing a nursing home negligence verdict…
A disbarred Iowa lawyer was sentenced Tuesday to the maximum prison term for wire fraud by a federal judge who expressed “extreme disappointment” that Susan Hense has so far paid…
Already sentenced to 24 years in a federal bank robbery case, a Washington University law graduate got another 45 years Thursday in a related Missouri case over the shooting…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a federal lawsuit against Honeywell Corp., alleging that medical testing of workers required under the company’s wellness program violates the Americans with Disabilities…