Trying to warn the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission about an apparent fraud being perpetrated by Bernard Madoff was not only frustrating but potentially dangerous, a whistle-blower reportedly plans to…
In what the U.S. Department of Justice describes as an unprecedented ruling, a federal judge in Chicago yesterday ordered the FBI to search its massive national DNA database to see…
A third-year law student at Harvard University allegedly had a few too many one day late last month before leaving a Boston bar and seating himself in a city police…
The federal Food and Drug Administration has opened a criminal investigation into a closely held Virginia-based company that has been blamed for a salmonella outbreak that allegedly sickened more than…
Accusations that two now-suspended Pennsylvania judges accepted $2.6 million in kickbacks in exchange for incarcerating juveniles at specific detention facilities have spilled over into another multimillion-dollar case.
Did U.S. taxpayers help fund nearly $20 billion in Wall Street bonuses at the end of last year while Congress raced to the rescue of embattled companies in the midst…
When Mark Taylor asked about the reduction in his prison sentence that he was supposed to get for good behavior, an official told him, in writing, that he wasn’t eligible…
After taking a pass on the testimony phase of his own impeachment trial before the Illinois state senate this week—and instead discussing his case on national television shows—Gov. Rod Blagojevich…
Public outrage and potential litigation are being sparked by news that two longtime Pennsylvania judges have accepted a plea that includes prison time in a case alleging that they incarcerated…
Two transsexuals who underwent sex-change surgeries in Thailand have sued the state of Illinois over officials’ refusal to change the gender on their birth certificates.
Fellow residents in Edith Frederickson’s own government-sponsored retirement complex in Belmont, Calif., helped spark an anti-smoking law that may be the nation’s strictest.