A homeless man found dead in the cold earlier this week in Michigan had been denied a place to stay in local homeless shelters because he was a sex offender, social workers said.
A hedge fund manager who used the same defense lawyer as Bernard Madoff received a sentence that was a third of the maximum possible after he was convicted of defrauding investors out of $10 million.
The latest Labor Dept. job-loss figures came out Friday, Mar. 27, and they were predictably grim: Seven states now have unemployment rates of 10% or higher. And next Friday, Apr. 3, economists expect the federal government to report that another 650,000 jobs disappeared nationwide in March. But the official statistics don´t record the misery of people like Lauren Bender.
A private Christian high school has the right to expel students who it believes are having a lesbian relationship, a California appeals court has ruled.
Indicted today by a federal grand jury in New York on securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy charges, attorney Marc Dreier apparently is hoping to strike a plea deal. Prosecutors contend he cost clients and sophisticated investors, respectively, more than $400 million by misappropriating trust money and selling fictitious promissory notes.
The state senators stood up one by one in a hushed chamber on Thursday to call Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) a liar and a hypocrite who put his ego and his pocketbook ahead of the interests of Illinois.
Clients have complained for years that the practice of billing for each hour worked can encourage law firms to prolong a client’s problem rather than solve it. But the rough economic climate is making clients more demanding, leading many law firms to rethink their business model.
Just before Christmas 2007, the body of Michael York, a 17-year-old suburban boy, was found in a snowy alley in a tough section on Chicago´s West Side. An autopsy could not determine a cause of death, and the case went unsolved. Authorities now believe the teenager died after using heroin-not in the rough Chicago neighborhood, but at a small party at a $1 million home in the pristine suburb of St. Charles.
Bridgestone Corp., Japan’s biggest tiremaker, Continental AG and three competitors were fined 131.5 million euros ($174.7 million) by European Union regulators for fixing the price of hoses used by the oil industry.
The Georgia peanut plant linked to a salmonella outbreak that has killed eight people and sickened 500 more across the country knowingly shipped out contaminated peanut butter 12 times in the past two years, federal officials said yesterday.
Their names lack the Dickensian flair of Bernie Madoff, and the money they apparently stole from investors was a small fraction of the $50 billion that Mr. Madoff allegedly lost of his clients’ savings.
Across the country, the money crunch has gotten so severe that police departments, which are usually the last targeted for budget cuts, have started to feel the economic hard times.
A man apparently despondent about losing his job killed his wife and five children before turning the gun on himself, officials said Tuesday.
Debi Joy Olson freely admits that she stalked her ex-husband across the country, then stabbed him to death last summer at a mall in Davenport.
Though Illinois lawmakers are launching an impeachment trial Monday that could remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office, the governor himself will be far from the capitol building — instead chatting with Larry King and the women of "The View."
President Barack Obama will take steps aimed at allowing California to enforce vehicle emissions rules, clearing the way for other states to adopt the same standards intended to curb global warming, people familiar with the matter said.
Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., a maker of cardboard packaging and one of the world’s largest paper recyclers, filed for bankruptcy in the face of falling demand and heavy debt payments.
The British man accused of hacking into U.S. military computers was expected to hear Friday whether he will have another chance to appeal his extradition to the United States.
The Chicago Cubs baseball franchise, accusing Under Armour Inc. of reneging on a $10.8 million, five-year sponsorship agreement, sued the athletic-wear maker.
Cendant Corp. and the U.S. Justice Department are seeking the appointment of a receiver to help trace assets of Walter Forbes, the imprisoned former chairman who owes $3.28 billion in restitution for defrauding investors.
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