A Hinds County, Miss., judge will decide if governmental agencies are liable for the wounding of a bystander during a 2008 shooting. The Clarion-Ledger reports that Circuit Judge Winston Kidd presided over a four-day trial that ended Thursday. Kidd heard …
A Feb. 7 trial date has been set for a man charged with submitting a fraudulent claim to the fund set of for victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Moses W. Keys is charged with one federal fraud …
A trial has been delayed for a former Lincoln Public Schools worker accused of starting a fire that destroyed the district’s headquarters. The Lincoln Journal Star reports a Lancaster County district judge has granted a delay in Sharon Brewster’s case. …
A passenger in the car that fatally struck a Pennsylvania woman pushing a stroller says the victim was able to push her two young children out of the path of the sport-utility vehicle that killed her. Carl Denig says he …
The first federal trial on lawsuits seeking damages from the Tennessee Valley Authority’s huge coal ash spill is set to start. A bench trial on six lawsuits starts Thursday before U.S. District Judge Thomas Varlan in Knoxville. The lawsuits seek …
A trial is under way in Eugene over a police officer’s use of a stun gun to stop a man fleeing over a fence from a traffic stop. The excessive force suit filed by 34-year-old David Snauer in federal court …
A former Boston firefighter is set to go on trial on fraud charges for participating in a bodybuilding contest after claiming he was permanently disabled. Albert Arroyo has pleaded not guilty to mail fraud for what prosecutors say was an …
A repeat drunken driver who was convicted of consuming at least a dozen drinks and causing a deadly head-on crash is seeking a new trial because of a public service announcement that aired over 1,400 times during her trial. Former …
A Northern California family has been ordered to pay $750,000 for starting a wildfire that destroyed papers written by Albert Einstein. The San Jose Mercury News reports that a jury last week ruled against Margaret Pavese, her husband, Lawrence, and …
A Vermont jury has awarded $251,799 in damages to a physician who was allegedly promised a research fellowship in psychiatry that was later withdrawn. Dr. Lari Young said Fletcher Allen Health Care fellowship program director Dr. Richard Bernstein recruited her …