The US Justice Department filed a motion Wednesday requesting US District Judge Simeon T. Lake III defer a ruling on vacating the criminal record of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay [Houston Chronicle...
The regional chief executive of Newmont Mining Corporation , an American gold-mining company with a subsidiary in Indonesia, testified Friday in his criminal pollution trial. Richard Ness , who is accused of placing arsenic and mercury into...
A Peruvian judge on Thursday indicted Ollanta Humala , the opposition leader who narrowly lost the June Peruvian presidential election to present incumbent Alan Garcia...
A tough amendment to Russia's copyright protection law designed to crack down on the Internet piracy of text, music and videos took effect Friday as part of Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization [official...
Several voting rights groups filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of Ohio Thursday demanding that Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell preserve the paper ballots from the 2004 presidential election , just...
US District Judge Eldon E. Fallon of the Eastern District of Louisiana on Wednesday threw out a jury verdict holding Merck liable for $50 million in compensatory damages to a retired FBI agent...
A Bolivian constitutional convention championed by President Evo Morales has delayed voting on a motion that would allow the assembly to create a constitutional framework without having to answer...
The Santiago Court of Appeals has temporarily removed Judge Carlos Cerda from presiding over a probe into the finances of former Chile dictator Augusto Pinochet , after hearing arguments that...
South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds on Tuesday ordered a last minute reprieve for death row inmate Elijah Page , calling the 1984 state lethal injection law outdated and expressing concern that state...
An Iranian court has sentenced the managing editor of the monthly Aftab, Isa Saharkhiz , to four years in jail and barred him from working in the press for five years after he was convicted of publishing...