Former Adelphia Communications CEO John Rigas and his son, the company's former CFO, have been indicted for failing to pay $300 million in taxes, according to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed Friday. The IRS has said that the pair neglected to pay tens of millions of dollars in taxes and assisted family members in [...]

Serbia charged five members of a paramilitary group, the Scorpions, Friday for their roles in the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. They and several others were arrested in June after a video showing them executing six Bosnian Muslims was broadcast on Serbian television after being presented as evidence during the trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan [...]

The Indonesian government is reviewing a decree granting automatic sentence remissions to prisoners, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda said Friday. The announcement follows protests from Australia over news that cleric Abu Bakir Bashir , convicted for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings , is up for another sentence reduction in November. Indonesia will consider revising [...]

Spain began deporting illegal immigrants on Friday after a week of border rushes at Melilla, a tiny enclave on Spain's border with Morocco along the northern coast of Africa. Hundreds of illegal African immigrants have entered the country this past week, and earlier this week Spain announced plans to begin deportations . Six people died [...]

Leading Friday's states brief, the Kansas Supreme Court removed Saline County District Judge George. R. Robertson from the bench today for viewing pornography from his office computer. The court stated that the conduct of a single judge may effect the public's perception of the judicial system and that "public trust is essential to an effective [...]

Although the New Orleans Police Department may be fully operational again as early as next month, acting Police Superintendent Warren Riley said Thursday that National Guard troops may be needed in the city through March. Riley wants the Guard to patrol three large areas of the city still uninhabitable after Hurricane Katrina while the police [...]

The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq is wrapping up preparations for the October 15 vote on Iraq's draft constitution . The IECI, with support from the UN, has hired over 100,000 poll workers and has distributed ballots, ballot boxes, and voter screens . The Iraqi government has also launched a TV ad campaign encouraging the [...]

Although he was expected to stay on until September 2006 , former Disney Chairman Michael Eisner has cut all ties with Walt Disney Co. according to a document filed Thursday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission . Eisner stepped down as chief executive last week, but the filing says he also resigned his seat [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion on Thursday seeking to gain access to the New Orleans city jail in response to allegations of mistreatment during Hurricane Katrina . The motion for a temporary restraining order to preserve evidence is supported by declarations from two prisoners who described being abandoned at the jail with [...]

AP is reporting that the US Senate has passed a bill that gives President Bush $50 billion for military spending, but also puts restrictions on the treatment of detainees. Earlier this week, the Senate approved an amendment to the military spending bill that sets restrictions on the detention, interrogation and prosecution of terror suspects. The [...]