Tag: Judiciary
Ex-police chief seeks to avoid prison in hiring scandal
HARTFORD, Conn. — The former police chief of Connecticut's largest city is urging a federal judge to not send him to prison for corrupting...
Shooter at Kansas Jewish centers appeals death sentence
LIBERTY, Mo. — An avowed anti-Semite who shot three people to death at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites in 2014 is asking the...
Man jailed for sabotage of German high-speed railway line
BERLIN — A German court on Monday convicted a man of attempted murder and gave him a nearly 10-year prison sentence for removing hundreds...
Appellate court arguments set for Charleston church shooter
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys for the man sentenced to federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina...
Indiana court allows seizure of federal relief payments
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana residents with past-due debts could see that money taken from the new federal pandemic relief payments that have been arriving in...
Ukraine’s president dismisses head of Constitutional Court
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s president has dismissed two judges from the country’s Constitutional Court, saying in a decree issued Saturday that certain jurists "pose...
US court sides with photographer in fight over Warhol art
NEW YORK — A U.S. appeals court sided with a photographer Friday in her copyright dispute over how a foundation has marketed a series...
Ruling denying adoption by same-sex Nebraska couple reversed
OMAHA, Neb. — The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday reversed a ruling by a lower court judge who denied a same-sex couple’s petition to...
Daily Mail seeks to reverse order denying trial credentials
MINNEAPOLIS — A British newspaper asked the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Friday to swiftly throw out a judge’s order denying it credentials for...
Tennessee’s governor signs transgender athlete bill
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a law Friday banning transgender athletes from participating in girls’ sports, making it the third state...
