Trials
Couple acquitted in 'caged children' case
Associated PressVANCOUVER -- Jurors took just four hours Tuesday to acquit a couple who had been charged with unlawful imprisonment for keeping two young autistic boys in a dark room with a cage-like door.
Date: 05/29/2012 | Northwest
Judge won't preside in trial in Ark. lotto dispute
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- An Arkansas judge who ordered a new trial in a lawsuit over a $1 million lottery ticket that a woman says she mistakenly discarded announced Friday that he won't preside over.
Date: 05/25/2012 | Nation & World
AWOL Muslim soldier guilty in Fort Hood bomb plot
WACO, Texas -- A federal jury on Thursday convicted a Muslim soldier on six charges in connection with a failed plot to blow up a Texas restaurant full of Fort Hood troops, his religious mission to get “justice” for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Nation & World
Ark. judge orders new trial in lotto ticket suit
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- An Arkansas judge on Thursday ordered a new trial to decide who can claim a $1 million scratch-off lottery ticket prize, a little more than three weeks after he ruled that a woman who said she bought the ticket but mistakenly discarded it was entitled to the money.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Nation & World
Monsignor: Cardinal wanted accusers kept in dark
PHILADELPHIA -- A Roman Catholic church official conceded that a 1994 list he compiled of 35 priests suspected of sexually abusing children in the Philadelphia archdiocese included some "pretty sick individuals."
Date: 05/23/2012 | Nation & World
Jury seated for couple accused of locking up boys
VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A jury has been seated for the trial of a Vancouver couple accused of locking up two young autistic boys in a dark room.The Columbian reported that opening statements are expected Monday in the Clark County Superior Court case.
Date: 05/18/2012 | Northwest
Edwards trial judge limits key defense testimony
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of John Edwards will sharply curtail the testimony of a key defense witness who could have raised doubt about whether the former presidential candidate broke campaign finance laws.
Date: 05/14/2012 | Nation & World
Testimony ends in Steve Powell's voyeurism trial
TACOMA -- Testimony in Steve Powell's voyeurism trial came to an abrupt end Monday as prosecutors rested their case and defense attorneys declined to call their own witnesses.
Date: 05/14/2012 | Northwest
Defense: Steve Powell not expected to testify
TACOMA -- The voyeurism trial of a missing Utah woman’s father-in-law took on the tenor of a creepy slideshow Wednesday, as jurors saw images of young neighbor girls he is accused of filming — and then heard testimony from the girls themselves.
Date: 05/09/2012 | Northwest
Accused pencil-stabber guilty of murder
EVERETT -- Seconds after a Snohomish County jury convicted Joshua Monson of first-degree murder on Wednesday, corrections officers swiftly moved in to shackle his one free hand to a chair.Monson, 28, didn't resist.
Date: 05/09/2012 | Local News
Speechwriter says Edwards knew about cover up
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- A former speechwriter for John Edwards testified Tuesday that the onetime presidential candidate acknowledged knowing that a wealthy donor was secretly supporting his pregnant mistress as he sought the White House in 2008.
Date: 05/08/2012 | Nation & World
Judge tosses child porn count against Steve Powell
TACOMA -- A judge dismissed a child pornography charge against Steve Powell, the father-in-law of missing Utah mother Susan Powell, as his trial began with jury selection Monday.
Date: 05/07/2012 | Northwest
Scherf stopped talking when told no snacks, he says
EVERETT -- An inmate accused of killing a Monroe corrections officer apparently wants people to blame staff at the Snohomish County Jail for his decision months ago to stop cooperating with police and prosecutors.
Date: 05/07/2012 | Local News
Olympia homeowner sued over shooting
OLYMPIA -- A man who climbed a fence at an Olympia home is suing the homeowner who shot him as a suspected prowler.No charges were filed in the April 2010 shooting because the homeowner said he was guarding his property.
Date: 05/03/2012 | Northwest
Jury: Former soldier wrongly fired
SEATTLE -- A federal jury in Seattle has awarded $485,000 in damages to a Washington National Guard sergeant who said she was fired because of her military service.
Date: 05/01/2012 | Northwest
Suspended Idaho midwives agree to $5M settlement
BOISE, Idaho -- Two midwives have agreed to a $5 million settlement with a couple who sued them for medical malpractice after their baby suffered permanent brain damage, an attorney said Monday.
Date: 04/23/2012 | Northwest
Franklin jury pools asked about immigration views
PASCO -- During two recent Franklin County murder trials, potential jurors were asked whether they believe immigrants are causing problems in America.
Date: 04/22/2012 | Northwest
Judge: Seattle man not guilty in 50-year-old rape
SYCAMORE, Ill. -- A judge on Thursday found a Seattle man not guilty of raping an Illinois teenager 50 years ago, setting the stage for what could be an even tougher challenge for prosecutors: proving the man abducted and murdered a 7-year-old girl five years earlier in the same small...
Date: 04/12/2012 | Northwest
Pre-trial hearing in Wenatchee murder case
WENATCHEE -- A pretrial hearing beginning Thursday in Wenatchee will determine some of the evidence that may be entered in the murder trial of Christopher Scott Wilson.
Date: 04/12/2012 | Northwest
Accuser testifies against Seattle man in 50-year-old rape
SYCAMORE, Ill. -- A woman who accused a Seattle man of raping her 50 years ago in a small Illinois town claims he also let two other men rape her.
Date: 04/10/2012 | Northwest
Murder defendant to be restrained during trial
EVERETT -- An Everett man accused of stabbing three attorneys with pencils will be trussed up with leather cuffs and belts and restrained to a chair during his murder trial.
Date: 04/07/2012 | Local News
Amanda Knox parents' defamation trial postponed
MILAN -- The defamation trial of Amanda Knox's parents has been postponed until next year after key witnesses could not attend a hearing.
Date: 03/30/2012 | Northwest
Family of victim in webcam case: Jury got it right
TRENTON, N.J. -- The parents of a Rutgers student who committed suicide days after his roommate used a webcam to see him kissing another man said Friday that a jury got it right last week by convicting their son's roommate of hate crimes and other offenses.
Date: 03/23/2012 | Nation & World
Jury backs Pasco police in injury arrest
PASCO -- Pasco city officials are pleased with a federal jury's verdict that four police officers did not violate the rights of a paraplegic man when they arrested him five years ago.
Date: 03/13/2012 | Northwest
Judge won't move trial of Seattle terror defendant
SEATTLE -- A federal judge said Monday he will not move the trial of a man accused of planning to attack a Seattle military recruiting station out of Western Washington.
Date: 03/05/2012 | Northwest
No death penalty for man accused of killing both grandfathers
COUPEVILLE -- Prosecutors in Island County have decided not to seek the death penalty against an Oak Harbor man accused of killing his two grandfathers in October.
Date: 02/24/2012 | Local News
Trial to start in Wenatchee good Samaritan killing
WENATCHEE -- A manslaughter trial is scheduled to begin Tuesday in Wenatchee for a man accused of killing a passer-by who offered to help him with a disabled van.
Date: 02/17/2012 | Northwest
Prosecutors seek to reinstate Knox conviction
MILAN -- Italian prosecutors asked the country's highest criminal court on Tuesday to reinstate the murder convictions of American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend in the brutal slaying of a British student.
Date: 02/14/2012 | Northwest
Mubarak trial encapsulates divisions in Egypt
CAIRO -- Hosni Mubarak, on trial for his life, is ferried to court by helicopter from a presidential hospital suite. His sons and co-defendants swagger in wearing designer track suits and no handcuffs. His security chief is treated with near reverence by police in the courtroom.
Date: 01/18/2012 | Nation & World
Seattle defense lawyer Tony Savage dead at 81
SEATTLE -- Criminal defense lawyer Anthony "Tony" Savage died Tuesday at the age of 81.He had terminal cancer, but he could be found at his office every day until last week, his family and a law partner told The Seattle Times.
Date: 01/04/2012 | Northwest
Family sues federal government over girl's death at ice caves
VERLOT -- Lawyers representing the family of a Marysville girl who was killed by a falling chunk of ice in 2010 near the Big Four Ice Caves have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the federal government.
Date: 12/20/2011 | Local News
Man says military jet crash destroyed his life
SAN DIEGO -- Lawyers for an extended family that lost four members when a military jet crashed into their San Diego home in 2008 said Monday they will be seeking millions of dollars for the accident that the Marine Corps acknowledged was caused by a string of errors.
Date: 12/12/2011 | Nation & World
Ephrata dreads high-profile retrial
EPHRATA -- Nearly eight years have passed since police found the battered body of 13-year-old Craig Sorger in a central Washington park, the victim of a beating and stabbing so brutal the tip of a knife was left in his skull.
Date: 12/03/2011 | Northwest
Ore. man to begin defense in state murder trial
ROSEBURG, Ore. -- Lawyers for an Oregon businessman accused of murdering his girlfriend are scheduled to begin making their case.
Date: 12/03/2011 | Northwest
Hells Angels biker arraigned in deadly casino shootout
RENO, Nev. — A California member of the Hells Angels pleaded not guilty Thursday to second-degree murder for his role in the death of his chapter president in a September shootout in a Nevada casino.
Date: 12/01/2011 | Nation & World
Defense seeks documents in Army WikiLeaks case
HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- The Army intelligence analyst suspected of giving hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks claims three federal reviews concluded the leaks didn't hurt national security and caused little damage to U.S. interests abroad.
Date: 11/28/2011 | Nation & World
Everett man, suspect in war crimes, to face trial in Bosnia
SEATTLE -- Edin Dzeko told a federal judge before a packed courtroom of supporters that he's eager to go back to Bosnia and clear his name.
Date: 11/15/2011 | Local News
Retired prosecutor aims at Casey Anthony's attorneys
ORLANDO, Fla. — A retired prosecutor from the Casey Anthony murder trial calls her lead attorney “smarmy” in a new book and says he didn’t think a jury would ever agree to the death penalty for the Florida mother, who was ultimately acquitted of killing her 2-year-old...
Date: 11/15/2011 | Nation & World
Dershowitz's celebrity trial papers go public
NEW YORK -- Ten years after celebrity defense attorney Alan Dershowitz agreed to donate his papers to his alma mater, the collection once owned by the man whose clients have included Mike Tyson and O.J. Simpson opened to scholars and the public on Monday.
Date: 11/15/2011 | Nation & World
Terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal on trial in France for deadly attacks in 1982, '83
PARIS -- A defiant and smiling Carlos the Jackal, one of the most dreaded terror masterminds of the Cold War, has gone on trial again -- this time over four deadly attacks in France nearly three decades ago.
Date: 11/08/2011 | Nation & World
Texan tells court he didn't want to join al-Qaida
HOUSTON -- A Texas man accused of trying to sneak out of the country with restricted U.S. military documents, money and equipment in order to join al-Qaida told a judge Monday that he wanted to leave because he disagrees with American foreign policy and that he never intended to hurt anyone.
Date: 11/08/2011 | Nation & World
Man who allegedly attacked three lawyers is convicted of drug charge
EVERETT -- A man accused of stabbing three of his attorneys and stuck representing himself at trial was convicted of drug possession Thursday.
Date: 11/03/2011 | Local News
Out of lawyers
Man must defend himself, after 3 attorneys allegedly attacked
Date: 11/02/2011 | Local News
Ill. powerbroker convicted of shakedown conspiracy
CHICAGO -- A multimillionaire who wielded enormous behind-the-scenes influence in Illinois for decades was convicted Tuesday of conspiring to shake down the Oscar-winning producer of "Million Dollar Baby," one of the last chapters of the legal saga tied to disgraced former Gov. Rod...
Date: 11/01/2011 | Nation & World
Testimony ends in Michael Jackson doctor trial
LOS ANGELES -- Michael Jackson's doctor finally made a decision he had long delayed, telling a judge Tuesday he would not testify in his involuntary manslaughter trial.
Date: 11/01/2011 | Nation & World
Jury deadlocked in Wenatchee murder trial
WENATCHEE -- A Chelan County jury has deadlocked in the trial of a man charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of his best friend.
Date: 10/28/2011 | Northwest
Defense of Jackson case opens with doctor, police
LOS ANGELES -- Defense attorneys for the doctor accused of killing Michael Jackson began their case Monday, targeting Jackson as the architect of his own demise by seeking to cure his insomnia with an intravenous drug, even when he was warned it was dangerous.
Date: 10/24/2011 | Nation & World
Third defendant guilty in school yard killing over $30 drug debt
EVERETT -- That winter night outside an Everett school the value of a man's life was $30.Donald Barker was beaten and stabbed over a drug debt. Left alone to bleed to death, Barker still had $30 clutched in his hand as he cried for help and told a stranger that he loved his mom.
Date: 10/21/2011 | Local News
Trial starts for third defendant in Everett school yard slaying
EVERETT -- Donald Barker died chasing after his demon.Barker, the proud father of a 10-year-old boy, battled a crack cocaine addiction, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Matt Baldock told a jury on Tuesday.
Date: 10/18/2011 | Local News
Jury selected in Spokane police brutality case
YAKIMA -- A jury of nine men and six women was seated Wednesday in the trial of a Spokane police officer accused of beating a mentally ill janitor who later died from his injuries.
Date: 10/12/2011 | Northwest
Ill. to try state man for cold-case rape, murder
SYCAMORE, Ill. -- Northern Illinois prosecutors say they'll try a Washington man for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in the 1960s before they try him for the 1957 killing of a 7-year-old girl.
Date: 10/12/2011 | Northwest
Terrorist suspect prepared for death in plane's bathroom
DETROIT -- Moments before he attempted to bring down an American jetliner, a young Nigerian man on a mission for al-Qaida retreated to the plane's lavatory for a long cleansing ritual to prepare for death, prosecutors told jurors Tuesday.
Date: 10/11/2011 | Nation & World
Coroner: No evidence Michael Jackson took fatal dose
LOS ANGELES -- A medical examiner, striking a major blow to the defense of Michael Jackson's doctor, said Tuesday it is unreasonable to believe Jackson could have given himself a fatal dose of the powerful anesthetic propofol.
Date: 10/11/2011 | Nation & World
Knox juror: Prosecution's case just conjecture
ROME -- One of the jurors who overturned Amanda Knox's murder conviction said Friday he was never convinced by the "conjecture" of the prosecution's case and that he believed the U.S. student and her co-defendant simply didn't kill her British roommate.
Date: 10/07/2011 | Northwest
Judge will announce next week if he’ll step down from Byron Scherf’s murder trial
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County Superior Court judge declined to decide Thursday whether he'll step down from overseeing the trial of a convicted rapist accused of killing Monroe corrections officer Jayme Biendl.
Date: 10/06/2011 | Local News
After almost 25 years in prison, Texas man freed after DNA clears him in wife's slaying
GEORGETOWN, Texas -- A Texas grocery store employee who was wrongly convicted and spent nearly 25 years in prison in his wife's beating death walked free Tuesday after DNA tests showed another man was responsible. His attorneys say prosecutors and investigators deliberately kept evidence out of...
Date: 10/04/2011 | Nation & World
U.S. Supreme Court justices critical of lawyers who dropped ball on death row inmate's appeal
WASHINGTON -- The tale of returned mail and a missed deadline might seem comical if it did not involve a man trying to stave off execution. Supreme Court justices had harsh words Tuesday for lawyers who abandon their clients and a state legal system that does not seem overly concerned.
Date: 10/04/2011 | Nation & World
Dispute over terror suspects' detention blocks defense bill
WASHINGTON -- The top Democrat in the Senate said Tuesday that a sweeping defense bill is on hold until lawmakers can resolve a dispute with the Obama administration over provisions that would require military custody of terrorist suspects and limit the government's authority to transfer...
Date: 10/04/2011 | Nation & World
'Underwear bomber' suspect starts trial with outburst, asks to wear dagger in court
DETROIT -- A Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down an international jetliner with a bomb in his underwear walked into the start of his federal trial Tuesday and declared that a radical Islamic cleric killed by the U.S. military is alive.
Date: 10/04/2011 | Nation & World
Key dates in Knox prosecution
Key dates in case of American student Amanda Knox, convicted in slaying of British roommate Meredith Kercher.Nov. 2, 2007: Body of Kercher, 21, is found in Perugia apartment. Investigators say she was killed the night before.
Date: 10/03/2011 | Nation & World
Trial to begin for man accused in underwear attack
DETROIT -- The trial of a young African accused of trying to bring down an airliner with a bomb in his underwear is no whodunit. Prosecutors have his hospital-bed confession, dozens of witnesses, remnants of the explosive and an al-Qaida video featuring the 24-year-old explaining his suicide...
Date: 10/03/2011 | Nation & World
Sex offender found guilty in murder of Monroe woman
EVERETT -- A convicted sex offender was found guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday for a 2010 attack on a Monroe woman that began with him breaking a large bottle of hot sauce over her head.
Date: 09/28/2011 | Local News
Italian lawyer calls Amanda Knox a 'she-devil'
PERUGIA, Italy -- Italian lawyers described Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of killing her British roommate, as a "she-devil" and a "witch" in an appeals court Monday while calling her alleged victim a "beautiful girl in the prime of her life."
Date: 09/26/2011 | Nation & World
Spokane County jury deadlocks in obstruction case
SPOKANE -- A Spokane County jury has deadlocked in the case against a former police detective charged with obstructing a state wildlife officer.
Date: 09/21/2011 | Northwest
Mukilteo woman pleads not guilty to abuse of girl
EVERETT -- A Mukilteo woman accused of beating and starving a 10-year-old girl pleaded not guilty Tuesday to felony charges.
Date: 09/21/2011 | Local News
Trial opens against scientists for Italy quake
ROME -- Seven scientists and other experts went on trial on manslaughter charges Tuesday for allegedly failing to sufficiently warn residents before a devastating 2009 earthquake that killed more than 300 people in central Italy.
Date: 09/20/2011 | Nation & World
Berlusconi in court for hearing in corruption case
MILAN -- Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, in the spotlight once again for revelations about his sex life, was in court Monday for the resumption of one of four trials against him.
Date: 09/20/2011 | Nation & World
Knox trial: Doubt reigns as experts fight over DNA
PERUGIA, Italy -- Questions mounted Tuesday over crucial DNA evidence linking Amanda Knox and her co-defendant to the murder of her British roommate, with forensic experts giving detailed and conflicting views in court over genetic science.
Date: 09/07/2011 | Northwest
Knox trial resumes in Italy, enters final stretch
PERUGIA, Italy -- The police official who conducted the original investigation in the Amanda Knox case defended her standards Monday in the face of harsh criticism by an independent review of the evidence used to convict the American student of murdering her British roommate.
Date: 09/05/2011 | Northwest
Civil trial begins accusing state senator’s husband of groping campaign aide
COUPEVILLE -- She says he groped her and tried to fondle her breasts, and she resisted.He says it was an attempted kiss and nothing more.
Date: 09/01/2011 | Local News
Kentucky jury rules against penis amputation patient
SHELBYVILLE, Ky. -- A Kentucky truck driver who was wheeled into surgery for a simple circumcision but awoke without part of his penis lost his multimillion-dollar lawsuit Wednesday against the urologist who cut off a cancer-riddled section of the organ.
Date: 08/24/2011 | Nation & World
John Edwards asks to delay October criminal trial date
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Lawyers for former presidential hopeful John Edwards asked a judge on Wednesday to delay the scheduled October start of a trial on alleged campaign finance law violations, saying they can't prepare in just over a month because they have too much information to review.
Date: 08/24/2011 | Nation & World
Traffic camera company loses suit in Bellingham to block city initiative
BELLINGHAM -- A judge's ruling Wednesday lets the Bellingham initiative restricting traffic-enforcement cameras proceed to the November ballot, but the camera company vowed to appeal.
Date: 08/17/2011 | Local News
Judge questions plea deal for Spokane Hells Angel
SPOKANE -- A federal judge in Spokane has refused to accept a guilty plea from Hells Angels motorcycle gang leader because he has reservations about the proposed two-year sentence.The Spokesman-Review reported Ricky W. Jenks could face twice as much time in prison if convicted at a trial.
Date: 08/04/2011 | Northwest
Texas jury hears tape of polygamist discussing sex
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- Prosecutors played two audio recordings Tuesday of a polygamist sect leader instructing his 14-year-old "spiritual wife" and several other young women on how to please him sexually, and thus win favor with God.
Date: 08/02/2011 | Nation & World
Change to bail condition denied in Alaska murder case
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A Washington state woman accused of conspiring to kill a former fiance outside Anchorage has asked a judge to travel to home for a medical procedure.
Date: 07/30/2011 | Northwest
Battle over DNA evidence in Amanda Knox appeals trial
PERUGIA, Italy -- Prosecutors at Amanda Knox's appeals trial battled it out Saturday with independent forensic experts who say some of the key DNA evidence used to convict the American student of murdering her British roommate was unreliable and possibly contaminated.
Date: 07/30/2011 | Northwest
3 Somalis deny killing Americans in pirate attack
NORFOLK, Va. -- Three accused Somali pirates pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges they killed four Americans on a hijacked yacht off the coast of Africa in February.
Date: 07/20/2011 | Northwest
Lawyer: Elaborate plans made to keep Casey Anthony safe
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's whereabouts for her first week of freedom were a closely guarded secret Monday, known only to a select few as she tries to start a new life after being acquitted of killing her daughter. One of her lawyers says an elaborate plan was made to protect her from people...
Date: 07/18/2011 | Nation & World
Witness tampering alleged at Casey Anthony trial
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Authorities were looking into allegations of witness tampering during Casey Anthony's murder trial, a Florida sheriff said Tuesday during a wide-ranging news conference with his top investigators in what he said was an effort to bring closure to a case that polarized the...
Date: 07/12/2011 | Nation & World
Appeals court orders review in death penalty case of Idaho serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan
BOISE, Idaho -- The life of a man convicted of kidnapping, torture and murder might be spared after an appeals court has ruled that Joseph Edward Duncan III should have been given a competency hearing before he was allowed to waive his appeal.
Date: 07/11/2011 | Nation & World
Judge orders drug testing of mother charged in crash that killed her son
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County judge on Wednesday ordered random drug testing for a Marysville mom accused of being drunk when she caused a crash that killed her young son.Kortnie Forbes also isn't allowed to drive a vehicle with any passengers who are under the age of 18.
Date: 07/06/2011 | Local News
Anthony trial: Lack of evidence or good defense?
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Prosecutors proved Casey Anthony was a liar, but convinced the jury of little else.
Date: 07/05/2011 | Nation & World
Anthony verdict leaves many with more questions than answers
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The verdict roared through the hushed crowd.Not guilty of first-degree murder. Not guilty of aggravated child abuse.Not guilty of manslaughter. And then, with an intake of collective breath, the reaction: "Oh my god, oh my god."
Date: 07/05/2011 | Nation & World
Trial in Ore. opens window on medical marijuana dark side
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A drug trial in Grants Pass has opened a rare window into the dark side of a large-scale medical marijuana operation.
Date: 06/24/2011 | Northwest
Witness in Knox trial says he can clear her
PERUGIA, Italy -- A convicted child murderer testified Saturday at the appeals trial of Amanda Knox, saying that a fellow inmate had told him the American student had nothing to do with the killing of her roommate in Italy.
Date: 06/18/2011 | Northwest
Yemeni man opts not to take piracy plea deal
NORFOLK, Va. -- A Yemeni man charged with piracy for his role in the hijacking of a yacht off the coast of Africa that resulted in the deaths of four Americans decided not take a plea deal Monday, with his attorney saying he was forced to join a band of Somali pirates against his will.
Date: 06/14/2011 | Nation & World
Court dogs provide calm for traumatized witnesses
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- A deeply traumatized 15-year-old girl had special help when she took the witness stand Monday at the trial for the man accused of sexually assaulting her for four years.
Date: 06/14/2011 | Nation & World
Blagojevich ends 7-day testimony at corruption retrial
CHICAGO -- Twice-elected Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich ended the most important campaign of his life Tuesday, stepping down from the witness stand at his corruption retrial after speaking to jurors for seven days.
Date: 06/07/2011 | Nation & World
Edwards' emails allegedly acknowledge payments
WASHINGTON -- Prosecutors have obtained emails between John Edwards and a former aide to use as evidence at trial that he knew about payments to his pregnant mistress even while he was publicly denying it, people familiar with the case told The Associated Press on Monday.
Date: 06/06/2011 | Nation & World
Trial in Seattle stabbings begins without defendant
SEATTLE -- The young man accused of one of Seattle's most heinous murders in recent years sat strapped in a heavy green smock, his hands and legs shackled to the restraint chair used to bring him to court. He looked up and told the judge, "Get the (expletive) out of here."
Date: 06/05/2011 | Northwest
Stanwood animal welfare group seeking $40,000 in court after it cared for puppy mill’s dogs
Northwest Organization for Animal Help in Stanwood plans to be quite visible at Skagit County Superior Court.
Date: 06/03/2011 | Local News
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