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June 23, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, established in 1965 to help prevent discrimination against voters, is still valid and necessary.  The court did, however, alter the law to allow states that have had a clean record for at least a decade to apply for exemption.

June 23, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

The $22 billion cruise industry has grown in recent years, and there have been enough reports of on-board assault submitted to the FBI that a Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act has been submitted to committee by Senator John Kerry, D-MA. 

June 23, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Philip Markoff, 23, a man accused of murdering a woman whom he met online through Craigslist pleaded not guilty in Suffolk Superior Court Monday.  Earlier this year, online community posting site Craigslist stopped allowing listings for erotic services largely because of...

June 23, 2009, by Matt Placek

On Monday, 117 claims were filed in the Arizona Superior Court against the Scottsdale based Matrixx Initiatives,. Matrixx Initiatives manufactures the zinc based Zicam Nasal spray. Zicam side effects have been shown to include a potentially permanent loss of smell. According to the Wall Street Journal, the claims against Matrixx Initiatives

June 23, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

An Ohio repeat drug offender may be released from prison 6 years before completing his 10 year sentence due to what appears to be a typo on the verdict form signed by the jurors who convicted him in Summit County Common Pleas Court.

June 22, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Last Thursday, Minnesota resident Jammie Thomas-Rassett was found liable for willfully infringing on 24 copyrights by illegally sharing songs on the peer-to-peer file-sharing network Kazaa in 2005.  According to the verdict, Thomas-Rassett owes the four record companies involved in the lawsuit a total of...

June 22, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Timothy Wayne Murray, a murder suspect who escaped from St. Tammany Parish jail in Louisiana Thursday, was captured early Sunday and returned to jail.

June 22, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Mary Wilkerson, 57, vanished from her Pennsylvania home on June 19th.  Authorities were able to find her trapped in the trunk of her car due to the signal from a Blackberry mobile device that her son had left in the car.

June 22, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

It is expected that Jon and Kate Gosselin, famous for their show "Jon & Kate Plus 8", will announce a divorce during Monday night’s episode, which airs at 9pm EST. 

June 22, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

On Friday, Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford, five executives of his company Stanford Financial Group, and one former Antiguan bank regulator were charged with massive fraud.  Prosecutors claim that Stanford and the others were involved in a $7 billion Ponzi scheme to defraud investors.

June 19, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Although 47 states have laws that allow convicts limited access to genetic evidence, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday that convicts do not have a constitutional right to use DNA evidence in hopes of proving their innocence long after they were found guilty of a crime...

June 19, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Early Thursday afternoon a Continental Airlines flight from Brussels to Newark landed safely even after the 60-year-old pilot, Craig Lenell, died at the controls three hours into the eight hour, fifteen minute flight...

June 19, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Wednesday afternoon, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fell in the State Department parking garage fracturing her right elbow badly enough to require surgery.  Clinton was treated at George Washington University Hospital immediately after the fall and is now home, although surgery will be scheduled in the coming weeks.

June 19, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Wednesday, President Barack Obama publicly outlined an ambitious program to reform financial market rules more dramatically than at any time since the 1930s.  Thursday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner defended the plan, calling it “essential” if the nation is to contain the current financial crisis and avert future crises.

June 19, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Billy Joel, 60, and Katie Lee, 27, who have been married for five years, are filing for divorce.  Lee was Joel’s third wife. Over the past several months, rumors have circulated that Joel was jealous of time that Lee was spending with Israeli fashion designer Yigal Azrouel.

June 18, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Autopsies revealed fractures in the legs, hips and arms of a number of the Air France disaster victims’ bodies, Brazilian...

June 18, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

The Environmental Protection Agency has declared a public health emergency and targeted Libby, Montana for immediate action. The...

June 18, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced today that Macy's will voluntarily recall about 33,000 hooded children's...

June 18, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

A teenager accused of killing and mutilating 19 pet cats in Miami, Florida, has been released on bond and is under surveillance.  Tyler...

June 18, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

A Michigan man said Wednesday that he could be a 2-year-old boy who went missing more than a half-century ago...