President-elect Barack Obama says he supports the decision by Senate Democrats to deny his vacated Senate seat to an appointee of embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. ...more

December 30, 2008

Jurors returned a guilty verdict Thursday against a man accused of molesting his teenage relative. ...more

December 19, 2008

Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, the American heiress who was first married to an Austrian playboy prince and then to a Danish-born man-about-society who was twice tried on charges of attempting to murder her, died Saturday at a nursing home in Manhattan. She was 76. ...more

December 7, 2008

The Justice Department released nearly 100 documents Tuesday that it used to falsely accuse scientist Steven J. Hatfill of masterminding the 2001 anthrax attacks. ...more

November 25, 2008

A federal judge will hear arguments this morning over whether the trial of John A. "Junior" Gotti should be moved to New York. ...more

November 20, 2008

It has come to my attention that there are those, supposedly from your own party, who are now trying to smear you with a variety of accusations since the election is over. There would appear to be no valid reason for this unless they are indulging in a personal vendetta. ...more

November 13, 2008

Larik Cholak insisted this morning that Alex Shevgert telephoned him to let him know his parents-in-law were home the night of Dec. 12. ...more

November 10, 2008

John McCain, the Republican candidate, is fond of asking, Who is Barack Obama? Let's turn that question on him. Various media outlets and pundits talk about what an honorable man Sen. McCain is. I say evidence is quite to the contrary. ...more

October 28, 2008

Ted Stevens, a pillar of the Senate for 40 years and the face of Alaska politics almost since statehood, was convicted of a seven-felony string of corruption charges Monday - found guilty of accepting a bonanza of home renovations and fancy trimmings from an oil executive and then lying about it. ...more

October 28, 2008

A former prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay who roiled America's war-crimes trials with accusations the Pentagon withheld evidence from detainees says he will continue to monitor his old cases for any wrongdoing. ...more

October 27, 2008