Few images from the gathering of Holocaust deniers in Tehran, Iran, this week were as bewildering as those of Iran's rabidly anti-Israeli president embracing men with broad-brimmed black hats and side curls.
The chief lawyer for the City of Newburgh calmly explained his arrest last night as a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
A Little Rock woman facing her fifth drunken-driving charge in the span of a year - and third in less than a month - showed up to a court appearance drunk
Lawyers for two Muslim men arrested in a money-laundering sting argued Tuesday that the terrorism-related case is based on deceptive evidence presented in a post-Sept. 11 climate of fear.
Martinez, 37, of Troy, is accused of killing 1st Lt. Lou Allen, 34, of Milford, Pa., and Capt. Phil Esposito, 30, of Suffern, with a claymore mine on June 7, 2005, at Forward Operating Base Danger, a converted palace in Tikrit, Iraq.
A senior at the U.S. Military Academy will spend the next eight years behind bars for the rape and attempted rape of two former cadets.
How Hugo Chávez turned Bush bashing into a global political movement--backed by a lot of oil
Google, the search leader, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a click fraud class-action suit--with up to $30 million of that allocated for legal costs.
Donald Boehm made a rare, brief court appearance yesterday, turning up in Orange County Surrogate Court for a conference on the estate of his cousin Fredric Warmers.
Town of Newburgh police have named Boehm a person of interest in the 2004 shooting death of DiBrizzi, the famed Newburgh restaurateur. The homicide investigation is ongoing and would not figure into the current grand jury investigation.
With state police banned by their brass from plea-bargaining tickets, county prosecutors pinch-hit for the troopers yesterday. And like the troopers, they declined the deals that have become routine in traffic trials.
The U.S. media will occasionally challenge facts presented by the White House, but rarely will it challenge the President's basic credibility when he's talking to Americans about a threat to national security.
If the fence is built, however, it could have a long gap about 75 miles at one of the borders most vulnerable points because of opposition from the Indian tribe here.
A veteran teacher used the font — depicting quasi-anatomically correct male and female stick figures contorting into letters of the alphabet — on the cover sheet of a spelling curriculum given to parents at a Pine Tree Elementary open house last week.
Hungarian police have used tear gas and water cannon to quell violent overnight protests in Budapest in which buildings were attacked and cars set alight.
Thousands of Tongans have attended the funeral of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, who died last week at the age of 88.
One of Rwanda's most famous singers has gone on trial, accused of using his songs to incite violence during the 1994 genocide.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has warned that Iraq is in danger of sliding into "full-scale civil war".
Town Justice Ray Shoemaker yesterday dismissed about 70 traffic tickets written by troopers, a move that could land him in a higher court — as a defendant.
Before he became a 'person of interest' in the shooting death of Cosimo DiBrizzi, before he was accused of looting millions from his cousin's estate, Donald Boehm bought and sold boats - big boats.
If you've got a ticket from a state trooper and a date to be in court soon, bring a cot or a good book.
Victoria Winkler's 18-month-old daughter, Destiny, was left without water for two or three days in a room that was hotter than 90 degrees. She was found dead in her playpen.
A small-town drug dealer in Connecticut not only confessed to kidnapping and killing a debt-laden partner but laid out a vivid description that matched the murder scene in a snowy hamlet hundreds of miles away.
At least 18 states, up from only a handful a few years ago, now pay for some telemedicine care under their Medicaid programs, and at least eight specifically include psychiatry, according to the National Association of State Medicaid Directors.
The company kicked off what it called its "Customer Preview Program," a testing period in which the software maker hopes millions of tech enthusiasts will kick the tires on the new operating system.
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Shaun hasn't given us many articles yet, but it's clear from his seeds and especially his thoughtful, clear-headed, and constructive commentary that he's someone to watch. I've come to have high expectations of anything with Shaun's name at the top of it.
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Shaun Dawson is an extraordinarily reasonable, intelligent and very soft spoken columnist. I nearly had an argument with him when we first met on Newsvine, but he didn't bite my head off, and that made me really respect him a lot.
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