Judge Ordered Psych Exam For Subway Pushing Suspect After She Laughed...
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman accused of pushing a man to his death in front of a subway train told police she did so because she blamed Muslims for the Sept. 11 attacks, and because "I thought it would be...
View ArticleWake Forest Law Grad Goes Under The Knife To Save His Former Professor
When a 2001 Wake Forest law grad learned his onetime professor was fighting for his life, the former student didn't hesitate to help.Chris Beechler donated a kidney to Dave Pishko, a practicing...
View ArticleThe TSA Found A Lot Of Grenades And Only 16 Guns Last Week
Every week, the TSA blog posts a roundup of various prohibited items its agents have discovered on passengers and in their bags.This week, the list included 10 grenades (four of them in carry-on bags)...
View ArticleAs Cities Get Safer, America's Suburbs Get Deadlier
America's cities are getting safer, but the suburbs — the areas long designated a safe haven from urban turmoil — are taking a turn for the worse.Homicides in big cities dropped 16.7 percent from 2001...
View ArticleLaw Professor: The Constitution Is The Real Reason We Can't Get Anything Done...
The United States is on the verge of falling off the so-called fiscal cliff, and nobody is paying attention to what's causing all the chaos, Georgetown Law professor Louis Michael Seidman argues in The...
View ArticleLawyer Explains How The Fiscal Cliff Has Already Started To Wreak Havoc On...
Automatic spending cuts and tax hikes are set to go into effect Jan. 1, absent a compromise over the budget, and consumers are worried about the impending “fiscal cliff.”President Barack Obama and...
View ArticleStudy Reveals Which Presidents Have The Most In Common With Psychopaths
Presidents are often criticized for not being able to relate to regular people. They've been called everything from socialists to psychopaths.But just how psychopathic are America's leaders?In his book...
View ArticleCircus Conglomerate Scores A Major Settlement In Animal Abuse Case
Animal rights groups have agreed to pay $9.3 million to the company behind Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus to settle a fight over alleged abuse of elephants.The American Society for...
View ArticleWhy The Fears Of A Fiscal Cliff Have Actually Been Pretty Great For Lawyers
Sometimes bad news for everybody else means lawyers are doing well.Bankruptcy attorneys, for example, made bank while the rest of the country was sinking into a recession back in 2008.Now another...
View ArticleThe Most Ridiculous Lawsuits Of 2012
It's that time of year again, when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform’s (ILR) releases its list of the Top Ten Most Ridiculous Lawsuits.And this year's list includes some real...
View ArticleHigh School Student Suspended For Saying She 'Understands' Adam Lanza's Rampage
A 17-year-old student at California's Life Learning Academy has been suspended for writing in a personal notebook that she understands the elementary school massacre Newtown, Conn."I understand the...
View ArticleThe 21 Craziest Things The TSA Found In Travelers' Luggage This Year
Every day, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screens about 1.8 million passengers, along with all of their luggage.Those searches produce a lot of interesting results. Every week, dozens...
View ArticleCar Thieves Love New Year's Day
New Year's Day is the second-most popular holiday among car thieves, according to a report from the National Crime Insurance Bureau (NCIB).On January 1, 2011, 2,286 cars were reported stolen. The only...
View ArticleChris And Tory Burch Settle One Of Fashion's Biggest Feuds
Chris and Tory Burch have settled their acrimonious legal battle in time for the new year. The former married couple were involved in a public battle over whether Chris could sell his stake in the...
View Article10 Devastating Sequestration Cuts That People Are Afraid Will Happen
There's a lot of uncertainty over what the sequestration may actually entail. Last year's Budget Control Act provided specific percentages agencies have to cut in order to achieve $1.2 trillion in...
View ArticleIf You Work In California Or Illinois, Your Boss Can't Ask You For Your...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Employers in California and Illinois will be prohibited from demanding access to workers' password-protected social networking accounts and teachers in Oregon will be required to...
View ArticleThe Nation's First Official Pot Dens Opened This Week
DENVER (AP) — Recreational marijuana clubs opened Monday in Colorado, less than a month after the state governor signed into law a constitutional amendment allowing recreational pot use.With a reggae...
View ArticleJohn Roberts Spoke Out Yesterday About How The Fiscal Cliff Could Deny People...
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., saying the federal courts are setting “a good example” on cutting costs, noted on Monday that the Supreme Court itself will be asking Congress for less money in its...
View ArticleHere's A Sneak Peak At Lifetime's Upcoming Casey Anthony Movie
The Casey Anthony trial gripped national attention in the summer of 2011, as a young Florida mother faced accusations she murdered her daughter so she could party more.Two-year-old Caylee Anthony's...
View ArticleApple's Store In Paris Was Raided And Robbed Of $1.3 Million Worth Of Stuff...
The Apple shop in Paris's Opera district was robbed by armed, masked men on New Year's Eve, under the noses of riot police patrolling the nearby Champs Elysées.Reports claimed the thieves, armed with...
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