Soccer superstar DAVID BECKHAM has landed in the middle of messy legal battle between two young boys, after he gave away his shirt at a game in Hawaii.
The English Los Angeles Galaxy star approached the youngsters, aged nine and 10, following an exhibition match at Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium last week and handed over his sweaty [...]
Thick bands of bluestone run under hillsides west of the Catskills _ sturdy, pretty stones suitable for high-end walkways, fireplaces and patios.
Bluestone sells well, but it can be hard work getting it out. On a recent day, Mitchell Bush’s mining crew sledgehammered big slabs and hand-loaded them on to pallets in an open pit under [...]
Timothy Garon’s face and arms are hauntingly skeletal, but the fluid building up in his abdomen makes the 56-year-old musician look eight months’ pregnant. His liver, ravaged by hepatitis C, is failing. Without a new one, his doctors tell him, he’ll be dead in days.
But Garon’s been refused a spot on the transplant list, largely [...]
After identifying some 7,000 pages of classified memos, e-mails and other records relating to its forced disappearance, secret detention and torture program, the Central Intelligence Agency has refused to release the documents.
Responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed last June in federal district court in New York by Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), [...]
Croatian striker Ivan Klasnic has launched a 1.5 million euros (2.3 million US dollars) lawsuit against two Bremen doctors for “gross mishandling” of his kidney complaint which led to a transplant.
Klasnic, 28, became the first professional footballer to return to international competition after he had a kidney transplant in March 2007.
According to German magazine Der [...]
The family of an unarmed man killed in a hail of police gunfire on his wedding day pledged Saturday to continue its fight to have someone held accountable for his death, a day after a judge acquitted three officers in the slaying.
“I’m still praying for justice, because it’s not over. It’s far from over. It’s [...]
The Cheras-Kajang Highway concessionaire, Grand Saga Sdn Bhd, has maintained that the barricade that formerly stood at the Bandar Mahkota Cheras toll-free access road was legally constructed.
Grand Saga business development and corporate affairs executive director Zainal Abidin Ali said demolishing the barricade on April 21 was unlawful.
The Bandar Mahkota Cheras Open Access Road Committee carried [...]
This marks an improvement over its 31st ranking in 2007, but is a slot below its 27th ranking in 2006.
For the third year in a row, West Virginia had the worst legal climate, followed by Louisiana and Mississippi. Delaware had the best legal climate, followed by Nebraska and Maine.
The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, a [...]
Action on the disclosure legislation – a vote is expected next week in a state Senate committee – was prompted by publicity surrounding the creation of a defense fund for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. But until final details are worked out, it won’t be clear whether or not the legislation would require disclosure of donors [...]
The Glasgow Bar Association represents a third of the 1,400 criminal lawyers in Scotland and serves Glasgow Sheriff Court, Europe’s busiest court.
Although the lawyers’ grievances encompass a range of issues, the main point of contention is proposed cuts in the payments they receive for legal aid.
The reforms were announced this month by Kenny McAskill, the [...]
