Law News

International Herald Tribune - Jul. 18, 2008, 8:00 PM

COLUMBUS, Ohio: Ohio is planning its first execution since a U.S. Supreme Court decision ended a national pause on killing inmates. The Ohio Supreme Court on Friday set an execution date of Oct. 14 for Richard Cooey, who was convicted of raping and ...

Forbes.com - Jul. 18, 2008, 7:41 PM

Building materials supplier Louisiana-Pacific Corp. said Friday it has agreed to pay $46.8 million to settle antitrust litigation with a class of purchasers of oriented strand board, but denies any wrongdoing. The company 'vehemently' denied it violated ...

MSNBC - Jul. 18, 2008, 7:05 PM

Is idyllic Catalina now a gangsters' paradise? Police on picturesque Calif. island target violence, drugs Chris Carlson / AP Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy David Mertens walks his beat in Avalon, Calif., on Catalina Island, on July 3. He fears ...

International Herald Tribune - Jul. 18, 2008, 4:07 PM

PARIS: Preliminary charges were filed Friday against Andreas Sperl, the former CFO of Airbus and current head of the EADS Dresden plant in Germany, as part of an insider trading probe, a judicial official said. Sperl is the fourth person to be formally ...

MSNBC - Jul. 18, 2008, 10:34 AM

KENNEWICK, Wash. - The charge of aggravated first-degree murder against Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong, 23, carries either the death penalty or life in prison without parole, if she is convicted. Prosecutors have 30 days to decide whether to seek the ...

International Herald Tribune - Jul. 18, 2008, 5:13 AM

It's a decision the young mother regrets every day. They were hit head-on by two speeding drunk divers on motorbikes, bashing 7-year-old Le Xuan Han's forehead into the handlebars she died a day later. With no fines forcing children under age 14 to wear ...

SINA - Jul. 18, 2008, 4:31 AM

BEIJING, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Potential government hires will be required to demonstrate a greater understanding of the legal system to improve administration by law, especially at the city and county levels, a senior Chinese official said. 'Government ...

International Herald Tribune - Jul. 18, 2008, 1:46 AM

CAMP PENDLETON, California: A Marine sergeant accused of murdering an unarmed Iraqi captive during heavy fighting in Fallujah in 2004 was heard on tape Thursday telling how his squad argued over what to do with their prisoners and saying he 'did one guy' ...

International Herald Tribune - Jul. 18, 2008, 0:28 AM

Carlton Turner was executed about an hour after the same court rejected his last two appeals and refused to issue a last-minute reprieve. Before the deadly drugs began to flow, Turner apologized for killing his adoptive parents a decade ago at their ...

MSNBC - Jul. 17, 2008, 11:57 PM

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The grandson of a 76-year-old woman who is being investigated in the deaths of four of her five husbands wants Ohio police to take another look at the apparent suicide of his stepfather: her first-born son. 'I've had questions about my ...