With the two-day waiting period over for candidates to withdraw from the general election ballot, there are some changes in Washington County municipalities. In Woodbury, Earl Reinhardt withdrew his name from consideration for mayor, leaving six candidates to replace Bill Hargis, who is stepping down after 17 years. None of the 16 candidates for City Council ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco has reached a decision in a landmark case on whether California’s same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gay men and lesbians. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker will issue his ruling Wednesday, said Lynn Fuller, a U.S. District Court spokeswoman. The decision came in a lawsuit brought ...
Lee now has new hope, he said, that an evidentiary hearing scheduled for Aug. 2 in Ramsey County District Court will result in a ruling that he is entitled to a new trial. If that’s the case, he could be free within days, or perhaps even hours after the order is handed down by District ...
Inzunza, Zucchet, S.D. pension cases could be affected By Matthew T. Hall, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 10:12 p.m. ‘HONEST SERVICES’ What is this law? A broadly written anti-fraud statute put in place by Congress in 1988 that defines as a crime a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services. What ...
A Minneapolis police officer who robbed an Apple Valley bank was under severe stress from financial problems, a deceptive wife, a sick child and nightmares about his military service in Iraq, his attorney said in a court brief filed Friday. “Can you imagine going through all of that, all at once?” said defender Andrea George. Timothy E. ...
The mother of a 19-year-old Roosevelt High School basketball player and alleged gang member told her son’s killer Wednesday she can’t get mad anymore, but she can’t forgive him yet either. Janice Parker spoke minutes before Hennepin County District Judge Margaret Daly sentenced Chris (Fat Chris) Bahtouh to 31 years in prison for the drive-by shooting ...
By The Associated Press Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 9:35 p.m. FRESNO, Calif. A federal judge is set to hear arguments Friday in the ongoing legal battle of pumping restrictions on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River delta and the delta smelt. The hearing scheduled for 10 a.m. comes after U.S. District Judge Oliver W. Wanger determined Thursday ...
BY SUSANNE CRAIG, KARA SCANNELL AND RANDALL SMITH The Securities and Exchange Commission has failed to turn key parts of a landmark stock-research settlement into industrywide rules, a move that threatens to gut pieces of the pact. The 2003 accord, reached with a dozen large Wall Street firms, sought to prevent Wall Street research ...