CNN.com - Crime

• Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:21:08 EST
  A former emergency room doctor from Ohio was sentenced to life in prison for poisoning his wife by lacing her calcium supplements with cyanide.
• Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:37:20 EST
  Robert "Joe" Halderman, the television producer accused of trying to blackmail comedian David Letterman, pleaded guilty to second-degree grand larceny at a hearing Tuesday afternoon.
• Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:28:02 EST
  A Pennsylvania woman has been indicted for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
• Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:10:24 EST
  A man apparently angry over a poor performance evaluation opened fire Tuesday at an Ohio State University maintenance building, killing a manager before turning the gun on himself, police said.
• Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:31:50 EST
  Ben Roethlisberger, the NFL quarterback accused of sexually assaulting a woman Friday at a rural Georgia nightspot, will be interviewed soon by authorities, police said Monday.
• Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:22:15 EST
  Natalie Wood once said in a televised interview that her greatest fear was of dark seawater. Later, in November 1981, she drowned in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Catalina Island, California.
• Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:49:55 EST
  Chicago's 28-year-old strict ban on handgun ownership appeared in trouble Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court in a potentially far-reaching case over the ability of state and local governments to enforce limits on weapons.
• Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:47:48 EST
  It was Friday the 13th and Joanne Briscoe, who is not by nature a superstitious woman, felt a sense of foreboding as she left for work.

WSJ.com: Law Blog

• Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:10:37 GMT
  Joe Halderman, a television producer, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trying to extort money out of David Letterman.
• Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:49:47 GMT
  A backlash to the initial backlash over the nomination of Goodwin Liu to the Ninth Circuit has cranked up, it seems.
• Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:32:20 GMT
  Is Lindsay Lohan -- or should we just say "Lindsay" -- recognizable solely by her first name? Her lawyer seems to think so. And whether she does or not might be central to a lawsuit reportedly filed on Monday on behalf of Lohan in Nassau County, N.Y., Supreme Court.
• Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:05:44 GMT
  The WSJ's Peter Lattman on Tuesday chronicles the case filed two years ago against 11 of the world's largest private equity shops, alleging that the group colluded in a "collaborative, collectivist scheme" to carve up the market for huge acquisitions.
• Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:20:10 GMT
  A Web site is targeting victims of the Bernard Madoff fraud.
• Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:53:59 GMT
  A Chicago law firm, Greenberg Traurig, fired a partner who has been accused of stealing money from a client.
• Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:30:13 GMT
  The NYT's editorial page joins the tort-reform debate on Tuesday, teeing up a case that it views as a companion of sorts to the famous "too-hot coffee" case, in which a woman was badly burned by McDonald's coffee.
• Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:58:27 GMT
  Already, it's a contender as one of the more interesting cases of the Supreme Court's 2010-11 term: whether funeral protesters can be forced to pay damages for infliction of emotional distress stemming from hurtful and obnoxious speech hurled toward the grieving.