Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Randall Douglas McHenry with:

Count # 1.
Count as Filed: ABDGR, ASSAULT WITH A DANGEROUS WEAPON, in violation of 21 O.S. 645, which provides:
"Every person who, with intent to do bodily harm and without justifiable or excusable cause, commits any assault, battery, or assault and battery upon the person of another with any sharp or dangerou

San Francisco, CA - The Volkswagen 3.0 Liter Emissions Litigation

Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez issued the following statement regarding today’s announcement by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of a nearly completed agreement resolving the EPA’s Clean Air Act claims, and nearly complete agreements concerning consumer injury claims.
“We are pleased to be moving fo

Bradwell pled guilty to aggravated battery following an incident that occurred at an International House of Pancakes in the early morning hours of August 17, 2014. As part of a plea agreement, the State agreed to recommend the mid number in the appropriate sentencing grid box and to recommend a dispositional departure to probation with community corrections. The State also agreed not to charge Bra

Pemberton Township contracted with the Pemberton First Aid
and Rescue Squad (Pemberton Rescue Squad) -- a private, non
profit organization -- to provide back-up emergency medical
services for the municipality. Defendant Brandon Morrison
served as a volunteer EMT on the Pemberton Rescue Squad and as
the Squad’s treasurer. Defendant was charged with official
misconduct

On March 26, 1999, Petitioner was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of his parents, armed robbery, and financial transaction card fraud. Over the course of the next four years, Petitioner filed a direct appeal through appointed counsel, moved to relieve appointed appellate counsel, and filed a pro se appeal to this Court on July 25, 2003. Ultimately, following a judicial determ

Los Angeles, CA - DeVry University Agrees To Pay $100 Million To Settle Fraud Claims

DeVry University and its parent company have agreed to a $100 million settlement of a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit alleging that they misled prospective students with ads that touted high employment success rates and income levels upon graduation. The FTC settlement secures significant financial redre

Lisa and Robert Dubois divorced in 2008. In September of 2014, their teenage son had been living with Lisa but decided he wanted to live with his father. Robert picked him up from Lisa’s residence on September 10. The teenager, however, left many of his belongings at his mother’s house. The next day, Robert drove his son back to the residence to retrieve his belongings, but Lisa was not home a

This is a class-action case. Appellants SEECO, Inc., DeSoto Gathering Company, LLC,
and Southwestern Midstream Services Company (collectively SEECO), are subsidiaries of
Southwestern Energy Company. In this interlocutory appeal, SEECO challenges an order of
the St. Francis County Circuit Court granting class certification to a group of landowners who
entered into natural-gas leas

On October 10, 2013, the complainant, Tenola Washington, was working at
an Exxon station in Chappell Hill, Texas. Around 11:00 p.m., after all of the
customers and the cashier had left, Washington locked the store and began cleaning.
Washington believed he was alone in the store at that time, but when he walked
down the hall, a man, later identified as appellant, jumped out o

¶1 The parties disagree on which statute controls the controversy. The Multiple Injury Trust Fund (Fund) argues 85 O.S.Supp.2005 § 30(D) controls the rights of the lawyers to an attorney's fee. The claimants' lawyers argue 85 O.S.Supp.2005 § 172 controls the rights of the lawyers to an attorney's fee, and the Workers' Compensation Court of Existing Claims agreed § 172 controlled the controversy. W

Tulsa, OK - Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company and Volunteers of America, Oklahoma sued Amber Smith on a subrogation theory seeking to recover for workers' compensation payments by it to Kelly Burress, who was injured on October 26, 2012 while acting in the course and scope of her employment with Volunteers of America, Oklahoma. Smith and Buress were involved in an auto accident near 4500 Sou

Defendant Matthew J. Ramos appeals from the June 16, 2015 Law
Division order, which denied his petition for post-conviction
relief (PCR) without an evidentiary hearing. We affirm.
We derive the following facts from the record. A grand jury
indicted defendant for first-degree murder (of Denise Leonard),
N.J.S.A. 2C:11-3(a)(1) and (2) (count one); first-degree attempt

Seattle, WA - Everett Software Salesman Pleads Guilty to Selling ‘Tax Zapper’ Software to Enable Cheating on State and Federal Taxes

Promoted and Sold Software to Restaurants resulting in more than $3.4 Million Tax Loss

An Everett, Washington man who worked for a Canadian company that sells point of sale computer software, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and conspiracy to def

The Defendant’s offenses concern sex trafficking of a minor known as Jasmin. She recounted at
trial the facts concerning Gilliam’s offenses. Gilliam met Jasmin in Maryland in late October or early November 2011.
She was sixteen at the time, but told Gilliam that she was seventeen. Gilliam asked Jasmin to work for him as a
prostitute after she told him she was working for another pim

Plaintiff filed suit against RJR asserting membership in the Engle class because her mother died from lung cancer “caused by her addiction to cigarettes.” In her suit, Plaintiff alleged causes of action for strict liability, negligence, fraud by concealment, and conspiracy to commit fraud by concealment. The case proceeded to trial in two phases. In the first phase, the jury was asked to: 1) de

In 1981, Paul Beasley Johnson was convicted of, among other crimes, three
counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of William Evans, Daryl Ray Beasley,
Jr., and T.A. Burnham. Johnson v. State, 438 So. 2d 774, 775-76 (Fla. 1983). We
affirmed Johnson’s convictions and death sentences on direct appeal. Id. at 780.
After the Governor signed a death warrant for Johnson, we gr

In 2013, a Madison County jury convicted the petitioner of one count of aggravated burglary and two counts of aggravated robbery. The trial court sentenced the petitioner to an effective twenty-two-year sentence, imposing consecutive, eleven-year sentences for the robbery convictions and a concurrent, five-year sentence for the burglary conviction. On direct appeal, this Court affirmed the petit

Jonathan Davis appeals from the district court’s order requiring payment
of restitution for his conviction of operating while intoxicated (OWI) (marijuana),
first offense, in violation of Iowa Code section 321J.2 (2013). Davis previously
appealed his conviction, and we affirmed. State v. Davis, No. 14-1976, 2016 WL
1677591, at *1 (Iowa Ct. App. Apr. 27, 2016). After a hearin

Benton, IL - Sesser Man Sentenced for Bankruptcy Fraud

Scott L. Thompson, 45, of Sesser, IL, was sentenced in federal court in Benton, Illinois, on his bankruptcy fraud conviction, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced. The court sentenced Thompson to one year of probation and ordered him to pay a fine and special assessment totaling $800

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Timothy Wayne Forrest with:

Count # 1.
Count as Filed: COMPFR, WORKER'S COMPENSATION FRAUD, in violation of 21 O.S. 1663 C 1
Date of Offense: 08/26/2011

Party Name

Disposition Information

FORREST, TIMOTHY WAYNE
Disposed: CONVICTION, 09/19/2014. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: WORKER'S COMPENSATION FRAUD(CO

Kauai County passed Ordinance 960 to regulate pesticides
and genetically engineered (GE) plants. The Ordinance
requires commercial farmers to maintain “buffer zones”
between crops to which pesticides are applied and certain
surrounding properties, provide notifications before and after
applying pesticides, and file annual reports disclosing the
cultivation of GE crops. We m

Chicago, IL - Former Redflex CEO Sentenced To 30 Months For Corruption In The Awarding Of Chicago’s Red-Light Camera Contracts

The former chief executive of Chicago’s first red-light camera vendor was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and over $2 million in restitution for paying bribes to a city official to help procure the contracts.



As the CEO of Redflex Traf

This case is before us on a writ of error brought by the plaintiff in error, 3-D Bail Bonds, Inc. (plaintiff), who claims that the trial court improperly denied its motion seeking relief from its obligation on a surety bail bond (bond) pursuant to General Statutes§ 54-65c,whichthetrialcourthadorderedforfeited after the principal on that bond, Angel Agron, who is the criminal defendant in the under

In 2011, Plaintiff-Appellant Arthur Bogoraz was arrested in Puerto Rico and ultimately indicted in Kings County, New York in connection with an alleged multi-million dollar insurance fraud. His bond was set at $2,000,000. Bogoraz, with the assistance of his wife and family friends, sought to obtain a bail bond to secure his pretrial release. After two agencies declined to issue a bond, Plaintif

STATEMENT OF FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
The Events at Headley Insurance
The evidence introduced at Davis’s trial revealed the following. Around
3 p.m. on December 13, 2007, Davis entered the Lake Wales location of the
Headley Insurance Agency (Headley) with the intent to commit robbery. Davis
was armed with a loaded .357 magnum revolver and equipped with duct tape, a <