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Most of Schwartz Cooper's lawyers will join Dykema By Ameet Sachdev | Chicago Tribune reporter June 30, 2008 An established Chicago law firm with deep ties with LaSalle Bank will disappear, much like its banking client. Schwartz Cooper will wind up operations next month, after 53 of its approximately 60 attorneys move to the ...

Riverdale recycling site at center of allegation By Ray Gibson | Chicago Tribune reporter 10:15 PM CDT, June 29, 2008 A south suburban businessman accused of a nationwide swindle has told federal investigators he paid bribes to a Cook County official to operate an allegedly illegal recycling center for fluorescent light bulbs in ...

By Missy Diaz |  Sun-Sentinel.com 11:38 AM EDT, June 30, 2008 WEST PALM BEACH - Mega-rich Palm Beach- New York-Virgin Islands-money manager Jeffrey Epstein traded his navy sport coat for a jail uniform today after pleading guilty to hiring underage Palm Beach County girls for erotic massages and sex. Epstein will be designated ...

By Angie Leventis ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 06/29/2008 EAST ST. LOUIS — After swearing in 10 police hires this month, Mayor Alvin Parks proudly told the audience "you are as safe as anybody now, in this city, in this room." He praised a city committee for choosing the officers from a pool of 29 candidates ...

'Bosses' make up only 2% of recent arrests, a number blamed on high evidence threshold By STEWART M. POWELL Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are staging dramatic raids across the country that routinely seize hundreds of undocumented workers at their jobs — and leave their ...

By Vic Ryckaert Posted: June 30, 2008 After an Indianapolis police officer appeared in court this morning on charges he knowingly sold a firearm to a convicted burglar, the Marion County prosecutor admitted he’s worried about the fate of the investigator’s pending drug cases. Jason Barber, 32, appeared in Marion Superior Court on ...

By JACK CHANG McClatchy News Service INES INDART, Argentina -- For more than a century, the farmers who work the vast plains of central Argentina have prided themselves on growing enough food to feed much of the rest of the world. Argentine beef, wheat and other crops made this 40 million-person country a legendary ...

Texas girl tours in support of her made-for-TV musical, Camp Rock, which just premiered on the Disney Channel. BY LAURA YAO Washington Post Service Demi Lovato, 15, bounces onstage at Six Flags America in Maryland, microphone in hand. ''How are you guys doing tonight?'' she asks her fans, who are mostly girls, and ...

The case is a clash between rulings by a California family court judge and a federal immigration court. Such cases may grow. By Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer June 30, 2008 On Friday nights, Michael Campo throws his clothes and homework into his backpack and waits at his mom's Long Beach ...

The Utah dental magnate uses his fortune to fight the sect and to help fellow outcasts. By Miguel Bustillo, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer June 30, 2008 SANDY, UTAH -- The polygamist sect preached that Dan Fischer was a heretic who had turned his back on God's chosen children. But for Enos Deloy Steed, ...