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A year-old bipartisan effort to give the Justice Department new clout in pursuit of lawmaker misconduct appears to be going nowhere. By Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer July 31, 2008 WASHINGTON -- Congress has been awash in corruption scandals, the latest being the indictment of long-serving Republican Sen. Ted Stevens ...

It's Psychology, Not Justice or Cash, That Makes Serial Litigants File Countless Lawsuits By RUSSELL GOLDMAN July 31, 2008 Most people do whatever they can to avoid a lawsuit, but there are people who go out of their way to appear before a judge -- over and over and over again. People who file ...

Posted on Wed, Jul. 30, 2008 By JONATHAN M. KATZ Associated Press Writer PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Hundreds of armed former soldiers from Haiti's disbanded army stormed an old barracks and civilian prison on Tuesday to demand the force be reinstated, local radio reported. Radio Kiskeya said the former troops occupied the buildings in the northern ...

She says she was acting on request BY L.L. BRASIER and JOHN WISELY • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS • July 30, 2008 A Clarkston judge caught on camera Tuesday morning pulling out her opponent's campaign signs said she had every right to remove them because they were on private property without the ...

Jim Leusner |  Sentinel Staff Writer July 30, 2008 While federal investigators were building the $300 million fraud case against Lou Pearlman, he was conducting an investigation of his own. Held in the Orange County Jail with a man accused of killing a cop, the flamboyant boy-band founder began listening, taking notes and ...

Erika Hobbs |  Sentinel Staff Writer July 30, 2008 Hundreds of parents likely will know today whether they lost their last official bid to stop Orange County Public Schools' unpopular schedule flip. The final decision was supposed to have been made Tuesday night, but a marathon meeting forced the School Board to delay ...

Ludmilla Lelis |  Sentinel Staff Writer July 30, 2008 Deltona must pay for the legal defense of three sex offenders it wants to force out, a three-judge panel ruled Tuesday. The city is responsible for paying defense attorney Rob Sanders, who represents the indigent men cited for violating a city rule on where ...

By Vic Ryckaert Posted: July 30, 2008 Lopez-Pacheco was taking trash to the bins behind the McDonald's at 2425 E, 38th St. when he spotted two suspicious people at about 11:30 p.m. One suspect wore a white T-Shirt over his or her face, police said. Lopez-Pacheco asked them what they were doing. One of ...

By KRISTEN HAYS Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle July 29, 2008, 11:39PM A former top Enron executive who sold nearly $300 million in Enron stock before the company cratered has agreed to pay regulators $31.5 million to settle civil allegations of insider trading. The amount Lou Pai, 60, agreed to pay is the highest ...

Agency allows immigrants here illegally to avoid raids, prison by turning selves in By HERNAN ROZEMBERG San Antonio Express-News July 30, 2008, 2:37AM Rather than risk getting caught, turn yourselves in. That's the latest government strategy in its ongoing effort to dramatically reduce the nation's ballooning population of illegal immigrants. Scheduled to be unveiled next ...