DAYTON, Ohio, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Jury selection began Monday in the Ohio case of a baby who died after being placed in a microwave oven.
OCALA, Fla., Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes has requested a change of venue for his tax-evasion trial so he stands a better chance of getting a racially diverse jury.
EAGLE RIVER, Alaska, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- A federal jury has convicted former Alaska state Rep. Pete Kott, R-Eagle River, of conspiring to promote an oil tax sought by industrial interests.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A New Orleans reporter refused to testify Friday about a story suggesting a plea deal was pending in a high-profile murder case.
OMAHA, July 13 (UPI) -- A Nebraska judge declared a mistrial during final jury selection in a rape case because victim advocacy groups staged protests outside the courthouse.
NEW YORK, May 30 (UPI) -- U.S. prosecutors Wednesday criminally charged four current and former Ernst & Young accounting partners with promoting allegedly fraudulent tax shelters.
NEW YORK, March 27 (UPI) -- A defendant in a wide-ranging KPMG tax-shelter case pleaded guilty Monday to a lesser charge and will cooperate with U.S. prosecutors.
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The tax evasion and fraud trial of "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch won't begin in Providence, R.I., until the week's end, a court clerk said Monday.
CHICAGO, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Federal prosecutors at the trial of former Illinois Gov. George Ryan portrayed him Wednesday as a corrupt official who enriched friends for money and gifts.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Jury selection was halted in actor Robert Blake's Los Angeles murder trial because too few people said they could serve five months on a jury.
MONTVALE, N.J., Aug. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. accounting giant KPMG reportedly is under investigation for allegedly promoting tax shelters similar to ones shut down by the federal government.
PORT ALLEN, La., Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Jury selection began Monday in the first trial of a suspected serial killer in southern Louisiana.
NEW YORK, June 16 (UPI) -- A tax shelter of New York-based accounting firm KPMG LLP saved more than two dozen major corporations at least $1.7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports.
NEW YORK, May 24 (UPI) -- New York prosecutors launched a criminal probe into Ernst & Young's promotions of potentially illegal tax shelters, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The federal investigation comes less than one year after the third largest U.S. accounting firm r
NEW YORK, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- A California jury has cleared IBM of responsibility in the cancer illnesses of two former workers in its San Jose disk-drive factory.
