U.S. : Crime
AP - A judge on Tuesday scheduled an October trial for a man charged with plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States, saying it would be unfair to everyone involved to let the case drag out.
Correction: Congresswoman Shot (AP)AP - In stories on Jan. 1, Jan. 8 and Jan. 22 about former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the Tucson mass shooting, The Associated Press erroneously reported that suspect Jared Lee Loughner had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Court records say that he has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and had symptoms of depression.
Militia trial starts in Michigan with jury picks (AP)
AP - A judge is asking potential jurors what they think about the use of confidential informants as jury selection starts in the trial of seven people accused of conspiring to rebel against the government as members of a southern Michigan militia.
Reuters - Jury selection began on Tuesday in the trial of seven members of a Midwestern militia accused of plotting to kill police to spark a wider war against the U.S. government.
Judge allocates time for start of oil spill trial (AP)AP - A federal judge has set aside nearly seven hours for opening statements in a trial over the deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in the nation's worst offshore oil spill.
Amanda Knox lawyer appeals slander conviction (AP)
AP - Amanda Knox's Italian lawyer has filed an appeal of her slander conviction in Italy, a Knox family spokesman in Seattle said Monday.
AP - Shocking death pictures of a murdered woman were shown to jurors in the trial of former police detective Stephanie Lazarus — huge close-up portraits of the battered face of Sherri Rasmussen, who died 26 years ago.
AP - Attorneys for jailed Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford are trying to portray the prosecution's star witness at the financier's fraud trial as a liar and a crook who can't be trusted.
Haditha Marine's lawyers call Anonymous "cowards" after hack (Reuters)Reuters - Lawyers for a U.S. Marine court-martialed for his role in killing Iraqi civilians in Haditha slammed the international hacking collective Anonymous as "cowards" on Monday after they knocked out the firm's website and published internal e-mails on the web.
U.S. judge allows enforcement of Texas abortion law (Reuters)Reuters - A U.S. federal judge on Monday allowed the state of Texas to begin enforcing a law requiring abortion providers to show or describe to a woman an ultrasound image of her fetus, but criticized an appeals court that earlier overturned his decision to block parts of the statute.
