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Inland Empire officials have rejected as unreasonable an offer by Los Angeles to resume negotiations on transferring ownership of L.A./Ontario International Airport back to the city of Ontario. The decision rebuffed a proposal made almost two weeks...

A Broward County judge Monday ordered the early release of former NFL star Chad Johnson from a 30-day jail sentence Monday after he apologized for swatting his lawyer on the butt near the end of a court hearing last week. Judge Kathleen McHugh granted...

SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - The identities of jurors in the trial of former neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman will remain anonymous for an unspecified period after a verdict is handed down in the case, the judge ruled on Monday. The decision by...

SOUTH BEND -- A South Bend teenager accused of killing a man during what police said was a drug deal turned robbery is standing trial this week. Rayterrion Wheeler is charged with murder in the death of Mack Caldwell, 51, who was found shot to death in a...

A retired music executive testified Monday in the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial that it would be "highly inappropriate" and "highly unusual" move for a concert promoter or producer to hire a physician for an artist. Former Capitol Records...

By Ronnie Cohen SAN RAFAEL, Calif., June 17 (Reuters) - Opening arguments began on Monday in the death penalty trial of a retired photographer accused of killing four prostitutes with a California prosecutor showing jurors gruesome photographs of victims...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has settled a lawsuit in which the federal government accused it of improperly reducing retirement benefits for current and former police officers who served in the military after September 11, 2001. Monday's settlement...

The 911 caller who lied about being robbed at gunpoint the night Pasadena police shot and killed unarmed teenage robbery suspect Kendrec McDade agreed Monday to plead guilty to false reporting charges. Oscar Carrillo will serve 90 days in jail and...

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, June 17 (Reuters) - Environmental groups and a dozen states and cities said Monday they will delay planned legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying they will wait to see if the White House...

A Vernon battery recycler shuttered by the state as a health risk in April will be allowed to reopen pending a court hearing next month, a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge ruled Monday. Judge Luis A. Lavin said the public interest would not...

SOUTH BEND -- All parties in the courtroom Monday agreed the case at hand was unique, perhaps unprecedented. Not the concept of fraud during an election, of course, but the specific case here, where county workers, led by a well-known local political...

Victims of convicted Ponzi schemer Lou Pearlman might get about 4 cents on the dollar back from their losses, according to a new plan crafted by the trustee in the former boy-band mogul's bankruptcy case. Hundreds of unsecured creditors — most of...