Former U.S. Rep. John Sweeney pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated under a deal that will spare him any jail time.
A woman was indicted Wednesday in connection with the fatal bludgeoning of her boss, a wealthy real estate agent whose friends included Sting, Madonna and Elton John.
The personal assistant to a multimillionaire real estate agent and punk rock pioneer was arrested Friday after confessing that she fatally beat her boss with a yoga stick when a barrage of insults threw her into a homicidal rage, police said.
Linda Stein beat cancer, survived the Bowery's seedy punk rock scene and thrived amid the high-stakes world of Manhattan real estate. Her sudden death came in an unexpected way and place: violently, inside her $3 million Fifth Avenue apartment.
Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner who is being investigated by federal authorities, has been sued by his former lawyers for more than $200,000.
Payments that Gov. Jon S. Corzine made before he became governor to a girlfriend who was a state union leader did not violate conduct rules or compromise recent contract talks, an ethics panel reported Tuesday.
A one-time Texas drug agent described by his former boss as perhaps the best narcotics officer in the country plans to market a how-to video on concealing drugs and fooling police.
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday suspended former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell's state legal license, a move the court called "tantamount to disbarment."
A former Army private charged with raping an Iraqi woman and killing her and her family entered a plea of not guilty through his public defenders Thursday.
Former White House adviser Claude Allen is negotiating with prosecutors in hopes of avoiding a trial on theft charges, according to his attorney.
The former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration is under federal investigation amid accusations of financial improprieties and making false statements to Congress, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Police charged a former finance minister with four crimes, including money laundering, in a new setback for the man viewed as the architect of Brazil's economic recovery.
During President Bush's State of the Union address, Claude Allen had a coveted box seat as a guest of the first lady. He sat there with an embarrassing secret.
President Bush on Saturday said he was shocked and saddened to learn that former domestic policy adviser Claude Allen was charged with theft for allegedly receiving phony refunds at department stores.
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