
Apr 17 - By Laura Wides-Munoz, AP Hispanic Affairs Writer
Throughout his tax evasion trial, Brazilian race car driver and "Dancing With The Stars" champ Helio Castroneves talked of his desire to get behind the wheel again.
Apr 14 - By Associated Press
Pennsylvania prosecutors are dropping perjury charges against a casino owner.
Apr 10 - By Associated Press
Jurors in Miami continue deliberating in the tax evasion trial of Brazilian race car driver Helio Castroneves and his two co-defendants.
Apr 7 - By Meghan Barr, Associated Press Writer
An Ohio mother of six was on the run Tuesday after prosecutors say she and her husband conned family and friends out of $800,000 by claiming he suffered from cancer.
Apr 6 - By Associated Press
Motorola Inc. said Monday it expects to take additional charges for the first quarter, bringing the total to $229 million before taxes.
Apr 3 - By Associated Press
Police in Cincinnati have charged a woman with child endangering after her 10-year-old son was caught shoplifting food because he had not been fed at home that day.
Apr 3 - By Associated Press
Closing arguments are continuing in the Miami tax evasion trial of Brazilian race car driver Helio Castroneves and two co-defendants.
Mar 31 - By Associated Press
Former NBA player Kirk Snyder has pleaded not guilty to a charge he burglarized a neighbor's home north of Cincinnati.

Mar 30 - By Curt Anderson, AP Legal Affairs Writer
NASCAR race driver Jimmie Johnson has testified in Miami federal court in the Helio Castroneves (EHL'-ee-oh kas-troh-NEH'-vehz) tax evasion case.
Mar 27 - By Associated Press
Federal prosecutors in California have charged a South Korean national with illegally importing almost a kilogram of bear bile to sell as an aphrodisiac.
Mar 27 - By Curt Anderson, AP Legal Affairs Writer
NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson was the leadoff defense witness Monday in the Helio Castroneves tax evasion trial, testifying that a lawyer who is also charged in the case has a sterling reputation in the motorsports world.
Mar 23 - By Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press Writer
One of the nation's few late-term abortion providers was acquitted Friday of misdemeanor charges stemming from procedures he performed, but moments after the verdict the state's medical board announced it was investigating allegations against him that are nearly identical to those the jury had rejected.
Mar 19 - By Associated Press
A Detroit man convicted of operating an Internet child prostitution network has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Mar 18 - By Associated Press
A man charged in Colombia with orchestrating a giant pyramid scheme that bilked people out of hundreds of millions of dollars now faces money laundering charges in the United States.
Mar 16 - By Associated Press
A jury has been selected for the Kansas trial of one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers.
Mar 14 - By Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press Writer
For abortion opponents, the trial of one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers has been a long time coming, a chance for a little bit of justice after years of seeing their efforts thwarted.

Mar 13 - By Thomas Watkins, Associated Press Writer
Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend was the principal enabler in a conspiracy with two doctors to provide the "known addict" thousands of prescription pills in the months before she died of an overdose, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday.

Mar 12 - By Raquel Maria Dillon, Associated Press Writer
Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend Howard K. Stern and two doctors were charged Thursday with giving thousands of prescription drugs to the former Playboy Playmate in the years leading up to her fatal drug overdose in 2007.
Mar 12 - By The Associated Press, HO
The 11 felony charges to which Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in New York. Sentencing has been set for June 16.
Mar 11 - By Curt Anderson, AP Legal Affairs Writer
It would be "terrible" for Penske Racing and the sport if Helio Castroneves, the popular Indy racer and "Dancing with the Stars" champion, was convicted of tax evasion, a top Penske official testified Friday.
Mar 10 - By Associated Press
Former NFL place-kicker Tony Zendejas was acquitted Tuesday of drugging a woman at his San Dimas restaurant and raping her.

Mar 10 - By Marlon A. Walker, Associated Press Writer
Kaye Gibbons posed as a Florida doctor so she could fill prescriptions for painkillers, which she said took the edge off as she finished a novel, a prosecutor said at the best-selling author's sentencing Tuesday.

Mar 9 - By Curt Anderson, AP Legal Affairs Writer
To this day, race car driver and "Dancing with The Stars" winner Helio Castroneves hasn't seen a single dime of $5 million in licensing money he was promised under a 1999 contract with Penske Racing. It's either been parked at Penske or is still idling in a Dutch investment account.
Mar 4 - By The Associated Press, HO
Details of the charges included in the arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir issued Wednesday by the International Criminal Court.
Mar 3 - By Brett Barrouquere, Associated Press Writer
A high school football coach behaved recklessly by adding sprints to the end of practice on a blistering hot day, a prosecutor said, explaining for the first time why he was charged with reckless homicide in a player's death.