A jury found Donald Fell guilty for murder in federal court Friday allowing the jurors to next determine if he should receive the death penalty, which has not been applied in Vermont for nearly 50 years. In November 2000,...

An official with Iran's Guardian Council said early Saturday local time that hardline Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had a commanding lead over former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in the...

Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, affiliates of both Sprint and Nextel plan legal action relating to the companies' planned merger. In a filing with the SEC today, Nextel Partners , a Washington...

Leading Friday's states brief, Florida Governor Jeb Bush Friday signed legislation overhauling Florida's state growth and development guidelines for the first time in twenty years. The legislation calls for $1.5 billion of state money to be spent...

Leading Friday's international brief, the special criminal tribunal created by the Sudanese government to begin the process of trying individuals alleged to have committed war crimes in Darfur is reportedly questioning its legal status to...

Iran state television announced Friday that the Iranian Interior Ministry would extend the polling hours of the country's second presidential runoff election for the fifth time. The voting started at 9 AM local time and was scheduled to end...

The World Tribunal on Iraq on Friday accused the US of committing war crimes during the invasion of Iraq and claimed the United States has caused more deaths in Iraq than former dictator Saddam Hussein. The tribunal,...

Iranian Interior Ministry officials said Friday that intimidation and other abuses were impairing the presidential run-off election between relative moderate and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and hard-liner and mayor of Tehran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . The...

Chief of Staff to UN-Secretary General Kofi Annan Mark Malloch Brown told AP Friday that the UN will ask France to pursue a former UN employee accused in the murders of 32 Rwandans during the genocide of...

A judge has added $130 million to the $1.45 billion verdict against Morgan Stanley a jury awarded last month to billionaire financier and Revlon Inc. chairman Ron Perelman. The judge took off about $84.5 million...