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New York Rangers forward Sean Avery was arrested on Friday over accusations he shoved a police officer who tried to break up a party at a Hollywood Hills home, police said.

Ending perhaps one of the strangest trials in recent years, which could go down in history as another example of why one does not represent himself in court, a Texas jury on Thursday found the leader of the largest polygamous religious sect in the U.S. guilty of two counts of sexual assault on a child.

Two campaign finance watchdogs are asking the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice to investigate a $1 million donation given to a pro-Mitt Romney PAC by a corporation that no longer exists, the groups said on Friday.

Five New Orleans police officers were convicted Friday in post Katrina shootings.

Jimmy McMillan, who ran for governor on the "Rent is Too Damn High" platform, knows all too well the issues he was running on: he is facing eviction from his rent-controlled apartment as his landlord seeks to raise the pretty damn reasonable rent.

Redmond O'Neal, son of Ryan O? Neal was arrested on Tuesday for drug possession and violating probation after Santa Monica police officer stopped him for traffic violation and discovered heroin in his car, officials said.

A Texas jury has begun to deliberate the punishment for polygamist Warren Jeffs, a day after he was convicted on two counts of sexual abuse of a child.

Polygamist Church Leader Warren Jeffs was convicted on Thursday of sexually assaulting two of his teenage wives.

In one of the world's biggest lawsuits, Apple Inc has sued Samsung Electronics for slavishly copying the 'look and feel' and 'design' of its products iPad tablet and iPhone smartphone. Both Samsung and Apple entered into a legal battle over patent infringement in the month of April 2011. Samsung counter sued Apple in 4 countries in 3 different continents.

Former Baltimore Orioles third baseman Doug DeCinces agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle insider trading charges filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday.

Rapper Lil Wayne has been slapped with a $15 million lawsuit by a Georgia company that claims he stole the song "BedRock," according to a lawsuit filed in New York.

High-profile attorney Martin Singer has found himself on the opposite side of a lawsuit -- and it's quite the sordid situation.

Former "Big Brother" executive producer Scott Einziger has filed a $10 million lawsuit against his former agent, Michael Camacho, and the United Talent Agency, claiming that Camacho steered Einziger toward inferior projects -- in part so that Camacho could seduce a married female producer.

Rapper Lil Wayne has been slapped with a $15 million lawsuit by a Georgia company that claims he stole the song "BedRock," according to a lawsuit filed in New York.

A Texas jury convicted Warren Jeffs, the controversial figure of a fundamentalist Moron church, on child sexual assault late Thursday, ending a case that sprang open when his compound was raided and more than 450 children were taken by the police in 2008.

Executives at a concrete testing company were arraigned on Thursday on charges of falsifying thousands of reports on public and private projects, including the new Yankee Stadium and an air-traffic control tower at LaGuardia Airport.

Jeffs made headlines in 2008 when police raided a Texas compound that housed his reclusive sect, taking away more than 450 children after the ordeal.

Many Egyptians struggled with torn emotions on Thursday as they reviewed images splashed over newspapers and repeated on television of their octogenarian former president, a day after he went on trial following 30 years at the helm.

Levi Aron, the man accused of killing and dismembering a Brooklyn boy on July 11, was found competent to stand trial and pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Thursday morning. Defense lawyer Pierre Bazille said he may still pursue an insanity defense. "We believe him to have some psychiatric disorder." After all, police records indicate Aron saying "I'm famous" after his arrest.

Jeffs offers three word closing statement

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs' trial has concluded, and the jury is deliberating the fate of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' fate in the Texas underage sexual assault case.