Trial ordered in looting of Mich. county
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The former county treasurer in this Lake Huron vacation community was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on charges that he looted $186,500 in public funds for a Nigerian investment scam.
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By Paul Hammel, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 9--AINSWORTH, Neb. -- Two trials have been set for a man accused of firing a rifle at groups of inner-tube riders floating down Long Pine Creek.
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By Melanie D. Scott, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 4--For nearly 20 years, the Macomb County Rotating Emergency Shelter Team has worked to provide temporary shelter and food to the homeless throughout the county.
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BAY CITY, Mich. - Stacks of chronically overdue library books may soon land some readers in Bay County, Mich., more than just a 10-cent-a-day fine. Frustrated librarians are proposing a crackdown on the worst offenders that could include criminal charges and up to 90 days in jail.
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Teammate Anthony Johnson calls him one of the &quot;top 10 players in the world.&quot; The Oakland County, Mich., prosecutor calls him a defendant.
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Superior Court Judge Judge Rodney Melville has tenatively ruled that 39 pieces of evidence seized at Michael Jackson&#39;s Neverland Ranch can be admitted at trial, although other items may be thrown out.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 14--The trial to keep some 200 irrigation wells operational has started in the Weld County Courthouse.
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By Andrea Ahles, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 2--The first jury trial in a Dallas Cowboys stadium eminent-domain case is scheduled to begin Tuesday.
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A judge on Wednesday ordered the owner of an animal control company and two of his employees to stand trial for animal cruelty charges for the October massacre of about 80 seized pets that were hurled off a bridge.
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By Christian Berg, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Sep. 18--On Sept. 8, a Lehigh County jury found a North Whitehall landowner partly responsible for injuries to a woman who was hit by a stray bullet fired by a hunter on his property.
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Charges are expected to be filed by Wednesday in connection with last month&#39;s NBA brawl. Auburn Hills, Mich., police on Monday turned over their findings to Oakland County Prosecutor David Gorcyca, who plans to announce charges Wednesday.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  May 31--SANTA ANA, Calif. -- The trial for a former Vernon County woman accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter while in California in 1969 is set to begin today.
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The trial of a man who is accused of murdering five women in Suffolk in 2006 is due to begin.
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They have dozens of bone fragments. They have a hatchet. They have a man in jail who claims to have killed seven men and scattered their remains across his rural property.
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Two young heirs to the Pritzker family empire can go forward with claims that relatives looted their trusts of more than $1 billion, a Cook County judge ruled yesterday.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - U.S. coal company Drummond went on trial on Monday on charges it paid right-wing paramilitary gunmen to kill union leaders at a mine it operates in a war-torn corner of northern Colombia.
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HAYWARD, Wis. -- A Sawyer County judge is expected to set bail today for the Minnesota man accused of fatally shooting six hunters and wounding two others.