Judge John Garrett Penn dies at 75
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U.S. District Judge John Garrett Penn, the former chief judge of the federal court in Washington, died Sunday after a lengthy illness, a court spokesman said. He was 75.
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Former Texas Governor Ann Richards dies at the age of 73 after battling oesophageal cancer.
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The judge in Michael Jackson's child abuse case intends to prevent 70 items being used in evidence.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - At least 11 people, including a judge, were killed by a bomb blast in a courtroom in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Saturday, according to a doctor at a hospital where casualties were taken.
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A Chicago probate court judge Friday declared millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett dead five months after he disappeared while on a solo flight over the Nevada desert.
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A judge from a suburban county has been appointed to preside over the murder trial of accused courthouse shooter Brian Nichols
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Will Denton, a prominent trial lawyer and adviser to best-selling novelist John Grisham, died Friday of complications following a heart transplant. He was 62.
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A senior Canadian judge has been formally reprimanded for swearing during a courtroom clash with a prosecutor earlier this year, officials said on Friday.
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By Anne Jungen, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Sep. 14--A La Crosse County Circuit Court Judge elected to the bench 23 years ago announced his retirement effective at the end of his current term in a brief letter to the La Crosse County Bar on Wednesday.
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Col. Ronald M. Sharpe, a retired Pennsylvania State Police commissioner who was the nation's first black leader of a statewide police force, has died of cancer. He was 64.
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Playbill - Patrick Quinn, the newly appointed executive director of the Actors' Equity Association, died suddenly of a heart attack in the early hours of Sunday, Sept. 24. He was 55.
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Milton H. Cohen, a securities lawyer whose insights into the stock market became the basis for innumerable regulatory proposals over the last 40 years, died Oct. 30 at his home in Haverford, Pa.
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Veteran actor and union  official Patrick Quinn died Sunday of a massive coronary in at  his summer home in Pennsylvania. He was 56.
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Television entertainer Johnny Carson has died of emphysema at age 79, the NBC television network reported on its Web site Sunday.
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A judge from a suburban county has been appointed to preside over the murder trial of accused courthouse shooter Brian Nichols.
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Comedian Johnny Carson, the king of  U.S. late-night television as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show"  for nearly 30 years, died on Sunday at age 79 after a long  battle with emphysema.
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By Will Buss, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 8--George Becker is returning home.   After decades of leadership in Pittsburgh and Washington D.C., the late steel union leader will be laid to rest Friday in his hometown, Granite City.