Jury Selection Begins in Club Fire Case
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Jury selection has begun in the trial of Michael Derderian, co-owner of a Rhode Island club where flammable wall coverings spread a 2003 fire, killing 100.
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They are the vilified public faces of a tragic fire that killed 100 people at their Rhode Island nightclub more than three years ago. On Friday, the owners of the nightclub, Jeffrey and Michael Derderian, plan to plead no contest to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter for the Feb. 20, 2003, blaze.
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Jury selection has begun in the case against US basketball star Kobe Bryant, who is accused of raping a teenager at a ski resort in Colorado.
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Lawyers retrying the fraud case of former Tyco International Ltd. chief executive L. Dennis Kozlowski and ex-finance chief Mark Swartz considered about 225 prospective jurors on the first day of trial.
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Jury selection began today in Fort Hood, Tex., in the military trial of the so-called ringleader of the prison scandal in Iraq.
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Kobe Bryant's trial began Friday with 300 prospective jurors arriving at the county courthouse to fill out questionnaires, the first step toward choosing 12 people who will decide whether the NBA star is guilty of rape.
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EAGLE - Jury selection in the Kobe Bryant trial is taking place this week. It&#39;s the first time Bryant saw the people who could end up hearing his case.
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Jury selection got under way Tuesday in the city's biggest organized crime trial in years, a racketeering conspiracy case that includes at least 18 murders, among them a killing that inspired a character in the movie "Casino."
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More than three years after actor  Robert Blake's wife was shot dead, the first potential jurors  in the murder case against the "Baretta" star were summoned on  Monday to a Los Angeles courtroom.
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By Erika Beras, The Miami Herald  Feb. 13--Miami-Dade fire units responded to a fire Monday evening, but instead of a blaze, they found what they believed to be a pot lab.   The call to the fire department came in about 8:20 p.m.
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AT least nine people have died and 200 were injured when a fire broke out in a crowded nightclub in central Buenos Aires. Argentine media reported that as many as 6000 people may have been inside the club
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A jury began  deliberating on Friday the fate of a couple accused of  negligent homicide in the flooding deaths of 35 elderly people  at their Louisiana nursing home during Hurricane Katrina.
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The fires that caused an estimated &#36;10 million damage at an upscale housing development in a Washington suburb were set by unidentified "acquaintances" in addition to the four men already charged in the case, according to court documents filed Monday.
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island  - A fireworks maker and several other defendants sued by relatives of 100 people killed in a 2003 U.S. nightclub fire have agreed to pay $13.5 million to settle claims, a lawyer in the case said on Wednesday.
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Description: Jury selection got underway Friday in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault trial in Eagle, Colo. News organizations have argued that limits on media access inside the courtroom does not let them fully cover the story.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I., Sept. 20 -- The owners of a nightclub where a 2003 fire killed 100 people will plead no contest to charges of involuntary manslaughter, and only one will have to serve prison time, their attorney said Wednesday. Victims' relatives were outraged.
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An investigations starts into a blaze at an East Sussex fireworks depot which killed two fire crewmen.