Hurricane Rita bus owner guilty
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The owner of the bus that exploded and killed 23 people during the Hurricane Rita evacuation was acquitted Tuesday of one safety violation charge but was convicted on two lesser counts.
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A Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. insurance  broker, Senior Vice President Robert Stearns, on Thursday  pleaded guilty to criminal charges in connection with an  ongoing probe into fraud and bid-rigging in the insurance  industry, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office  said.
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The operator of a bus that exploded and killed 23 nursing home residents during the Hurricane Rita evacuation poorly maintained his vehicles and had drivers work excessively long shifts and lie about them, a prosecutor said in his opening statement Tuesday.
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BLOOMSBURG, Pa. - A man was convicted of using a specially rigged system in his car to spray a family's vehicle with a chemical mixture.
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CLAREMONT  A former visiting Claremont McKenna College psychology professor, who reported her car was vandalized with racist and anti-semitic slurs while she was on campus, was convicted Wednesday of insurance fraud charges.
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A convenience store owner convicted of selling donated water intended for hurricane victims committed no crime and should be released from probation, an appeals court ruled.
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A New Jersey truck driver pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing the Francisco de Goya painting "Children with a Cart" while it was in transit and then later attempting to claim a $50,000 reward.
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A federal jury found a 29-year-old environmental activist guilty Thursday of conspiring to burn down or blow up a northern California dam, a genetics lab, cell phone towers and other targets.
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NEW YORK -- An insurance broker at a subsidiary of insurance brokerage giant Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos. pleaded guilty yesterday to criminal charges related to fraud and bid-rigging and is expected to cooperate in the broad investigation of industry practices.
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A bus explosion that killed 23 nursing home patients fleeing Hurricane Rita exposed flaws in government oversight of motor carrier companies, safety investigators said Wednesday.
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The US IT service provider EDS has admitted that one of its employees was responsible for the crash of thousands of computers in Britain&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) two weeks ago.
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Former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland speaks as he stands with his wife Patty outside Federal Court in New Haven, Conn., Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004, after pleading guilty to a charge of conspiracy to steal honest services.
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By Bill Lindelof, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 15--Bus driver Don Schreckengost waited where Fair Oaks Boulevard and Manzanita Avenue meet in Carmichael for a passenger to put his $1 in the fare box.
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WISE, Va. - The former mayor of a tiny coal town who prosecutors say masterminded a scheme to buy votes with beer, cigarettes and even pork rinds, pleaded guilty Thursday to 243 felonies, including vote-rigging and corruption.
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By Andrea Kelly, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 16--The committee that backed the voter-approved Regional Transportation Plan violated election law by not revealing they paid for many of the statements of support in the sample ballot, the Yuma County Attorney's Office found.
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BARTOW, Fla. - A convenience store owner convicted of selling donated water intended for hurricane victims committed no crime and should be released from probation, an appeals court ruled.
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A US lorry driver is found guilty over a mass people smuggling attempt in which 19 immigrants died.