Jena 6 defense gets assist from rocker
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David Bowie has donated $10,000 to a legal defense fund for six black teens charged in an alleged attack on a white classmate in the tiny central Louisiana town of Jena.
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By Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press  Jun. 27--Rock on.
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A defendant in the Louisiana "Jena Six" case was arrested after allegedly slamming a student's head into a bench at his new school in Texas, police said.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana Pacers guard Jamaal Tinsley and teammate Marquis Daniels were charged Wednesday in a Feb. 6 bar fight.
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The American Civil Liberties Union is defending six men who were arrested during one of President Bush's visits to Pennsylvania because they stripped down to thong underwear and formed a human pyramid to protest the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq.
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Lawyers for Charles A. Graner, Jr., accused of being the ringleader of a prison abuse scandal, began presenting their defense today.
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CHICAGO | In July of 2002, community activist Derrick Mosley blasted State Sen. James Meeks, who had been named successor to the president of the Rainbow/PUSH coalition, for offering spiritual counseling to prominent people accused of sexual offenses.
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Woburn prepared all week to defend against Swampscott's aerial offense. The Big Blue trained all week to defend against Woburn backs Mike McLaughlin and Tom Hart.
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JENA, La.  -- Thousands are expected in this tiny central Louisiana town Thursday to protest the treatment of six black teenagers arrested in the beating of a white classmate -- and they will march past the stump of a tree that became the focal point of the current racial tensions.
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The FBI recruited a mafia enforcer to help solve the slaying of three civil rights workers by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in the 1960s, according to evidence provided in Brooklyn state court by a mobster's moll.
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A former Food and Drug Administration staffer who specialized in antidepressant drugs is expected to take the stand this week as a defense witness in a double-murder case that the youth's attorneys blame on Zoloft.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana Pacers players Jamaal Tinsley and Marquis Daniels will stand trial starting Sept. 10 on charges related to a bar fight.
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Indiana Pacers guard Jamaal Tinsley and teammate Marquis Daniels were charged Wednesday in a Feb. 6 bar fight.
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By Mari A. Schaefer, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 25--Hooked up to tubes and monitors, a metal brace drilled into his skull to immobilize his broken neck, Frank Burd worried how his students would fare on state tests next month now that he could not be there to help them.
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A white separatist group planning a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Jena is suing the town, claiming officials are violating the Constitution by asking participants not to bring firearms, changing the parade route by one block and requiring the posting of a bond.
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PHILADELPHIA | The Carolina Panthers&#39; hopes of relying on their defense to help their injury-plagued offense took a big hit Wednesday when coach Jon Fox announced that defensive tackle Kris
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The last of the so-called Jena Six to be arraigned in the beating of a white high school student pleaded not guilty Wednesday to reduced charges of battery and conspiracy.