Heatley's Arraignment Waived
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ATLANTA (Sports Network) - Atlanta Thrashers right wing  Dany Heatley, who is charged with vehicular homicide and five  other counts in the 2003 car crash that killed teammate Dan  Snyder, had his Wednesday arraignment waived by a judge.
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Atlanta Thrashers forward Dany Heatley is closing in on a plea deal with prosecutors in his vehicular homicide case, but there are questions over the length of the sentence and how a conviction would affect his immigration status, his lawyer said Monday.
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Atlanta Thrashers star Dany Heatley was sentenced Friday to three years of probation and must give 150 speeches about the dangers of speeding after pleading guilty in the death of teammate Dan Snyder in a car accident.
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DURHAM, N.C. -- A stripper who performed at a Duke lacrosse team party where another dancer said she was raped was sentenced to 120 days of house arrest Monday for an unrelated probation violation.
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A judge threw out a solicitation charge against the former state Democratic Party chairman Friday, ruling that sheriff's deputies did not have the authority to stop his car.
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Chicago - The woman accused in the slaying of a pregnant woman and abduction of her infant, waived her rights to certain legal formalities on Thursday, paving the way for her to be transferred to the state where she allegedly committed the crimes
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MANNHEIM, Germany - The lawyer of one of the U.S. Army reservists accused of abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison said Tuesday that military prosecutors have agreed to drop some of their charges after the soldier agreed to plead guilty to the rest...
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By Joel Bewley, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Sep. 14--The man accused of killing a Burlington City gas-station attendant Monday morning made bail recently on other felony charges after judges lowered the amount needed for him to get back on the street.
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The county prosecutor said Monday she intends to drop the charges against a man who was accused of shooting into a crowd of people watching a fireworks display this summer.
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RALEIGH, N.C.  -- Officials dismissed a murder charge Tuesday against a sheriff's deputy accused of shooting an unarmed teenager who authorities believed had stolen video game consoles, after a grand jury foreman said he had checked the wrong box by mistake on the indictment paperwork.
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A federal judge has dismissed a civil case against a military contractor accused of improperly billing Iraq reconstruction authorities for tens of millions of dollars worth of security services that it did not provide.
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By The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.  Feb. 10--KINGWOOD -- The couple accused of burning Harry Paul Hershman's Tunnelton area home waived their right to a preliminary hearing Friday in Preston County Magistrate Court.
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By Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  May 31--Unconditional bail has been set at $70,000 for a man accused of robbing a couple at knifepoint a week ago.
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Charges have been dismissed against the former commander of a detention facility where an Iraqi prisoner was dragged by the neck and later died.
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RALEIGH, N.C., June 16 -- Hours after he was found guilty of ethics violations in his prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players falsely accused of sexual assault, Durham County District Attorney Michael B. Nifong on Saturday surrendered his law license to the state bar and said he wou...
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Prosecutors told a judge Thursday that an alleged victim of defrocked priest Paul Shanley might refuse to testify if he is publicly identified during the upcoming sexual abuse trial. That would mean the end of the criminal case against one of the most notorious figures in the Boston Archdiocese's sex scandal, Assistant District Attorney Lynn Rooney said.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan - The Charles Jenkins saga drew nearer an end Wednesday when the Army sergeant was reduced in rank to E-1, dishonorably discharged and ordered to forfeit all pay and allowances and serve six months in prison after pleading guilty to