Prosecutor: Warehouse a Buffet for Rats
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CHICAGO - A federal prosecutor launched the trial of a cold storage company accused of unsanitary conditions Wednesday by describing a warehouse stocked with millions of pounds of meat as "an amusement park for rats and a house of horrors for the City of Chicago.""Rodents were allowed to feast on an all-you-can eat buffet," Assistant U.S.
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Jacob Alexander, former chief executive of Comverse Technology, is complaining to his lawyers that the food in jail is not quite up to par.
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After taking on greedy mutual fund  firms and lying Wall Street bankers, New York's crusading  attorney general aims to clean up a different mess: unpaid  restaurant bathroom attendants.
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A County Down man appears in court charged with people trafficking and living off immoral earnings.
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This round of corporate trials is focusing on bad behavior and loose ethics. Key prosecution witnesses are being grilled about their drug use, tax problems and sex lives in an attempt to undermine their credibility.
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BIG CREEK, W.Va., Sept. 12 -- The curtains on the trailer home were closed, a shopping cart of empty beer cans was dumped by the porch and rats scurried across the trash-strewn yard. The yellow police tape attached to the porch rail gave the only hint of the brutal and bizarre crime that authorities...
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Esther Rhodes often finds herself explaining charges or procedures to defendants during court proceedings.
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A man suspected in the deaths of three people at a New Hampshire outdoors equipment store told reporters as he was led into a courtroom Thursday that he did it because he "needed the money."
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Three people involved in the nation's deadliest smuggling attempt were part of a scheme that treated immigrants "worse than cattle on the way to the slaughterhouse," a prosecutor said Tuesday in opening statements.
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A dozen rats were caught on video scurrying around the floor of a New York City KFC/Taco Bell restaurant early Friday, running between counters and tables and climbing on children's high chairs.
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LINDENHURST, N.Y. - A man whose home was a tangled mess of overgrown plants, uncaged reptiles and animal feces was arrested Tuesday on charges of animal cruelty, authorities said.
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By Kathy A. Goolsby, The Dallas Morning News  Dec. 9--Since opening his Grand Prairie winery 18 months ago, City Council member Rick Sala has hauled a lot of cardboard boxes to the recycling center.
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Despite the California attorney generalÂs assertion that he has enough evidence to press charges against people inside and outside Hewlett-Packard, a criminal case may be hard to prosecute, legal specialists say.
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The first criminal trial involving former Enron Corp. executives "is a case about cheating and lying" with Wall Street's help, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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Enron Corp. ENRNQ.PK, desperate to  meet profit targets, "parked" unwanted power generating barges  at Merrill Lynch in a sham sale designed to be reversed, a  prosecutor said on Tuesday in the first criminal trial of  former executives at the fallen energy company.
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Las Vegas prosecutors added a  charge of coercion with a deadly weapon against O.J. Simpson  and three other co-defendants on Wednesday in addition to 11  other crimes the four are accused of in a robbery of sports  memorabilia collectors.
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BOSTON - A state prison official ordered a subordinate to take a little off the top. Now the state ethics board is ordering him to take a little out of his wallet.