Nicole Richie wins delay in drunken driving trial
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Reality TV star Nicole Richie on  Tuesday won a more than two-week postponement of her trial on  charges of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol,  but the judge in the case said he would grant no further  delays.
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Rail-thin reality TV star Nicole Richie was charged early on Monday with driving under the influence of drugs after she was seen going against traffic on a Southern California freeway, police said.
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Prospective jurors in the trial of the co-owner of a Rhode Island nightclub, where a fire killed 100, were told the trial could last three or four months.  One hundred nine people appeared in Kent County Courthouse, the first of four groups over two days.
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A jury awarded &#36;75 million in punitive damages Wednesday to the family of a 7-year-old girl paralyzed in a car wreck caused by a drunken football fan. A day earlier, the family was awarded &#36;60 million in compensatory damages.
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A motorist accused of "huffing" stimulants from an aerosol can before getting into a deadly wreck cannot be charged with driving while intoxicated, New York's highest court ruled Wednesday.
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The cause of Anna Nicole Smith's death has been determined, but it will not be announced for one to two weeks in order to give police more time to finish their investigation, the medical examiner's officer said Wednesday.
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Former New York Stock Exchange  chairman Richard Grasso on Thursday won a delay of a trial over  his $187.5 million pay package, which New York Attorney General  Eliot Spitzer has called excessive.
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Nicole Richie was charged Friday with misdemeanor driving under the influence. In addition to the single count, the case contains an allegation that Richie had a prior misdemeanor DUI conviction in June 2003, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said.
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Nicole Richie's driving-under-the-influence trial was delayed Wednesday until Aug. 16 so a defense expert can challenge evidence in the case.
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HOUSTON A judge in Houston has delayed the March trial of five former executives from Enron&#39;s defunct broadband unit. US District Judge Vanessa Gilmore granted the month-long postponement because a lawyer
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Nicole Richie has been granted her request to have her DUI trial delayed. The trial will now be held on August 16th due to the fact that the doctor Richie wanted to have testify will not be available until then. She has made it very clear that having h...
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The trial of a man charged with 29 murders in Northern Ireland's deadliest terrorist attack was delayed indefinitely Wednesday because the defendant's senior lawyer said he was too ill to work.
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Nicole Richie surrendered to authorities on Thursday to begin serving a four-day sentence for driving under the influence of drugs, but spent a little more than one hour in jail, an official said.
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Courtney Love's trial on two drug charges for illegal possession of painkillers is postponed until November.
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Singer/actress/handbag designer/heiress Paris Hilton can now add another title to her resume: Defendant. Hilton was charged Tuesday with driving under the influence and scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 28 in Superior Court on charges of driving under the influence and driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent, said Nick Velasquez, a spokesman for city prosecutors.
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U.S. reality TV star Nicole Richie  pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of driving under the  influence of drugs and alcohol when she was seen driving the  wrong way on a Los Angeles freeway.
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The much-delayed trial of a New York man accused of driving and abandoning a tractor-trailer in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt will begin Tuesday unless the Supreme Court intervenes, a judge has ruled.