Pa. to pay murderer &#36;35K in assault case
681551
The state has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit with a convicted murderer who alleged that state prison staff raped and assaulted her.
160311
Eight eBay sellers were ordered to pay nearly &#36;90,000 in restitution and fines after admitting they bid up products online to inflate the prices.
526784
Prosecutors in the Kobe Bryant case spent nearly &#36;400,000 trying to get the NBA star convicted of raping a woman at a Vail-area resort last summer, documents show.
280646
A Â£20,000 reward is offered to help police solve the murder of a father-of-five nine months ago.
678845
The manufacturer and dealer of the rifle used in the Washington, D.C.-area sniper shootings agreed Wednesday to pay &#36;2.5 million in a settlement with victims and victims' families.
67366
Macy's has agreed to pay &#36;600,000 and make sure its security officers don't use racial or ethnic profiling in detaining suspected shoplifters in its New York stores.
74359
A northwest Georgia county has sued the owners of a crematory where 334 bodies were found, seeking &#36;2 million to recover the cost of cleaning up the corpse-strewn property and other expenses.
422418
A parent accused of sending out a fake press release defaming a high school baseball coach who had cut his son from the team has been ordered to pay the coach nearly &#36;800,000.
70252
An anonymous donor has posted a &#36;100,000 reward for information leading to murder charges in one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era &#151; the "Freedom Summer" slayings of three civil rights workers in 1964.
565935
Bail was set at &#36;1 million Monday for a North Carolina man awaiting sentencing in the nation's first felony prosecution of illegal distribution of junk e-mail, or spam.
141930
An ex-con and construction worker was charged Monday with 17 felony counts in two sexual assaults linked to an investigation of a string of serial killings.
224805
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport agreed to pay &#36;9 million Thursday to settle 37 claims of sexual abuse by priests &#151; a deal that could lift any immediate threat of bankruptcy.
463202
A man who spent months in jail after being accused of sexually assaulting and drowning his 3-year-old daughter before DNA evidence cleared him was awarded, with his wife, $15.5 million Thursday.
463885
Prosecutors are to continue presenting their case against a man accused of killing five women in Suffolk.
404115
At stake is $356 million fine imposed in July for noncompliance.
295399
PITTSBURGH -- The gunman who wounded five Duquesne University basketball players after a school dance last year pleaded guilty Friday and will spend up to 40 years in prison.
446828
A farmer who accused White Sox SS Juan Uribe of shooting him during an altercation last year receives a payment from the major leaguer as part of a settlement ending legal action, a lawyer for Uribe says.