A grand jury that indicted the man hired by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner to investigate former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has disbanded, but Gardner may not be clear of scrutiny. St. Louis Circuit Court spokesman Thom Gross confirmed ...

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Two-time U.S. presidential candidate and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards was indicted for allegedly accepting more than $925,000 in illegal campaign contributions to cover up an extramarital affair with a filmmaker who bore his child.

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Susan McDougal will not get access to court documents related to her civil contempt case for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Whitewater in the 1990s. On Monday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said McDougal doesn’t ...

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Imagine game seven of a Sox-Yankees playoff series is about to start and you can’t watch it. On the eve of the biggest sports trial since O.J., that’s exactly how I feel. This week, home-run king Barry Bonds – the ...

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A federal appeals court ordered prosecutors and baseball player Barry Bonds’ lawyers to file legal arguments by this summer on a judge’s ruling that may keep evidence in Bonds’ perjury trial from being introduced. The U.S. Court of Appeals in ...

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Barry Bonds' steroids test, doping calendars prepared by his trainer and other key government evidence might be excluded from the baseball player's perjury trial, a federal judge said. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston said Thursday she was leaning toward ruling that the evidence is inadmissible unless federal prosecutors have testimony from Greg Anderson, Bonds' former trainer, or other witnesses who can link the calendars and blood tests to Bonds, Major League Baseball's home-run leader.

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Extension granted in Blagojevich case Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald was granted a 90-day extension to obtain an indictment against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whom he has accused of corruption in a criminal complaint. U.S. District Judge James Holderman in ...

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