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SCRANTON — The Rev. Dennis Bloom, the embattled founder of a Pocono charter school, admitted Thursday in federal court he failed to report a $180,000 transfer of property from his Coolbaugh Township church into his own name. Bloom, a former police...

The mother of a 10-year-old girl and her boyfriend must take parental guidance classes after being accused of allowing the girl to ride in a cage in the back of a pickup truck with a small dog on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Abby Carlson, 29, and her...

Board-certified real estate lawyer Gary M. Singer writes about the housing market at SunSentinel.com/housekeys each Friday. To ask him a question, click here. Q: I live in a condominium for seniors, and the building needs repairs. The board has...

SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - Prosecutors and defense lawyers in Florida searched for a third day on Wednesday for potential jurors unaffected by blanket media coverage of last year's killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. Six jurors in...

(Corrects reference to eyewitnesses in paragraph five to make clear there were several) By Barbara Liston SANFORD, Fla., June 12 (Reuters) - Prosecutors and defense lawyers in Florida searched for a third day on Wednesday for potential jurors unaffected...

SAN FRANCISCO California's largest nursing organization's courtroom bid to block public school employees from giving insulin shots to diabetic students appears to be on life support. During an hour of arguments Wednesday, the California Supreme Court...

Board-certified real estate lawyer Gary M. Singer writes about the housing market at SunSentinel.com/housekeys each Friday. To ask him a question, click here. Q: I am looking to rent my first apartment. How can I protect myself from getting into a bad...

The issue of judges routinely imposing jury-recommended sentences came up at the sentencing hearing of Jesse Evans Jr. last week. Evans, 35, was convicted in March in the deaths of two freshmen from Christopher Newport University. Evans was convicted...

WASHINGTON — Eric Holder is in a mess of his own making. Two weeks ago, the attorney general testified to the House Judiciary Committee in categorical terms: "With regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that...

Board-certified real estate lawyer Gary M. Singer writes about the housing market at SunSentinel.com/housekeys each Friday. To ask him a question, click here. Q: I was having trouble making my mortgage payments and agreed to give the deed back to the...

RICHMOND – Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli lambasted the Internal Revenue Service Wednesday over $125 million worth of asset forfeiture money he said is due to the state from a Medicaid fraud case, and questioned whether the failure of the federal...