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Blagojevich to be retried in 2011; charges dropped against brotherBy the CNN Wire Staff Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted of lying to the FBI, but the jury deadlocked on the other 23 counts. STORY HIGHLIGHTS4 charges...

Blagojevich retrial date could be set ThursdayBy the CNN Wire Staff Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was found guilty of one count of lying to the FBI. STORY HIGHLIGHTSJury found Blagojevich guilty of only one count of 24 ...

Blagojevich retrial date could be set ThursdayBy the CNN Wire Staff Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was found guilty of one count of lying to the FBI. STORY HIGHLIGHTSJury found Blagojevich guilty of only one count of 24 ...

CBC.caHollywood executives jailed for Thai film festival briberyTelegraph.co.ukTwo married Hollywood movie executives have been jailed for six months in Los Angeles for bribing Thai officials so they could run the Bangkok International ...Film producer co...

CBC.caFilm producer couple jailed for Thai briberyCBC.caGerald and Patricia Green helped attract major Hollywood figures such as director Joel Schumacher, left, and actor Michael Douglas, right, to the Bangkok ...2 film producers could get 10 yrs for brib...

According to sources, an Afghan anti-corruption unit – working with U.S. investigators – developed “rock solid” evidence implicating a top Karzai aide in a bribery scheme. NBC’s Michael Isikoff reports. (Nightly News)...

A top national security aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai was arrested last week on bribery charges — then released the same day “at the direction of the palace,” a senior U.S. official tells NBC News....

LOS ANGELES ? A judge on Thursday dismissed a $2.3 million judgment against Dole Food Co. in a lawsuit by purported Nicaraguan banana workers, ruling that the company and the court were victims of a massive fraud. Los Angeles Superior...

Leavenworth has housed some of the country’s most-publicized criminals — Frank (The Enforcer) Nitti, one of Al Capone’s deputies; Robert Stroud, better known as the Birdman of Alcatraz, and even quarterback Michael Vick. Now the federal prison w...

Markus Heitz’s The War of the Dwarves, the eagerly awaited sequel to his first novel, The Dwarves, has finally been translated into English. Heitz’s hero, a Thirdling dwarf named Tungdil, and a mixed group of followers have just defeated a dark evil, No...