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Emotions ran high in a packed Edmonton courthouse Friday as Richard Suter, accused of causing a crash into a restaurant patio that killed a young boy, was granted bail. More...

AP - Seven American democracy workers facing trial in Egypt on charges of fomenting unrest are free to leave the country after the U.S. posted nearly $5 million in bail to win their release, Egyptian officials said Thursday. More...

New York (CNN) -- Former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released Friday on bail from the jail cell on Rikers Island where he had been held for nearly a week, the New York City Department of Correction website said. His release came after Supreme Court Judge Michael Obus met Friday with...

A man facing numerous charges, including driving while impaired after two pedestrians were struck by a pickup truck in St. John's Wednesday night, has been granted bail. Leo Jerome Power of North Harbour, St. Mary's Bay appeared in provincial court in St. John's for a bail hearing on Friday. A...

An Edmonton man facing terrorism charges in the United States will learn Friday if he will be granted bail. Sayfildin Tahir Sharif, 38, is accused of playing a role in a suicide bombing that killed five American soldiers in Iraq in April 2009. He has been in custody since Jan. 19 when RCMP...

One of three men suspected in last week's firebombing of a Montreal funeral home will remain in custody until at least Friday. Julien Bourassa-Richer, the alleged get-away driver in the attack on the building owned by the Rizzuto family, was in court seeking his release on bail. His girlfriend...

- Police have issued a warning to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after he showed up late for his court-ordered daily check-in with British authorities while on bail. "Julian Assange has been given a verbal warning after reporting for bail outside the agreed time," the Norfolk Constabulary...

London -- An appeal by Swedish authorities against the decision to grant bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will take place Thursday at the High Court in London, a spokesman said. The court did not specify a time. Assange handed himself over to London police last week to answer a...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange gestures inside a prison van as he arrives at court in London on December 16. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/12/15/intv.assange.lawyer.stephens.cnn London -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived at a London court Thursday where he will find out...

Sports columnist Jay Mariotti free on bail LOS ANGELES, Sportswriter and television personality Jay Mariotti was out on bail Sunday after Los Angeles police said he was arrested on a domestic violence charge. Mariotti, 51, spent a few hours at an LAPD station before being released Saturday on...

Conrad Black to be granted bail CHICAGO, A federal appellate court in Chicago Monday ruled former media mogul Conrad Black is entitled to be free on bail while appealing his conviction. While the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Black should be released, the Chicago Tribune reported...

Bail jumper gets 6 more months BUFFALO, N.Y., A bail jumper caught when New York police tracked his whereabouts using MySpace and Facebook had 6 months in jail added to his previous sentence. Christopher Crego, 39, formerly of Buffalo, was sentenced Wednesday to 6 months in prison on a bail...

Banker released from custody on euro100 million bail -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIENNA – The heir of one of Austria's wealthiest and most venerable business families was released from jail Friday on euro100 million ($130 million) bail, but...