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AP - A new study shows that federal judges are handing out widely disparate sentences for similar crimes 30 years after Congress tried to create fairer results, but the differences don't line up with the party of the president who appointed the judges, despite any impressions that Republicans or...

AP - All the judges in Penn State's home county removed themselves from potentially presiding over the child sex-abuse case against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and will be replaced by outside jurists, the Pennsylvania court system announced Thursday. More...

Calif. high court: No judges, no cases RIVERSIDE, Calif., -- The California Supreme Court Monday unanimously upheld the dismissal of 18 cases in Riverside County, two of them felonies, because of a shortage of judges. County Deputy Public Defender William A. Meronek said the ruling also...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There had been some expectation, at recently as last week, that Fox executives would have something major to announce on Monday about the immediate future of their 10-year-old franchise, American Idol, now...

Nunez, Trump named Miss USA judges LOS ANGELES, (UPI) -- Actor Oscar Nunez and model Melania Trump are to be judges at the 2010 Miss USA pageant in Las Vegas, NBC said Tuesday. The network, producer Donald J. Trump and Paula M. Shugart, president of the Miss Universe Organization, revealed...

Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 11, 4:59 PM (ET) By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and MARYCLAIRE DALE WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - For years, the juvenile court system in Wilkes-Barre operated like a conveyor...