AP - A man pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of plotting with a teenager to carry out Columbine-style attacks at two high schools in Indiana and Ohio.
Reuters - A Los Angeles judge on Thursday set \na September date for pioneering rock producer Phil Spector\'s \nsecond trial on charges that he murdered actress Lana Clarkson \nin the foyer of his mock castle in 2003.
Reuters - A U.S. Border Patrol agent has pleaded \nguilty to trafficking more than one tonne of marijuana and \nusing his patrol vehicle to transport it, prosecutors said on \nThursday.
Reuters - A U.S. \nmilitary judge refused on Thursday to delay the June 5 \narraignment of five Guantanamo prisoners who could face \nexecution if convicted of plotting the September 11 attacks.
AP - A Marine charged with killing an unarmed detainee in Fallujah, Iraq, has been jailed by a federal judge for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating a former comrade.
Reuters - A lawyer for Adelphia founder John \nRigas and his son, Timothy, argued on Thursday that the court \nshould re-evaluate their entire prison sentences since an \nappeals court overturned part of their convictions last year.
AP - A judge who is waiting for a state Supreme Court decision on whether he will preside over Phil Spector\'s second murder trial went ahead Thursday and scheduled it to begin in September.
AP - A man who raped and killed a University of Vermont student after a chance meeting in which she asked to borrow his cell phone was convicted Thursday in the case, which sent a shudder through Vermont.