Jesse J Holland

October 06, 2008 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - Sen. Ted Stevens told wealthy businessman Bill Allen they needed to stick together and "really lay low" to beat an FBI investigation into their cozy relationship, according to audiotapes played Monday at the senator's corruption trial."Screw them, if they prove we did something wrong," the senator says in one of a series of secretly recorded telephone calls in the fall of 2006.

By TOM HAYS and JESSE J. HOLLAND

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May 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - Federal prosecutors should open a criminal investigation into the deaths of nine people in a Utah mine collapse last year, a leading House Democrat said Thursday.Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, said he made a criminal referral to the Justice Department on the August 2007 collapse of the Crandall Canyon mine.

By JESSE J. HOLLAND

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December 19, 2012 | Daily Report Online

The Justice Department announced Tuesday it has reached a settlement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc. in its lawsuit accusing the nation's largest book publishers of colluding with Apple Inc. to raise e-book prices on customers.

By Jesse J. Holland

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January 25, 2010 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - The Supreme Court on Monday decided not to stop the U.S. government from sending former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to France to face money laundering charges.The high court refused to hear an appeal from Noriega, who wanted to be sent back to his native country after finishing his drug sentence in the United States.

By JESSE J. HOLLAND

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December 14, 2007 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - The thousands of Americans facing foreclosure because of the ballooning interest rates on their subprime mortgages would get help from the federal government under legislation overwhelmingly approved by senators Friday.The legislation, approved 93-1, is the Senate's first attempt to address the looming subprime mortgage crisis through stand-alone legislation.

By JESSE J. HOLLAND

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December 23, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By JESSE J. HOLLAND

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February 26, 2013 | Daily Report Online

A former TVA contract safety manager wants to fire his lawyer as he awaits sentencing on a fraud conviction.

By Jesse J. Holland

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April 26, 2010 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether California can ban the sale or rental of violent video games to children.The court will review a federal court's decision to throw out California's ban. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Sacramento said the law violated minors' rights under the First and Fourteenth amendments to the Constitution.

By JESSE J. HOLLAND

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December 19, 2011 | Daily Report Online

By Jesse J. Holland

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January 05, 2010 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - A multimillion-dollar settlement on Monday ended the Supreme Court's consideration of a case that could have changed the legal protections that criminal prosecutors get as they do their jobs.The high court agreed to dismiss the case after Terry Harrington and Curtis W. McGhee Jr. agreed to a $12 million settlement with Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and two of its former prosecutors.

By JESSE J. HOLLAND

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