May 13, 2005

LOS ANGELES - The owner of a air charter service was ordered to pay attorney Mark Geragos and an associate several million dollars for ordering the secret videotaping of Michael Jackson and the lawyers as they flew with the pop star to his surrender on molestation charges in 2003.

 Chris Brown lost a bid to delay a preliminary hearing in his assault case, which his attorney argued should wait for a related California Supreme Court decision.

SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds' personal trainer was held in contempt of court and taken to prison Wednesday for refusing to testify to the federal grand jury investigating the San Francisco Giants' slugger for perjury.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson was busy promoting AIDS awareness in the nation's Capitol as lawyers in his child molestation case prepared for a preliminary hearing to determine whether there was enough evidence to try the pop star.

August 18, 2004

LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of fans from around the world will converge on the town of Santa Maria for Michael Jackson's arraignment on child molestation charges later this week, his family said Monday.

LOS ANGELES - Less than a week before his latest arraignment, Michael Jackson dumped his high-profile legal team in his child molestation case in favor of a single well-known attorney.

LOS ANGELES — Twitter is officially the talk of the town as a two-day conference dedicated to the micro-blogging site gets under way at the Skirball (SKER'-bahl) Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

As Jodi Arias' trial wraps up this week after four months of testimony, her fate rests in part on the testimony of expert witnesses who have offered up one clinical diagnosis after another for the small-town waitress and aspiring photographer from California to explain why she killed her lover five years ago.

August 19, 2004

LOS ANGELES - Pop superstar Michael Jackson's attorney says molestation accusations levied against the entertainer are motivated by money, even as doubts about the credibility of the boy's family began to emerge.

LOS ANGELES - More than a year ago, Michael Jackson let a BBC crew into his bizarre world for a TV documentary he no doubt hoped would boost his fading career.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Setting the stage for what could be one of the most sensational celebrity court cases ever, pop superstar Michael Jackson, his wrists bound in handcuffs, surrendered to authorities to face allegations of child molestation.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Laci Peterson's mother knew something was "very seriously wrong" when Scott Peterson called on Christmas Eve 2002 and said his wife was missing, prosecutors said Tuesday morning as opening statements began in Peterson's trial.

LOS ANGELES - A former attorney for the mother of Michael Jackson's cancer-stricken accuser said the boy is in very poor health and his family is in seclusion, paying little attention to the high-profile legal fight.

SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds will not be indicted immediately, federal prosecutors said Thursday, but the ongoing grand-jury investigation of steroids and possible perjury and tax-evasion charges against the San Francisco Giants star will continue.

May 20, 2005

September 17, 2004

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - The judge in Scott Peterson's murder trial dismissed the jurors for the day Wednesday, saying, "There's been a potential development in this case."

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - A juror who was spotted talking to Laci Peterson's brother was removed from Scott Peterson's murder trial on Wednesday, but the judge denied a defense motion for a mistrial.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. - The judge in Michael Jackson's molestation case delayed a ruling Friday on when to hold the singer's preliminary hearing after the defense said it hasn't had enough time to review the prosecution's evidence.