Establishing goals and priorities, getting organized, and managing time is about balance. Any goal that forces you to labor, day after day and year after year, so long and hard that you never have any time for yourself and those you love is not a goal but a sentence. ....
This article addresses the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's criminal provisions, which can be found in several titles. These provisions enhance criminal sanctions for corporate wrongdoers by creating new federal criminal offenses, increasing penalties for existing federal criminal offenses, and mandating review and amendment. The Act does not alter the substantive standards...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Phillip Bennett, the former chief executive of collapsed commodities broker Refco, reported to prison on Thursday to serve a 16-year sentence for fraud, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons said. Bennett, 60, was sentenced on July 3...
John Orr Crites, one of the leading vocational psychologists of the 20th century, succumbed to pneumonia on March 15, 2007. With his passing, counsel ling psychology lost an exemplar of its scientist-practitioner model. Jack's scholarly contributions and leadership substantially advanced vocational psychology both as a distinct discipline...
Former IFBB pro bodybuilder Craig Titus pleaded guilty to second degree murder first degree kidnapping and first degree arson on May 30, and his wife former IFBB fitness pro Kelly Ryan admitted to arson and entered an Alford plea to the charge of battery with use of deadly weapon resulting...
Fuel.tv--After more than two-and-a-half years behind bars, skate legend Jay Adams was released Monday, July 7, from the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon. Bussed to Portland and flown to LAX, Jay will be spending a few months at a halfway home in Southern California before moving in with his...
Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick just can't stay out of trouble. A day after serving a jail sentence for violating bond on a perjury case, he allegedly violated bond on an assault case. The former case arose from his testimony in a civil trial that he hadn't been intimate with his...
A military-commission trial finally took place. The tribunal, assimilating the anti-war Left's critique of it, seemed bent on proving it could be even more defendant-friendly than a civilian court. Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's personal bodyguard and confidant, apprehended in possession of surface-to-air missiles and Qaeda code references for "nuclear,"...
WASHINGTON AP -- The Justice Department on Wednesday recommended a dramatic reduction in the prison sentence of imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who became the key witness against lawmakers and congressional aides he spent years corrupting. Prosecutors asked federal judges in Washington and Florida to shave years of...
BOISE -- A longtime sex offender was sentenced to death Wednesday for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a 9-year-old northern Idaho boy after federal jurors who watched video of some of the brutality deliberated just three hours. The jurors' recommendation was binding on U.S. District...
A Martinez woman who used another person's identity to get a $20,000 breast lift and tummy tuck in Greenbrae was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in the Marin County Jail. She nearly got away with it, but a get-well bouquet and a navel itch were her...
AC Milan and Chelsea have reached agreement on a fee for Andriy Shevchenko, ending the striker's disappointing tenure in England's Premier League, the two clubs said. Shevchenko's return to Milan is subject to his passing a physical, Chelsea said in a two-sentence statement on its Web site,...
A man accused of being a serial killer took the stand in his own defense in an Oakland courtroom Wednesday. Anthony McKnight, 54, said he never knew or even saw any of the five women he is accused of brutally raping and killing in a four- month...
EDINBURG, Texas AP -- A nearly half-ton Texas woman charged in the death of her toddler nephew couldn't have beaten the boy to death because of her limited movement from weight problems, her attorney said Tuesday. Mayra Rosales, who weighs nearly 1,000 pounds, was indicted last week...
DENVER -- First graph, first sentence of release dated Aug. 26, 2008 should read: Richard S. Foote, President and Chief Executive Officer of Highbury Financial Inc. (OTCBB: HBRF, HBRFU, HBRFW), is expected to speak at Kaufman Bros. 11th Annual Investor Conference in New York, NY on Wednesday, September 3, 2008...
FARMINGTON -- A Clinton man accused of sexually abusing two teenage girls has been sentenced to serve a pair of 3-years-to-life sentences in prison. Richard Ray Marcroft, 44, was sentenced in 2nd District Court on Monday on charges of attempted forcible sodomy, a first-degree felony; and a...
A convicted murderer will get a second chance to avoid the death penalty after prosecutors suppressed evidence during his post- conviction relief proceeding. The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a new penalty phase for Michael Taylor, who killed his cellmate in 1999 while serving a...
The truth will not set Trent Lee Banks free, but it could shave a few years off his 45-year sentence. Banks, 29, was granted permission Tuesday to take a polygraph test in an effort to reduce the five-year sentence for violating probation he received after being...
A convicted murderer will get a second chance to avoid the death penalty after prosecutors suppressed evidence during his post- conviction relief proceeding. The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a new penalty phase for Michael Taylor, who killed his cellmate in 1999 while serving a...
OAKLAND -- Patrick Higgins will spend at least the next 25 years, and possibly the rest of his life, in prison for murdering a Dublin man who came to the city in hopes of scoring heroin, an Alameda County Superior Court Judge has decided. In June, a...
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