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The case seemed like a slam dunk for the prosecution. The three defendants already had been suspended from practice and thrown into jail by a judge who said their conduct put the entire legal profession on ...

The Kentucky House has started a special session to consider legislation to help the state's financially troubled retirement system.

Using a red and blue pie chart, federal prosecutors showed a federal jury in Covington on Monday that attorneys Shirley Cunningham Jr., Melbourne Mills Jr.

Final arguments were scheduled to begin Monday in the fraud case against three Lexington lawyers in the fen-phen diet drug settlement case.

PHOTOGRAPHER'S WORK HONORED Herald-Leader photographer David Stephenson has been named a runner-up in the photojournalism category of the 2008 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism.

Three lawyers accused of taking more than $65 million from their former clients could not give their clients details about a 2001 diet drug settlement because it would have violated a confidentiality clause, an ...

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS - Sarah Sebree and her friend Amy Burns stopped momentarily to admire a wreath made entirely of wine corks.

The government is expected to present what could be its star witness today in the federal fraud trial of three lawyers accused of plundering Kentucky's $200million fen-phen settlement.

POLICE: MAN SHOT, KILLED IN FIGHT OVER A WOMAN A Rockholds man was shot to death Tuesday evening, 11 miles south of Corbin, Kentucky State Police said.

The judge who approved the $200 million class-action settlement in the fen-phen diet drug lawsuit testified he was embarrassed by the way he handled the case.

COVINGTON, Ky. The first witness in the fen-phen settlement trial of three attorneys testified he got a $3 million bonus and a new car for working on the case.

“The more interest there is in these large mega-developments, the more property is worth (throughout) Dayton”

Some residents of Dayton, Bellevue and Newport were surprised to find the assessed values of their homes had doubled or even tripled. via The Cincinnati Enquirer

“We have been hurt twice, first by the drug, then by our own lawyers.”

A government expert says three suspended lawyers violated 'basic moral tenets of honesty and respect for the property of others we learn first as children.' Now a jury will decide whether Shirley Cunningham ... via The Courier-Journal

The trial of three attorneys charged with defrauding clients out of millions of dollars from a diet drug settlement is beginning in northern Kentucky. via WLEX-TV Lexington

“When this case started, I had just read John Grisham's book The King of Torts , and I said to myself, 'Here it is right here,'”

The upcoming trial of three lawyers charged with bilking their clients out of millions in a fen-phen settlement figures to draw plenty of attention from legal scholars, attorneys and ethicists both in and ... via Lexington Herald-Leader

“My wife became seriously ill in 1994 and everything changed; we became more like homebodies”

W.L. Carter first heard of fen-phen in the late 1990s, when clinics offering the popular diet-drug cocktail were popping up all around Kentucky, thanks to friendly state prescription rules. via Lexington Herald-Leader

“A Kentucky lawyer whom I greatly admire once referred to the misconduct of a lawyer in a legal malpractice action as 'this dog's breakfast of facts,'”

Three attorneys facing federal criminal charges in a 2001 fen-phen settlement apparently violated "numerous" procedural and ethical rules in their handling of the class-action case, according to written reports ... via Lexington Herald-Leader

“I could accept it more if he was killed in a car wreck or something”

MELBOURNE - Darlene Biddle last saw her husband of 17 years waving goodbye as she drove to work along Ky. via The Cincinnati Enquirer

A Lexington attorney charged with defrauding clients has asked that the federal judge overseeing his case be disqualified due to bias. via WLEX-TV Lexington

“These attorneys are facing a 20-year prison sentence, and people with that kind of money could choose to relocate rather than go to trial”

Using extremely strong language, one of three suspended lawyers scheduled to be tried next month in Kentucky's fen-phen case has accused the judge of bias and asked that he be disqualified. via The Courier-Journal