The former press tycoon was found guilty of three counts of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice. He could face up to 35 years in prison.
U.S. News put 5,462 medical centers through progressively finer screens to create the 16 specialties rankings in the 2007 edition of America's Best Hospitals. Just 173 hospitals made it into the rankings.
AP - Two top Republicans cast aside President Bush's pleas for patience on Iraq Friday and proposed legislation demanding a new strategy by mid-October to restrict the mission of U.S. troops.
AP - Former media mogul Conrad Black was convicted Friday of swindling the far-flung Hollinger International newspaper empire he once ran out of millions of dollars, becoming the latest in a wave of disgraced corporate executives to face prison time for financial fraud.
AP - Two teenagers were charged with conspiring to attack a Long Island high school on the anniversary of the Columbine attacks after a chilling journal and videotape surfaced in which one teen identifies several potential victims by name, authorities said Friday.
A federal prosecutor wants a district attorney to stop giving out copies of a videotape used as evidence in a teenage sex case that has drawn national attention. The tape shows a 17-year-old Genarlow Wilson having oral sex with a 15-year-old. Now the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia says possession of the tape under an open records law could break child porn laws.
A jury Friday found former media tycoon Conrad Black guilty of mail fraud and obstruction of justice. He and three co-defendants defrauded shareholders of Hollinger International and skimmed $60 million from the newspaper conglomerate.
Two leading Republican senators announced Friday they want to demand President Bush offer a plan to start reducing U.S. forces in Iraq by the end of the year.