Tensions between black and Asian students at a public high school erupted in a series of assaults over two days, leading to 10 suspensions and several students seeking medical treatment.
Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son said in court papers filed Friday that he's too sick and doesn't deserve to go to prison for plundering his philanthropist mother's fortune, enlisting such famous friends as Whoopi Goldberg and Al Roker in a bid to stay free.
A defense attorney for Rod Blagojevich says the former Illinois governor will take the stand at his fraud trial but claim his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination if called to testify in a $90 million civil suit.
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