OXFORD, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The father-and-son tandem that ran one of Mississippi's most prominent plaintiffs firms then admitted to attempting to bribe a state judge will spend their prison sentences 774 miles apart.

TOPEKA, Kan. (Legal Newsline)-Kansas Attorney General Steve Six on Tuesday shut down an out-of-state travel company for allegedly engaging in deceptive business practices by misleading their customers.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline)-The long wait is finally over for the Ohio Republican Party.

COVINGTON, Ky. (Legal Newsline)-Embattled plaintiffs' attorney Shirley Cunningham Jr. is asking a federal judge to release him from jail as he waits to be retried on charges he bilked clients out of millions from Kentucky's Fen-Phen settlement.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-Union Pacific Railroad Co. has agreed to pay a $102 million settlement for a 52,000-acre wildfire in the Plumas and Lassen national forests that was believed to be sparked by its workers.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline)--Despite various newspaper and Web site reports indicating the Ohio Republican Party is set to announce they've selected someone to oppose Democrat Richard Cordray in November's election for Ohio Attorney General, the party's executive director says not so fast.

SALEM, Ore. (Legal Newsline)-Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers on Tuesday filed a supplemental complaint against the federal government over how it operates dams along the Columbia and Snake Rivers.

PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - Attorneys for Janssen Pharmaceutica, fighting a collection of suits over the company's antipsychotic drug Risperdal, are trying to make sure a major Houston-based plaintiffs firm isn't steering the Governor's office in Pennsylvania.