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.

PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - Attorney Kenneth Bailey has inspired a lot of headlines by making money, and a few more by giving it out.

BISMARCK, N.D. (Legal Newsline)-Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem on Tuesday warned residents about fast talking door-to-door magazine sales crews working in Bismarck and other cities across the state.

TEXARKANA, Ark. - When John C. Goodson stands before Miller County District Judge Kirk Johnson to advance America's biggest lawsuit, Goodson stands where Johnson used to stand and Johnson sits where Goodson's father used to sit.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-A group of state attorneys general will testify before a U.S. Senate panel investigating a polygamous sect in Texas, Utah and Colorado, officials said.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-California's state bird may be the quail, but its unofficial state nemesis is the tiny fruit fly. And once again, it may be back.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-A published report in Monday's Los Angeles Times claimed several influential California legislators along with Attorney General Jerry Brown were "quietly let off the hook," for campaign finance violations.

CHARLESTON, W. Va. (Legal Newsline) - A West Virginia legal reform group is happy that three candidates for the state legislature who were heavily backed by personal injury lawyers didn't make it past the primary election.

HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - Things are going from bad to worse for a tractor trailer school under attack by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.

BALTIMORE (Legal Newsline) - Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler on Monday received the go-ahead to participate in a public records issue, with the intention of protecting the complaints of unhappy consumers against stockbrokers.

CONCORD, N.H. (Legal Newsline) - A state judge on Monday approved New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte's settlement with a lighting equipment company that she says dumped more than 15,000 pounds of hazardous waste into a landfill.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Legal Newsline)-Oklahoma Attorney General W.A. Drew Edmondson is featured in a county commissioner's anti-gay campaign comic book.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Legal Newsline)-Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has reached a multi-million dollar settlement agreement with AT&T Illinois that provides customer refunds and freezes call rates.