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Attorneys hammered at the credibility of John Edwards and his once-trusted aide as arguments in his campaign corruption trial ended Thursday, leaving jurors to decide whether the presidential candidate's sex scandal cover-up amounted to a crime or a litany of lies.
Defense lawyers for John Edwards will ask a judge Friday to dismiss corruption charges against their client, arguing prosecutors failed to prove the former presidential candidate intentionally violated the law.
John Edwards' former aide acknowledged Thursday that much of nearly $1 million in campaign supporters' cash went to build his North Carolina dream house, not to buy the silence of the presidential candidate's pregnant mistress.
Defense lawyers for John Edwards will argue at his trial that much of the nearly $1 million in secret payments at issue in the criminal case against their client were actually siphoned off by a trusted aide to build an expansive dream home.
The witness list for the John Edwards criminal trial includes dozens of names close to the former presidential candidate, including the woman at the heart of the sex scandal that destroyed his political career.
The judge overseeing John Edwards' criminal trial on Wednesday recused herself from considering whether to quash a subpoena issued to a former speech writer for the two-time presidential candidate.
After years of investigation, denials and delays, jury selection was set to begin Thursday for the criminal trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards.
As a young personal injury lawyer in North Carolina, John Edwards earned a reputation for turning down multimillion-dollar settlement offers on bets that jurors would award his clients more money at the end of a trial.
John Edwards' campaign has repaid more than $2.1 million in public matching funds received after the Democrat dropped out of the 2008 presidential primary amid a sex scandal.
A federal judge in North Carolina says an immigrant from Kosovo will stay behind bars until his trial on charges he tried to hire a hit man to behead witnesses in a terrorism trial.
Prosecutors on Monday asked the federal judge overseeing the upcoming criminal trial of John Edwards to limit how much jurors can be told about the legal fight over a sex tape featuring the former presidential candidate.
When immigration agents deported Felipe Montes to Mexico two years ago, his three young sons were left in the care of their mentally ill, American-born mother in a small North Carolina mountain town.
The sex tape of John Edwards and his mistress is headed to the shredder, but a long list of criminal charges still hangs over the former presidential candidate over the extramarital affair that ended his political career.
A North Carolina man recently convicted in a homegrown terrorism plot faces new charges that he attempted to hire a hit man to behead three witnesses who testified against him.
The treasurer for John Edwards' 2008 presidential bid says the campaign has been electronically signing his name to federal spending reports without his knowledge and he wants it to stop.
Lawyers for John Edwards have asked a judge to limit the testimony of longtime aide Andrew Young at the former presidential candidate's upcoming campaign finance trial.
A lawyer for John Edwards is defending recent spending by his 2008 presidential primary campaign, saying the expenses were related to last year's criminal probe of the former North Carolina senator and an ongoing federal audit.
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, heiress to a vast Gilded Age fortune built on tobacco and member of the family that endowed Duke University, has died. She was 91.
A North Carolina man must stand trial in a plot to hire a hit man to behead three witnesses from his brother's terrorism case, a federal magistrate judge ruled on Friday.
Ex-presidential candidate John Edwards has a serious heart condition that will require a medical procedure next month and his illness limits his travel including for an upcoming court case over possible campaign violations, his doctor told a judge, who delayed the trial.
The elections director in socially conservative Harnett County has resigned, saying she could not in good conscience preside over the upcoming vote on a proposed amendment to the state constitution banning same-sex marriage.
Former presidential candidate John Edwards says he has been diagnosed with a medical condition that would make it difficult for him to attend his approaching criminal trial over campaign finances and is asking for it to be delayed.
A Durham man was convicted Tuesday and sentenced to life without parole in the slaying of a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president.
Novelist Michael Peterson has walked out of a North Carolina jail, one day after a judge ordered a new trial in the 2001 death of Peterson's wife.
As North Carolina novelist Michael Peterson seeks a new trial in the 2001 death of his wife, two state investigators are raising questions about whether a former colleague involved in Peterson's trial fabricated results in another case.
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