Kyle Sampson, Gonzales' former chief of staff who has since resigned, told the Senate Judiciary Committee last month that the prosecutors were fired for political reasons rather than for poor performance as the Justice Department has claimed. Gonzales has defended his role in the firings, admitting that there has been some confusion but saying that his involvement in the matter was limited to signing off on recommendations made by Sampson.

A 16-year-old Buffalo youth has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for killing a deli owner during a robbery.

Robert Gwynn was 15 when he and a 13-year-old accomplice robbed Myheeb's Deli in November. Gwynn shot the deli owner, Mike Saeed, in the chest. He died soon after.

Because of his age, Gwynn was prosecuted as a juvenile offender. State Supreme Court Justice Timothy Drury told him he'll likely impose a sentence of eleven years to life when he is sentenced in July.

The 13-year-old is being prosecuted in Family Court. His identity hasn't been released.

A jury found Gregory Nurrenberg Jr. guilty but mentally ill when he killed 45-year-old Sherry Dickey.

Nurrenberg, 24, admitted killing Dickey during Memorial Day weekend 2006, but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Jurors deliberated approximately 4 ½ hours before reaching a verdict about 7 p.m. Monday. The trial in Lawrence Superior Court II lasted five days.

U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton had limited Vonage to serving its existing customers. He also required Vonage to post a $66 million bond.

The stay is good until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit hears Vonage's request for a permanent stay of Hilton's injunction.

However, it does not mean that Vonage will necessarily be able to continue its business as usual for the length of the appeals process.

An industry analyst, who said Vonage's business would face problems if the company could not add new customers while appealing the case, said the temporary stay was "unnecessary technically," as Hilton was not expected to enter his ruling until Thursday, April 12.

Russia kicked off its own Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), a competitor to the U.S. GPS and Europe's Galileo, in October 1982, when the first satellite of the system was launched.

So far, 19 GLONASS satellites have been put into orbit, the Interfax news agency said, citing anonymous source with the Central Research Institute of Machine-Building.

However, only 12 satellites are serving as the mission requires. One is waiting to be put into use, three were shut down for technical maintenance and the other three has been withdrawn from service.

The GLONASS service now covers 66 percent of Russia's territory and requires 18 satellites in orbit to implement full navigational functions, and 24 satellites for a global navigation service.

"We shall maintain such group by 2011 with the launch of the new-generation spacecraft GLONASS-K. The GLONASS system is in active development and is being renewed according to a set timetable," Perminov said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged to take advantage ofthe satellite navigation system for the country's economic development, and First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov has claimed that the Russian Federal Space Agency "will fulfill its state-financed obligations" and complete the project.

Similar to Vioxx and Celebrex, Bextra is a Cox-2 inhibitor used to relieve symptoms of osteoarthritis and adult rheumatoid arthritis. Bextra was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on November, 16, 2001, but was voluntarily removed from the market by Pfizer in 2005 in response to concerns of increased risk of cardiovascular events (including heart attack and stroke).

Fohne claims she had been taking Bextra for more than six months prior to her heart attack. The lawsuit alleges that the drug sold to Fohne was defective and potentially harmful. As a result, the lawsuit further alleges, Fohne was subjected to increased risk of heart attack and other cardiovascular events that effectively outweighed the potential benefit of the drug. In addition, she claims Pfizer did not adequately test its product, sending it to market without proper warnings and ignoring existing data suggesting the drug possessed serious, life-threatening side effects.

Fohne is seeking restitution in excess of $250,000.

Powell Goldstein LLP lawyer L. Lin Wood released a statement Monday saying he will represent Howard K. Stern, an attorney who claims to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's newborn girl.

Wood, a partner with Atlanta-based Powell Goldstein LLP, was the lead civil attorney for Richard Jewell related to reporting about Jewell in connection with the 1996 bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta; the attorney for John and Patsy Ramsey and their son in matters relating to the 1996 murder of JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder, Colo.; the attorney for former U. S. Congressman Gary Condit over the May 2001 abduction and murder of Chandra Levy in Washington; and co-counsel in the civil action in Colorado against NBA star Kobe Bryant.

Stern claims to be the father of Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern. Celebrity photographer Larry Birkhead, Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, actor and a former Smith bodyguard Alexander Denk and former Smith boyfriend Mark Hatten all also claim to be the girl's father.