3 Shot During New Orleans Celebration

A federal judge delayed a settlement for ground zero workers, saying the process must be transparent and lawyers’ fees should not be drawn from the funds.

Common Pleas Judge Nancy Fuerst is against the increases, arguing that higher costs would further burden public workers who have seen their pay cut through furloughs.

A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith’s estate will receive none of the more than $300 million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her.

A look at afternoon headlines from area newspaper and television Web sites.

Police arrested a 17-year-old Mayfield High School student this afternoon after a another student was stabbed in the neck with an Exacto knife.