In Session:

Ex-governor settles child custody case

ELIZABETH, New Jersey -- We waited and waited and then waited some more. Finally, a little after 8 p.m. Thursday night outside the Union County courthouse in Elizabeth, New Jersey, former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey and his estranged wife Dina Matos McGreevey separately exited the courthouse. Their attorneys later said a ...

Haq’s doctor: Medication caused deadly thoughts

SEATTLE, Washington -- Naveed Haq was taking a prescription drug known to induce homicidal ideas on rare occasions. The disclosure came Thursday as attorneys for the 32-year-old presented their insanity defense for Haq’s actions on July 28, 2006. Haq is accused of fatally shooting one woman and wounding five others ...

The dos and don’ts of saying “I do”

NEW YORK -- And what more is there to say about the McGreevey, Matos McGreevey mess? Should she have known better? Should he have known himself better? Maybe, but there is one lesson we can all take away from their sordid affair. And it’s a lesson about how not to ...

WA v Haq: Day 15

SEATTLE, Washington -- Jurors in the trial of Naveed Haq learned more details Wednesday about the defendant’s mental state in the years, days before, and possibly during the time he opened fire at the Jewish Federation of Seattle. Under direct examination by defense attorney Wes Richards, Dr. James Missett, a forensic ...

Last Word: Political wives

NEW YORK -- Eliot Spitzer may have topped Jim McGreevey in terms of sex scandal sordidness. But now, as the divorce goes to court, Dina McGreevey is in a very different situation from her fellow former first lady Silda Spitzer. "I was essentially in the dark,” she told the New ...

Haq’s father to son: Don’t go to Seattle

SEATTLE, Washington -- A psychiatrist who met with Naveed Haq four times since October 2006 testified at the Seattle trial Tuesday that he suffers from bipolar disorder with psychotic features. Dr. James Missett, an expert hired by the defense, said Haq has been mentally ill for at least a decade ...

McGreevey divorce: A deal in the works?

ELIZABETH, New Jersey -- I am here in Elizabeth, New Jersey for the divorce trial of former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey. There's only one problem...there is no trial. In Session has learned that settlement talks are continuing, but an announcement scheduled to be made this afternoon by both sides may ...

The Real Dirty Word

NEW YORK --Jim McGreevey is back in the news. His was not the first sex scandal to bring down a politician and it certainly wasn't the last. Just in the three years since Governor McGreevey left the statehouse and his wife, we've also lost Governor Spitzer here in New York ...

Washington v Haq: Day 13

SEATTLE, Washington -- The leader of the men’s group at Word of Faith testified Monday at the trial of Naveed Haq. Albert Montelongo said Naveed Haq attended the one thousand-strong non-denominational church in Kennewick, WA for four or five months starting in late 2005. Haq found Christianity to be a ...

Ex-governor in divorce court

NEW YORK -- Here’s a case you may want to pay attention to. Beginning Tuesday, the divorce battle between former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey and his wife, Dina Matos McGreevey heads to the courtroom. The couple was married for about 4 years with a young daughter when McGreevey came ...