Saying Drew Peterson's attorneys were attempting to simplify disclosure evidence into "CliffsNotes," prosecutors thwarted the bid Thursday but will have to pare an 805-witness list down to the 50 most likely to testify.

A lawyer for Drew Peterson says an Illinois appeals court has denied a petition to lessen Peterson's $20 million bail. Attorney Joel Brodsky expressed disappointment in the ruling from the Illinois Third District Appellate Court in a statement late Friday.

Drew Peterson's days of card playing with his lawyer and calling into radio shows from the county jail appear to be over. Judge Stephen White ordered Peterson to compile a list of phone numbers for his family, friends and attorneys, and told the accused wife-murderer to limit his calls to these people.

Another day, another judge for the Drew Peterson murder case. Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes was removed from the case against the former Bolingbrook cop and alleged wife killer during a Monday morning hearing. Chief Judge Gerald Kinney replaced Policandriotes with Judge Stephen White.

Joseph R. Lopez, a high-profile attorney, managed to hang a jury 6-6 in his defense of Drew Peterson at a Thursday night mock murder trial at Chicago-Kent College of Law. WGN Radio sponsored the event and will broadcast it June 14 and 21.

Prosecutors are pushing to shut Drew Peterson's lawyers up about potential evidence against the alleged wife-killer. State's Attorney James Glasgow filed a motion on Wednesday to forbid attorneys from leaking anything from discovery documents, which will be turned over to Peterson's legal team for the first time next week.

No matter what he did to third wife Kathleen Savio or fourth wife Stacy Peterson, Drew Peterson wasn't killing anyone with his standup comedy routine on the radio Thursday.

Last week's discovery of human remains near the Des Plaines River sparked hope that they would solve the mystery of what happened to Lisa Stebic or Stacy Peterson. But forensic testing revealed the bones belonged to neither of the missing mothers. The remains were those of an unidentified male, state police reported Wednesday.

A Chicago television station is reporting that it has learned that Illinois State Police have recovered additional evidence relating to a body found on the banks of the Des Plaines River in Channahon on Wednesday.

Drew Peterson didn't get the judge he wanted. Now his lawyers might shoot for a new prosecutor. "He knows a lot of the judges in Will County. He knows a lot of the state's attorneys in Will County," attorney Joel Brodsky said of his client, accused wife-killer and disgraced former cop Peterson.

An autopsy performed Thursday on partial skeletal remains found Wednesday along the Des Plaines River did not "reveal any significant information in reference to the identity, race or sex of the skeletal remains," the Will County coroner's office announced Thursday afternoon.

After a parade of witnesses over the past year and a half, the special grand jury convened to investigate the fates of two missing mothers and another woman's death ended with action in only one of the cases. As first reported in The Herald News, the grand jury wrapped up Tuesday with the testimony of Thomas Morphey, a key witness in the state's probe of what befell Stacy Peterson.

Police continued to search the Des Plaines River on Thursday where human remains were discovered Wednesday afternoon. "We are still searching the area as part of a thorough investigation," State Trooper Mark Dorencz said. A dive team took part in Thursday's search.

Prosecutors bounced the judge from Drew Peterson's murder case Monday, but lawyers for the alleged wife-killer are fighting to get him back on the bench. At Peterson's arraignment, State's Attorney James Glasgow accused Judge Richard Schoenstedt of "prejudice against the state."

Some seven years ago, Stacy Peterson stole Kathleen Savio's husband away. Now, more than five years later, the missing mom may be the murdered mom's only chance at finding justice.

In a recent jailhouse phone call, Drew Peterson told NBC's "Today Show" host Matt Lauer the grand jury system that indicted him on two counts of murdering his third wife Kathleen Savio needs a serious overhaul.

Friends and foes of accused wife-murderer Drew Peterson appeared before the grand jury Thursday, one week before its 18-month term is set to expire. Testifying for the first time was Peterson's stepbrother, who claims to have helped Peterson carry a barrel containing the body of Stacy Peterson.

Ex-cop Drew Peterson, accused of killing his third wife and suspected in the disappearance of his fourth, was caring for four children from those two wives when he was arrested last week for murder. Now while Peterson sits in jail, his adult son from yet another marriage announced Monday that he has taken custody of his half-siblings.

HBO says there's no chance Drew Peterson will appear on a reality television show set in a Nevada brothel. In fact, HBO spokeswoman Tobe Becker says the network would cancel the show, called "Cathouse," before allowing the former suburban Chicago police officer to appear.