Police are expanding their search of a convicted rapist’s neighborhood and his neatly kept home, where 10 bodies have been found in the basement, buried in the backyard, in an upstairs living room and in a crawl space.
In addition to the four lat
A U.S. Air Force major described an al-Qaida sleeper agent as a sometimes kind, respectful man who nonetheless would attack the United States if given a chance.
Air Force Maj. Deborah Sirratt testified during the first day of a sentencing hearing
The first of a dozen polygamist sect members charged with abuse of women is set to stand trial today, 18 months after agents raided the group's remote ranch and carted off more than 400 children in the largest child custody case in American history.
A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. The 62-year-old left a bar on his chair after drinking 8 or 9 beers. Prosecutors say Anderson's blood alcohol content was 0.29, more than three times the legal li
Williams "did this in retaliation because she was having a relationship" with one of the defendants. Prosecutors, who knew about the relationship during the case, dismissed Williams' new claim, and lawyers for the defendants would not discuss
"You've got a real estate company, in our opinion, with the government as a tenant, (and of course, a growing client base). We think this is a business that has very significant growth. It's going to do well in any economic environment,
Nearly 10 years had passed since a college student was raped in Manhattan, and with no known suspect in the 1993 case, the police were not close to an arrest. But what they did have was nearly as critical: the rapist’s DNA profile.
We're going to examine 3 case histories of people accused of a supposed offense called "tax evasion." Our first example involves Mr. Timothy Geithner, who refused to pay Medicare and Social Security taxes for several years -- despite the fact that hi
Members of the black community mourned one boy's death and called for another 15-year-old to be released from juvenile detention. The boy's were in a home they had permission to be in. The cop's gun went off all on its own say cops.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has ordered a review of a little-known Bush administration policy requiring some defendants to waive their right to DNA testing even though that right is guaranteed in a landmark federal law, officials said.
A roundup of wrongful conviction-related stories from the last several weeks:
• Wisconsin court dismisses charges against rape and murder after the prosecutor withheld evidence of his innocence. Ralph Armstrong was convicted in 1981. In 1995, a wo
The key informant in the U.S. tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG faces prison next year, but his harsher-than-expected treatment by the U.S. Justice Department will undermine efforts to expose secretive offshore tax havens.
Authorities haven't ruled out the possibility that Zazi became so spooked by surveillance that he dumped any bombs or bomb components. Yet the lack of such concrete physical evidence as a backpack bomb has also forced investigators to do more painst
The arrest of a New Yorker for using Twitter to alert protesters to police movements at a meeting of world leaders in Pittsburgh last month would be deemed a human rights violation if it happened in Iran or China, rights activists charge.
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In what may be the first of its kind, a man was arrested for using Twitter to notify protesters of police whereabouts in a case that shockingly violates First Amendment rights.
Elliot Madison, 41, was arrested along with another man during the G-2
Convicted sex offender James Nichols said he was trying to better himself by going to church. But the police who arrested him explained: The church is off-limits because it has a daycare center.
Now Nichols is challenging North Carolina's sex-offe
Whitrock says he thinks he knows why the family was targeted. "They have a very nice home and I think they are one of the only white families on that block," he said.-While the struggle continued, Stallis' mother, Rose Whitrock, ran out of the house
Veronica Rodriguez and Daryl Buck were both residents of Oregon when they were convicted of first-degree sexual assault on a child younger than 14 years of age. Neither case involved coercion, seduction, or nudity. In fact, neither case involved actu
The town’s police had been pulling over motorists along a main highway, seizing their property (cars, cash, jewelry, etc.), then presenting them with an unsavory bargain: Sign a waiver forfeiting all of their property over to the police, or be arrest
Then his career collapsed under allegations he brought inmates to his office and spanked them with a paddle. Later accused of sexually abusing male inmates in exchange for leniency. The trial on charges of sodomy, kidnapping, sex abuse, extortion, as
For up to four hours a day, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, can sit outside in the Caribbean sun and chat through a chain-link fence with the detainee in the neighboring exercise yard at Guantanamo Bay,
The 21-year-old son of Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy, pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted robbery and an narcotics charge. He is to receive a sentence that involves no jail time; a 10-year suspended prison sentence and five years of probation.
ZURICH – Director Roman Polanski was arrested by Swiss police as he flew in for the Zurich Film Festival and faces possible extradition to the United States for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, authorities said Sunday.
Abigail Brown was 14 years old — a high school freshman and a virgin — when some juniors and seniors got her drunk at a party and videotaped her having sex with them.
"The Motorhome Diaries trio of Jason Talley, Pete Eyre and Adam Mueller received a guilty verdict from Jones County Justice Court Judge David Lyons Thursday."
Judge will make decision in a couple weeks. After a trial that stretched for more than three hours, the Motorhome Diaries trio could be waiting at least two more weeks before their verdict is announced.
Laurel Justice Court Judge David Lyons said
A federal appeals court agreed to consider an alleged 9/11 conspirator's plea to halt his sanity hearing at the war court at Guantanamo.
Lawyers for Ramzi bin al Shibh, an alleged al Qaida lieutenant, filed a 71-page writ of mandamus this week at
Former Ohio Rep. James Traficant told a crowd that gathered to welcome him back to Youngstown, Ohio, after seven years in federal prison that the government had to cheat to convict him of bribery and racketeering.
The comment Sunday elicited a roa
Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence.