Law & Society

Ariel Castro: Cleveland Kidnapper to Plead Not Guilty

Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man accused of kidnapping and imprisoning three women for about a decade...

May 15, 2013 10:41 AM EDT

Erwin Antonio Rios Admits: North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to Buying Gun With Plots to Commit Jihad on U.S. Soldiers

Erwin Antonio Rios, a North Carolina man, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in U.S. District Court for posse...

May 14, 2013 09:18 PM EDT

Angelina Jolie: Actress-Director-UN Envoy Announces She Underwent Double Mastectomy (Video)

Actress, director and humanitarian Angelina Jolie announced in a New York Times op-ed on Tuesday th...

May 14, 2013 08:43 PM EDT

89 Charged in Medicare Fraud: Attorney General Eric Holder Announces Arrests Involving Scams Worth $223 Million in False Billings

US. cities on Tuesday with Medicare fraud schemes that the government said totaled $223 million in f...

May 14, 2013 07:35 PM EDT

Abortion Doctor Kermit Gosnell Guilty Given Life Sentence, Spared Death Penalty

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born...

May 14, 2013 06:50 PM EDT

Justice Department Opens Criminal Inquiry Into IRS Audits

Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that he recused himself from a case involving a Departm...

May 14, 2013 03:09 PM EDT

Kern County Beating: Sheriff Defends Video Seizure of Intoxicated Man Beaten By Deputies in Northern California (Video)

Kern County's Sheriff Donny Youngblood is defending the seizure of cellphone video of deputies beati...

May 14, 2013 01:47 PM EDT

Quarterback Stabbing Arrest: Michael Creed Charged with First Degree Assault and Possession of Deadly Weapon Injuring Trevor Sasek (Video)

Michael Creed, a 25-year old from Newark Delaware was arrested and charged with first degree assault...

May 14, 2013 12:25 PM EDT

'U.S. Agent' Nabbed in Russia: FBI Detains Alleged Undercover CIA Operative Ryan Fogle

Russian security services said that they have detained an undercover CIA agent after he tried to rec...

May 14, 2013 11:28 AM EDT

Kermit Gosnell: Abortion Doctor Convicted of First-Degree Murder

Kermit Gosnell, an abortion doctor, was convicted of first-degree in three counts of murder and one ...

May 13, 2013 07:02 PM EDT

Media Crackdown: Government Obtains the Associated Press' Phone Records

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors fo...

May 13, 2013 06:18 PM EDT

Lana Bailey, 18-month-Old's Body Found After Being Killed with Mother and Two Men in Raid on Kansas Farm (Video)

The missing 18-month-old girl whose mother was found dead along with two men at a Kansas farmhouse d...

May 13, 2013 05:04 PM EDT

6 People Die After Massive Fire in Eastern Pennsylvania (Video)

Fire tore through a family's home in Pottsville, Pennsylvania on Mother's Day, authorities said, whi...

May 13, 2013 03:51 PM EDT

Derek Boogaard: Family of NHL Player Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against The League

The family of Derek Boogaard, a former NHL player, who died of an accidental overdose of pain medica...

May 13, 2013 02:38 PM EDT