Law & Society

A 42-year-old Maryland man accused of threatening to kill President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in an explicit email strewn with racist remarks was in custody on Sunday, the United States Secret Service said.

Police in Southern California said on Sunday they had made multiple arrests in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed three 13-year-old girls while they were trick-or-treating on Halloween.

Jesse Friedman, whose conviction as a teenage child molester was portrayed in the Oscar-nominated film "Capturing the Friedmans," is not giving up his decades-long campaign to clear his name.