Law & Society

Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner pleaded guilty to a felony criminal charge for false imprisonment and two misdemeanor counts of battery after an ongoing probe conducted by the State Attorney General's office.

The attorneys for James Holmes intend to argue on Tuesday that anything he told officers when he was arrested following the mass shooting in Aurora Colorado last July should be barred from his trial. Upon his arrest, officers asked him questions pertaining to whether he had additional weapons and explosives, all before they read him his Miranda rights.

Anthony Badalamenti, a 62-year-old former Haliburton manager, has pleaded guilty to destroying evidence after the rig explosion that spawned BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, The Associated Press reported. 11 workers were killed in the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.