Law & Society

8-year-old Leila Fowler's stabbing murder two weeks ago led to a massive manhunt. It turns out, authorities said that the leading suspect is her 12-year-old brother.

Gunmen opened fire on people marching in a neighborhood Mother's Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 19.

Matthew Darby, a white Mississippi teenager, faces 27 years in prison after running over and killing a man who was walking along a rural highway. The case, according to the victim's family, is being called a hate crime, CNN reported.Darby, who is 18, pleaded guilty earlier this week to manslaughter in the July 2012 death of 61-year-old Johnny Lee Butts. Companions put Darby at the wheel of the white Chevrolet that hit Butts from behind on a highway in Panola County, about 150 miles north of Jackson. Butts was a black ma