Law & Society

Five former police officers convicted for their roles in a post-Hurricane Katrina shootings that killed two unarmed civilians and wounded four others will be sentenced on Wednesday in federal court.

A former student accused of killing seven people and wounding three others in a shooting rampage at a small Christian college in Oakland was gunning for a school administrator and classmates who he felt had treated him unfairly, police said on Tuesday

A prominent French academic, Richard Descoings, was found dead naked in a New York hotel room on Tuesday afternoon and New York police opened an investigation into the circumstances of his death.