By Serena Maria Daniels DETROIT, Feb 4 (Reuters) – A Detroit-area man has been accused of threatening to behead a New York City police officer whose fatal choke-hold on an…
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal to stop the execution of a Texas inmate scheduled to die Wednesday for killing a police officer. – Newbury was once granted a reprieve…
Hilton, 20, surrendered himself to the FBI on Tuesday and appeared in court later that day, said spokesman Thom Mrozek of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Hilton was freed on $100,000…
“The AG’s reasoning is essentially this: The woman knew she was in a prison, so what did she expect?” wrote Laurie Roberts in the Arizona Republic. “No, seriously. That’s the…
CAIRO — An Egyptian court sentenced 230 people, including one of the leading activists behind the country’s 2011 uprising, to life in prison after finding them guilty on Wednesday of…
The president of the International Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that Serbia and Croatia did not commit genocide against each other during the breakup of Yugoslavia. PARIS — The…
The 153-page ruling from the International Court of Justice means that modern-day Serbia will not have to pay restitution to Croatia, which in 1991 split from what was then Yugoslavia….
A team of internationally renowned war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts has found “direct evidence” of “systematic torture and killing” by the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the lawyers on…
By David Schwartz PHOENIX, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Lawyers for embattled Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio have asked a federal judge to order a settlement conference as they seek to ward…
Marion “Suge” Knight, the former hip-hop mogul now charged with murder, attempted murder and hit-and-run, is expected to appear in court Tuesday. Prosecutors filed the charges against Knight on Monday,…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The United Nations’ top court ruled Tuesday that Serbia and Croatia did not commit genocide against each other’s people during the bloody 1990s wars sparked by…
THE HAGUE, Feb 3 (Reuters) – The United Nations’ highest court on Tuesday ruled that Serbia did not commit genocide in Croatia during the Balkan wars that followed the collapse…
Robin Williams’ children and wife have gone to court in a fight over the late comedian’s estate. In papers filed in December in San Francisco Superior Court, Williams’ wife, Susan,…
CENTENNIAL, Colo. – Jury selection for the Aurora movie theater shooting trial is taking an unexpected jolt forward, as the court releases 2,000 prospective jurors it does not need. Read…
BEIJING — A Chinese court announced on Monday that two members of a banned religious sect had been executed for the death by beating of a woman at a McDonald’s…
By November, the Court accepted yet another challenge to the Affordable Care Act—the signature legislative achievement of the Obama administration. In a matter of weeks, the justices heard arguments concerning…
Birth place: Bristol, Connecticut Birth name: Aaron Michael Hernandez Father: Dennis Hernandez, a high school custodian Mother: Terri (Valentine) Hernandez, a school secretary Children: with Shayanna Jenkins: Avielle Janelle Hernandez,…
Related: Driver of recalled GM car cleared in boyfriend’s death Some alleged victims of the ignition switch flaw have taken GM and parts supplier Delphi Automotive to court. But their…
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress aim to revamp an anti-regulatory law from the Newt Gingrich era in an effort to paralyze new financial, environmental and labor rules with a never-ending…
The case of Badawi, who was sentenced last year to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes after a Jeddah court convicted him of insulting Islam, has garnered international headlines…
The FBI on Thursday added a former taxi driver from northern Virginia to its list of most-wanted terrorists, saying he was a recruiter for the al-Shabab terror group in Somalia….
The match was a tense one from the beginning, with much of the pre-game narrative focusing on Murray’s ex-coach, Dani Vallverdu, who is now in Berdych’s corner. The Scot, who…
A Texas man convicted of killing a 38-year-old woman nearly two decades ago while he was on parole for a triple slaying years earlier was executed Thursday evening. Robert Ladd,…
The tennis-obsessed youngster would play for hours on end against a wall or a water tank, at the time thinking the tournament was merely the stuff of fairy tales. “I…
A woman who says an Uber driver raped her in New Dehli, India, on Thursday accused the company in a lawsuit filed in U.S. court of failing to properly investigate…
Two days after the execution of Warren Hill, a Georgia man whose lawyers said he had an intellectual disability, another prisoner is scheduled to die despite his attorneys making a…
A woman and her family lured her estranged husband to their home by offering to let him see his children, then beat him in the head with a hammer and…
On Tuesday, a Los Angeles Superior Court civil jury found for Stone in his breach-of-contract lawsuit against Even St. Productions, manager Jerry Goldstein and attorney Glenn Stone, awarding him $5…
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McALESTER, Okla. — Death row inmate Richard Glossip described Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court order suspending his impending execution as “so unbelievable.” “I’ve felt amazing today,” Glossip said hours after he…