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Byline: Brittany Shammas Authorities in North Carolina have charged a man with first-degree murder in the Sunday shooting of Cannon Hinnant, a 5-year-old boy who was days shy of starting [...]

Byline: Claire Parker Inés Madrigal, who last year became the face of a decades long child abduction scandal that still haunts Spain, has discovered that she was not among the [...]

Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee granted clemency on Monday to Cyntoia Brown, commuting her life sentence for killing a man who had picked her up for sex when she was [...]

Lawmakers in Tennessee appealed to Gov. Bill Haslam this week to grant clemency to Cyntoia Brown, who is serving a life sentence for fatally shooting a man in 2004 who [...]

Byline: Susan Svrluga The Connecticut Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal of a lower court's decision sanctioning broadcaster Alex Jones, a sudden turn in a case pitting families whose [...]

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Byline: Mark Berman The company that owns the Las Vegas hotel where a gunman opened fire last year has filed lawsuits against more than 1,000 people who survived the massacre, [...]

It was late one night in February when a barrage of Facebook messages started lighting up Christopher Hansen's phone. Each one included an image of a stranger whose life had [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Bill Cosby's defense team delivered its long-awaited bombshell witness Wednesday, calling to the stand a woman who says the comedian's primary accuser confided plans [...]

She was buried Nov. 7, 1970, in plot No. 537 of a potter's field in Middletown, N.Y. In the cemetery's record book, where her name should have been, someone wrote [...]

More than 60 organizations associated with the Black Lives Matter movement have released a series of demands on Monday, including for reparations. The list of six platform demands is aimed [...]

Byline: Paul Sonne ÃáThe children of a couple killed in the November mass shooting at a church in Texas have filed a claim against the U.S. government over the military's [...]

Over the last 24 years, Sharon Cohen Levin built a multibillion-dollar operation -- not as a trader or banker, but as a prosecutor. As head of the asset forfeiture unit [...]

Byline: Mark Berman Survivors of the Pulse nightclub attack filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the gunman's wife as well as his former employer, arguing that the deadliest mass shooting [...]

Byline: Kristine Guerra The Canadian federal judge who found himself in hot water for asking an alleged rape victim during a trial why she couldn't keep her knees together said [...]

Byline: William Wan The families of victims killed in last year's shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., are suing the FBI over an error during a background [...]

Byline: William Wan The families of victims killed in last year's shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. are suing the FBI over an error during a background [...]

Byline: Sari Horwitz WASHINGTON - Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson was justified in shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, in August because he feared for his life after [...]

Michael and others v The Chief Constable of South Wales Police and another, Supreme Court, 2015 The Facts The claimants were the parents and children of Joanna Michael, who was [...]

Greece offers privatization concession as Germany stays tough (Reuters) Greece on Thursday offered a concession to its international lenders by pushing ahead with the sale of its biggest port, Piraeus. [...]

Conrad v. Wawanesa Mutual Insurance, 2015 NBQB 14 On the evening of November 7, 2012, Rosalind Conrad and her friend Kelly Rideout were taking in the uptown Saint John nightlife. [...]