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Former U.S. Marine and Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer is suing a former employer, defense contractor BAE Systems OASYS Inc., because the company slandered his character after he tried to get a job, according to reports.

News that Oneal Ron Morris injected a mixture of cement and tire sealant into another transgender woman's face has just surfaced as the victim tells her story to CBS News.

A Canadian provincial court on Wednesday upheld the country's ban on polygamy, saying the harm that plural marriage causes to women and children outweighed any infringement of religious freedoms.

Nearly three years into his Oval Office tenure, President Barack Obama issued his first commutation to a woman who has served 10 years of a 22-year sentence for cocaine distribution.

Should an aspiring attorney with a well-documented history of lying be banned from practicing law?

Canada will probe allegations of widespread sexual harassment at the storied Royal Canadian Mounted Police, looking into the latest in a string of problems that have tarnished the reputation of the national force.

An Illinois judge set the bond at $40,000 for an algebra teacher at a Christian school who admitted to investigators that he masturbated behind a lectern Friday during class, WWLS-TV reported Wednesday. Paul LaDuke, a 75-year-old minister in charge of a class full of minors, confessed that until one of them caught him in the act, he would put an apron on and masturbate while he thought about girls in the room for 10 years.

The National Meat Association says a California law mandating humane treatment and euthanization of animals is preempted by a federal meat inspection law.

Michael Jackson's physician Dr. Conrad Murray, who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, has been placed on suicide watch while he waits for his sentencing hearing, which is scheduled for Nov. 29.

A Pakistani court indicted five Islamist militants and two police officers in the high-profile assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

The Supreme Court of Canada blocked on Thursday the extradition to the United States of Abdullah Khadr, a Canadian wanted by Washington on terrorist charges

Judge William Adams will not be charged for physically abusing his daughter Hillary Adams, police said on Thursday.

The business mogul and his wife are among Scotland's wealthiest couples

Erin Holdsworth, the 28-year-old woman recently arrested for driving drunk and leading Ohio police on a 120 mph wild chase while wearing only a G-string, fishnet stockings and stiletto heels, hid inside a car instead of appearing in court on Wednesday.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose activities have angered the U.S. government, should be sent to Sweden from Britain to face questioning over alleged sex crimes, the High Court ruled on Wednesday, rejecting his appeal against extradition.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. The wrath of jilted women has often resulted in gruesome killings of partners. Now, in a freakish case, a UK woman has gone on trial for killing her husband by pulling the handbrake of the car he was driving at 60 miles per hour and causing a fatal crash.

Television and radio host Montel Williams told the Associated Press Sunday that he admires Israel's liberal attitude toward medical marijuana and believes all of the U.S. should legalize it.

Before Indra Nooyi became CEO of PepsiCo Inc. or Vikram Pandit took the reins at Citigroup Inc., there was Rajat Gupta, the original global Indian who was the first to head a major Western business.

Ohio Police witnessed a bizarre turn of events, following a high-speed chase which allegedly crossed the speed limit to go over 120 mph, when the traffic violator turned out to an almost-nude woman dressed in fishnet top.

Zahau's family does believe Rebecca would have taken her own life

A former Wall Street banker of Japanese descent has emerged as a key figure in the scandal engulfing Japanese blue-chip firm Olympus Corp, according to documents provided by the firm's ex-CEO.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is warning staffers their personal brokerage-account information may have been compromised, after it uncovered security flaws with an ethics-compliance program.

Sri Lankan-born Hedge fund tycoon Raj Rajaratnam was sentenced to 11 years in prison for the biggest hedge fund insider trading case in the U.S., but the verdict was not as stringent as legal circles had predicted.

A billionaire and one-time hedge fund industrialist Raj, Rajaratnam who was arrested in the biggest Wall Street insider-trading is set to face his punishment in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday.

Indictments of 111 people were handed up Friday in one of the largest identity-theft busts of its kind in the U.S., with thousands of victims in Europe, the Middle East, and China. Thus far, 86 people are in custody and the rest are being sought.

Underwear Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab trial began today in Detroit as the terror suspect yelled al-Awlaki's name.

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are free, guilty verdict is overturned

American student Amanda Knox made a tearful plea to an Italian court Monday to be acquitted of murdering her British roommate during a brutal erotic game, saying she was paying with her life for a crime she did not commit.

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito could see their convictions and sentences in the murder of Meredith Kercher overturned, following their final appeal.