Former University of Illinois football player Steven Feagin was sentenced to 90 years in prison Wednesday for the 1995 rape of a 22-year-old student in Urbana, Ill., near the university's campus.
A video involving a brutal 2008 near death attack on a sea world trainer by a wild whale was released in court and is now being used as evidence in an investigation for the Sea World vs US Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis Trial. During a show at San Diego Park's Sea World, a veteran trainer, 39-year-old Kenneth Peters was bitten and continuously held underwater by a 7,000 pound killer whale, 28-year-old female named Kasatka.
The UK government (which represents England and Wales) is expected to pass same-sex marriage by 2015.
In the first half of this year, 15 states managed to pass almost 40 laws that restrict women's reproductive rights.
Alexander Teves was a 24-year-old University of Arizona graduate student who risked his own life to save that of another. According to his girlfriend Amanda Lindgren, Teves was shot and killed while shielding her from bullets when a gunman fired during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in an Aurora, Colo.
Arlene Holmes and the rest of the family of suspected gunman James Holmes have said they will support the Colorado shooting suspect, who allegedly killed 12 people and wounded 58 others. While Holmes's family members did not express the statement in person, when asked if they stand by the 24-year-old, lawyer and family spokeswoman Lisa Damiani said at a press conference today, Yes they do. He's their son.
According to an Aurora PD spokesperson, authorities are not investigating a second person of interest in the Colorado shooting that took place on Friday at the Century 16 Movie Theater. A Fox affiliate in the Denver, Colorado area recently ran a report with information that the spokeswoman said the news outlet took out of context.
James Holmes made his first court appearance in the Centennial, Colorado courthouse at 11:30 a.m. EDT Monday, when the world got its first look at the man said to be responsible for the worst mass killing in the state's history. View the slideshow to see photos of other infamous dazed and confused serial killers.
Dazed, deranged and Eyes Drooping, are just some of the terms being used to describe the face of the Colorado shooting suspect accused of killing 12 and wounding 58.
America will get its first look on Monday, July 23, at the alleged gunman said to be responsible for the infamous Colorado shooting that took place late last week. James Holmes is set to make his first court appearance at around 11:30 on Monday morning, giving the American public its first look at the suspect since his arrest in an attack that reportedly left 12 moviegoers dead and 58 other injured.
James Holmes, the alleged gunman believed to be responsible for the shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., that took place on Friday, is currently in custody at the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office Detention Facility in Centennial, Colo.
Kristen Saban, the daughter of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban, who apparently inherited her father's short temper, has finally responded to the civil lawsuit filed by Sarah Grimes, her fellow sorority sister at University of Alabama, for beating the living snot out of her on a Saturday night in 2010.
The swastika is considered a harbinger of good luck and well being in India.
As authorities continue to investigate the death of Eva Rausing, her husband, Hans Kristian Rausing has been taken into custody in connection with the homicide, as well as on drug charges
Amy Senser, the wife of former Minnesota Vikings tight end Joe Senser, was sentenced to 41 months in prison Monday in a Hennepin County courtroom for the hit-and-run death of chef Anousone Phanthavong.
An alleged al Qaeda operative was detained Saturday after crossing through Olympic Park in London at least five times, which defied a travel ban in the park previously instituted by the U.K.'s home secretary.
Casey Anthony's former lawyer, Jose Baez, has released a book about his time defending the Florida woman who was found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter. His book is out in stores.
RAF, also called the Baader-Meinhof gang, waged a violent terrorist campaign against the West German state and especially U.S. military bases in the country during the late 1960s and 1970s.
The victim was believed to be mentally unstable.
He, along with his former partner in crime, Myra Hindley, will forever be known as the ?Moors murderers? for a series of gruesome, sadistic murders committed against children and teenagers outside of Manchester.
A total of 93 people -- including Aziz Yildirim, the president of the prestigious Fenerbahce football club -- were convicted of match-fixing by an Istanbul court.
While Bangladesh has a secular legal structure for most matters, things like marriage, divorce and inheritance are subject to religious dictums.
After two years of partisan arguments surrounding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court will finally make its call on Thursday.
Former Atlanta Falcons running back Jamal Anderson was arrested on DUI charges in DeKalb County, Ga., Sunday morning.
In a police investigation from 1967 that has been reopened, Connecticut authorities have concluded that actor Dylan McDermott's mother, Diane McDermott, was murdered by her now-dead gangster ex-boyfriend.
The U.S. Supreme Court will announce its health care decision on Thursday, after making three major rulings on Monday.
The fate of the Obama administration's health care reform law may finally be settled this week, when the U.S. Supreme Court is widely expected to finally announce whether the politically charged law will live or die.
Jerry Sandusky, former assistant coach of the Penn State football team, was found guilty on 45 of 48 counts of child sexual abuse Friday night.
The latest blockbuster involves Jerry Sandusky's adopted son.
Natalee Holloway's mother has filed a lawsuit against The National Enquirer that claims the tabloid published untrue stories to profit from her daughter's 2005 disappearance in Aruba. According to the Associated Press, the lawsuit filed by Beth Holloway on Wednesday, June 20, claims that the magazine and its publisher, American Media Inc., published false headlines, articles and statements for nearly seven years.
