D'andre Lane, the father of missing 2-year-old Bianca Jones has been charged with murder. The Detroit child went missing on Dec. 2 after a alleged carjacking at gunpoint. Bianca had been in the back seat of the vehicle. The 2-year-old has never been found, and prosecutors believe that Lane's story was bogus. Kym Worthy, prosecutor of Wayne County told the New York Daily News that evidence exists showing that Jones was abused by her father the day she disappeared. This development ....
New York University School of Law has purchased an Upper West Side condo at 845 West End Avenue for $3.6 million, according to city records filed Thursday. The school will use the apartment for faculty, who will rent the unit, according to Michael Orey, spokesman for NYU Law.
New York state resident Philip Ward is being charged with the 1989 murder of his pregnant girlfriend Veronica Bowen. Forty-five-year-old Ward, who is currently serving 20 years for the murder of another girlfriend, admitted to police that he killed Bowen and decapitated her.
Radio host, actor and filmmaker Alex Jones, uploaded a video on YouTube, and published it in his Web site infowars.com. The video, which claims that the documentary- Kony 2012, is a complete fraud and that it is Angelina Jolie who needs to be arrested for war crimes, has already had more than 127,410 viewers in just a day.
On Wednesday, evangelical leader Pat Robertson called for legalizing marijuana. Sounds odd, but plenty of conservatives before him have argued against the criminalization of cannabis.
Josh Powell, who last month took the lives of his two young children and himself in a house fire, is back in the headlines. This time, it's over whether Powell's relatives are entitled to his $1.5 million life insurance policy. Who, if anyone, gets the money?
Anders Behring Breivik, who slayed a total of 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage on Jul. 22, 2011 in Norway, was indicted on Wednesday. Breivik, a right-wing extremist, was charged under Norway's anti-terror law, and will be the first person in Norway to be prosecuted for performing an act of terrorism involving murder, with the intention of destabilizing the basic functions of society.
Kenan Wells Gay, a former North Carolina receiver and Charlotte law student, is being charged with first-degree murder after a bar fight on Saturday night ended with a man allegedly being pushed in front of a moving car. On Monday, Gay's attorneys said that the law student was defending his girlfriend when he fatally pushed 26-year-old Robert Kingston III.
A secret surveillance program by the New York Police Department in 2007 has lead New Jersey Muslim leaders to meet with law enforcement officials in the Garden State. The meeting stems from the Associated Press revelations that the NYPD had been monitoring New Jersey Muslims. Activities from the NYPD reportedly include the mapping out of mosques in Newark, as well as the monitoring of Muslim student groups.
Former Stonehill College student, Lindsay Blankmeyer, is suing the college for $150,000 on the basis that officials didn't help her find a new dorm room.
The federal government's effort to enforce stronger warning labels on cigarette packaging hit a snag Wednesday when a judge ruled that the regulations are a violation of free speech.
The Dallas Independent School District could be facing federal violations for sex discrimination and improper use of federal funds for a World War II lesson plan that separated fifth grade boys from girls.
T.J Lane the teenager who opened fired at Chardon High School in Ohio on Monday, will be tried as an adult, prosecutors told ABC News.
Michael Douglas has reprised his Oscar-winning role as Gordon Gekko for a public service announcement from the FBI about insider trading. If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is, Douglas says in the spot, which debuted on CNBC and Bloomberg Television.
Several of the suspect's classmates have identified the gunman as Thomas T.J. Lane, a sophomore or junior at Lake Academy, a nearby school for at-risk children. A Facebook rant leaked online, and several Twitter photos that appear to show the teen brandishing handguns for a webcam, seem to prove that he is the shooter. Officials, however, have yet to release any information about the suspect's identity.
Joanna Ramos, one of two 11-year-old girls who planned an after-school fight that ended within a minute, died hours later in an intensive care unit, according to reports. Ramos died Friday night after fighting with her Willard Elementary School classmate. She left her after-school program for the pre-planned fight in the alley near her Long Beach elementary, according to the Press-Telegraph.
Afghan authorities said on Sunday they believe one of the country's police intelligence officers may have been involved in the shooting deaths of two U.S. officers inside the nation's interior ministry a day earlier, prompting NATO to recall all its staff from ministries.
Italian judges on Saturday concluded former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's trial on charges of bribing British lawyer David Mills, saying the statute of limitations had run out and a verdict could not be reached. The case surrounding Mills was one of the most prominent of the scandals centered on Berlusconi.
Brooke Mueller, Charlie Sheen's ex-wife was charged with possession and distribution of cocaine in Colorado following her arrest in Aspen Dec. 30.
Religious organizations, particularly the Catholic Church, argue universal healthcare access is a fundamental human right.
On Friday new evidence was heard about the 1980 death of nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain. Lindy Chamberlain, Azaria’s mother has always maintained that a dingo took the baby from her tent in the Australian Outback.
Seven states, Catholic groups and individuals Thursday filed the first major lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's new contraceptive regulations, arguing that the policy violated the constitutional rights to religious freedom.
Former NBA star Michael Jordan filed a lawsuit against a Chinese sportswear company, claiming the brand was built off of unauthorized use of his name.
After nine hours of deliberation, the jury finally revealed the verdict for George Huguely, the University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, Yeardley Love. The 24-year-old was found to be guilty of second-degree murder and grand larceny.
George Huguely, the University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, Yeardley Love, had his life in the hands of the jury this morning. The jurors spent the morning without reaching a verdict.
Actor Saif Ali Khan has been accused of assaulting a fellow diner at a posh five-star hotel in Mumbai and might be arrested, police said on Wednesday.
Paramount Pictures, the movie studio that controls all the rights over the fictional mafia family's story The Godfather, has sued the estate of Mario Puzo, arguing that the heirs of the author has wrongfully authorized the publishing of a pair of sequel novels.
The New York Knicks' new star point guard Jeremy Lin recently applied to trademark Linsanity several days after two California men each filed separate ones, attempting to cash in on the fervor surrounding Lin and his vernacularly adaptable name.
The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday took a case that aims to end race as a factor in college admissions.
After clamoring for the number one spot when it came to endorsing Facebook’s initial public offering in the beginning of the month, Goldman Sachs lost to Morgan Stanley, and placed fourth among U.S. financial rivals. Although it wasn’t chosen as the social-networking giant’s main supporter, Goldman Sachs and Facebook may have more in common than some think. In the past week, both companies claimed victories in intellectual property lawsuits, according to BusinessWeek.