Michael Mele, a convicted sex offender, admitted to killing Texan dancer Laura Garza after he met her at a Manhattan nightclub three years ago. A judge agreed to sentence him to 23 year on manslaughter charges and 16 months to four years on evidence tampering.
Highly restrictive abortion laws do not deter women from undergoing the procedure, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which found the rate of unsafe abortions has increased in recent years.
The makers and the legal team behind the documentary West of Memphis, produced by one of the West Memphis Three, have alleged that Terry Hobbs, stepfather of one of the victims Stevie Branch, is responsible for the deaths of the three eight-year-old boys, a crime which sent three teenagers known as the West Memphis Three to prison for 20 years.
Paterno's name is tarnished – perhaps irredeemably.
The offer of a 30 percent discount on future cruises, made by the owners of the recently shipwrecked Costa Concordia (Costa Cruises), has been faced with a number of angry responses from passengers of the ill-fated luxury liner.
The couple has two children.
No one calls him Sir Allen Stanford anymore. He is inmate number 35017-183. On Monday, the Texas financier heads to court in Houston to battle charges that he operated a $7 billion Ponzi scheme from Stanford International Bank Ltd., his offshore bank on the Caribbean island of Antigua.
There are already as many as 15 U.S. states that allow patients the use of marijuana, as a legal substitute, to manage their pain and advocates fighting to legalize, regulate and tax cannabis claim they are now near victory.
Zach Tomaselli, the third person to accuse former Syracuse coach Bernie Fine of sexual assault, admitted on Friday that he doctored emails to the media in order to bolster his claims.
An Alabama man turned himself into New Orleans police on Thursday for sexual battery charges stemming from a teabagging incident after the BCS Championship game on Bourbon Street.
A city council voted 9-1 to require actors who work in pornography films to wear condoms while performing in the city of Los Angeles, according to a Los Angeles Times report, and now questions are coming up about what will happen to the area's thriving porn industry.
A teabagging incident after the BCS National Championship game between an Alabama fan and a LSU fan has suddenly gotten very serious as New Orleans police have gotten involved and could charge the Alabama fan with sexual assault.
Rupert Murdoch's company News Group Newspapers is settling with actor Jude Law and more than 30 additional victims of phone hacking practices.
Full transcript of the court's preliminary inquiry into Concordia Captain Francesco Schettino, who crashed the ship on Friday and allegedly fled the scene.
Francesco Schettino, the captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise ship, is in police custody and for good reason. He went against the maritime protocol and endangered the lives of the 4,200 people on board the ship when it went down.
There are procedures and protocols in place for all maritime disasters. Costa captain Francescho Schettino didn't appear to follow any of them when the ship crashed on Friday.
In the midst of a battle over SOPA, the controversial anti-piracy legislation, the Supreme Court backed Congress' authority to take foreign works out of the public domain.
Divers searching the capsized Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia suspended work on Wednesday after the vast wreck shifted slightly, but officials said they are hoping to resume as soon as possible.
The investigation and rescue operations are in full swing after an Italian cruise liner capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, leaving 11 passengers dead and hundreds injured.
Cruise Ship Sinking: Captain, 'The Most Hated Man in Italy,' Faces the Ire [Transcript, PHOTOS]
An Italian judge Tuesday placed Francesco Schettino, the captain of the sinking cruise ship Costa Concordia, under house arrest.
British government officials are determined to expel Qatada from the country.
Republican Congressman and presidential frontrunner, Ron Paul, along with former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee - Barney Frank, has previously campaigned for a bill to end marijuana prohibition.
Federal investigators in the U.S. are reportedly launching a probe to inquire into allegations that American luxury lingerie brand Victoria's Secret uses child labor in Africa to harvest cotton for its products.
A human-rights body of the United Nations has expressed its support for a Sikh man in France in his battle to wear his turban in defiance of French laws against religious headgear.
Joran van der Sloot, the Dutchman suspected in Natalee Holloway's disappearance, was sentenced to 28 years in prison Friday for murdering a Peruvian woman.
Lil' Wayne is coming out with a book this year about his time in jail.
American Honda Motor Co won a legal victory as a divided U.S. appeals court on Thursday said a nationwide lawsuit over a brake system used in some Acura RL vehicles should not have been certified as a class-action.
The man who arrested Mel Gibson for a DUI in 2006 tirade is will take his case to a jury, claiming he suffered workplace discrimination after he wouldn't remove the actor's anti-Semitic tirade from the police report.
How many photos do you think are taken of Pippa Middleton on a daily basis?
