A Manhattan grand jury handed up a 14 count indictment against a Washington Heights doctor for orchestrating an elaborate scheme with patients to pretend they had HIV in order for him to get $700,000 in Medicaid funds.
Portuguese underwear model, Renato Seabra, 21, accused of castrating his 65 year old fashion journalist companion in January will likely seek an insanity defense, court documents show.
New York City can keep religious services out of its schools without violating free speech, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
Death is universal, but that doesn't make choosing it a universal right.
Jurors couldn't believe a word said by police officers accused of fixing traffic tickets for friends and loved ones when they cleared a former Bronx prosecutor on felony DWI charges, Thursday.
Jurors couldn't believe a word said by police officers accused of fixing traffic tickets for friends and loved ones when they cleared a former Bronx prosecutor on felony DWI charges, Thursday.
The man suspected of shooting Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006 has been arrested in Chechnya and is due to be brought to Moscow, the BBC reported.
President Barrack Obama honored the fallen soldiers in today's Memorial Day speech in Arlington National Cemetery. His speech remembered those who gave their life for America and also recognized the families and veterans of those beloved heroes. The country is at debt to the fallen heroes as President Obama's speech is presented below:
China's Supreme Court has ordered to impose harsher penalties, which include death sentence to people who have violated the food safety, as the government struggles to clean up the food supply.
Some 450 high-risk prisoners and over 1,000 state inmates with various offenses were freed as unsupervised parolee under a program created in January last year to ease overcrowding.
A Wisconsin judge struck down a law paring back most public employees unions' collective bargaining rights.
A federal judge's declaration Wednesday that Jared Loughner is unfit for trial will likely send the accused Arizona shooter into a treatment program aimed at rehabilitating him so he can be tried.
A federal judge decided that Jared Loughner, accused of killing six when he opening fire on a public appearance of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in Tucson, is not competent to stand trial.
A federal judge's declaration Wednesday that Jared Loughner is unfit for trial will likely send the accused Arizona shooter into a treatment program aimed at rehabilitating him so he can be tried.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie slammed a state Supreme Court ruling ordering him to restore $500 million in education funding, saying the court was exceeding its authority and forcing the state to spend foolishly.
Crowded prisons are not merely a Third World phenomenon as a recent U.S Court ruling cited California prisons for violating the U.S. constitution by packing too many prisoners into already overcrowded cells.
A former editor of one Brazil's biggest newspapers has been ordered jailing by the top court of the country for murdering his ex-girlfriend 11 years ago.
In what is being billed as one of the biggest prison release orders in history, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered California government to reduce its prison population by nearly 33,000 over a period of two years to avoid serious constitutional violations.
Yesterday's Supreme Court verdict affirming that California must reduce its exploding prison population by over 30,000 inmates raises a pressing question: where will they go?
Apple's letter to Lodsys, asking that it cease threatening app developers with litigation.
The Supreme Court today upheld a California court's mandate to reduce the state's prison population by some 32,000 inmates, saying deplorable conditions in overcrowded prisons are unconstitutional.
In a hearing at New York's Supreme Court, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was granted bail and released from the Rikers Island prison facility on Thursday.
