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The California Supreme Court declined to give local governments carte blanche to hike health premiums for retired workers, saying on Monday that retirees could have a right to such benefits in some circumstances.

The Los Angeles Dodgers bankruptcy case judge appointed a mediator to try and sort out the dispute between the baseball team and Fox Sports regarding the sale of the team's television telecast rights.

Michelle Parker, 32, mysteriously vanished last Thursday in Florida straight after her case appeared on the television show the people's court,' where she reported that she had been a victim of her ex fiancé's violent temper.

Despite mounting pressure from the U.S. and the European Union, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has insisted on keeping former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko imprisoned on a conviction of power abuse.

South Africa's parliament passed a bill on protecting state secrets on Tuesday despite criticism at home and abroad that it harks back to apartheid legislation and makes it easier for corrupt officials to conceal graft.

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor conceded on Tuesday that the captured son of Muammar Gaddafi may be tried in Libya rather than in The Hague, meaning he faces the death penalty if convicted.

Egyptians frustrated by army rule battled police in Cairo streets again on Tuesday as the military struggled to cope with a challenge to its authority that has jolted plans for the country's first free election in decades.

An art-loving federal judge doubled the prison sentence of career con artist after a portrait by Jean-Bapitiste-Camille Corot was found tossed in some bushes in the Upper East Side.

Saif-al Islam Gadhafi, the son of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, can and will be tried for crimes against humanity in Libya, International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo conceded on Tuesday.

U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., has introduced the first proposal directly inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Louis Freeh on Monday said he would head an independent investigation into the Penn State Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

An orchestra conductor is a lead plaintiff in a case challenging U.S. Congress' authority to remove celebrated works from the public domain.

Three Former Synthes Inc. officials Monday were sentenced to jail for the unapproved medical trials of a bone-cement drug in spinal surgeries that left three people dead.

An 8-year-old girl is the third person to die from wounds received during a mass shooting carried out by Mary Ann Holder in Guilford County on Sunday morning.

Wesley Snipes won't be leaving home with his American Express card anytime soon -- primarily because he's currently sitting in the slammer -- and that's probably a good thing.

The mother of missing Arizona girl Jhessye Shockley, 5, was arrested on Monday on suspicion of child abuse, police said.

A Southern California teenager who shot a gay classmate he believed was flirting with him entered a guilty plea on Monday to second-degree murder and has agreed to spend the next 21 years behind bars.

The California Supreme Court declined to give local governments carte blanche to hike health premiums for retired workers, saying on Monday that retirees could have a right to such benefits in some circumstances.

David Kugel, who started working at Bernie Madoff's firm from the 1970s until its 2008 demise, pled guilty to six-counts of bank and securities fraud.

British tabloid journalists competing ferociously to secure front-page news believed themselves untouchable in recent years, losing all sense of right and wrong and making some public figures afraid to leave home, an inquiry has heard.

The Manassas, Va. man allegedly lured a woman out of her car by flashing his TSA badge before violently sexually assaulting her. Rodmann was arrested for aggravated sexual battery, object sexual penetration, forcible sodomy and attempted abduction. Rodman's not the first TSA employee this year to be arrested for sex crimes. David Anderson was charged in September for lewd acts with a minor.