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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.

Michelle Parker, a 33-year-old mother from Orlando, has gone missing since an episode of The People's Court which she appeared on aired Thursday.

Libya's prime minister-designate said on Monday he was ready to name a government to steer the country to its first fully democratic elections but gave no details of a line-up that may involve a delicate power balance in a fragile new state.

Rick Perry has become the third Republican presidential candidate, along with Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, to sign a marriage vow promoted by the Family Leader, a conservative Christian group in Iowa.

Justin Bieber reportedly took a DNA test in New Jersey on Friday to prove he is not the father of Mariah Yeater's baby.

The killing occurred when Sadia decided to return home in order to patch things up with her family.

Nísio Gomes, a tribal chief in Brazil, was murdered by masked gunmen on Friday.

Teddy Forstmann, the 71-year-old beau of Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi, died of brain cancer on Sunday.

The Supreme Court Friday tapped two lawyers to argue issues on health care reform law that put the Obama administration and the Affordable Care Act's critics on the same page.

After being blacklisted by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, troubled foreclosure firm Steven J. Baum PC announced on Monday that it would be closing.

A Canadian judge upheld an eviction order for protesters camped in downtown Toronto on Monday, giving the Occupy Toronto movement until midnight to vacate the park they've held for more than a month.

Should an aspiring attorney with a well-documented history of lying be banned from practicing law?