COURT

During its run, NBC's To Catch a Predator was typically in the position of stopping crime. But now the show has found itself in its own legal entanglement.

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has appointed Interior Minister Prince Nayef as the new crown prince, the royal court said in a statement issued Friday, signaling an orderly process of future succession in the world's largest oil exporter.

Anonymous, which opens tomorrow, wants to convince movie-goers that Shakespeare was a fraud. The movie's main success, however, is to illuminate how class-oriented and false the anti-Stratford argument- that Shakespeare's plays were written by somebody else- truly is, asserting as it does that a commoner could never be a genius.

Allen Iverson most likely has to choose a bad NBA team to play for if they end up giving him a shot to play again.

Sean Penn will direct his friend and method acting idol Robert De Niro in The Comedian.

Michael Jackson was getting large regular shots of a painkiller, along with Botox treatments, in the months before his death, a Los Angeles court heard on Thursday.

Parents who named their children ' Adolf Hitler' and ' Aryan Nation' merely have lost a protective custody battle, despite being cleared of child abuse claims.

In a one of the largest schemes in MTA history, people were arrested on Thursday and brought up on federal charges in which hundreds of the Long Island Rail Road workers made false disability claims costing an estimated $1 billion.

John Edwards won't get the charges dropped in the campaign finance case against him.

Bernard Madoff's family would be allowed to keep $82 million of other investors' money under a potential ruling that limited claims against New York Mets owners to two years.

Current and former service members in same-sex marriages argue the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional because it intrudes on states' authority over marriage laws.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the House Judiciary Committee that instead of enforcing the Alabama immigration Law, her department has been working with the Justice Department to challenge it.

Mayweather still faces a misdemeanor batter complaint.

Apple patent could be a weapon against Samsung and HTC, who Apple already has multiple claims against.

The soul singer Amy Winehouse, who passed away on July 23 at her London home at age of 27, died from over-drinking, a British coroner ruled Wednesday. Oct. 26. The alcohol in the singer's system was found five times of drunk driving limit.

British singer Amy Winehouse had more than five times the legal driving limit of alcohol in her blood when she died on July 23 aged 27, British media reported on Wednesday.

Mississippi is considering a constitutional amendment that would effectively ban all abortions, in the most direct state challenge yet to the Roe v. Wade precedent.

Moammar Gadhafi's fugitive son Saif al-Islam wants an aircraft to take him out of Libya's southern desert so that he can turn himself into The Hague war crimes court.

Brazil's sports minister resigned on Wednesday over a corruption scandal, reviving concern about President Dilma Rousseff's unstable coalition and the country's lagging preparations for the 2014 soccer World Cup.

The judge overseeing the Los Angeles Dodgers bankruptcy postponed four days of hearings that would have helped determine if the team remained under the control of owner Frank McCourt.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who once vowed to die fighting on Libyan soil, now wants to face international justice instead and avoid any chance of meeting the same grisly end as his father, Libyan officials said.