The United States and European Union called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down on Thursday and President Barack Obama accused him of torturing and slaughtering his own people in what U.N. officials said could be crimes against humanity.
A judge has called a surprise hearing for Friday concerning three men - known as the West Memphis Three - convicted of satanic killings in 1993 of three 8-year-old Cub Scouts in Arkansas.
The Georgetown basketball team got in a brawl with a professional Chinese basketball team.
A Kentucky man is suing a doctor for amputating his penis without consent during what was supposed to be a routine circumcision to relieve inflammation.
While no deal has been reached yet, Verizon workers left the sidewalks of the telecom company's headquarters and took their strike to the homes of Verizon's top executives, Chairman Ivan Seidenberg and Chief Executive Officer Lowell McAdam, this week.
It was a sweet court victory for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg when a federal judge dismissed claims against his namesake company Bloomberg LP for discriminating against pregnant women and new mothers.
A Mexican lawyer for American drug company Baxter International Inc. was caught on tape bribing a expert testifying against the pharmaceutical manufacturer in an ongoing lawsuit.
President Obama and family are headed to Blue Heron Farm on Martha's Vineyard for a 10-day vacation.
A basketball game between Georgetown's men's basketball team and a Chinese professional team ended at an abrupt halt after a massive brawl broke out on mid-court.
Actor Burt Reynolds may lose his home in foreclosure.
Wisconsin voters have gone through a summer of historic and bitter recall votes for state legislators -- the most in U.S. history -- at a cost of about $40 million in campaign spending.
Nicolette French, a friend of Jared Cano, the 17-year-old boy accused of planning an attack on a Florida high school, told MyFoxTampaBay.com that the suspect told her that he aspired to another Columbine. The girl described Cano as kind of off and said that he sporadically talked about news that there was another Columbine thing going on at Tampa Bay Tech, or one of those other schools, MyFoxTampaBay.com reported.
The California Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to review the 2009 murder conviction of music producer Phil Spector, turning down an appeal that had been filed by his attorneys.
Jose Baez, Casey Anthony's lead attorney, is under investigation by the Florida Bar Association.Wednesday, Anthony's lawyers appealed court to overrule an order requiring Anthony to return to Orlando to serve a year of supervised probation on a check fraud conviction.
Casey Anthony's attorney Jose Baez, who had successfully defended her against charges of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, is being investigated by the Florida bar.
About 27,000 iPhone users in South Korea have sued Apple, claiming the company collects data relating to their location and movement without consent.
Graphic smoking warnings violate first amendment, lawyers say.
A Florida couple, Pennie and Steve Lefkowitz, is out on bond, facing 47 counts of animal cruelty stemming from a June 7 seizure of nearly 700 cats on their Haven Acres Cat Sanctuary.
Catherine Greig, the girlfriend of former crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, was headed to federal court in Boston on Thursday for arraignment on charges of aiding her fugitive boyfriend.
Jerry Terrell Jackson set for execution by lethal injection.
The Arabic network?s Kabul bureau chief has been held in prison since August 10 after being detained in occupied West Bank.
About 27,000 South Koreans filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple over location tracking on iPhones and iPads.
