A Virginia woman who has faked having ovarian cancer since her twenties was arrested on Thursday on two misdemeanor counts of obtaining money by false pretenses, according to a Hanover County Sheriff's Office press release.
A mail bomb exploded at a tax collection office in Rome, Italy on Friday, injuring one.
Virginia Tech officials have lifted the campus lockdown and said they have recovered a weapon following the shooting death of a police officer and an unidentified man on Thursday.
The fatal 2008 crane collapse is heading to open court, prompted by worries by both prosecutors and families of victims.
A group of lawmakers opposed to two pending online piracy bills introduced their own proposal that would let the International Trade Commission handle foreign websites that traffic copyrighted material.
Jose Baez's victory in the Casey Anthony case in which he successfully defended Anthony against the murder charges of her two-year-old daughter Caylee is widely known. Baez made the headlines numerous times with Anthony's case and here is another update on him.This time around the spot light on him is because he is defending Gary Giordano, the only suspect in the disappearance of missing Maryland woman Robyn Gardner (35). Gradner went missing on 2 Aug this year from Baby beach, Aruba.
There is nothing more unromantic than performing background checks on a potential date, but tales of dating abuse continue to horrify us, prompting governments across the world to introduce controversial regulations which mandates criminal background checks for every user signing up with dating agencies. The potential for abuse in state regulation of dating agencies is huge, as people could demand confidential information of others without proper justification.
The Harlem man accused of planning to bomb government buildings in New York and New Jersey will have his day in court, just not yet. Prosecutors and defense attorneys have agreed to postpone having a grand jury weigh in on the case for the time being.
Two RIM employees were so drunk on a plane that the airline had to turn around and boot them off. The RIM employees were arrested and each pled guilty.
Judge Michael Pastor indicates Murray deserves a harsher sentence than four years in county jail
WASHINGTON (TheWrap.com) - The Stop Online Piracy Act might be stopped before it ever gets online, as yet another influential voice has come out against it.
Nearly three years into his Oval Office tenure, President Barack Obama issued his first commutation to a woman who has served 10 years of a 22-year sentence for cocaine distribution.
A bipartisan bill to combat online piracy is running into bipartisan opposition over the broad language in the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA.
More than 46000 deportations of the undocumented immigrant parents of U.S.-citizen children were carried out between January and June of 2011, according to an unreleased data obtained by Colorlines.com's publisher, the Applied Research Center.
Shelby Dasher was arraigned in St. Louis County on Thursday on the second-degree murder charge in connection with the death of her 1-year-old son Tyler Dasher whose body was found in a wooded area near his home. A judge entered a not guilty plea on her behalf and assigned the public defenders office to her case.
One of the individuals, who survived an early morning shootout on Tuesday where the New York Giants seen were partying, was a felon. He was convicted of manslaughter in 2004.
A federal appeals court threw out a conviction against former New York State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, but allowed prosecutors to get another chance at the powerful politician.
After pleading guilty to online solicitation of a minor, KHOU-TV reported that a 38-year-old woman from Katy, Texas, received a sentence of five years' probation on Friday.
Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav was sentenced to seven years in prison for rape and sexual harassment. The decision was made by Israel's Supreme Court, upholding a prior lower-court conviction.
Amanda Knox seems to have returned to her normal life in Seattle after being released from an Italian prison where she had spent four years.
Amanda Knox's relationship with Raffaele Sollecito is officially over, the Italian said in his first televised interview.
Michael Jackson's personal doctor was found guilty on Monday of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star's drug-related death in 2009 but may not spend much time in jail.
