
Lohan probation in jeopardy after rehab departure
Lindsay Lohan's whereabouts were unknown Thursday hours after her attorney told a judge that the troubled actress had checked into a rehab facility ...

Prosecutor calls Jodi Arias a manipulative liar
Jodi Arias wept and looked away from jurors Thursday as the prosecutor in her murder trial concluded closing arguments by displaying a gruesome photo ...

Testimony: Family tried intervention for Jackson
Michael Jackson's mother sat in court Thursday as a police detective testified that she told him the family had tried drug interventions for the ...

APNewsBreak: Judge axes federal suit over lake
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Los Angeles against air quality regulators who are requiring the city to do more to control dust on ...

Arrest made in Okla. cold case dating to 1992
Oklahoma authorities said Thursday that bodies found last month in a hole initially dug for a septic tank were likely those of three females missing ...

NY judge to OK Empire State Building settlement
A Manhattan judge on Thursday backed a $55 million settlement in a court battle over the Empire State Building, effectively clearing the way for a ...
Winans scion fails to get fraud sentence delayed
A judge won't extend the deadline for Michael Winans Jr. to report to federal prison for financial fraud. Winans is a member of the gospel music ...
Jurors hear voicemail saying Jackson was sick
Five days before Michael Jackson died, his manager called the singer's doctor, told him Jackson was sick, and implored him to have blood tests done, ...

Gadhafi's son appears in Libya court; case delayed
Wearing a sky-blue safari suit and a pair of sandals, the imprisoned son of slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi made his second court appearance this year ...

Juror: Landmark EEOC verdict in Iowa sends message
A juror says she wanted to send a message by supporting a historic $240 million verdict for 32 mentally disabled men who faced decades of abuse by a ...
Attorney general out of Va. ex-mansion chef case
A judge has granted Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's request to withdraw from the politically charged embezzlement case against a former Virginia ...
Lebanon: Main suspect in 2011 kidnapping arrested
Security forces have arrested the main suspect in the 2011 kidnapping of seven Estonian tourists and the more recent abduction of a Lebanese citizen ...

Activist to be tried for insulting Egypt president
Prominent Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma was arrested and immediately referred to trial for allegedly insulting the country's president in a TV ...

For 3, bomb suspect's friendship leads to charges
Just hours before one of the Boston Marathon suspects and his brother allegedly gunned down a campus police officer, authorities say he exchanged a ...
British soap opera star denies child sex charges
A longtime star of British soap opera "Coronation Street" has vowed to fight charges he raped a 15-year-old girl in 1967. William Roache said in a ...

Witherspoon: I panicked the night of my arrest
Actress Reese Witherspoon recalls that she panicked and said "crazy things" the night she was arrested in Atlanta on a disorderly conduct charge.
Kenya court: 2 Iranians guilty of terror plot
Two Iranian nationals, whom officials accused of planning to attack Western targets inside Kenya, were found guilty Thursday by a Kenyan court of ...

Violence mars May Day rally in Seattle
Supporters of immigration reform rallied across the nation on May Day in lively gatherings that were marred by a burst of violence in Seattle, where ...
'Billy the Exterminator' drug charge: guilty plea
William "Billy" Bretherton, star of the A&E reality TV show "Billy the Exterminator," has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of possessing ...

North Korea sentences American to 15 years' labor
An American detained for nearly six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of labor for crimes against the state, the North's state ...

Ohio executes man who killed, raped 6-month-old
One family wept loudly and another family cheered Wednesday as a man was executed for killing a 6-month-old as he raped her. Steve Smith, 46, was ...
Papua New Guinea proposes firing-squad executions
Following a number of high-profile killings related to sorcery, Papua New Guinea's government is pushing for the South Pacific nation's first ...

Justice Department appeals morning-after case
The Obama administration on Wednesday appealed a federal judge's order to lift all age limits on who can buy morning-after birth control pills without ...
Navy charges 2 in deaths of 2 divers at Md. pond
Two members of a Virginia-based Navy dive unit face military criminal charges of involuntary manslaughter and dereliction of duty in the February ...
US: Women in NY, NJ forced into sex 25 times a day
Federal prosecutors have charged 13 people in a sex slave ring they say forced young Mexican women into prostitution in New York and New Jersey.