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Savage killing, sex at heart of Ariz. murder trial
The photographs present a chilling portrait of sex and death. A nude Jodi Arias on Travis Alexander's bed. A naked Alexander in the shower.
Detective: Holmes played puppets with paper bags
It was just hours after a deadly Colorado theater shooting, and James Holmes was not acting like a man accused of methodically planning the attack and ...
TV-over-Internet service expands despite lawsuits
The Barry Diller-backed Internet company that challenged cable and satellite TV services by offering inexpensive live television online plans to ...
Mo. attorney general to retry man in farm slaying
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a man's murder conviction and life sentence in the 1990 slaying of a rural neighbor, but his ...
Judge: Army GI in WikiLeaks illegally punished
An Army private suspected of sending reams of classified documents to the secret-sharing WikiLeaks website was illegally punished at a Marine Corps ...
APNewsBreak: $5M paid to Iraqis over Abu Ghraib
A defense contractor whose subsidiary was accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to torture detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has paid ...
Records: Iowa murder suspect fantasized about rape
A 21-year-old Iowa man accused of killing his mother and abducting a woman after being released from prison last week underwent treatment as a ...
Mass. women at trial: Pregnancy drug caused cancer
Eli Lilly and Co. failed to test a drug's effect on fetuses before promoting it as a way to prevent miscarriages, a lawyer charged Tuesday in opening ...
Court seems skeptical about gov't extension
The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Tuesday about government claims that it should be allowed more time to sue some fund executives for securities ...
Fish story lands in NC's high court, $1M on line
About four hours after the fishing charter boat Citation left dock on the Outer Banks to compete in one of the country's richest deep-sea fishing ...
Winslet husband wins injunction over party pics
Kate Winslet's new husband won an injunction Tuesday in a British court to stop a tabloid newspaper publishing photos of him at a costume party.
France: 9 convicted for link to Uzbek terror group
A Paris court has convicted nine people for links to a militant group that the U.N. Security Council has described as an al-Qaida affiliate. The trial ...
2nd Winehouse inquest confirms alcohol death
Amy Winehouse died from accidental alcohol poisoning when she resumed drinking after a period of abstinence, a second coroner's inquest confirmed ...
Colo. shooting families listen to police testimony
There was plenty of horror in the courtroom as Aurora police officers gave detailed accounts of the grim scene after a gunman killed 12 and wounded ...
CA school slaying suspect found unfit for trial
A man accused of killing seven people at a small Northern California Christian college is not mentally fit for trial, a judge ruled before temporarily ...
Vietnam put on trial 14 activists
A court in central Vietnam has put on trial 14 activists accused of allegedly carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the communist government ...
Deal restores severance pay for military gays
Dozens of gay and lesbian former military service members who were discharged due to their homosexuality will receive the rest of their severance pay ...
Woman pleads guilty in 'total identity theft' case
An illegal immigrant accused of assuming the persona of a Texas teacher pleaded guilty Monday in a case that put a face on the growing crime of "total ...
Possible victims of 'Speed Freak Killers' sought
The FBI on Monday began the excavation of an abandoned well in Central California in a renewed search for possible victims of two men known as the ...
Laurence Fishburne granted restraining order
Laurence Fishburne has been granted a temporary restraining order against an ex-convict who claims to own the actor's home and went there on New ...
Calif. serial killer gets prison for NYC slayings
A California serial killer who left a trail of brutalized women's bodies in his wake was sentenced Monday in New York to an additional 25 years to ...
Church can't withhold names in Calif. priest files
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles must release the names of church leaders and pedophile priests identified in thousands of pages of ...
Hepburn house owner loses court fight in Conn.
A prominent New York City developer balked when he was ordered to shave a foot off the height of two 5-foot granite posts he had installed at the ...
Bank of America in mortgage claims settlement
Bank of America reached an $11.6 billion settlement with government mortgage agency Fannie Mae to settle claims resulting from mortgage-backed ...