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BP agrees to pay $4.5B; 3 employees charged
A day of reckoning arrived for BP on Thursday as the oil giant agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the deadly Gulf of Mexico spill and pay ...
Girls: Convicted day care owner left babies alone
Two 7-year-old girls formerly cared for by a Texas woman convicted of murder after a fire at her home day care killed four children told jurors ...
Questions on sex scandal: Top officials testify
Top national security officials trudged to Capitol Hill on Thursday to grapple with fallout from the David Petraeus sex scandal as Defense Secretary ...
Former Texans punter sues stadium tenant over turf
Former Houston Texans punter Brett Hartmann has sued the county agency that operates Reliant Stadium, blaming "unsafe turf" for a possibly ...
Ohio drug defendant asks judge for 1 more joint
A judge's offer to allow an Ohio drug defendant the chance to stay out of prison if he'd give up marijuana might have just gone up in smoke.
Lawyer: Man in Patz case will plead not guilty
The man charged with killing a 6-year-old boy in 1979 made a false confession and will plead not guilty in a case that catalyzed the ...
In UK, Twitter, Facebook rants land some in jail
One teenager made offensive comments about a murdered child on Twitter. Another young man wrote on Facebook that British soldiers should "go to hell.
Strait-laced Singapore hit by teacher scandals
Their affair started with her giving him a copy of the mushy memoir "Eat, Pray, Love." It ended with the 32-year-old female teacher in Singapore ...
FDA seeks more authority amid meningitis outbreak
The head of the Food and Drug Administration asked Congress Wednesday for more authority to police pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly ...
Lawyers: Colo shooting suspect can't go to hearing
A court hearing for the man charged with the Colorado movie theater killings has been postponed after his attorneys said Wednesday that he had been ...
Witness: Day care owner concealed criminal history
A Texas woman convicted of murder for a fire that killed four children at her home day care lied in her application to run the business about having ...
Judge tosses anti-paparazzi counts in Bieber case
A judge dealt a blow Wednesday to a California law meant to crack down on reckless driving by paparazzi by saying the statute is overly broad and ...
Chicago's top cop: 'Code of silence' not tolerated
Just before the beating of a female bartender by an off-duty Chicago police officer persuaded him to end his own career, then-police Superintendent ...
Prosecutor: Embezzlement plea a warning to others
A federal prosecutor said Wednesday that a small-town Illinois bookkeeper's admission that she embezzled more than $50 million should serve as a ...
Teacher sues Calif. district over breastfeeding
A former California school teacher accuses school officials in a lawsuit of failing to accommodate her breastfeeding schedule. The Monterey Herald ...
LI couple sues Cablevision over storm credits
A Long Island couple is suing Cablevision, saying the cable company should be offering automatic credits to customers in areas that lost service due ...
Lawyers surrender tapes in Waffle House CEO suit
Lawyers turned over recordings Wednesday of Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers Jr. engaged in sexual acts that were made by a woman who alleges the executive ...
Lawyer sues Microsoft over Surface tablet storage
A California lawyer is suing Microsoft Corp., claiming the Surface tablet he bought doesn't have all the storage space the company advertised.
Man thought linked to huge art heist pleads guilty
A 76-year-old reputed Connecticut mobster pleaded guilty from his wheelchair Wednesday in a weapons and prescription drugs case that revealed the ...
Croatian minister gets prison term for fatal crash
Croatia's economy minister Radimir Cacic has resigned after being sentenced to prison for causing a traffic accident in Hungary in 2010 in which two ...
Sentence wraps up for Ohio woman with 'idiot' sign
A woman ordered to stand at the curb with an embarrassing sign as punishment for driving on the sidewalk past a stopped school bus skipped the ...
Preliminary hearing in Afghan massacre case ends
As Army officials weigh whether a case against a staff sergeant accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a pre-dawn rampage will proceed to a ...
Will Chicago act on verdict in cop beating trial?
Will the city act? That's the question many Chicagoans will be asking Wednesday — a day after the dramatic conclusion of a civil trial that stemmed ...
Attorneys seek new trial for teenage killer
When Cyntoia Brown was 16 years old she shot and killed a 43-year-old man who had picked her up for sex. Brown claims she was afraid of Johnny Allen, ...
Waffle House CEO: Sex charges false, 'blackmail'
The CEO of Waffle House said Tuesday that a former employee who claims he tried to force her to have sex actually was a participant in consensual sex ...