Thousands protest Turkish coup plot trial
Turkish police used water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray on Monday to disperse thousands of people protesting outside a court house in support of ...
BP to call 1st witness at trial over Gulf spill
BP is scheduled to call its first witness at a trial designed to determine causes and assign blame for its April 2010 well blowout in the Gulf of ...

Cold case arrest prompts cross-country probe
When Los Angeles cold case detectives caught up with Samuel Little this past fall, he was living in a Christian shelter in Kentucky, his latest arrest ...
Charlotte Motor Speedway sues over $80M deal
The mogul behind one of the country's largest auto racing track operators is trying to resurrect a lawsuit claiming local officials reneged on an ...

Clinton office hostage taker escapes from NH unit
A man who took hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 escaped from a minimum-security correctional facility on ...
Timeline of the whereabouts of suspected strangler
Authorities have pieced together a 24-page timeline that tracks accused killer Samuel Little's activity across the country since his birth.

Armstrong asks court to dismiss SCA lawsuit
Lance Armstrong has asked a Texas court to dismiss a lawsuit by a Dallas promotions company seeking repayment of more than $12 million in bonuses paid ...

Egyptian court drops lawsuit to ban comedy show
A Cairo court on Saturday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Islamist lawyer demanding that a popular Egyptian satirist's TV show be banned for allegedly ...

Rutgers scandal grows, even as AD Pernetti resigns
The burgeoning basketball scandal has cost Rutgers more than a popular, young athletic director, an interim general counsel, two coaches and a lot of ...

Casino mogul argumentative on 2nd day on stand
Casino mogul and GOP super donor Sheldon Adelson presented a more cantankerous face during his second day of testimony in a breach of contract case ...
Suspects in Africa drug trade held in NY for trial
A former navy chief of the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau who is suspected of being a kingpin in the international cocaine trade was ...

Feds retain control of Calif. prison mental health
A federal judge on Friday rejected Gov. Jerry Brown's bid to regain state control of inmates' mental health care, citing systematic failures to reduce ...

Wesley Snipes leaves Pa. prison after tax sentence
Wesley Snipes has been released from a federal prison in Pennsylvania. Snipes was convicted in 2008 on tax charges. He was released Tuesday and placed ...
Calif. DA says Toyota to pay $16M settlement
A $16 million settlement over the safety recall of Toyota vehicles that were at risk for unintended acceleration and braking issues was announced ...
Federal lawsuit filed over Arkansas oil spill
Two women who live near an ExxonMobil pipeline that ruptured last week and spilled thousands of barrels of oil in central Arkansas filed a federal ...

Man gets prison for life in Alaska officer deaths
An Alaska man has been sentenced to prison for life in the 2010 shooting deaths of two Hoonah police officers, in a case that rocked the tiny ...
Judge deals blow to high-tech workers' lawsuit
A federal judge on Friday struck down an effort to form a class action lawsuit to go after Apple, Google and five other technology companies for ...

Judge making morning-after pill available to all
The morning-after pill might become as easy to buy as aspirin. In a scathing rebuke accusing the Obama administration of letting election-year ...

Michael Jackson civil jury pool grows to 60 people
A court has ended the first week of jury selection in a civil case over Michael Jackson's death with 60 potential jurors selected. Jury selection will ...

School faces new questions in Colorado massacre
New questions confronted the University of Colorado, Denver on Friday amid disclosures that a psychiatrist who treated theater shooting suspect James ...
Judge approves $2.43B Bank of America settlement
A New York judge has approved Bank of America's $2.43 billion settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by shareholders over the company's ...
Ohio Amish in beard-cutting case fight for release
Attorneys for a group of Amish men and women found guilty of hate crimes for cutting the hair and beards of fellow members of their faith are arguing ...
Miami wants Wright's testimony out of allegations
Former Miami quarterback Kyle Wright's testimony to the NCAA is part of the reason the Hurricanes want the case against their athletic department ...
Italy pardons US Air Force officer in CIA case
Italy's president on Friday pardoned a U.S. Air Force colonel convicted in absentia by Italian courts in the CIA-conducted abduction of an Egyptian ...
Tyson agrees to $4M penalty to resolve EPA case
Tyson Foods Inc. will pay roughly $4 million in civil penalties to settle allegations related to eight accidental anhydrous ammonia releases that ...