Judge skeptical of ex-senator's campaign cash use
A federal judge sounded skeptical Monday of former Sen. Larry Craig's claim that he properly used $217,000 in campaign funds for his legal defense ...
2 Italian soldiers won't return to India for trial
Two Italian marines facing murder charges in India won't be returned there for trial, the Italian Foreign Ministry said Monday. The sailors, who were ...

Oscar Pistorius "not suicidal" says his family
Olympian athlete Oscar Pistorius, charged with the Valentine's Day murder of his girlfriend, is not suicidal, his family announced Monday.
Correction: Blackfeet Hunts-Musicians story
In a story March 5 about three Blackfeet tribal members who pleaded guilty to holding illegal big-game hunts for country musicians, The Associated ...

South Africa holds bail hearing for charged police
A Mozambican taxi driver who was dragged from a South African police vehicle died from lack of oxygen and also suffered extensive head lacerations, ...
Rights group: UAE must investigate torture claims
A human rights group is calling on the United Arab Emirates to investigate allegations of torture that are being made by defendants on trial for ...
Trial of dead Russian whistleblower postponed
A Russian court on Monday postponed the trial of a dead lawyer who accused law-enforcement authorities of massive corruption and whose case sparked ...

Police: Delhi gang rape suspect kills self in jail
Police said a man on trial for the gang rape and fatal beating of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus committed suicide in an Indian jail Monday, but his ...

NYPD program patrols inside private buildings
Jay Victorino was standing outside his mother's apartment when he was grabbed by police, and he says if she hadn't come downstairs to identify him he ...

AP source: Obama poised to pick Perez for Labor
President Barack Obama is close to naming Thomas Perez, a civil rights official in the Justice Department, as his choice to head the Department of ...

Egyptian Soccer fans rampage over court verdicts
Egyptian soccer fans rampaged through the heart of Cairo on Saturday, furious about the acquittal of seven police officers while death sentences ...
Radical Muslim Abu Qatada sent to UK prison
A British judge ruled Saturday that radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada must remain in custody following his arrest for allegedly breaching his bail ...

Silvio Berlusconi remains hospitalized in Italy
Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi remained hospitalized Saturday with an eye inflammation, but court-appointed doctors said the condition was ...

2 Ohio football players face trial in rape case
Two high school football players go on trial this coming week on charges of raping a nearly passed-out-drunk 16-year-old girl during a night of ...

Protesters in Tokyo demand end to nuclear power
Thousands of people rallied in a Tokyo park Saturday, demanding an end to atomic power and vowing never to give up the fight, despite two years of ...

Akron guard pleads not guilty to drug charges
Akron's special season has hit a stunning snag. Zips starting point guard Alex Abreu pleaded not guilty to trafficking and possession of marijuana on ...
Court limits border searches of electronic devices
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Border Patrol agents must have reasonable suspicion of criminal activity before conducting comprehensive ...
Colo shooting suspect was hospitalized, restrained
Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes was taken from jail to the psychiatric ward of a hospital in November because he was considered a ...

Bin Laden's son-in-law: Pleads not guilty in NY
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, the charismatic al-Qaida spokesman, fundraiser and son-in-law to Osama bin Laden, is likely to have a vast trove of knowledge ...

Jury done for day at NYC cannibal-plot trial
A jury ended its first full day of deliberations on Friday without a verdict in the case of a New York City police officer accused of plotting to ...

NY widow convicted of charge servant was illegal
A hotelier's widow who had been accused of cheating an Indian household servant out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary and keeping her a ...

Police strikes in Egypt accelerate, adding turmoil
After months of battling with angry young protesters, many in Egypt's police forces say they have had enough. Strikes and protests spread around the ...

Defense seeks dismissal of Ind. fetal murder case
A lawyer for a woman charged with murdering her infant because she ate rat poison while pregnant says records clearly show that the Indiana law she's ...
Damages awarded in J&J's DePuy hip implant case
A jury on Friday awarded $8.3 million to a former prison guard who accused Johnson & Johnson's DePuy Orthopaedics subsidiary of knowingly marketing ...

Killer of 5 in Tenn. admits to 6th in Alabama
A man who killed his estranged wife and four other people in Tennessee in 2009 admitted Friday to killing a sixth person in north Alabama at the start ...