A professor accused of arson at the school his son attended was also planning to kill students and administrators, authorities say.
Attorneys for Drew Peterson argued Tuesday that their client spent his career protecting the public and that murder accusations are groundless.
A federal magistrate judge has ruled that al Qaeda, the Taliban, Iran and Hezbollah should pay more than $6 billion to the families of victims killed on on 9/11.
A woman who faces a federal kidnapping charge pleaded guilty Friday in the case of a baby snatched from a New York hospital in 1987, court documents say.
More than 8 years after his third wife was found dead in a bathtub, Drew Peterson's murder trial will begin Tuesday.
The wife of George Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty to a perjury charge related to her allegedly lying about the family's finances, a court official says.
Conrad Murray wants a key piece of evidence tested which his lawyers argue could prove Michael Jackson injected himself with the drug that killed him.
A missing 12-year-old girl has been found safe after authorities discovered the bodies of the couple she lived with, Arkansas police said.
Services were held Saturday for four victims of the July 20 mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
Law enforcement official: Police have no evidence to suggest a man who allegedly threatened his workplace had acquired weapons illegally.
Authorities accuse a Florida puppeteer of conspiring to kidnap a child and possessing child pornography.
Kenneth James Bailey Jr. shot an innocent bystander dead and wounded two police officers before killing himself, police in Indiana said.
The New Jersey Attorney General announced criminal charges Friday against state troopers involved in the unauthorized high-speed State Police escort of a caravan of high-performance sports cars dubbed "Death Race 2012" by local media in March.
A Roman Catholic priest in Philadelphia was arrested on allegations of sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy in 1997, the city's district attorney announced Friday.
The Justice Department and Seattle announced a settlement Friday over long-simmering allegations of excessive force by police officers.
A Maryland man who was in the process of being fired was taken into custody Friday after allegedly calling himself a "joker."
Federal investigators are urging collectors and museums in the United States to scrutinize their stock for stolen antiquities
Boston police say they've apprehended a Red Sox employee who absconded earlier with the costume of the team's beloved mascot, Wally the Green Monster.
Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes was a patient of a University of Colorado psychiatrist before last week's attack.
An alleged victim of a hate crime in Nebraska spoke out publicly Thursday for the first time.
The Colorado shooting suspect's dazed demeanor during his first court appearance has given rise to a multitude of theories about his mental state.
The sophisticated boobytrap in the Colorado shooting suspect's home had 30 homemade grenade and gallons of gasoline, an official said.
Coloradans continued to put their lives back together Thursday after last week's deadly shooting rampage at a crowded movie theater.
More than 90 people in 30 states were arrested Thursday as federal agents cracked down on the designer synthetic drug industry, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced.
Three adults and two juveniles were arrested Wednesday for allegedly terrorizing a Jewish camp in Pennsylvania.
British Columbia police say a man wanted for allegedly riding a motorcycle at 186 mph, filming it and posting on YouTube is in custody.
District Attorney Carol Chambers is known for being tough and courting controversy. Now she finds herself prosecuting the Colorado cinema killings suspect.
Still grappling with the shooting at a Colorado movie theater, families of the victims must now embark on the mournful task of laying their loved ones to rest.
Attorney General Eric Holder will lead officials Tuesday in announcing a massive overhaul of the New Orleans Police Department.
A singer known as "Black Madam" has been charged with murder in the death of a British woman who was injected with silicone last year.
Three people who voiced threats during and after showings of the "The Dark Knight Rises" in New England and the West have been arrested, authorities said.
William Balfour will be sentenced Tuesday for killing three of Jennifer Hudson's family members unless an appeal a new trial is granted, officials say.
The highest-ranking Catholic Church cleric charged and convicted in the Philadelphia child sexual abuse trial was sentenced to three to six years in prison.
President Barack Obama offered comfort Sunday night to the survivors and the families of the 12 people killed in a mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado.
Georgia's Supreme Court halted Monday's scheduled execution of a convicted murderer to review changes to state death penalty procedure.
The man accused of opening fire in a movie theater in Colorado made his first court appearance Monday.
The highest-ranking Catholic Church cleric charged and convicted in the landmark Philadelphia child sexual abuse trial is scheduled for sentencing Tuesday.
McKayla Hicks sat in the courtroom Monday and stared at the man accused of a shooting spree that left her with a bullet in her jaw, killed a dozen people.
Jury selection began Monday in the murder trial of former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson, who is accused of killing his third wife.
Three masked men allegedly bound a woman and carved words into her skin, police in Lincoln, Nebraska say. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime.
An Air Force instructor convicted of rape and aggravated sexual assault against female recruits was handed a 20-year sentence on Saturday
The man police say opened fire inside a crowded Colorado movie theater may have been planning the attack for months, the local police chief told reporters.
A crowded theater offers an ideal location for a gunman to target dozens of victims, a weapons and security consultant said Friday.
An aspiring Colorado sports reporter who barely missed a deadly Toronto shooting last month was among those killed Friday in Colorado.
The suspect in a theater shooting during a Batman film Friday had colored his hair red and told police he was "the Joker," a source says.
A week after two young cousins went missing near a lake in Iowa, their disappearance is now being called an abduction, authorities said Friday.
The audio of police radio correspondence is crackly, but even through the police jargon a horrifying drama unfolds.
A heavily armed gunman opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, on Friday, July 20, killing at least 12 and wounding 38. Police arrested a suspect in theater's parking lot.
The man accused of murdering a Florida teenager pulled out of an interview with ABC after it rejected his conditions, his attorney said.
Attorneys gave opening statements in a civil rights trial against Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who bills himself as "America's toughest sheriff."
A former employee has been charged in connection with a hepatitis C outbreak at a New Hampshire hospital, a federal prosecutor says.
Authorities stopped draining a lake here on Thursday as authorities awaited FBI divers and sonar probes to help find two young cousins missing for nearly a week.
Philadelphia police arrest Carlos Figueroa-Fagot, accusing him of being the man who tried grab a 10-year-old girl in Philadelphia.
Federal agents raided City Hall in New Jersey's capital, one day after they swarmed the home of the mayor, his brother and a campaign supporter.
Worshippers at an Islamic center in Tennessee will have to wait a few more weeks before they can use their new mosque, officials said Thursday.
Undercover agents in Florida recovered what is believed to be a painting by Henri Matisse stolen from a Venezuelan museum nearly 10 years ago, the FBI said.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has announced a $10,000 reward for the capture of a man who attempted to abduct a 10-year-old girl while she was walking home from a store with her 2-year-old brother on Tuesday.
A Georgia girl fought off a man who grabbed her at Walmart, with police eventually catching a suspect they accuse of attempted kidnapping.
The Florida neighborhood watch volunteer at the heart of a firestorm over the Trayon Martin shooting gave his account of the incident.
A federal judge's ruling Wednesday cleared the way for a controversial mosque in Tennessee to open in time for the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
An Estonian man was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday for his role in stealing more than 240,000 credit card numbers.
Justice Antonin Scalia, known for his conservative arguments and pointed questions, is one of the Supreme Court's most polarizing figures.
A 32-year-old Idaho man has been charged after posting an ad on Craigslist seeking a man to rape his wife, a court affidavit says.
The mother of a missing Iowa girl thinks there is a chance she and her cousin were abducted and are not at the bottom of a lake where dogs have led searchers.
Doctors upgraded the medical conditions of four of the five people still hospitalized after a shooting in a bar in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the hospital announced.
Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy and ex-wife of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said a partial seizure is the cause of a Friday morning car crash. At a press conference on Tuesday, Kennedy also said the seizure might have been from a previous injury she suffered on the right side of her brain.
A fugitive tried to steal a plane plane in Utah but apparently committed suicide before getting airborne, a law enforcement official said.
A DNA link may signal a break in a 36-year-old investigation into the slaying of four children, the Oakland County, Michigan, prosecutor's office announced Tuesday.
Federal prosecutors have charged 48 people in a massive fraud that allegedly bought HIV medications and other prescription drugs from Medicaid recipients and sold them to unsuspecting buyers.
Authorities have charged a man with attempted murder after an early morning shooting at a bar in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, police said Tuesday.
A woman has accused George Zimmerman, the man charged in the fatal shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, of having sexually abused her for about a decade.
A 17-year-old student is allegedly at the center of a marijuana drug ring in Ohio that grossed $20,000 per month.
Sources: Three men now say they were sexually abused by ex-Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky as early as the 1970s.
Three-time baseball all-star Lenny Dykstra pleads guilty to bankruptcy fraud and other charges and now faces up to 20 years in prison.
Saying the judge had made disparaging remarks about their client's character, George Zimmerman's legal team asked Friday for Kenneth R. Lester Jr. to step down.
A man from Uzbekistan living in Alabama was sentenced Friday to almost 16 years in prison for threatening to kill President Barack Obama.
Doctors at Mississippi's sole abortion clinic are allowed to continue performing the procedure, a federal judge ruled Friday.
A federal grand jury has indicted two people for their alleged attempts to supply Iran with U.S.-materials for gas centrifuges to enrich uranium.
New York policeman Jose Ramos, previously accused of involvement with drug dealers, is now charged with plotting to kill a witness against him.
A video diary gives an eerie view into the planning process of a man police say murdered his wife and daughter and then killed himself.
George Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, was not a racist, witnesses told the FBI.
Javier A. Diaz Castro, 30, a former police officer of Puerto Rico, is sentenced to 40 years for providing security in drug deals in FBI's Operation Guard Shack. A federal judge sentenced Thursday a former police officer of Puerto Rico to 40 years in prison for his role in providing security for drug deals in an FBI sting in which he received $2,000 per transaction, authorities said.
The FBI and Justice Department are reviewing thousands of cases to find convictions based on faulty forensics, the department said Wednesday.
The parents of Robert Champion, the Florida A&M University drum major who died after a hazing incident in November in Orlando, have filed suit against the school's board of trustees, the company that owns the bus in which the abuse occurred and the bus driver.
DNA found on a chain used by Occupy Wall Street appears to be a "similar profile" to DNA recovered in the murder of a Julliard student.
A 34-year-old father is held by authorites in connection with the deaths of his three young daughters in River Falls, Wisconsin.
A firm has been temporarily blocked from using President Obama's "Rising Sun" campaign logo after his campaign committee filed a trademark infringement suit.
The man accused of plotting to use model airplanes loaded with explosives to attack the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol agreed Tuesday to a plea deal.
Fourteen mothers whose children were allegedly sexually abused by former Los Angeles teacher Mark Berndt of Miramonte Elementary sue the school district.
The death last month of a 53-year-old former investment banker who collapsed in an Arizona courtroom, minutes after a jury found him guilty of torching his palatial Phoenix estate, appears to have been a suicide, police said Tuesday.
Lawyers: Ex-Penn State President Graham Spanier says he was never told of any incident involving Jerry Sandusky that described sexual abuse.
Nina Rhodes-Hughes, who witnessed the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, says she has agreed to testify for Sirhan Sirhan's new defense team.
Louis Freeh's investigation at Penn State University appears to be examining Coach Joe Paterno's apparent preference for handling issues internally.
A California jury Thursday acquitted a man charged with assaulting a retired Catholic priest, in a case that prosecutors had described as a vigilante attack.
Authorities in Tempe, Arizona, dismantle a drug trafficking cell associated with Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, arresting 20 people and seizing three tons of pot.
Police are investigating the fatal shooting of four people in Ohio and believe the deaths are linked to a man who later killed himself.
Authorities in Ohio are investigating the deaths of four people they believe are connected to a gunman who later shot himself.
An Arizona woman got probation and 30 days in jail for her conviction for being complicit in the case of the still-missing Baby Gabriel.
George Zimmerman was released from jail on Friday after posting bond.
The judge overseeing the Trayvon Martin case in Florida set bond for George Zimmerman at $1 million Thursday.
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