A Massachusetts teen is on trial after prosecutors say his texting while driving caused a crash that led to the death of a 55-year-old man.
A rundown of the exact charges against former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards
A Maine police spokesman said Thursday "there's nothing we have found that leads us to believe" that missing toddler Ayla Reynolds is alive.
Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student convicted of bias intimidation, is expected to head to jail Thursday.
Richmond-based SunTrust Mortgage Inc. has agreed to pay $21 million to resolve a Justice Department lawsuit which alleged that during the boom years prior to the financial meltdown SunTrust discriminated against African-American and Hispanic borrowers.
Brian Banks was on "Cloud 10" Friday, his first full day of exoneration for a crime he did not commit.
Companies that made and set up FEMA trailers after Gulf hurricanes have agreed to a nearly $43 million settlement with former residents.
Three New Jersey teenagers are charged in what authorities describe as the bullying of a 15-year-old student who later committed suicide.
Seventeen people were arrested in Philadelphia in a multimillion dollar drug bust, with the help of a member of one of the world's largest drug cartels, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.
Relatives of the man charged in the murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz say the man moved back to New Jersey in 1979, after Etan vanished.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said authorities have not yet decided over whether to renew their search for the Etan Patz's remains.
A Virginia man who allegedly made comments suggesting President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder should be removed from office by violent means was arrested Wednesday and charged with illegally obtaining a fully automatic AK-47.
A federal bankruptcy judge gives audio tapes to Los Angeles police in its probe of unsolved killings involving Charles Manson's "family."
Arkansas authorities arrested the mother of a murder suspect, saying she helped him and another murder suspect escape jail by sneaking in hacksaw blades.
Dharun Ravi is expected to appear in court Wednesday, one day after he apologized for his behavior and said he plans to submit to his impending jail sentence.
Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student convicted of bias intimidation, appeared in court, one day after he apologized for spying on his roommate.
A relative of Pedro Hernandez told police in the 1980s that Hernandez said he had killed a boy, the relative said. Hernandez is a suspect in the Etan Patz death
A 68-year-old California inmate on death row in San Quentin State Prison was found dead hanging in his cell, authorities said Tuesday.
Jerry Sandusky, Penn State's ex coach who is facing child rape charges, is set to go to trial next week after a judge on denied his attorneys' bid for a delay.
Two men were arraigned in connection with an attack on a Michigan woman who gave birth days after being abducted, set afire and shot in the back, police said.
Jerry Sandusky, the ex-Penn State coach facing child rape charges, was in a judge's chambers for a closed-door hearing Tuesday, a Pennsylvania official said.
Officials said Tuesday that "spotty" communications over 15 hours preceded a 44-year-old man's fatal fall from a 15-story crane at Southern Methodist University
Jurors were in their seventh day of deliberation Tuesday in the corruption trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards.
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a pregnant woman who was subjected to three Taser stun gun shocks by law officers.
Two suspects awaiting trial on murder charges used a hacksaw to escape from an Arkansas jail early Monday, authorities said.
A N.J. pastor said Pedro Hernandez's wife was "shell-shocked" when she came to see him, after learning her husband was suspected of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz.
A day after Pedro Hernandez was charged in the killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz, prosecutors are now faced with task of corroborating his confession
Pedro Hernandez was arraigned early Friday evening on a second-degree charge tied to the case of Etan Patz.
A man looking for someone he believed owed him money took and freed hostages in Valparaiso, Indiana, before shooting himself, police said.
Deliberating jurors in corruption trial of John Edwards are dismissed for Memorial Day weekend.
Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion walked into the darkness of Bus C in a parking lot in Orlando, Florida, last fall in the hope of gaining respect from his fellow band members.
Pedro Hernandez was arrested Thursday in connection with Etan Patz's murder.
A Texas man convicted of seeking now-deceased Yemeni-based cleric Anwar al-Awlaki's advice about raising money for jihadists has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
George Zimmerman gave a scathing review of the Sanford Police Department when he spoke at a public meeting in January 2011.
Florida prosecutors and George Zimmerman's defense attorney want certain evidence -- including e-mails, cell phone records and statements -- sealed until his trial in the death of Trayvon Martin.
More than 30 years ago, 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished from a Manhattan street on his way to a school bus stop. His parents never saw him again.
A Justice Department report finds that two of the prosecutors in the corruption case against Sen. Ted Stevens were guilty of "reckless professional misconduct"
NYPD didn't violate New Jersey laws when they carried out surveillance of Muslim business, mosques and student groups, the New Jersey Attorney General said
A federal judge wants issues a stern order that he be allowed to see secret tapes showing alleged mistreatment of Guantanamo inmates.
Jurors in former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' corruption trial asked to review all exhibits in the case Thursday.
A federal judge approved the extradition to Germany of the mother of a man suspected of setting dozens of fires in Los Angeles over the New Year holidays.
The teenager charged with killing three classmates at his Ohio school and wounding three more will be tried as an adult, a judge ruled Thursday.
A woman who pretended to have cancer to pay for a wedding and honeymoon has been ordered to give back thousands of dollars she received from sympathetic donors.
News that New York police have a man is in custody who has implicated himself in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz is the latest twist in a long-running case.
George Zimmerman gave a scathing review of the Sanford Police Department when he spoke at a public meeting in January 2011.
A Florida A&M University student who died after a hazing decided to go through with the rite in order to earn respect, band members said.
The jury in former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' corruption trial finished its fourth day of deliberations Wednesday without a verdict.
What led to African-American teenager Trayvon Martin's death became clearer on Thursday, with the release of new information.
The charge is rather routine -- an Iowa man was arrested over the weekend, accused of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, according to a police report. What makes this case unusual are the passengers that police in Dubuque say were with him: a parrot on his shoulder and a zebra in the back seat.
A 19-year-old man was arrested Tuesday on charges stemming from violence that followed the Oklahoma City Thunder's playoff victory over the L.A. Lakers.
Gary Giordano, held last year in Aruba for nearly four months in the disappearance of a woman traveling with him, is charged with indecent exposure in Maryland.
Two Tennessee women accused of helping Adam Mayes in the kidnapping of Jo Ann Bain and her daughters appeared in court Tuesday.
The jury in former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' corruption trial ended its third day of deliberations Tuesday with no verdict reached.
Guards at an Alabama women's prison sexually abused female inmates for years, a nonprofit group said in a complaint to the Justice Dept.
Forensic evidence found on property belonging to a missing California teenager led authorities to a man suspected of kidnapping and killing her, authorities said Tuesday.
Prosecutors will appeal a 30-day jail sentence handed down Monday against Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student convicted of spying on his gay roommate.
The jury in former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' corruption trial ended a second day of deliberations without a verdict Monday.
A mother of twins born 18 months after the death of the biological father lost her Supreme Court appeal Monday, and the children are not eligible for survival benefits under Social Security.
California prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a former Marine charged killing four homeless men and a mother and her son.
The Supreme Court said Monday that it will tackle a national security and privacy dispute involving the government's little-known foreign surveillance program.
A judge Monday denied a request to postpone the trial of a former Penn State assistant football coach on child sex assault charges.
An undercover video shows horses being struck with sticks and subjected to "soring," an illegal method of inducing high-stepping gait.
Trayvon Martin's girlfriend heard Martin say "get off, get off" before his call ended and he was killed, according to a recording released Friday.
Prosecutors laid out graphic details in the case against Jerry Sandusky, the ex-Penn State coach accused of sexually assaulting children.
The suburban Chicago husband sought in the stabbing death of his new bride in a cocktail dress was heading to Mexico, where his parents live, the FBI said.
The suspect in the shooting deaths of two motorists in Mississippi will be charged with capital murder on Friday, a police spokesman said.
The jury in the John Edwards trial ended its first day of deliberations Friday without reaching a verdict.
A divided federal appeals court in Washington has upheld a key enforcement provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.
A judge ordered a singer known as "Black Madam" to stand trial for illegal cosmetic procedures, including buttocks enhancements.
Police urged prosecutors to arrest George Zimmerman after arguing his killing of Trayvon Martin was "ultimately avoidable," new info out Thursday shows.
Mississippi authorities are questioning a man suspected of impersonating a police officer to determine whether he is involved in the killings of two motorists.
An Arizona jury convicted Tammi Smith of forgery and conspiracy charges Thursday in the disappearance of the child known as "Baby Gabriel."
A medical report by George Zimmerman's family doctor shows that the neighborhood watch volunteer was diagnosed with a fractured nose.
The jury will begin deliberating Friday morning in the corruption trial of John Edwards, after his closing arguments concluded Thursday afternoon.
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly detailed changes Thursday to the department's much-criticized "stop, question and frisk" policy.
Authorities have busted a luxury-vehicle theft ring that took orders from clients in Africa and then stole the cars from New York City streets.
Federal agents have been stymied in their long search for a man who mails envelopes containing white powder and usually a message of some kind.
Experts say the killings of four Florida siblings at the hands of what authorities say was their mother is an "almost unheard of" case.
John Edwards' lawyers rested their case Wednesday without calling the former Democratic presidential candidate's ex-mistress to testify at his corruption trial.
Estrella Carrera was found dead from mutiple stab wounds two days after she married Arnoldo Jimenez in Chicago. Police say he is the prime suspect.
The City of Fullerton, California, has reached a $1 million settlement with the mother of a homeless man who died after police beat him.
Police are looking for the husband of a bride whose body was found stabbed to death in her bathtub. She was still in the dress she wore to her reception.
Prosecutors release a summary of evidence in the case against neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Trayvon Martin's death.
A man controversially pardoned by Mississippi's outgoing governor is now charged with driving drunk and causing an accident that killed an 18-year-old girl.
A former adviser testifies John Edwards was surprised to learn about donations from Virginia heiress.
A Nigerian man who supervised more than 30 private security guards at Newark-Liberty International Airport pleaded not guilty Tuesday to identity theft
A third person was charged with murder Tuesday in the California death of a deployed Marine's wife, Brittany Killgore, 22, said San Diego County authorities.
Someone who may be posing as a police officer is pulling cars over on Mississippi highways and then shooting drivers dead, authorities said.
A former supervisory FBI agent in Carmel, Indiana, has been arrested and jailed on child pornography charges.
A Florida mother shot her four children early Tuesday morning before turning the gun on herself at her home in Port St. John, police said.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the IMF, is filing a countersuit for at least $1 million against the maid who accused him of sexual assault.
A trio of siblings, who have already been convicted for part of an alleged multistate crime spree, are scheduled to be in a south Georgia courtroom Tuesday.
After weeks of hearing from prosecutors, jurors in the corruption trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards heard Monday from his defense team.
A lawyer for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia says that church officials lied to him about a hidden list of 35 priests suspected of sexually abusing children.
Ann Pettway, a woman who admitted to stealing an infant from a Manhattan hospital in 1987, is expected to be sentenced Monday.
Johannes Mehserle, a former Bay Area transit police officer, is appealing his involuntary manslaughter conviction for the killing of 22-year-old Oscar Grant.
A Chicago jury has found William Balfour, Jennifer Hudson's former brother-in-law, guilty of three counts of murder.
Authorities: Girls 'within inches' of kidnapper Adam Mayes, who turned gun on himself
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