After spending Chrismas in jail, an American who sold his Massachusetts contracting business and went to Haiti to help with relief efforts after the earthquake there early this year has…
Shown slapping and punching her former fiance in front of their daughter on a September episode of the Teen Mom reality television show on MTV, a young woman is now…
A Michigan man is facing a felony trial for admittedly reading his wife’s e-mail in an effort to determine whether his suspicion that she might be having an affair was…
Going a step beyond the requirements of the new health-care overhaul bill adopted this year, President Barack Obama has asked the Office of Personnel Management to develop a policy offering…
After the Iowa Supreme Court last year struck down as unconstitutional a state statutory ban on gay marriage, opponents of same-sex marriage targeted the three…
The lawyer for a Columbia University professor accused of having sex with his adult daughter is questioning whether prosecuting incest is “intellectually consistent” with the Supreme Court case that struck…
The mother of a Texas lawyer reportedly shot to death over the weekend says she witnessed the murder-suicide by Arden Anne Specia-Spencer’s estranged husband.
Updated: A 52-year-old San Antonio lawyer and her 53-year-old estranged husband have been found dead in a field near a pickup and a firearm on real estate they owned near…
A suburban Chicago lawyer has sued her former fiancé, alleging he should reimburse her for nearly $100,000 she spent on a wedding that he called off just four days before…
A talking parrot provided what could be taken as chilling evidence in the case of a 60-year-old South Carolina woman charged with neglecting her 98-year-old mother, who was found on…
A New York lawyer has been sentenced to a 10- to 20-year prison term for operating a scam in which he stole some $300,000 from would-be adoptive parents by pretending…
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