The leader of a group of hackers who reportedly sent police SWAT teams to fictitious hostage situations in the homes of some 250 innocent people in 60 cities between 2002…
Posting a videotape on YouTube in which he waved an AK-47 assault rifle and taunted South Florida police has cost a convicted felon another six years in prison.
A New York lawyer was sentenced today to 25 years to life for arranging for a client’s husband to be murdered 18 years ago during a bitter divorce trial.
Jack Jordan, convicted of stalking Uma Thurman, was once a happy, easygoing boy who was a competitive swimmer with ambitions of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Individuals can’t constitutionally be imprisoned in Texas for failing to pay a debt. But because a legal fee represents more than mere money, a state appeals court has upheld a…
A famous fugitive for decades after the publicity surrounding the Watergate scandal helped make him a household name, Robert Vesco reportedly may be dead at age 71 or 72. But…
News media throughout the country have focused in recent years on the issue of substandard health care for prison inmates. Some 65 deaths annually in California, for instance, reportedly could…
Convicted earlier this month in a case concerning her operation of a Washington, D.C., prostitution ring that catered to nation’s political elite, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the woman known as the…
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