A Pittsburgh woman who says her urine was tested without her knowledge or consent by the hospital where she was delivering her baby has sued the facility for turning over…
Mar 12, 2014 10:50 PM CDT
Glenn Ford has been saying for 30 years that he is innocent in the 1983 slaying of a jeweler and watch repairman for whom he did yard work.
And now,…
Mar 11, 2014 10:30 PM CDT
Two New York City police unions that filed motions to intervene in the city’s stop-and-frisk litigation may use it as leverage in ongoing contract discussions, Capital…
Mar 10, 2014 8:32 PM CDT
Updated: Debo Adegbile’s nomination to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has been blocked amid controversy over the lawyer’s appellate work on behalf of former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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Mar 5, 2014 6:59 PM CST
Police in Tallahassee, Fla., have used a so-called stingray device 200 times to track suspects through their cellphones—not only without getting warrants but without telling the suspects or the courts…
Mar 3, 2014 7:55 PM CST
In the new, gentrified post-9/11 New York City, gone are the days when a visitor’s trip to Times Square might include aggressive panhandling, a mugging or an uncomfortable exchange with…
Mar 1, 2014 11:39 AM CST
Though many New Yorkers credited aggressive police tactics for a sharp reduction in street crime, policies like stop-and-frisk proved immensely unpopular in the city’s poorest precincts. In one eight-block area of Brooklyn, police made nearly 52,000 stops over a four-year period, resulting in a limited number of arrests. ©Kevin Downs/Demotix/Corbis
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Missouri was to use the anesthetic propofol to execute a serial killer but had to switch plans after an EU protest. AP Photo/Richard Vogel File
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Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant by Dominique C. Fabronius
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The Supreme Court held that it is cruel and unusual punishment for the government to execute a mentally retarded individual, but it never has explained how it is to be…
Feb 27, 2014 2:59 PM CST
A federal judge in Texas has struck down the state’s constitutional and statutory ban on same-sex marriage, agreeing with the plaintiffs that the ban violates their right to equal protection…
Feb 26, 2014 9:20 PM CST
Calling a junior high basketball coach’s short-hair rule for boys a violation of the constitutional right of equal protection under the law, a divided federal appeals court Monday reversed a…
Feb 24, 2014 11:35 PM CST
After news broke this week that a contractor was being sought by a Department of Homeland Security agency to create a computerized national database of information gathered by license-plate reading…
Feb 20, 2014 4:05 PM CST
A Georgia teen fatally shot by a police officer when he opened the front door of the family’s mobile home in Euharlee on Friday was holding a Wii remote, not…
Feb 19, 2014 9:15 PM CST