A Houston district attorney who resigned earlier this month, ending an investigation over his use of the office e-mail system, is out of a job but not out of a…
Sweeping new DNA searching techniques are leading authorities in the United Kingdom to violent criminals who have evaded detection for years. Among them: a man who raped a 36-year-old woman…
Unless you buy for cash, purchasing a home involves signing a mountain of mortgage paperwork detailing the terms of the loan. Ironically, this means that many buyers don’t understand even…
Following criticism last year over his lavish spending of city money on municipal legal perks, Miami’s city attorney has agreed to resign and plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of…
Seeking to coordinate state and federal efforts to reduce gun crime and control firearms trafficking, a group of East Coast cities and a federal agency have announced a new tactic…
A top immigration official admitted in congressional testimony yesterday that the U.S. has detained American citizens on mistaken claims that they are illegal immigrants, but says this is “extremely” rare.
In a highly unusual move, six members of a 12-person grand jury that indicted a Texas Supreme Court justice are suing the county prosecutor and the state for permission to…
Under federal law, creditors aren’t supposed to be able to seize social security payments, or disability or veterans benefits to pay a debt, and the government won’t send their checks…
Still reeling from last week’s murder of five citizens at a Kirkwood, Mo., municipal council meeting by a disgruntled litigant, officials in other St. Louis area municipalities are now discussing…
A child pornography case concerning illicit images allegedly stored in the defendant’s laptop computer has created what experts say is a novel Fifth Amendment issue. Can the defendant assert his…
An alleged child-care scam managed in part by a prison inmate, with the help of his wife, who works as a California government employee, reportedly has resulted in charges against…
Without admitting liability, Merck & Co. has agreed to pay a total of more than $650 million to plaintiffs including the federal government, 49 states and the District of Columbia,…
A day after CIA director Michael Hayden admitted in testimony before Congress that the Bush administration had used the so-called waterboarding technique on three al-Qaida suspects, a White House spokesman…
A federal judge has upheld the $2.9 million in compensatory damages awarded to the father of a fallen U.S. Marine whose funeral was picketed by a fringe Kansas church. But…