After South Carolina became the butt of jokes because of a decades-old law on the books that requires any group planning to overthrow the government to register its activities, lawmakers…
Victims of Bernard Madoff’s stunning Ponzi scheme argued that they should be reimbursed based on the balances shown in their investment statements for his purported hedge fund.
Demonstrators picketed their Greenwich Village home. Bullets came in the mail. Their father opened packages in the basement lest they contained explosives.
In a series of new investigations related to the prior conduct of a biology professor accused of shooting three colleagues to death and wounding three others at a faculty meeting…
Perhaps there are legitimate reasons for displaying iconic items used in horrific crimes, such as the tan Volkswagen Beetle in which notorious serial killer Ted Bundy reportedly abducted a number…
As lawyers argue about the intent of the drafters of the Constitution and judges mull the issue before deciding civil rights cases, a little-noticed phenomenon also has significant influence on…
In a find of a lifetime, researcher Lorianne Updike Toler discovered that papers she was examining were an early draft of the U.S. Constitution, in the handwriting of framer James…
A longtime suspect in the 1982 deaths of seven people in the Chicago area who ingested cyanide-laced Tylenol has turned over a DNA sample in response to an order to…
It probably comes as no surprise that the youth of today know little about the civil rights movement: the 1963 “children’s crusade” in Birmingham, Ala., or the desegregration of Little…
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