Lawsuit: Transgender teen strip-searched at airport
A North Carolina woman is suing the Transportation Security Administration, saying her transgender teenager was ordered to undergo a strip-search…
Court upholds death sentence for church shooter Dylann Roof
A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and death sentence of a man on federal death row for the…
Feds: $31M trip-and-fall scam used homeless people as pawns
Authorities say they’ve taken down a criminal racket in which corrupt lawyers and doctors used hundreds of desperate people, including…
Tampa teenager accused in Twitter hack pleads not guilty
A Florida teen identified as the mastermind of scheme that gained control of Twitter accounts of politicians, celebrities and technology…
Judge: ‘Discriminatory’ to deny Puerto Rico access to US aid
A federal judge has ruled that it is unconstitutional to deny Puerto Ricans living in the U.S. territory access to…
Ruling renews fairness debate in Boston Marathon bomber case
An appeals court ruling overturning the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has raised familiar questions about whether…
ProPublica posts NYPD records, bypassing judge’s blockade
A news website has published a database containing complaint information for thousands of New York City police officers days after…
Court: Judge wrong to dismiss complaint against Facebook
The New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled that a judge was wrong to dismiss a cafe owner’s complaint against Facebook…
NYPD officer charged in swift test of state’s chokehold ban
A New York City police officer who was suspended after putting a man in what authorities said was a banned…
DA: Walmart mass shooting suspect will face new charges
Prosecutors say the man accused of killing 22 people and wounding two dozen more at a Walmart in Texas is…
Pussy Riot member sentenced to 15 days in Russia
Russian political activist Pytor Verzilov and member of the Pussy Riot protest group has been sentenced to 15 days in…
Miami mom pleads not guilty to drowning son in canal
A Miami woman accused of drowning her 9-year-old autistic son in a canal has pleaded not guilty to murder charges…
Fired Atlanta officers file suit against mayor, police chief
Two police officers who were fired after video showed them using stun guns on a couple of college students during…
2 men say hospital switched them at birth 80 years ago
Two men who believe they were switched at birth nearly 80 years ago are suing a Roman Catholic diocese in…
2 accused in ex-Nissan boss escape scheme fight extradition
A former Green Beret and his son accused of smuggling ex-Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan in…
Virginia city removes 176-year-old slave auction block
A 176-year-old slave auction block has been removed from a Virginia city’s downtown June 5, 2020, 3:09 PM 2 min…
German farmer jailed for drowning wife in liquid manure
A 55-year-old farmer in Germany has been convicted of drowning his wife in liquid manure May 20, 2020, 2:51 PM…
Doctor accused of misdiagnosing epilepsy gives up license
A Detroit-area doctor accused of misdiagnosing epilepsy in approximately 250 children has surrendered his medical license to settle a complaint…
Trump administration asks court to toss lawsuit over ERA
The Trump administration has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by three Democratic state attorneys general seeking…
Woman arraigned in killing of security guard over virus mask
A 45-year-old Michigan woman has appeared in court in the fatal shooting of a store security guard who refused to…
California sues Uber, Lyft over alleged labor law violations
California is suing ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, alleging they misclassified their drivers as independent contractors under the state’s new…
Blue Bell pleads in ice cream listeria case; ex-CEO charged
Federal prosecutors say a Texas ice cream company has pleaded guilty to distributing contaminated goods and its former CEO has…
Court: Proof of citizenship for voter registration unlawful
A federal appeals court panel has ruled that a Kansas law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is…
Criminal records shut small biz owners out of aid program
WASHINGTON — Damon West was hoping the government’s coronavirus rescue package for small business owners would help replace the income…
Tribes sue over distribution of coronavirus relief funding
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Several Native American tribes sued the federal government Friday, seeking to keep any of the $8 billion…
Workers sue McDonald’s over harassment at Florida stores
Two McDonald’s workers in Florida are filing a $500 million class action lawsuit against the company, claiming a “systemic sexual…
ACLU seeks release of federal prison inmates where 5 died
A class-action lawsuit filed Monday seeks the release of hundreds of high-risk inmates at a federal lockup in Louisiana where…
Australian court dismisses cardinal’s sex abuse convictions
Australia’s highest court has dismissed the convictions of the most senior Catholic found guilty of child sex abuse By ROD…
Jury finds 3 liable for about $10M in Medicare fraud
A federal jury hearing a whistleblower lawsuit has found that a Mississippi hospital owner cheated Medicare out of nearly $11…
A hospitalized Weinstein ‘has not given up,’ his lawyer says
Harvey Weinstein is in the hospital with the next chapter of his legal saga in limbo By TOM HAYS Associated…
Lawyer says Durst found body of slain friend, will testify
Robert Durst’s defense lawyer said Tuesday that the real estate heir did not kill his best friend, but found her…
Mother sues hospital over drug test that led to abuse probe
A mother sued a Pittsburgh hospital Wednesday, saying it collected and tested her urine for drugs without her consent while…
Suit: Website sold ammo to underage accused Texas shooter
A lawsuit alleges that a teenager accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school in 2018 was…
Parents sue after daughters’ bodies switched after car crash
The parents of two teenagers killed in a car crash say their bodies were misidentified and switched By CURT ANDERSON…
Missing toddler’s mother denied request for lowered bond
A missing child’s mother who is accused of lying to authorities has been denied a bond reduction March 4, 2020,…
Court sides with family of man shot by police in Kansas
A federal appeals court has ruled that jurors should be allowed to decide whether a white police officer in Kansas…
US appeals court upholds Trump rules involving abortions
A U.S. appeals court has upheld Trump administration rules imposing more hurdles for women seeking abortions By GENE JOHNSON Associated…
Men hire lawyer over alleged abuse by U. of Michigan doctor
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Several men alleging sexual abuse by a deceased University of Michigan doctor have retained a California…
MIT to caption online videos after discrimination lawsuit
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has agreed to make its website and online educational videos more accessible to people who…
Televangelist, ex-pastor settle lawsuit alleging sex abuse
A confidential settlement has been reached in a former Ohio megachurch pastor’s lawsuit alleging televangelist Ernest Angley sexually abused and…
Judge: City can remove 176-year-old slave auction block
A judge has ruled that officials in a Virginia city have the authority to approve the removal of a 176-year-old…
Man gets 1 year in case of dog left in cage with tide rising
A New Jersey man has been sentenced to a year in prison on an animal cruelty conviction after authorities said…
Feds: Florida doctor stole $26M to fund political ambition
Federal authorities have accused a Florida vascular surgeon of bilking the government and health insurers of more than $26 million…
Missouri dad sues over crash that killed 3 of his children
A father has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the deaths of three of his children last year in a…
Girls sue to block participation of transgender athletes
The families of three female high school runners have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block transgender athletes in Connecticut…
Avenatti seeks to limit questioning in Nike extortion trial
Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti wants to limit the questions he would face if he decides to testify about allegations he…
ICE sued over treatment of 5-year-old with head injury
The mother of a 5-year-old Guatemalan boy has sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the medical care he has…
ACLU sues ICE over search warrants in Dallas-area raid
The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas is suing the U.S. government over a raid near Dallas where immigration officials…
Dragon Con co-founder reaches plea deal in hacking case
A co-founder of Dragon Con has reached a plea deal in a case that accused him and three others of…
Brother of Manchester Arena bomber goes on trial for murder
The younger brother of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester has gone…
Iran to execute alleged spy who gave nuclear secrets to CIA
Iran says its top court has confirmed a death sentence for an Iranian man convicted of spying for the CIA…
Court raises sentence for banker who smuggled a Picasso
A Spanish court has raised the sentence against a former bank president found guilty of trying to smuggle a Pablo…
Priest gets 60 days in jail for bubble-wrapping boy
A Michigan priest accused of wrapping a teenager in bubble wrap has been sentenced to 60 days in jail By…
‘I’m being raped’: Weinstein accuser details alleged assault
NEW YORK — As she tried to fight off Harvey Weinstein’s advances, Mimi Haleyi told him “no, no, no” before…
Florida ex-mayor gets 4+ years in prison for charity fraud
The former mayor of a Florida city has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for defrauding a…
Ex-Texas nurse pleads guilty in 1981 death of 11-month-old
A former Texas nurse suspected in the killing of dozens of children has pleaded guilty to the 1981 death of…