A physician associated with a company that provides health care for Mississippi prisoners has been indicted on bribery charges arising from a scandal involving the state's former corrections commissioner.
An elderly Pennsylvania woman convicted of poisoning her son's girlfriend with antifreeze leaving her near death deserves a new trial because of ineffective legal counsel, a judge has ruled.
Authorities say an inmate at a Florida courthouse managed to get a jail deputy's handcuff key four days after a murder suspect escaped from the same building.
A man who stopped by his newly purchased Southern California home expecting to find its previous owners packing up instead stumbled on one of them dead in a bedroom.
Former Baylor defensive end Shawn Oakman has been indicted by a Texas grand jury on a charge of sexually assaulting a woman at his apartment earlier this year.
Secretary of State John Kerry is calling on Turkey to provide hard evidence that a U.S.-based cleric was behind a foiled coup attempt last weekend if it wants him extradited.
The United States moved Wednesday to recover more than $1 billion that federal officials say was stolen from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund and that was used for high-end real estate, fancy artwork and production of the Hollywood film, "The Wolf of Wall Street."
The Broward County Police Benevolent Association in Florida is calling for a national boycott of Sunoco after a clerk allegedly refused service to a uniformed police officer on Sunday.
A Jacksonville circuit judge is being investigated over allegations that he has made demeaning comments about women and said black people should "go back to Africa." The Judicial Qualifications Commission late Tuesday told the state Supreme Court that probable cause exists to investigate Circuit Judge Mark Hulsey for violating misconduct rules.
A 13-year-old girl suspected in a shooting that critically wounded a Korean couple in their 70s turned herself in hours later, police told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday.
