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Workers who want to report they've been underpaid or mistreated on the job are getting stronger protection against retaliation by their employers under a new state law that goes into effect this week.

The Alberta government and local police are targeting dial-a-doper drug operations in Edmonton under a new law that allows the province to seize criminal property and disrupt gang business, Alberta's Justice Minister Alison Redford said Thursday.

This undated photo provided by Jim Sitton via WPTV shows Makayla Sitton, 6. Four people including a child in bed were shot to death during a family Thanksgiving gathering Thursday night, Nov.

Reporting from London - Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Dublin engaged in a widespread cover-up of abuses by clergy members for decades, a "scandal on an astonishing scale" that even saw officials taking out insurance policies to protect dioceses against future claims by the victims, a commission reported Thursday after a three-year ...

I knew him prior.Those four words uttered recently by a police detective in front of a jury prompted a Jackson County judge Wednesday to dismiss the murder case against a Kansas City man.The dismissal with prejudice means that prosecutors cannot re-try Markus D. Lee for the 2007 drive-by killing of Eliseo Thomas.

Shaquille O'Neal gets the 2009 Thanksgiving award for quietly paying for the funeral of a little girl he never met.

He pleaded guilty to outraging public decency at an earlier hearing and had been warned that he could be sent to prison after shocking images of him soaking a poppy wreath following the drinking session in Sheffield city centre were published.

Counsellors are bracing themselves for an onslaught of crisis calls after the latest horrific revelations of a Catholic Church cover-up of clerical sex abuse.

The Obama administration pushed back Wednesday against claims that it's not doing enough to slow the growth of health care costs, a topic that senators will debate heavily in coming weeks.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered The Reserve Primary Fund, which last year roiled the $3 trillion money-market industry by "breaking the buck," to pay out its remaining assets to shareholders waiting to get their money back.

A Nebraska man who told a judge he fled with his wife and children into the South Dakota wilderness to avoid Nebraska authorities has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing a fire truck.

A man who has won repeated delays in his trial for the 2002 dismemberment slayings of a teenage couple in East Tennessee must defend himself in the death penalty case, after the state's high court denied his application to appeal.

A Tea couple is accused of using their home as a base for an underage sex trafficking operation.

ALBANY - Legislative leaders said Tuesday that their staff would work over the weekend to digest a revised proposal from Gov.

The Environmental Protection Agency is continuing its crackdown on coal pollution with a new plan to cut sulfur dioxide - a move that would clean up the air for millions of Americans and bring some relief to people who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases.

It was like going back to the future for Florida utility regulators Tuesday as consumer advocates urged a ban on most off-the-record communications as recommended by a statewide grand jury 18 years ago.

The Environmental Protection Agency is continuing its crackdown on coal pollution with a new plan to cut sulfur dioxide - a move that would clean up the air for millions of Americans and bring some relief to people who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases.

A national gay rights group filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the city of Atlanta and the Atlanta Police Department on behalf of 19 people who say they were illegally searched and detained during a late-night raid on a crowded gay bar.

Chicken wings were part of the disputed restaurant tab. One day after District Attorney John Morganelli announced he was recommending two college students who refused to pay a tip at the Lehigh Pub be cleared of criminal offenses , Bethlehem police have officially withdrawn the charges.

Schoolteacher Kinzi Blair makes only $46,000 a year, but she has what many would consider a 'Cadillac' health plan, now targeted for a big tax increase by some health reform proposals.