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Two Bear Stearns executives who ran hedge funds that collapsed after betting heavily on the shaky subprime mortgage market were acquitted Tuesday of lying to investors a ' a defeat in the government's bid to punish fraud exposed by the financial crisis.

A lawyer for the TV news producer accused of blackmailing David Letterman plans to ask a judge to dismiss an extortion case that prompted the late-night comic to acknowledge affairs with staffers.

Unless Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine steps in, sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad will be executed Tuesday for the attacks that terrorized the nation's capital region for three weeks in 2002.

A Reno judge has denied a defense motion to prohibit use of DNA evidence at the trial of a man accused of killing a young Reno woman and raping two others.

Abortion opponents in the Senate are seeking tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, a move that could roil a shaky Democratic effort to pass President Barack Obama's signature issue by year's end.

Critics of the federal government's draft plan to clean up the Chesapeake Bay said it lacked details, while federal officials emphasized they would let states continue successful programs to control pollution flowing into the watershed.

A former lawyer with the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission pleaded guilty today to conspiring with a prominent Manhattan lawyer to dupe hedge funds out of tens of millions of dollars.

It's one of America's most haunting crime stories: four members of a Kansas family brutally murdered on Nov.

On Saturday, Sharon McDonough of Selden, was arrested for heinous animal cruelty.

A Pennsylvania landowner is suing an energy company for polluting his soil and water in an attempt to link a natural gas drilling technique with environmental contamination.

The trillion dollar Affordable Health Care for America Act, narrowly passed the U.S House of Representatives, Saturday night, 220 to 215.

That is so frustrating," Col. Frank Jackson told a group of about 120 people gathered at one of the post's chapel.

In this Oct. 26, 2009 photo, Northwestern University professor David Protess , founder of the Medill Innocence Project , talks with journalism students at a reporting strategy session in Evanston, Ill.

A 38-year-old Valrico man who alledgedly gave his nephew grain alcohol is being held without bond in Hillsborough County.

With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections for software.

A bipartisan coalition sought to impose stricter abortion limits on insurance sold under a new health care bill Saturday, hoping to leave their imprint on legislation otherwise crafted largely by more liberal lawmakers.

After months of struggle capped by a final wrenching compromise over abortion, Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted, "we will pass health care reform," and likened the events to the creation of Social Security in 1935 and Medicare 30 years later.

Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack.

Orlando Police said Jason Rodriguez, 40, is a suspect in the shooting at a downtown office on Nov.

House Democrats acknowledged they don't yet have the votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system, and signaled they may push back the vote until tomorrow or early next week.