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A medical examiner says an Arkansas TV anchorwoman was beaten so severely that one blow knocked a tooth out of her mouth and another shoved her jaw to the back of her head.

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated the death penalty against an Ohio man who strangled and stabbed to death a man he met in a gay bar in 1985.

A lawyer for the TV news producer accused of blackmailing talk show host 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.

Arrest and booking photo for John Gotti , provided by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.

Ministers are to look again at cautions and on-the-spot fines amid fears serious criminals are escaping justice, it has been revealed.

A former South Carolina high school teacher and coach has been arrested after police say he had sexual contact with a 16-year-old female student.

Husband: a Couldna TMt believea TM wife planned hoax A A Nov. 9: There is new evidence, including a revealing audio tape, that police say helps prove Florida mother Quinn Gray planned an abduction hoax.

There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed.

Share + Nov 7, 2009 5:31 pm US/Central 1 of 1 Surveillance video shows a confrontation between an off-duty Chicago police officer and a CTA bus driver.

An Army chaplain asked mourners Sunday to pray for the accused Fort Hood shooter, calling on them to focus less on why the tragedy happened and more on helping each other through "the valley of the shadow of darkness." "Lord, all those around us search for motive, search for meaning, search for something, someone to blame.

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.

Joe Jackson, the father of deceased pop star Michael Jackson, poses for photographers backstage at the BET Awards '09 in Los Angeles June 28, 2009.

A Fitchburg girl who allegedly told police she's fascinated with death has been charged with trying to kill another teenager at her foster home.

Despite Audie Matthews' protestations of innocence from the start, a jury in Ramsey County District Court convicted him this morning of first- and second-degree murder in the March 2008 death of Blaine Christofferson in St.

Share + Nov 7, 2009 1:15 pm US/Central RICHMOND, Calif. A sixth suspect has been charged in connection with the Oct.

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

Muggers punched a two-year-old girl in the head as they demanded money from her mother, Scotland Yard said.