Cyntoia Brown, serving life for murder, asks Tennessee parole board for clemency: A look at her case
Cyntoia Brown, a Tennessee woman who is currently servinga life sentence for murder, has an opportunity to make her case for clemency on Wednesday.
Cyntoia Brown, a Tennessee woman who is currently servinga life sentence for murder, has an opportunity to make her case for clemency on Wednesday.
A Georgia jury has awarded an eye-popping $1 billion verdict against a security company after an apartment complex guard was convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl.
Federal prosecutors have indicted two online gamers and the California man accused of making the hoax calls that led a police officer to fatally shoot an unarmed man in Kansas.
It’s being called “Blue Wednesday” in Chicago as the city’s Fraternal Order of Police organized a unified public demonstration against Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who the FOP calls “anti-police.”
A Tennessee mother who gave birth while she was in a coma died three years after she regained consciousness, her family said.
The investigation into a suspended Pennsylvania teacher’s murder have led police to search the Facebook accounts of several people, including a 17-year-old and her timeline of events the night the 33-year-old was gunned down on her mother’s driveway.
Vice President Mike Pence warned the new U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduates on Wednesday of the perils America faces from rogue regimes, criminal networks and terrorist groups, saying the new ensigns will be on the front lines of the threats of illegal drugs, terrorism and human trafficking.
A U.S. government employee in southern China reported abnormal sensations of sound and pressure, the State Department said Wednesday, recalling similar experiences among American diplomats in Cuba who later fell ill.
Three men have been convicted over the videotaped assault of the mayor of Greece's second-largest city, which had touched off a heated political debate over public order.
President Trump recently held an Oval Office meeting with top communications aides to voice his frustration over the many “leaks” coming out of the White House, calling for the culprits to be identified and changes made to the communications shop, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the meeting.
Brazilian police say a former governor who was convicted of embezzlement and money laundering has failed to turn himself in and is considered a fugitive from justice.
Jessica Biel said she was “always apologizing” to her cast and crew while working on “7th Heaven,” the wholesome show about a minister and his family that ran from 1996 to 2007.
The Latest on the killing of a Maryland police officer (all times local): 8:55 a.m.
An Air Force T-38 Talon supersonic jet trainer crashed outside Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi Wednesday morning.
A Los Angeles man was arrested last month for allegedly offering immigration services in exchange for sex with a woman and police on Tuesday were looking for additional victims.
Scientists are set to take a fresh approach in the hunt for the fabled Loch Ness Monster.
The Philippine immigration bureau has turned down an Australian nun's appeal for the reversal of an order revoking her missionary visa after the president complained about her joining opposition rallies and ordered her to leave the country.
A Michigan man who supplied cadavers and body parts for medical training was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in prison for failing to disclose that they were infected with hepatitis or HIV.
Japan has been absorbed for several weeks by a late hit during a college football game.
The business partner of President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has entered into a plea agreement with the state attorney general that could lead to him cooperating in a federal probe of Cohen.
The Aston Martin DB5 driven by James Bond in GoldenEye is set to sell for $2.1 at auction.
A set of quadruplets in Ada, Michigan have all decided to join respective branches of the military.
Former Indiana first lady Susan Bayh had surgery Tuesday to remove a malignant brain tumor, her family said.
The cost of Seattle's ongoing effort to build bike lanes has ballooned to up to $12 million a mile, in another setback for the progressive city leadership that has repeatedly spent big on social projects only to realize less-than-stellar results.
A late hit in a college football game in Japan has sparked national outrage -- and the player at the center of the controversy says his coaches ordered him to do it.