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DETROIT (AP) — Calling the scheme "horrific," a judge sentenced a Detroit-area cancer doctor to 45 years in prison Friday for collecting millions from...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The defense in the Colorado theater shooting trial rested its case Friday after trying to show James Holmes was legally insan...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A federal jury on Friday found that the death of a woman shot by her former father-in-law at a Delaware courthouse in 2013 was...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A Baghdad court on Wednesday sentenced 24 suspected members of the Islamic State terror group to death for their role in the killing of...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management said Wednesday that it is investigating whether an agent's gun was used in the shooting death ...

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — A lawsuit accuses actor Tom Selleck of stealing truckloads of water from a public hydrant and bringing it to his ranch in droug...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Tuesday ruled that Marion "Suge" Knight should stand trial for murder despite the fact that a key witness — one of the m...

DENVER (AP) — A suburban Denver baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple will argue in court Tuesday that his religious beliefs shoul...

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) has filed a motion for a new trial, less than two weeks after he wa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In 2004, when Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex couples to marry, President George W. Bush declared support for...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — They show up in court every day, a visible reminder to jurors that even a killer has parents who love him and who don't want ...

SMITHFIELD, Va. (AP) — The black two-story shed still stands out back at 1915 Moonlight Road — a haunting reminder of the brutal dog fights that took ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A human rights group said Thursday that military documents show high-ranking officers had given Mexican soldiers standing orders to...

NEW YORK (AP) — Robin Thicke says the deposition for the "Blurred Lines" case took a backseat to his crumbling marriage, in his first interview since ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. is asking a federal judge to block lawsuits by former wrestlers who claim they have suffered...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A grand jury should review operations at an Oklahoma sheriff's office that sent onto the streets a 73-year-old reserve deputy who ...

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian security official says a bomb blast near a police station killed three people, a day after the assassination of the country's...

CAIRO (AP) — A car bomb killed Egypt's top prosecutor on Monday, ripping through his convoy in a Cairo neighborhood, in the first assassination of a t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday struck down part of a federal law intended keep people convicted of repeated violent crimes in prison lo...

CHICAGO (AP) — Throughout the country, relief was the dominant emotion among consumers who get help from the government to lower their health insuranc...