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A former chief executive of construction giant KBR Inc. faced sentencing in the United States Thursday for a federal bribery conviction related to the company's natural gas operations in Nigeria from 1995 to 2004.

A Labour MP has been arrested on suspicion of assault after a late-night brawl in a House of Commons bar, leading to his suspension from the party.

A Saudi Arabian teenager has been indicted on charges of interfering with a flight crew after authorities alleged he tried to hit fellow passengers, took a swing at a flight attendant and referred to Osama bin Laden during a flight to Houston.

Jurors in the case of a New Hampshire woman charged with lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide will hear witnesses from that tiny African nation detail the brutality.

Two members of a breakaway Mexican drug gang dissolved their victims' corpses in vats of acid in a gruesome display of Mexican cartel tactics played out on U.S. soil, a prosecutor told jurors.

A former chief executive of construction giant KBR Inc. faced sentencing Thursday for a federal bribery conviction related to the company's natural gas operations in Nigeria from 1995 to 2004.

A hospital maintenance worker shot and wounded two of his supervisors Wednesday in a dispute over a disciplinary issue, police said.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- News coverage of alcohol's role in violent crime and fatal accidents may persuade the public to give stronger support to alcohol-control laws, new research suggests.

A jury recommended late Wednesday that a former University of Virginia lacrosse player should serve 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of his ex-girlfriend and another year in prison for a grand larceny charge.

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Two people were shot at a rehabilitation hospital on Wednesday, and someone believed to be an employee was arrested, the mayor and other authorities said.

The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player charged with killing his ex-girlfriend .

Jurors reach verdict in case of ex-U.Va. lacrosse player charged in ex-girlfriend's death

Violent crime at the nation's schools is declining, and students and schools are reporting less bullying and gang activity.

Jurors in the murder trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player deliberated for hours Wednesday whether he battered his ex-girlfriend to death in a drunken, jealous rage or if his intent to talk with her spiraled out of control, leaving her bleeding and dying in her bedroom.

Iraqi security forces on Wednesday arrested the head of Ansar al-Sunna, a Sunni insurgent group said to be linked to Al-Qaeda, the counter-terrorism chief for Anbar province said.

A North Carolina man recently convicted in a homegrown terrorism plot faces new charges that he attempted to hire a hit man to behead three witnesses who testified against him.

TALLINN, Estonia - Estonian prosecutors say a security official has been detained on suspicion of giving classified information to Russia.

Jurors in the murder trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player began deliberations Wednesday, deciding whether he battered his ex-girlfriend to death in a drunken, jealous rage or if his intent to simply talk spiraled out of control, leaving her bleeding and dying in her bedroom.

MONTREAL - A convicted child molester who has been on the run from U.S. authorities for a decade has been captured in Canada.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Jurors in the murder trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player began deliberations Wednesday, deciding whether he battered his ex-girlfriend to death in a drunken, jealous rage or if his intent to simply talk spiralled out of control, leaving her bleeding and dying in her bedroom.

Federal authorities say they've arrested a fugitive leader of a violent New York City gang linked to a series of armed robberies and shootings.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2011, which presents data on crime and safety at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, and principals. A joint effort by BJS and the National Center …