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A Los Angeles high school teacher's aide was arrested on campus for investigation of sexual contact with a 15-year-old student, the FBI confirmed on Tuesday, making it the third molestation arrest in recent weeks in the nation's second-largest school district.

The FBI says a Los Angeles high school teacher's aide was arrested on campus for investigation of sexual contact with a 15-year-old student — the third such arrest in recent weeks in the nation's second-largest school district.

A North Dakota district judge has ordered two suspects in the disappearance of a Montana math teacher to be moved to Montana for trial.

New evidence emerges suggesting that the "Killer Clown" may not have acted alone during his notorious 1970s murder spree

A Midwest militia whose members prosecutors say were willing "to go to war" against the U.S. government was more like a "social club" whose talk was little more than fantasy, defense attorneys say.

The 2011 Playmate of the Year on Monday sought a restraining order against the 21-year-old son of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, after the son was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, the Pasadena Star-News reported.

DETROIT (Reuters) - Seven members of a Midwestern militia group accused of plotting to kill police were preparing for war against the United States government, prosecutors told jurors on Monday at the start of a federal trial in Detroit. Defense attorneys responded that the six men and one woman were part of a social club …

Authorities say Hugh Hefner's 21-year-old son has been arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic violence in California.

A mandatory life sentence for a Nigerian who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane is cruel and unfair, a defense attorney said Monday as he asked a judge to declare the punishment unconstitutional.

Police on Monday arrested activists who unfurled a banner reading, "Tibet Will be Free," on a major Washington bridge during a closely watched visit by China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping.

Some state lawmakers are reviving a push to end Connecticut's death penalty, hoping for an easier road this year following the conclusion of two widely publicized trials for a brutal 2007 triple slaying.

BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge set a November 5 trial date for accused former Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger on charges that include 19 murders over objections from his attorney who wanted at least a year to prepare his defense. Attorneys for Bulger said in court on Monday they would need more time to process …

DETROIT (Reuters) - Seven members of a Midwestern militia group accused of plotting to kill police were preparing for war against the U.S. government, prosecutors told jurors Monday at the start of a federal trial in Detroit. Defense attorneys said, however, the six men and one woman were part of a social club called the …

Prosecutors in southeast China have brought formal charges of bribery and smuggling against a fugitive businessman repatriated from Canada in a bitter deportation row, state press said Monday.

While Hugh Hefner was being honored with the “Humanitarian of the Year” award by Angelwish Sunday night, his son Marston was getting arrested, TMZ reports.

Hamza Kashgari, the twenty-three-year-old Saudi blogger whose controversial tweets about the Prophet Muhammed last weekend incited controversy among religious conservatives in the Middle East, has been returned to Saudi Arabia at the request of the Saudi government.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Monday in the unusual murder trial of an Alabama man suspected of killing his new wife during an Australian honeymoon scuba diving trip in order to get insurance money. Prosecutors accuse Gabe Watson of drowning his 26-year-old wife Tina in 2003 by turning off her oxygen …

Jurors were Presented with a Letter and Emails from Huguely to Yeardley Love

A U.S. man is going on trial on a capital murder charge in the death of his bride, who drowned during their honeymoon trip to Australia.

An Alabama man is going on trial in Birmingham on a capital murder charge in the death of his bride, who drowned during their honeymoon trip to Australia.

An Iranian news agency says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's press adviser has been sentenced to six months in jail.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A map drawn by a convicted serial killer has led authorities in California to three separate burial sites, where the discovery of human remains could bring an end to multiple unsolved missing-persons cases, authorities said on Sunday. Investigators estimate they have recovered more than 300 human …

South Korean police have arrested a Christian pastor and his wife over the deaths of their three children. The parents are accused of whipping and starving the children in an attempt to cast out demons.