Amanda Knox was acquitted of murder in October, but Italian prosecutors are challenging the judges' ruling. Prosecutors in the city of Perugia, where the Seattle-born student was found guilty of killing her roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007, have filed for an appeal with Italy's Supreme Court.
The robbery of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on the island of Nevis highlights a growing concern for vacationers about the safety of the Caribbean Islands.
China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) said foreign TV shows cannot be aired from 19:30 to 22:00.
A Belgian court has ruled that Tintin in the Congo does not break racism laws and therefore will not be banned in the country
One of the people hired to transport actress Lindsay Lohan's stuff is planning to sell information and photos on it.
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the colorful and controversial representative of the city after the devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005, is under investigation by federal authorities, a source with direct knowledge of the probe said on Friday.
Police have yet to explain how he escaped, and what he was doing this last week
Jerry Sandusky spoke to the media on Friday after attending a pretrial hearing in his child sexual-abuse case. The former Pennsylvania State University assistant coach addressed the complaints of his neighbors and certain restrictions that the government has placed on him.
Kashgari said he is being made a scapegoat.
What you need to know about No Child Left Behind.
Police will not comment on how Hoskins escaped or why the institution waited nearly a week to report it
Josh Powell reportedly told his children - Charles, 7, and Braden, 5 - that he had a 'big surprise' for them as he took them inside the house in Graham, about 25 miles southeast of Tacoma, only to butcher them with a hatchet. He also set the house on fire, killing himself on Sunday Feb 5.
The gripping details of the twin-murder were revealed by social worker Elizabeth Griffin-Hall as she spoke to the ABC News on Thursday.
Reproductive rights advocates on Wednesday asked a federal judge in Brooklyn to make the morning-after pill immediately available to girls of all ages without a prescription.
Greg Kelly is the son of NY Police Commissioners Ray Kelly.
Texas financier Allen Stanford drew on a secret Swiss bank account to pay bribes and for personal expenses such as yacht maintenance, the government's top witness said at Stanford's fraud trial on Friday.
Perhaps it is only a coincidence, but the drop in violent crime has roughly occurred concurrently with a spike in obesity.
TSA has confiscated a lot of items at airports over the years, from switch-blades to guns to large bottles of shampoo--but they are definitely not supposed to take $5,000 from a passenger.
The case against Imam was brought by an attorney named Asran Mansour who is affiliated with Islamist political groups.
Colin Firth has signed on to star as Ron Lax, the private investigator whose detective work helped get three men who had been convicted of murder released from prison in Arkansas, the producers of the Devil's Knot told TheWrap Wednesday.
A police officer shot in the head outside a public-housing complex in Brooklyn on Tuesday is expected to make a full recovery, police officials said Wednesday.
Two of the men who have accused Bernie Fine of sexually molesting them when they were ball boys is now accusing his wife, Laurie, of having sexual relationships with basketball team players. Bernie Fine, a former Syracuse University assistant men's basketball coach, was fired late last year, after being accused of molesting three men in the 1980s and 1990s.
Sandusky's attorney said he would vehemently oppose the motion to use an outside jury.
Prosecutors in California say a 15-year-old boy who had returned home after running away to Occupy Oakland, strangled his foster parents and stuffed their bodies in a car. He will be tried as an adult.
Stephen Colbert's super PAC, Americans For a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow has reportedly raked in over $1 million according to a document filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Newt Gingrich is the latest Republican politician to be asked by a musician to stop using their songs at campaign events.
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is in trouble as one of the authors of the hit song Eye of the Tiger has sued him for copyright violation.Gingrich has been using the Eye of the Tiger song from Rocky III as his campaign theme anthem since 2009. The lawsuit claiming copyright violation was filed by Frankie Sullivan for his Rude Music Inc., which owns the copyright.
British tourists Leigh Van Bryan probably did not expect his trip to the U.S. to involve handcuffs and a jail cell; but that is where he ended up. The security happened over tweets sent by Van Bryan stating they would go and destroy Americaand diggin' Marilyn Monroe up!
Corey Eubank, the man accused of being an accomplice to Oneal Ron Morris, the fake doctor caught up in Florida's Toxic Tush case, was attacked on television Wednesday night while filming a talk show.
The names of a top executive at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and a board member at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. surfaced on Friday as potential witnesses in the insider-trading trial of Rajat Gupta, a former director of Goldman, the Procter & Gamble Co., and other companies.
The Costa Concordia crew is suing the Carnival Corp. for at least $100 million following the Jan. 13 disaster that has left the cruise ship sinking off the coast of the Italian island of Giglio.
