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A Mississippi teenager who intentionally ran over a black man in an apparent hate crime and bragged about the incident to a friend will be charged with capital murder, which can attract death sentence or life in prison.

The West Memphis Three -- Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. -- who spent almost two decades in prison for the killing of three young boys, were freed by the court on Friday. The three men were tried and convicted of the murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, on May 5, 1993. During the trial, the prosecution put forth the idea that the only purported motive in the case was that the slayings were part of a satanic ritual.

Oslo mass killer Anders Breivik will make his second court appearance Friday as relatives of the 69 people he gunned down gather on the island where they died, ahead of a national day of remembrance.

The motive behind the killing of 3-year-old Missouri girl Breeann Rodriguez remains a mystery even after a neighbor arrested Saturday has confessed that he suffocated the child with a plastic bag before dumping her body in a ditch.

A chemistry student, suspected of planning a gas attack against protesters opposing a visit by Pope Benedict XVI, has been arrested by the Spanish police.

A Philadelphia man has been murdered after his ex-girlfriend, and the mother of his child, posted a note on Facebook promising $1000 for killing him.

Authorities found the remains of the 3-year-old Missouri girl Breeann Rodriguez, who went missing for more than a week, on Tuesday, near a series of floodway ditches about eight miles southeast of the girl's family's home in Senath. A suspect from the girl's neighborhood Shawn Morgan, who was arrested on Saturday, has confessed that he had suffocated the child with a plastic bag before dumping her body in the ditch.

A New Jersey man pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a sleeping passenger during a May 2010 flight from Hong Kong to Newark.

The former juvenile court judge allegedly accepted nearly $1 million in exchange for sentencing minors to time in for-profit detention centers.

Former Pennsylvania county judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was sentenced to 28 years in prison after being convicted of accepting a million dollars in bribe from a builder of juvenile detention centers.

"Twilight" movie series actor Kiowa Gordon was arrested in Mesa, a city in Maricopa County in Arizona, on an outstanding warrant for not appearing in the Mesa court after being charged for driving under the influence of drugs.

Self-proclaimed "Spam King" Sanford Wallace of Las Vegas pleaded not guilty in federal court on Thursday, according to a report.

A Texas jury has begun to deliberate the punishment for polygamist Warren Jeffs, a day after he was convicted on two counts of sexual abuse of a child.

Defense may ask to relocate the trial to another jurisdiction

Anthony Sowell, an Ohio sex offender, convicted of the murder of 11 women, was subjected to violent physical abuse as a child. Sowell's niece, Leona Davis, 50, who had spent her childhood with the convict's family following her mother's death, described the harrowing experiences she and Sowell had undergone as children, during a testimony in the court.

Anthony reportedly used checks that she had stolen from a friend.

Diatribe goes on for nearly an hour

FBI testimony relating to a 2008 prompted the polygamous leader to speak up

Polygamous sect leader refuses to speak at his trial

Attorneys are again challenging a court order that came last week that would allow for the forced medication of Jared Lee Loughner as he awaits trial for a shooting rampage that left a congresswoman with brain damage, and six dead.

Polygamous leader's request to represent himself at trial has been granted

Jeffs is facing two counts of sexual assault

Daniel Schuler, whose wife killed herself, their daughter and six others when she drove the wrong way on New York's Taconic State Parkway, is suing his brother-in-law -- whose three young daughters were among the victims.

September 11 "was an attack against America, not Christianity," the group claims.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser in the Manhattan sex assault case, the 32-year-old Guinean woman, has come out in public trying to cement the faltering case against the former IMF chief.

A federal appeals court rejected a move by Jared Lee Loughner's lawyers that would have stopped him from being forcibly drugged as he awaits trial for a shooting rampage that left a congresswoman with brain damage, and six dead.

Los Angeles prosecutors on Friday charged two suspects in the beating of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodgers Stadium while also admitting their first suspect was the wrong person.

Anthony Sowell, an Ohio sex offender, was convicted of the murder of 11 women on Friday. The 11 murdered women were reported missing beginning 2007, and were later found in the backyard of Sowell's home.

Levi Aron charged with two counts of first degree murder