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Pedro Hernandez, the former SoHo bodega stock boy who confessed to the murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz 33 years after the boy disappeared, was taken to Bellevue Hospital and placed on suicide watch. Authorities promptly put him the hospital after he told police he no longer takes his psychiatric medication.

Pedro Hernandez has been arrested in the 1979 murder of Etan Patz, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced Thursday evening.

A Canadian law school graduate thought it would get a few laughs if he paid his $114,000 law school debt in cash. The story of Alex Kenjeev, from Montreal, first surfaced when a Reddit user reposted a photo of the $114,000 receipt Kenjeev had posted on his Facebook account on the Reddit website.

Police have arrested a man identified as Pedro Hernandez in connection with the 1979 disappearance and murder of Etan Patz..

On Tuesday, Cuba?s official Communist Party newspaper Granma finally gave an official estimate of the number of people currently incarcerated in the nation?s jails.

The national debate on the Keystone XL pipeline enters the courtroom, as Nebraska landowners sue their state over how the pipeline project could be approved.

Kim Dotcom Schmitz, the German-born founder of Megaupload, is now looking to defend himself in court, but in order to do so, he has demanded that his hard drives and his computers -- all 135 of them -- be returned to him so he can use the data for his defense.

Thousands of university students in Montreal marked the 100th day of protests against tuition hikes Tuesday, joined by lawyers and labor unions, following the Quebec provincial government's passing of a controversial law last week designed to regulate public assemblies.

About four in 10 voters choose not to vote for the president in the Democratic primary.

Tunisia announced Tuesday that it intends to extradite former Libyan prime minister Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi back to his home country after detaining him for eight months.

Debrahlee Lorenzana, who was fired as a banker from Citibank in 2010 for being too sexy, spoke out about the similarities of her case with Lauren Odes', the woman fired from New York lingerie store Native Intimates for being too busty. Lorenzana revealed that she ended up fighting the suit, filed for similar discriminatory reasons, alone after lawyer Gloria Allred dropped her when the cameras stopped flashing.

A 74-year-old grandmother, Sandra Layne, is charged with murder in the shooting death of her 17-year-old grandson, Jonathan Hoffman. Layne was in court on Monday, facing the judge as her lawyer entered a plea of not guilty.

Casey Anthony has been found hiding out in Florida 10 months after she dropped out of the spotlight at the conclusion of her blockbuster trial, during which she was acquitted of murder charges in connection with the death of her two-year-old daughter Caylee.

A New Jersey judge was lenient in sentencing Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student found guilty of invasion of privacy of his roommate Tyler Clementi in a case that led to Tyler jumping off the George Washington Bridge, by giving Ravi 30 days in prison. But Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman was incensed at the lack of an apology from Ravi for his actions.

A high-profile designer, Takeshi Miyakawa, has been arrested by the New York City Police Department for planting fake bombs in ?I Heart NY? bags across the city. He is being held for a monthlong evaluation.

Dharun Ravi, a former Rutgers student, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail after being convicted of criminal charges including invasion of privacy and tampering with evidence.The sentencing comes two months after Ravi was convicted of crimes that provoked the suicide of his Rutgers University roommate Tyler Clementi.

In the case of a prenuptial agreement, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan would have agreed exactly how to split assets, which obviously includes Facebook stock.

Capping an extraordinarily eventful four weeks, Chen Guangcheng -- a blind attorney known as the Barefoot Lawyer -- flew to the U.S. from China on Saturday. Chen began the day in a Beijing hospital and ended it in a New York apartment building, according to multiple media reports.

CNN's Italian football correspondent claims there is a 99% chance Fabio Capello will become the next Chelsea boss, if the club fails to win the Champions League.

A Michigan teen found his usual Arby's roast beef sandwich a little chewier than usual, only to discover it contained an extra ingredient: an employee's finger.

Ex-Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic's trial on charges of war crimes was postponed indefinitely due to a procedural snafu, prolonging a hearing that has already taken over a decade to get started.