Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped and held captive for 18 years, has sued the federal government for failing to supervise her captor, Phillip Garrido, who was on federal parole at the time of her kidnapping.
Ashley Portero
Sep 22, 2011
Debra Lafave, the Florida teacher found guilty of a sex scandal with a 14-year-old student in 2004, ended her probation Thursday following a court ruling to terminate it early.
Nadine DeNinno
Sep 22, 2011
The day after Troy Davis was executed for the 1989 murder of a Georgia police officer, his family and supporters vowed to continue their fight against the death penalty.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 22, 2011
Just hours after Troy Davis was put to death by lethal injection for the murder of an off-duty police officer, Georgia has set the execution date for its next death row inmate.
Elisha Maldonado
Sep 22, 2011
The execution, or murder as some call it, of Troy Davis that stirred controversies all over the world also appears unjust and outdated in the eyes of former President Jimmy carter, and the process should have slowed down in the eyes of former President Bill Clinton.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 22, 2011
The state of Georgia executed convicted murderer Troy Davis on Wednesday in a case that drew international attention because of claims by his advocates that he may have been innocent.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 22, 2011
Davis was pronounced dead at 11:08 p.m. on Wednesday after Georgia officials executed him by lethal injection. He was put to death for the 1989 murder of police officer Mark MacPhail, and convicted in 1991.
Laura Matthews
Sep 22, 2011
Troy Davis' case isn't the only controversial one that the U.S. has seen. Here are a few other recent and old cases that have been reported in the media over the years.
Laura Matthews
Sep 22, 2011
Two days of negotiations between the CEOs of Oracle
and Google before a federal magistrate appear to have helped Google, court filings indicate.
David Zielenziger
Sep 22, 2011
Despite high-profile protests and a last-minute appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, convicted murderer Troy Davis was put to death in Georgia late Wednesday night by lethal injection.
Elisha Maldonado
Sep 22, 2011
A judge received a seven-page letter from Jamaican drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke asking for leniency after pleading guilty to racketeering and assault charges in August.
Laura Matthews
Sep 22, 2011
Attorneys for Full Tilt Poker denied charges that the poker Web site is a Ponzi scheme that cheats customers out of their money, suggesting that the Web site's woes stemmed from mismanagement rather than deliberate theft.
Jeremy White
Sep 22, 2011
Not giving up till the end, Troy Davis kept fighting till the last moment, till his execution on Wednesday night. The Georgia man was executed 20 years after he was convicted of the fatal shooting of Mark Macphail, a police officer, despite a plea for clemency from people around the world.
Drishya Nair
Sep 22, 2011
Pakistan's Baluchistan province has objected to a mining lease being sought by a joint venture between Antofagasta and Barrick Gold, further delaying a major planned copper and gold project in the country's southwest.
Mike Obel
Sep 22, 2011
White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening in Texas for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas.
Amrutha Gayathri
Sep 22, 2011
Troy Davis addressed the family of Mark MacPhail as he was put to death for killing the policeman in 1989.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 22, 2011
The state of Georgia Wednesday night executed Troy Davis, who was convicted of killing a Savannah police officer 22 years ago, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal for a stay.
Ankita Mehta
Sep 22, 2011
A California couple was fined $300 after the city of San Juan Capistrano said they were violating the city zoning code by having more than 50 people in their home at a time during home Bible studies.
Ashley Portero
Sep 21, 2011
The state of Georgia executed Troy Davis Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal for a stay.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 21, 2011
Young adults are gaining health insurance faster than ever, mostly due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 21, 2011
A U.S. judge set a February 13 start for a trial over whether AT&T Inc can buy rival T-Mobile USA, a compromise between the companies' desire for a quick resolution and the Justice Department's request for more time to prepare its case.
keep for now
Sep 21, 2011
With many analysts predicting that Sprint will be the next wireless to the iPhone 5, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said Wednesday in a conference that full-year targets in 2011 did not include any potential iPhone sales.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 21, 2011
