The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday announced that Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (Big Brothers) will pay $1.6 million as a result of accusations of false claims for Federal grants awarded...
The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Friday, in three separate opinions, overturned several charges for three Pennsylvania State University administrators accused of playing a role in covering up the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal. The defendants argued...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in Kansas v. Carr that a jury in a death penalty case does not need to be advised that mitigating factors , which can lessen the severity...
Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that neither boys nor girls can legally marry under the age of 18, even in unregistered, customary or religious unions. Previously, the Marriage Act allowed girls to be married at the age of 18 and...
Florida's Supreme Court on Friday denied a request from a death row inmate to delay his execution in light of the recent US Supreme Court ruling that Florida's capital sentencing scheme was unconstitutional...
A judge for the US District Court of the Middle District of North Carolina on Friday declined to grant a motion by the NAACP and other plaintiffs that would have kept the state...
Arizona State Senator John Kavanagh introduced Senate Bill 1054 on Thursday, which if passed would make it illegal to make a video recording of law enforcement activity within 20 feet without the officer's permission. The bill would also...
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was arrested Friday in Los Mochis, Mexico in a military raid conducted by the Mexican government that left 5 suspects dead and one Mexican official inured. Guzman escaped Mexico's highest...
Three former members of the Bosnian Muslim armed forces were arrested on Monday in Tulza, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina, for allegedly killing as many as 10 Serb civilians in Srebrenica in July 1992. The victims were killed...
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, Makarim Wibisono , resigned from his position Monday, saying that Israel has not granted him access to the Occupied Palestinian Territory after repeated...
