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On June 16, 2005, 15-year-old Nakisha Waddell took the stand in a Virginia courtroom and tried to explain why she’d murdered her mother.

Four years ago, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour was criticized for pardoning six men who had been convicted of killing their wives or girlfriends. And now, he’s done it again.

Suddenly, being a pharmacist is a dangerous profession. According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, armed robberies of pharmacies increased 51 percent between 2006 and 2010, rising from 385 to 698.

When investigators cannot definitively determine cause of death, finding a suspect and convincing a jury of his or her guilt takes on a whole new level of difficulty.

A newly released psychological profile of Colton Harris-Moore – the so-called “Barefoot Bandit” who taught himself how to fly and then stole five single-engine airplanes – reports that the 20-year-old was “a healthy infant and toddler” who became psychologically damaged during his childhood by an alcoholic mother and the violent men in her life.

As Hinckley’s doctors petition a Washington court for his release from the mental hospital where he has lived for three decades, the case is once again a bellwether, this time for how the judicial system treats those whose criminal actions have been found to be the result of a mental illness, once that illness is

On Monday afternoon, 18-year-old Cristina Fierro stood before a crowd of reporters at a Manhattan hotel and announced that she was suing former football star Lawrence Taylor.

When 18-year-old Donald Rudolph allegedly murdered his mother, sister, and mother’s boyfriend in Weymouth, Mass. last week, he probably didn’t know that he was becoming part of a gruesome trend in American killings.

The question many people are asking in the wake of the sex abuse scandal at Penn State is simply this: Why didn’t anyone call the cops? The explosive grand jury report found that at least eight people at Penn State had either witnessed former coach Jerry Sandusky molesting children, or been told that others had witnessed

Former Penn State defensive lineman Brandon Noble was in Bermuda when he got a text from an old teammate about the unfolding sex abuse scandal involving his old coach, Jerry Sandusky.